Hacker News: Crusoe123

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

Crusoe123 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:19:11 +0000

Suddenly after 18 years, Ruby on Rails is the issue?

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

Crusoe123 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:15:08 +0000

So you're spamming github with slop and actual good code can't be merged? Got it.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

Crusoe123 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:32:29 +0000

> So turn your TV off. Cancel your subscription. Support your local league team in person.

First of all I support my local team and go to almost every home game and a couple of away games each season.

But don't you see what you're providing as possible alternatives?

1. Stop following your national team which gave you huge joy in the past, and just not have that as part of your life. Why? Because of greed of others.

2. Go to live games, where ticket prices are gouged and the same extraction process happens. And hell even there you don't get to skip the hydration breaks magically.

In this case, my experience and something I care for is becoming shittier. And this is just a small example. It's happening in pretty much every facet of our environment. And why is it happening? Because of our economic system that rewards incessant greed and sociopathic behaviour.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

Crusoe123 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:48:57 +0000

Introducing a break for the sole purpose of more advertising time and therefore trying to extract more value from me as a consumer, is a huge issue. Probably no.1 systemic issue of our time, where on every corner and for every breathing moment someone is optimizing to extract ever more value from others. It is incessant and never stopping.

It's exactly what enshitification is, people accepting these type of small changes and thinking it's not a big deal.

So no, it's not a tiny issue. Compared to this Balogun red card is a tiny issue.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Twitter is now attention roulette and ultimately meaningless"

Crusoe123 — Mon, 27 May 2024 10:37:42 +0000

> On the other hand, when you sit for an hour to check twitter, the following tab will dry-out immediately

That sounds great to me!

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It"

Crusoe123 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 16:31:19 +0000

I think you're the one who missed the point. Yes they are at their workstation, but they don't want to be available for constant interruption. To turn your story around. You don't get to interrupt my work whenever you feel like it just because we're at the office.

Maybe when we walk off the field and we're home, we can focus in peace on our work and be more productive?

New comment by Crusoe123 in "People aged 80 and over top 10% of Japan's population for first time"

Crusoe123 — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 08:28:39 +0000

Nice xenophobia there buddy

New comment by Crusoe123 in "The Tyranny of the Marginal User"

Crusoe123 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 21:13:07 +0000

You can filter your feed to only show friends stuff (and it's chronological)

https://www.facebook.com/?filter=friends

New comment by Crusoe123 in "There's something off about LED bulbs"

Crusoe123 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:36:06 +0000

My experience is opposite of yours. I have not yet had to change an LED light in the last 8-9 years since I started using them and replacing incandescent ones in my apartment. On the other hand I remember changing incandescent ones quite often and using up all the surplus ones I had after I started the transition to LED.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Credit Suisse sheds nearly 25%, key backer says no more money"

Crusoe123 — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:42:14 +0000

And if you bought a few days before that you'd be at 0%

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science"

Crusoe123 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 09:24:16 +0000

If it was only that simple, I assure you those jobs would have been obsolete already.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Path to a free, self-taught education in Computer Science"

Crusoe123 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 09:22:42 +0000

That's a very dangerous tip. Someone who is learning will not understand when ChatGPT is wrong, and neither will ChatGPT itself.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Macroeconomic changes have made it impossible for me to want to pay you"

Crusoe123 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 10:11:36 +0000

OK I mixed with a different video that people mocked on twitter. First one was bragging about amenities like in your post and second one is layoff - https://urlebird.com/video/def-not-an-ideal-start-to-2023-bu... . Here it is indeed a recruiter.

Do you honestly believe those TikToks were made spontaneously and they depict a realistic view of the workplace?

It's not a half baked conspiracy theory - it's called a PR strategy and companies have been doing them on social media for as long as they existed.

Let me give you the benefit of the doubt. Even if the videos are spontaneous, how can you with a straight face use them to judge a workplace and use them as a metric on the amount of work done? Do you really think social media is a realistic depiction of life?

Maybe if you saw a TikTok of how big investors and execs live and how much they would lose (nothing material) by retaining these employees, you would understand the situation better.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Macroeconomic changes have made it impossible for me to want to pay you"

Crusoe123 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:40:36 +0000

It's not a TikTok tech worker. It's a recruiter depicting an unrealistic - missing all the stress etc - view of the workplace to attract inexperienced employees.As ones with experience mostly don't give a crap about these types amenities.

That video was done for The Man, not for the employees well being. And apparently The Man was able to sell you this depiction of the work place so you can now feel smug about all those layoffs.

Good for you I guess, you independent thinker!

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Notes on Saudi Arabia"

Crusoe123 — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 11:00:44 +0000

I'm sure Nazi Germany was great for some Germans too, if they willfully ignored all the bad stuff going on.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Musk’s first email to Twitter staff ends remote work"

Crusoe123 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:25:14 +0000

You do realize that doing something with the "least amount of effort" is the definition of productivity?

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Ask HN: Is it just me or Facebook is being bombarded by spam?"

Crusoe123 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:21:30 +0000

Why would you need a blockchain for this?

New comment by Crusoe123 in "The future of work isn't just remote, it's part-time"

Crusoe123 — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:46:09 +0000

Sounds to me like a convoluted way to say - unpaid time off.

New comment by Crusoe123 in "The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos"

Crusoe123 — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 07:47:26 +0000

That is not true e.g.https://www.reddit.com/r/chapotraphouse

New comment by Crusoe123 in "Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO"

Crusoe123 — Fri, 20 May 2022 12:47:00 +0000

In that case being done with work at 12pm sounds like a much better deal.