Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — dignan

dignan

HN member
Joined
Thu, Jun 16, 2011, 2:07 PM UTC
HN karma
145
Public activity
58 items

About dignan

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #31906839

    Real estate investors are not typically developers. They also generally are opposed to things YIMBYs support since as mentioned it would cut into their profits. YIMBYs, though not …

  2. comment
    Comment #29375610

    Article 1, Section 9 specifically prevented slavery from being abolished until 1808. The three-fifths compromise (Article 1, Section 2) also addressed slavery. The word never appea…

  3. comment
    Comment #28693671

    This is actually an internal artificial kidney. There are other projects like you describe. https://pharm.ucsf.edu/kidney/device/faq has some helpful info about this. This would ba…

  4. comment
    Comment #26557396

    GC is a memory management technique with tradeoffs like all the others. GC has many different implementations, with widely ranging properties. For example, the JVM itself currently…

  5. comment
    Comment #25810496

    People loathe Apple for locking down their own access to their computer, not for security measures. Signed app distribution solves an entirely separate problem- making sure you get…

  6. comment
    Comment #24924510

    I have the same laptop and this is also my fourth upgrade on it. Really excellent. It is impressive how much the upgrade process has improved over the years. Years ago you could ei…

  7. comment
    Comment #16666409

    The NBA players have a union https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Players_...

  8. comment
    Comment #14072738

    No experience, but did a thorough read through of the docs. One thing to keep in mind about clickhouse is that their replication guarantees aren't very strong. From the docs: "Ther…

  9. comment
    Comment #13287455

    Probably the same way they are for planes- victor airways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_airways

  10. comment
    Comment #13267006

    No, it does not. It does allow you to implement it if you want though: https://github.com/Manishearth/rust-gc

  11. comment
    Comment #10967295

    You're comparing an organization with a budget of about $3 billion to one with a budget of over $1 TRILLION. It's a nonsensical comparison.

  12. comment
    Comment #10016500

    How are you establishing that people are "just there to get pills"?

  13. comment
    Comment #7382964

    That depends quite a bit on the machine. For example servers.

  14. comment
    Comment #6991782

    Did you check out rust? That's within rust's feature set, though it isn't "production ready" yet.

  15. comment
    Comment #6967272

    Just to follow up on this, what checksums do offer is a way to verify that the file you have locally matches the remote file.

  16. comment
    Comment #6937160

    It seems to me that everyone complaining about needing to deal with PC repairs has never had a business-class PC. The business and consumer support are completely different beasts.…

  17. comment
    Comment #6921830

    systemd itself provides the functionality to run commands at points during the lifecycle of a service[1]. As for the people in mixed environments, you can forward journald to syslo…

  18. comment
    Comment #6252379

    I think it's more of a comparative statement. Interfacing with C in Rust is very simple, as he details in the article.

  19. comment
    Comment #6175124

    As a Flask user, you might want to check out Flask-Mail http://pythonhosted.org/flask-mail/

  20. comment
    Comment #6034041

    Firefox sync doesn't do the trick? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-sync-take-your-...

  21. comment
    Comment #5475606

    Add 5-10 even for the Red line

  22. comment
    Comment #5170790

    Which steps are they taking?

  23. comment
    Comment #5055804

    It uses a unix socket. It's also a bit faster than using a TCP socket to proxy (at least in my limited testing), so I prefer it.

  24. comment
    Comment #5021129

    There is already a version for Fedora: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Steam_under_Linux#F...

  25. comment
    Comment #5004124

    Please write something useful. Do you have a card that is supposed to be affected by this change? Are you running the right software/software version? Have you filed a bug report? …