Hacker News: CalRobert

New comment by CalRobert in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

CalRobert — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:41:01 +0000

Speak for yourself. We’re not all raising gas guzzling kids who eat beef three times a day.

New comment by CalRobert in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

CalRobert — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:39:53 +0000

“Lol dude can’t their mom do that?”

-Random manager ca. 2018 when I explained I couldn’t join an 8 AM meeting because I had to take my kid to daycare.

New comment by CalRobert in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

CalRobert — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:41:05 +0000

It's very frustrating that behind every "you should be eternally grateful for every child no matter what" warm fuzzy message is an implicit "and if you ever express regret for having a kid who wound up non-verbal and violent and destroyed your marriage and your relationship with your other kids you're a horrible person".

Not referring to your cousin specifically but my mom's life's work is with severely autistic children (the "can't talk and hits people" sort, not "I'm a bit awkward and love math and doing anything to help autistic kids is abject cruelty!" sort), and the experience for parents mostly seems to be abject misery.

New comment by CalRobert in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

CalRobert — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:48:37 +0000

No idea but worth remembering that modern breakfast was invented to sell cereal.

New comment by CalRobert in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"

CalRobert — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:20:20 +0000

Seems a shame in a housing crisis.

New comment by CalRobert in "The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake"

CalRobert — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:17:37 +0000

Violating gdpr is apparently legal. But even having opt out instead of opt in is in violation

New comment by CalRobert in "The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis"

CalRobert — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:07:57 +0000

Certainly had to convince my gp a few years ago that indeed there is Lyme in Ireland

New comment by CalRobert in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

CalRobert — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:27:32 +0000

Attestion (now via captcha) means that websites will presumably block Firefox and Google’s attempt to murder the web will be complete.

New comment by CalRobert in "Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices"

CalRobert — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:29:45 +0000

They’re not noisy because there’s a lot of people, they’re noisy because there’s a lot of cars.

New comment by CalRobert in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

CalRobert — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:23:20 +0000

We agree. I meant in the aggregate. Cash is very rare here in NL at least.

New comment by CalRobert in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

CalRobert — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:22:42 +0000

If you watch only one video make it the Berkeley Bowl one

https://youtu.be/PUFQouwqbe8

New comment by CalRobert in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

CalRobert — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:57:03 +0000

Huh, a Dutch one? ING perchance?

New comment by CalRobert in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

CalRobert — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:06:00 +0000

Cool, good to know. When I first moved to Ireland you could get a hardware code generator too but I don’t know if that’s still a thing

New comment by CalRobert in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

CalRobert — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:30:42 +0000

We chose that when we stopped using cash.

New comment by CalRobert in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

CalRobert — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:28:18 +0000

In Europe at least the banks website won’t function if you don’t auth with their app.

New comment by CalRobert in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

CalRobert — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:24:10 +0000

Recaptcha requiring attestation also belongs in the list

New comment by CalRobert in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

CalRobert — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:22:24 +0000

Honestly, I just want a hardware keyboard. I still miss the slider htc touch pro 2

New comment by CalRobert in "Nobel Disease"

CalRobert — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:41:15 +0000

I guess I misunderstood the meaning of the term eugenics because I thought it was very much intentional artificial selection applied to humans.

To reiterate - I do not support this! I think it's evil! but isn't that basically what it is?

New comment by CalRobert in "Waymo in Dallas"

CalRobert — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:30:48 +0000

I agree with you and hate car centric development, and yet, if this idea gets low or no parking housing built, it could be worth considering.

New comment by CalRobert in "Nobel Disease"

CalRobert — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:16:47 +0000

It was originally 6 pack I believe… the phrase itself evolves