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axiosgunnar

1,722 karma · joined November 24, 2019

Developper from Riga with focus on the embedded development. Loving husband and a father of three children. He/him.
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axiosgunnar··on Imprisoned for Your Safety
> People have a right to live in peace, undisturbed by others, do they not?

Including not being disturbed by helmet laws?

axiosgunnar··on Imprisoned for Your Safety
It is blasphemous these days to even entertain the thought that there might be behavioural differences between races, so gathering these statistics is like picking the forbidden fruit.
axiosgunnar··on Coinbase's 250.000 USD bug bounty
It seems like a rather... fundamental bug? As in, a "not doing any validation, just passing the API request straight to the DB" bug?
axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems exhausting?
> Yeah, it was a dysfunctional environment and I obviously quit

What do you think could management have done better to make it not dysfunctional and have people quitting?

axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: How to stop thinking about work and software engineering on the weekend?
It‘s good that you ask this question, enjoy that you have a pleasurable way to make money, and if you wanna read engineering books on the weekend, don‘t stress about it, just remember that life is a marathon!
axiosgunnar··on ‘Zero-click’ hacks are growing in popularity
I believe this line of thought has not been given enough attention recently.
axiosgunnar··on ‘Zero-click’ hacks are growing in popularity
> Haskell Lego Edition

Gatekeeping much?

axiosgunnar··on C meeting is over. C23 added:
> In RHEL we turn all warnings on, compile everything with hardening flags, use valgrind during development, and feed everything through Coverity.

Surely the compile time is not 100ms anymore then?

axiosgunnar··on Faster Python calculations with Numba
Now do it in Rust!
axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: Wife's Instagram account was deleted – what now?
Stop. Depending. On. FAAANG.
axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?
> jail time

Might as well go straight to the death penalty.

axiosgunnar··on NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr
Oh hi! And thanks for the clearup!
axiosgunnar··on NSA's Backdoor of the PX1000-Cr
> Although he hasn't found the smoking gun (yet)

So the author is admitting to the title being fake news?

axiosgunnar··on Reddit can't build a better search engine
So I can kill Reddit if a build a search engine for it that becomes popular and Reddit users start optimizing for that?
axiosgunnar··on Audiblegate
Too bad these kind of „mistakes“ never happen in favor of the customer… always in favor of Amazon.
axiosgunnar··on Why Elon Musk is so successful
Sounds like a liability to Tesla and SpaceX. They are just one bus accident away from irrelevancy. I always assumed Musk was good at creating a company culture where people are innovative, which could in theory be kept alive even if Musk wasn't there anymore. Not so much when all engineering relies on his ideas.
axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: Why are people proud of their genes even though they didn’t pick them?
A substantial portion of those 240 pounds must surely be muscles?
axiosgunnar··on Rust Survey 2021 Results
> When trying to resolve ownership issues

aka fix provably buggy code before it makes it to production?

axiosgunnar··on Facebook staff now to be known as “Metamates”
No, the point is Zuck said it straight-faced.
axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: What did Marc Andreessen mean by this?
Note that this is a 4chan meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-did-he-mean-by-this
axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: How do you expect the world to change if Russia invades Ukraine?
> From the rethoric you hear from EU leaders and the US president, I don't expect NATO to take any direct military action, because blowing this conflict to a full-scale war between two of the main military powers would catastrophically disrupt the global economy.

So just keep giving into the lunatic demands of a nation-state mafia?

axiosgunnar··on Ukraine reports cyber attack on defence ministry website, banks – TASS
Attacking a website of a defense ministry is like throwing eggs across the fence of Area51.
axiosgunnar··on How to write untestable code (2008)
This can be summarized to:

How to write untestable code: Use OOP ;-)

axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
> Ukraine

Warning, they might need increased PTOs starting tomorrow.

axiosgunnar··on Facebook's African Sweatshop
Serious question to the people on this site who are employed by Facebook:

Does it not nag you to be employed by one of - if not the most - ethically disgusting companies in the world?

Do you guys just click "hide" on all these articles - on average 1-2 a day - where Facebook has committed yet another absolutely disgusting transgression?

axiosgunnar··on Lets Get Arrested (2019)
Let me play the devils advocate here:

Why does it matter that what she did was a "simple" hack that didn't require exploiting fifteen CVEs at once?

It's akin to pulling away the seat of a teacher who wants to sit down.

Everybody is technically capable of pulling the seat away, it does not require any special skills.

You still get in trouble if you do it.

axiosgunnar··on Ask HN: Have you ever sold a domain-name? How was your experience selling it?
Well, did he sell it for 79k? :)
axiosgunnar··on We at $Famous_company Switched to $Hyped_technology
I see, that makes sense, thanks!
axiosgunnar··on I Finally Installed an Ad Blocker
But it forces them to spend resources on it, lowering their margin, which in turn prevents them from saving up a war chest of cash that allows them to stop innovating and just buy up newcomers (eg Facebook buying Whatsapp, Instagram, etc)
axiosgunnar··on We at $Famous_company Switched to $Hyped_technology
What is the slur „techbro“ supposed to refer to?

That one of the founders is whiter than average and his parents were not poor, thus all his success obviously comes from one of his many priviledges, nevermind any hard work, determination etc?

(Note: am not white myself, I just prefer to judge people on their merit)

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