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mixmastamykon How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026

Looks great. It's early but how well do they work? Comparable to FOSS apps yet?

Also it says egui is immediate mode, does that use a lot of {C,G}PU or have any other issues?

mixmastamykon Does Georgism work? Five years later

> he’s also opposed to taxes on both labor and capital.

I see. Well, this doesn't include the two I mentioned above so perhaps.

mixmastamykon Does Georgism work? Five years later

As I said.

mixmastamykon Does Georgism work? Five years later

Those taxes have different uses, jurisdictions, and payers, as does a property tax. So it may not be a good idea to have one exclusive type.

mixmastamykon Does Georgism work? Five years later

This guy has been grinding his axe and wasting folks' time here for years. Even when shown how middle-density towns are the most efficient for utilities, taxes, infrastructure, etc. Even when confronted with the falling rents of Tokyo and yes Austin in times when they've briefly overbuilt. Don't bother arguing with economics deniers.

mixmastamykon Does Georgism work? Five years later

It's already unaffordable for the average citizen to own a modest home in much of the country. Only if you worked and then moved to a cheaper place.

Also, I don't think it precludes a sales tax or tariffs, etc.

mixmastamykon LA Metro has some of the slowest escalators

The speed is fine, need to be safe for old folks and kids. The important part is that people move over so those in a hurry/need exercise can continue walking.

mixmastamykon 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days

Correct, and don't complain about it or you will be lightly punished by the mods.

mixmastamykon George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts

It's a gorgeous park in a place with very little space left. ILM already takes up some of its space. That's probably enough reason.

Need to leave some room for Starfleet Academy as well. Anyway I'm glad it came to Exposition park, which needed some love.

mixmastamykon What It's Like to Work in One of America's Data Centers

Sounds like AC and airflow does not remove it?

mixmastamykon What happened to the Snowden archive

Oh yeah, I remember that.

Believe here that all the tech was available by y2k and security was even worse than now. Just needed the funding and a willingness to break the law, which the govt had in abundance after 2001.

mixmastamykon Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to

Yes, I don't feel like the top comments have actually read it. It was a bit too long unfortunately. They seem to be discussing their own ideas on FOSS funding.

mixmastamykon What happened to the Snowden archive

I don't think the compute/indexing were extraordinary, what may have been was the storage required. There was a large NSA facility built for purpose early in the century, and the cost of storage dropped significantly at the time.

Google had already demonstrated such a system by the late 90s, using off the shelf technology.

mixmastamykon What happened to the Snowden archive

I wasn't there and have never had a security clearance. But I doubt Dick Cheney would have been satisfied with a non-functional query system during the war on terror, many years after giving direct orders to build one. Yes, I believe they were active.

I highly recommend the documentary "The United States of Secrets" by PBS Frontline, it digs into this time period and government motivations after 9/11. Usually free on Kanopy.

mixmastamykon What happened to the Snowden archive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore

The first one existed from the 90s. The second was built in response to 9-11, removing privacy protections early 2000s. The third is an interface for searching. As far as I know no one tried to deny XKeyscore exists, then or now.

Snowden built none of these. His document retrieval system allowed him to find out that the programs above were not following the law.

mixmastamykon What happened to the Snowden archive

There's this weird dichotomy where people think the folks that work in government are either evil geniuses or drooling cavemen. They are neither. I assure you that the NSA (with unlimited funding) is capable of running a MySQL cluster to index email and keep it up, most of the time anyway.

Also, Snowden didn't build the query system, he just used it. He built a document gathering system, which I described in my other response. These are different services.

mixmastamykon What happened to the Snowden archive

Sysadmin with root who does some scripting. From memory it was something like a number of cron jobs to download from rss-like feeds to a central location, and maybe index them too. Show results on a web page.

Until that time it was difficult to get updates and folks were out of touch because info was too compartmentalized. Later something made him take a peek above his clearance, as the data was there.

He explained it in detail in the book Permanent Record, which is available at the library and/or ingested into a model by now.

mixmastamykon What happened to the Snowden archive

He was a sysadmin who built a system that gathered the documents. Why do you think that SQL is not capable of searching email? Also an anonymizing system already existed before 2001. The safeguards were dropped afterwards.

mixmastamykon The senior engineer death spiral

Did good work, but haven’t had any since the last contract ended two years ago. What would you suggest?

mixmastamykon Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?

Does your browser have the email password saved?

mixmastamykon The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

I don't know, the article mentions having to deal with brine. Let it evaporate in a pool and you've got plenty.

mixmastamykon Homebrew 7.0.0

Per unit costs are pretty low, and old Intel gear particularly energy guzzling.

mixmastamykon Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

I did, and the original dev of the component fixed it within a few days. It was straightforward, a backwards reading of a spec, reordered.

The fix is still sitting unmerged many months later.

This surprised me since I thought the project was in heavy bugfix/compat mode. I won’t touch it until I see some velocity on open bugs.

mixmastamykon Ask HN: In The Matrix, the bad guys are the 'agents'. Coincidence? Clairvoyance?

Fights for the user and against the MCP!

mixmastamykon Homebrew 7.0.0

Electronics recycling exists, plus a few dollars for the aluminum case.

mixmastamykon Homebrew 7.0.0

In general I agree, but recycling old power hungry gear may be better for the environment in the long term.

mixmastamykon Data collected by cars and sold to third parties

Cable ISPs such as Spectrum sell capacity on their customers routers for such situations, including ‘smart’ appliances.