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burnthrow··on Boston public schools suspend advanced learning classes
> few students with poor parents (disproportionally people of color) will stay in shitty regular school.

I'm white and this was me. If it weren't for these programs, I'd either be in jail or working retail/fast food. Congratulations on provoking me, I'm going to take a long hiatus from HN now and go build something. I've changed my password to a randomly generated (ephemeral) string on this and my main account; I won't be back to contribute.

burnthrow··on Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C
Yes but we're talking about today. And C's smallness/simplicity means that bootstrapping on new architectures is straightforward. Meanwhile Rust needs 64bit, etc. just to build. Rust's early embrace of compile-time complexity (ZCA) means this will always be a fundamental problem for the language. In fact it's getting worse over time.
burnthrow··on Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C
> pointing out that such information is available somewhere if I look hard enough does not disprove anything.

I didn't look very hard, I went to the language reference and searched for "?" in the Tokens section.

burnthrow··on Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C
Were you looking for this?

https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/reference/expressions/opera...

burnthrow··on Rust, Zig, and the Futility of “Replacing” C
I'm amazed by the hostility of these comments, including personal attacks, and by this post being flagged. The author isn't some nobody who just finished a boot camp, but a very skilled C hacker. He makes a good argument for the importance of portability, a topic that seldom comes up in the C/Rust discussions I've read.
burnthrow··on McDonald's and other chains are giving their drive-thrus the Jetsons treatment
Ordering isn't the bottleneck at In n Out, it's the food made fresh, sometimes for custom orders. The menu itself couldn't be much simpler. The kids taking down the orders work quickly and are always at the end of the line. That they're friendly humans and not a confused AI is an added benefit.

On the other hand this should work for McDonalds, where nobody's expecting friendliness or much of anything; it's basically a feed trough.

burnthrow··on Slouching Toward Post-Journalism
That's the great thing about math: It doesn't care how sincerely you believe that 6 and 9 are the same number. In other words, the kind of game you're talking about can only go on for so long before cold reality makes itself known.
burnthrow··on Slouching Toward Post-Journalism
I've worked in newsrooms and disagree with this saintly image of truth-seekers. Yes, the rank and file reporters are not looking to grind an axe; even if they were, they'd be too busy to do it. The well-known writers have huge egos and strong opinions. The editors are even worse.

Also, please don't cast aspersions like "only seems accurate" and "conspiracy theories." There is no conjecture in this editorial: It's somebody's opinion about recent, real developments in major newspapers.

burnthrow··on The Mac price crash of 2021
I stand corrected, that is crazy!
burnthrow··on SolarWind, enough with the password already
She's wrong to imply that if only SolarWinds had followed her iPad password policy, the attack would have been stopped. And she's mistaken about Orion's use case, which has nothing to do with email security.

And while Russia conducted this attack, I'm tired of the Russian scarecrow: SolarWinds' job here has nothing to do with Russia.

But mostly I'm jaded by ambitious SoCal pols neglecting their districts to score easy points on national issues.

burnthrow··on The Mac price crash of 2021
Wait for a screen larger than 13"!
burnthrow··on The Mac price crash of 2021
Nobody's paying that much for a 2013 MBP. The will have to lower the price considerably before it's "going."
burnthrow··on SolarWind, enough with the password already
People focus on the password because it's the only part of the story they can relate to or understand. Orange County Rep. Katie Porter:

> "I've got a stronger password than 'solarwinds123' to stop my kids from watching too much YouTube on their iPad ... You and your company were supposed to be preventing the Russians from reading Defense Department emails!"

Words fail.

burnthrow··on Free Land – Living Off Grid With No Money
Sartre.
burnthrow··on So Long as You Carry a Cellphone, the Government Can Track You
I seriously doubt that most laypeople think that.
burnthrow··on When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver
> Just say nothing, and be there for the longest time, silent and knowing.

Please don't do this.

burnthrow··on Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)
2016
burnthrow··on Sneakerheads have turned Jordans and Yeezys into an asset class
Too old to recognize the brand, but I'm not following the logic here at all. What kind of clothing manufacturer do you find most appropriate for a street tough?
burnthrow··on Sneakerheads have turned Jordans and Yeezys into an asset class
Your dictionary is sure getting a workout in this thread.
burnthrow··on $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates
If you're prevented from working a real job, you should receive jobless benefits.
burnthrow··on Rust for web development: 2 years later
Keep in mind this post is lolspeed porn, not a compelling argument against using a GC in your new project. If you're successful enough to have these problems, you can afford to rewrite in anything.
burnthrow··on The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years
CMS replaced the guy who turned your .doc into HTML (this used to be a job). Many of these people became LAMP CMF specialists. That transition was at least a decade ago. Sysadmin roles have been under the most pressure since.
burnthrow··on Rust for web development: 2 years later
> Memory management is a distraction: Actually, no. I don’t use that many lexical lifetimes and use instead smart pointers. So yes, I have to understand the differences between a Box, an Rc and an Arc, but my productivity is not impacted compared to Node.JS or Go.

By throwing everything on the heap, I doubt you see much improvement performance-wise over Node or Go. You probably even come out behind idiomatic Go which makes good use of the stack. What's the point?

burnthrow··on Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice
Don't play coy, the sole goal of your "discussion" and account is to provoke and upset people.
burnthrow··on Cloud-Making Aerosol Could Devastate Polar Sea Ice
This user's views on criminal justice change like the weather.

> sep_field 4 hours ago [–]

> Fines and jail time would be a start at correcting policy. Especially jail time for cops who refuse to wear masks.

> sep_field 2 hours ago [–]

> yeah I think jail is best reserved for cops and politicians.

Perhaps it's best to not engage in further discussion with an obvious troll account.

burnthrow··on California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous
LA Times, which published the article, has been the worst about this. The headline ('"The Devil is Already Here"') is clickbait trash. Of course, this grave development is already off their front page: Tiger Woods was injured.
burnthrow··on Opinion: We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April
What I love about the news right now is that they've perfected the alchemy of turning every holiday into its own news cycle. Gatherings feared... Experts fear another spike. No proof at all that holiday -> virulence, of course. You should try turning off the news for a bit.
burnthrow··on California bill would decriminalize psychedelics
Nice race bait/comic book. My favorite grower is owned/operated by an east Asian couple btw. If you know anything about California, the idea of an all-white cannabis cabal is absurd. But that may be hard to recognize from Berlin, I don't know. Okay, that's enough HN for a bit.
burnthrow··on California bill would decriminalize psychedelics
LDS are headquartered there and all it takes is a slip of the tongue.
burnthrow··on 12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks
To be clear, this is FUD. If you know how to make SQA emit the right SQL, the performance is basically the same as psycopg2 + your custom code, usually better. I've written many high volume SQA services and never once saw SQA per se as the bottleneck.
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