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mburns commented on Blacksky AppView   github.com/blacksky-algor... · Posted by u/Kye
amazingamazing · 4 days ago
mburns · 4 days ago
> In several Gallup measurements over the next three decades, including the most recent in 2019, the large majority of Black Americans have said the use of Black vs. African American doesn't matter to them.
mburns commented on Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway   cleantechnica.com/2026/02... · Posted by u/whynotmaybe
vardump · 23 days ago
Did Musk actually ever promise a $25k car?
mburns · 23 days ago
mburns commented on Gentoo on Codeberg   gentoo.org/news/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Foxboron · 23 days ago
I mean, gitlab is only from ~2019.

The first hit I could find of a git repository hosted on `archlinux.org` is from 2007; https://web.archive.org/web/20070512063341/http://projects.a...

mburns · 23 days ago
Gitlab started in 2011. Which, granted, is still after 2007.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab

mburns commented on Recent Optimizations in Python's Reference Counting   rushter.com/blog/python-r... · Posted by u/f311a
Waterluvian · 2 months ago
Has improving CPython performance become a huge focus in just the past five years or so, or is that just a perception issue on my end?
mburns · 2 months ago
A developer wrote a paper in 2020 about how to make Python substantially (5x) faster.

Microsoft then funded a 'Fast CPython' team that included Guido, to realize that goal. They disbanded the team in June.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-311-faster-cpyt...

mburns commented on Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite   hackerbook.dosaygo.com... · Posted by u/keepamovin
jesprenj · 2 months ago
do you mean single database? it'd be quite hard if not impossible to make applications using a single table (no relations). reddit did it though, they have a huge table of "things" iirc.
mburns · 2 months ago
That is a common misconception.

> Next, we've got more than just two tables. The quote/paraphrase doesn't make it clear, but we've got two tables per thing. That means Accounts have an "account_thing" and an "account_data" table, Subreddits have a "subreddit_thing" and "subreddit_data" table, etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/z9sm8/comment/...

mburns commented on Common yeast can survive Martian conditions   phys.org/news/2025-10-com... · Posted by u/geox
vizzier · 5 months ago
hard to know with so few data points
mburns · 5 months ago
"insufficient data for meaningful answer", one might say.
mburns commented on Radicle: Peer-to-Peer Collaboration with Git (2024)   lwn.net/Articles/966869/... · Posted by u/emreb
CaptainOfCoit · 5 months ago
> Fossil is primarily a DVCS, like git, but aimed at a different set of users (e.g. smaller projects)

Is it actually? I never got the impression SQLite was a smaller project, but I'd confess to not knowing much about how it is organized.

mburns · 5 months ago
Small in terms of team size, not impact.

SQLite is developed by 3 people. They don't accept outside contributions.

mburns commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy   thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
lenerdenator · 7 months ago
All of this should serve as a reminder that if .gov really, really wants you, they've got you.

Unless, of course, they want everybody, which even they don't have the resources to handle.

mburns · 7 months ago
It should (also) serve as a reminder that OpSec is important.
mburns commented on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]   storage.courtlistener.com... · Posted by u/dave1629
fallingknife · 10 months ago
This sounds a solution contrived to advantage companies that want access to this data rather than an actual economically valid business model. If building an index and selling access to it is a viable business, then why isn't someone doing it already? There's minimal barrier to entry. Blekko has an index. Are you selling access to it for profit?
mburns · 10 months ago
There are search engines that sell api access to their index. Pretty sure Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex all do.

Blekko also did, 10 years ago. When they still existed.

mburns commented on Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy   osuosl.org/blog/osl-futur... · Posted by u/aendruk
mburns · 10 months ago
The OSL was transformative for my career as a budding CS student in Corvallis many years ago. I can’t say enough good things about the positive impact it has on the Open Source community and the students it employs.

In my experience, there isn’t a great on-ramp for learning to be a SysAdmin (or devop, etc) in a practical sense. Learning what it takes to support systems in “Production” with actual users, and all that entails, at some point requires a hands-on approach. Finding entry-level opportunities to do that isn’t easy until you have /some/ experience. The OSL provides that, and supports countless FOSS projects in the process. It’s really a great arrangement.

Obviously I’m biased, but the Open Source Lab should be viewed as one of the Crown Jewels of OSU.

u/mburns

KarmaCake day1467February 7, 2008View Original