Hacker News: ConSeannery

New comment by ConSeannery in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

ConSeannery — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:46:54 +0000

Lol what? You seriously think that the #1 Chinese AI company is not being subsidized by the Chinese government?

New comment by ConSeannery in "LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite"

ConSeannery — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 10:47:22 +0000

Ads will eventually make their way into the responses or side bars. It will be interesting (and depressing) to see who does it first and who holds out hoping to squeeze out the ad-supported LLM providers.

New comment by ConSeannery in "FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan"

ConSeannery — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:04:37 +0000

I'm also confused, but I'd imagine that if Trump lost the election and betting sentiment on polymarket predicted strongly that Trump would win, it could be used as further "proof" that fraud occurred and that the democrats stole the election.

Polymarket probably thinks that the Biden administration is angry with them for showing how the population truly feels as all other sources are obviously corrupt /s

New comment by ConSeannery in "Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language"

ConSeannery — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:38:09 +0000

This approach makes a lot more sense than OP's. Vocabulary is dead simple to brute force learn with Anki and a frequency dictionary (shared deck), grammar/natural flow of language is a lot harder without a ton of practice

New comment by ConSeannery in "Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language"

ConSeannery — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:25:01 +0000

Not to take a dig at you but to set some context for other language learners reading this, 1000 words in a year is awful progress. It would take you 10 years to have just a semi-fluent vocabulary in a simple (for native English speakers) language like Spanish, Italian, or French, and that's not including grammar. This is the main problem with feel-good apps like Duolingo, giving all sorts of positive feedback for what amounts to very little progress.

Anki + a frequency dictionary + 34 new words/day (with 80% retention due to spaced repetition) is easily doable by our brains to get to semi fluency (~10k words) in a year. Or, take a month to cram the first 2000 words and you're well on your way versus other wastes of time.

New comment by ConSeannery in "I pwned half of America's fast food chains simultaneously"

ConSeannery — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:23:11 +0000

It was reported to them in September of last year

New comment by ConSeannery in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

ConSeannery — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:00:30 +0000

Not just you, it used to have solely high quality Q&A...then the yahoo answers folks migrated over

New comment by ConSeannery in "ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard"

ConSeannery — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 00:05:28 +0000

The UHK (ultimate hacking keyboard) comes pretty close. I can vouch for its high quality, and it's about as portable as you can get for that many keys without switching to a slim profile like in the OP

New comment by ConSeannery in "The End of the Googleverse"

ConSeannery — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:20:16 +0000

Try that for baldurs gate 3. The trash results that are returned might have what you're looking for, after scrolling past the SEO highschool essay style intro and after closing the mid page JavaScript embedded nag window.

New comment by ConSeannery in "StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet"

ConSeannery — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:11:07 +0000

What's the difference between a fanless laptop and a Linux OS tablet? A keyboard on hinges or something?

New comment by ConSeannery in "Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)"

ConSeannery — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:32:00 +0000

I suggest providing feedback directly to them via this form: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/requests/new

New comment by ConSeannery in "How to succeed at Meta"

ConSeannery — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 16:46:49 +0000

The post is flippant but a decent strategy. Your goal (whether you're a total comp+promo seeker or just looking to float) is to arm your manager with as much ammunition as possible to argue on your behalf during calibrations. Project impact can be easily argued against, especially when your area of work is difficult or not well understood by other engineering teams, not to mention that coming up with undeniably impactful projects every 6-12 months is not possible on many teams. Lines of code and moving efficiency or cost metrics cannot be argued against. It's not the only way to "succeed" at Meta but it's certainly the easiest way

New comment by ConSeannery in "Some statistics about BTRFS compression"

ConSeannery — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:38:51 +0000

All of Facebook uses btrfs for their root filesystem (or did when I worked there). Millions of servers. They of course have the caveat of having kernel and btrfs developers working for them, and they run new kernels

New comment by ConSeannery in "President Putin has announced a partial mobilization in Russia"

ConSeannery — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 09:57:16 +0000

Wendover Productions "Why Russia Is Invading Ukraine" on YouTube provides some good info. Some reasons include: - They need to secure energy sources (natural gas) to ensure a future for their economy. Ukraine was threatening this business by beginning to get funding from Western companies to develop their natural gas industry - Geographically, losing Ukraine to NATO/the West would result in compromised defensive lines - Putin wants to reestablish the former united Soviet Union

New comment by ConSeannery in "Soft White Underbelly demonetized by YouTube [video]"

ConSeannery — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 11:52:11 +0000

He has stated in several interviews and previous videos that he gives away the money he makes on the channel. Watch the video linked, he says it again on it.

New comment by ConSeannery in "Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search"

ConSeannery — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:10:58 +0000

I tend to append or prepend site:forum.* to my searches to emulate this missing feature. Not every forum is set up with this url but it's better than nothing

New comment by ConSeannery in "Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say"

ConSeannery — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 08:52:02 +0000

The culture is a bit different in different offices. Most of the stress from working at FB is from your twice yearly perf reviews, where managers have to go and argue with other managers over what rating their direct reports' performance deserves. If your manager is not assertive or does not have much clout, doesn't really like you, doesn't get to give their shpeal before all the "exceeds+" are given out, or simply gets paired with one or more a-holes, then all that shit is going to roll downhill (your meets expectations will turn into a meets-most, and you will have a PIP in front of you soon for example).

Cultural differences in conflict, negotiation, and corporate drive can make this more or less stressful for the managers and as a result for the employees. As such, you can predict more stress in the US and less in Europe+Canada. The Irish office for example is a bit more laid back but also can be more passive aggressive.

Per decision making around immoral things, all those decisions happened in the US when I worked there.

New comment by ConSeannery in "Wealthy people are renouncing American citizenship"

ConSeannery — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 20:14:47 +0000

It's not quite arbitrary, it relates to having to pay an exit tax if your global net worth meets or exceeds 2 million.

You are correct in that the IRS chose this number.

New comment by ConSeannery in "Treasure hunter in jail for 5 years"

ConSeannery — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 04:15:35 +0000

He was paid 12.7 million from investors....to find gold coins worth 2 - 4 million? How does that make sense? Do all investors get their money back plus proceeds from gold sales, minus costs and a stipend or something?

Also the dude actually does look like a pirate

New comment by ConSeannery in "Sockets in Your Shell"

ConSeannery — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 03:05:12 +0000

this is useful for network connectivity troubleshooting in any environment (container, embedded device, and so on) where curl, nc, telnet, etc. are not installed