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throw16180339··on In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace
It was probably compromised by credential stuffing.
throw16180339··on RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
HP also used a binary translator to migrate from HP3000 to PA-RISC in the 80s.
throw16180339··on The case for overhauling American science
https://patrickcollison.com/fast has other examples of ambitious projects with short timelines
throw16180339··on "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)
He worked on the Granny animation system at Rad Game Tools. It's shipped in over 5200 games[1] and targets all the major game dev platforms.

[1] https://www.radgametools.com/granny/customers.html

throw16180339··on How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
This isn't a valid comparison. f2c is a compiler and the output isn't intended to be human readable.
throw16180339··on Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
Citation needed.
throw16180339··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
That's even worse.
throw16180339··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
I wrote Zig off years ago after watching Andrew troll and make bad faith arguments. This rant only confirms that was the right call.
throw16180339··on Show HN: I submitted 316 AI-generated PRs to open source
It's repulsive that you're deliberately spamming open source projects with garbage PRs. Hopefully you'll be banned from GitHub.
throw16180339··on Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?
The Roberts court invented the official acts immunity out of whole cloth for the sole purpose of keeping Trump out of jail. They're quite capable of interpreting everything he does as an official act.
throw16180339··on Only Teslas exempt from new auto tariffs thanks to 85% domestic content rule
Their beliefs are fairly simple.

Members of the in-group have divine right and shouldn't be bound by laws. Anyone who opposes them is the enemy and should be harmed or destroyed.

throw16180339··on U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
White supremacists worldwide recognized it as a Nazi salute (https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250121-musk-salute-a...).
throw16180339··on U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
> Your comparison makes no sense. Bangladeshi Americans, as a group, are normal and healthy. They don't suffer from a medical condition that could be cured.

I was trying to give you a sense of why I interpret his comments as a threat. He's described all of us as if we're a burden when I've been supporting myself for decades.

Some autistics would want a cure, but others feel that their perspective is equally as valid as neurotypicals. They don't see themselves as sick and in need of a cure.

> But to use a better example, south asians have a significantly higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Almost everyone in my family has it. It would be great to cure that or figure out how to avoid that. I'd be fine with the government collecting data about that, so long as there was an opt-out.

My main impairments are face blindness and a severe difficulty with reading facial expressions - I'm in the bottom 5% of the population. I would happily take a cure for either of these if it was offered. If it's a more general personality change, then I'm not interested. I'm comfortable with who I am.

There isn't an opt-out for me and there's a long history of eugenics in this country, that's why I'm concerned about this.

throw16180339··on U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
If he had made the same statement about Bangladeshi-Americans and was collecting their personal information, how would you feel about it?
throw16180339··on U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
Are you referring to the Trump government's treatment of trans people?

RFK views autistics as undesirables, so it's absurd to believe that he'll be any nicer to us.

> “These are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go on a date, many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,”

What makes more sense is that he's collecting our personal information for imprisonment and execution.

throw16180339··on U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent
RFK has been quite clear that autistic people are undesirables. They're collecting our personal information so that we can be imprisoned or killed.
throw16180339··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
DoGE exists to dismantle branches of government that Republicans disapprove of, enrich the Republican elite, and use the federal government's data for their personal benefit.

Musk has openly reassigned some contracts to SpaceX for personal gain and fired people investigating his companies, so it's a given that they're also privately lining their pockets.

The federal data will be used to harass and disenfranchise their opponents. Musk, for example, can use the NLRB data to identify complainants about his companies, so that he can pay them off or have them sent to El Salvador. The data can also be used for the Safeguard Voting Eligibility Act (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...), which is intended to prevent women, blacks, and other groups from voting.

Financial auditing doesn't really enter into it.

throw16180339··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
There's ample evidence of incompetence from DoGE, including obvious coding security holes, firing people who ensure the safety of our nuclear arsenal, and other mistakes that you would expect from an unmotivated intern.

This is supporting evidence that they were picked for ideological reasons - namely, being young white supremacists who wouldn't ask any questions. That's why Marko Elez was rehired. Musk, Trump, and Vance all share his views, he was just dumb enough to express them in public.

throw16180339··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
How?

It's certainly possible that none of the numerous allegations or proven cases of sexual assault (https://19thnews.org/2023/10/donald-trump-associates-sexual-...) were rape attempts, but that's at best an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.

throw16180339··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
> That’s been beat to death. He would face impeachment + removal from office.

Republicans didn't object to Trump's coup attempt, fraud convictions, past attempted rapes, or proven corruption. 70% of them believe that he won the 2020 election. There's no reason to believe that they'd impeach him for child rape unless she was the daughter of a prominent Republican. Trump would have the girl killed, send her parents to a gulag in El Salvador, and Fox News would call it fake news.

throw16180339··on Tailscale has raised $160M
My prediction is that they'll be bought by Cisco.
throw16180339··on White House says 104% China tariffs take effect at midnight
It ends when Trump gets a bribe from China.
throw16180339··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
That's why I’ve stopped feeding the troll — I just downvote or flag when necessary. It’s a shame because, years ago, he was one of the better commenters on HN.
throw16180339··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
He's just sealioning again.
throw16180339··on Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
It's been awhile since I looked into this, but it's not necessarily an easy change. glibc malloc has debugging APIs; a distro can't easily replace it without either emulating the API or patching programs that use it.
throw16180339··on Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
I downvoted because the poster doesn't understand what security by obscurity means.
throw16180339··on A 10x Faster TypeScript
Zig isn't memory safe, has regular breaking changes, and doesn't have a garbage collector.
throw16180339··on British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue
ICE probably has quotas for detainment, so they're imprisoning people who would previously have been sent home.
throw16180339··on X outage: Hacker group claims it took down former Twitter platform
I expect Musk to use this attack as an excuse for sanctions against Ukraine.
throw16180339··on X Is Down
I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.
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