Hacker News: Devasta

New comment by Devasta in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

Devasta — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:06:03 +0000

Why wouldn't it be?

New comment by Devasta in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

Devasta — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:48:17 +0000

The difference between Silicon Valley and Wall Street is that Wall Street knows they are lying when they justify the awful things they do in the name of enriching themselves.

New comment by Devasta in "AI and remote work is a disaster for junior software engineers"

Devasta — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:42:51 +0000

He mentions that they have physical equipment they must interact with and that is an excellent reason to be at least hybrid sometimes, but if you cannot make remote work successful that is an issue to be resolved, not a justification for RTO.

* Most companies have staff spread across different office locations

* Your clients are in other office locations

* Your suppliers are in other office locations

* Even if somehow you and your clients and your suppliers are all in the same building, you should still be conducting your meetings through something like Teams so that you have recordings of everything, something that juniors can go back to see the rationale behind decisions or revisit the training sessions done for them.

Even if you are going into the office 7 days a week, you should be operating a remote-first model.

New comment by Devasta in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

Devasta — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:08:27 +0000

The web version being ok is a sign of the degradation of the desktop experience more than it is a sign of the capabilities of the web.

New comment by Devasta in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

Devasta — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:31:11 +0000

YC invests in military startups, they have no problem killing people if it would make them money. What makes a fake HIPPA compliance cert worse than that?

New comment by Devasta in "I wore Meta's smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep"

Devasta — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:50:21 +0000

That makes sense; you were being a creep.

New comment by Devasta in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

Devasta — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:34:13 +0000

A big part of the benefit of AI has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with leading point haired bosses around. They won't approve needed refactorings but promise to integrate AI and suddenly budget is no problem, just add an easily removable chatbot afterward and you're golden.

I think we'll find that for most AI stuff.

New comment by Devasta in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

Devasta — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:01:14 +0000

https://www.vice.com/en/article/taliban-bureaucrats-hate-wor...

Apparently the Taliban find office work far worse than being fighters, so you never know!

New comment by Devasta in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

Devasta — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:52:25 +0000

You are absolutely deluded if you think the removal of the IRGC will result in any improvement in the situation of the Iranian people. The US and Israel want to bomb he place into a lawless wasteland, even if a secular democracy was to arise it would make no difference.

New comment by Devasta in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

Devasta — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:58:21 +0000

I want to cure lung cancer, therefore as an Effective Altruist™ I maximize my income by selling cigarettes to children outside playgrounds. The money will go towards research in my will, and in the meantime the incidence of lung cancer in teenagers will incentivize the free market to find a cure!

People don't become quants because they are EAs, they become EAs to justify to themselves why they became quants.

New comment by Devasta in "AI (2014)"

Devasta — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:14:53 +0000

> How is that universal basic income scheme coming along?

If the Epstein class won't allow for everyone to have a reasonable standard of living when they relied on workers to produce, the chances of them allowing it when they don't is next to nil. They couldn't even bear the thought of people working from home, for no other reason than the workers liked it, and that cost them nothing.

New comment by Devasta in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

Devasta — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:51:39 +0000

> "Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

This Axiom has caused far and away more damage to software development than the premature optimization ever will.

New comment by Devasta in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

Devasta — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:41:11 +0000

> People when they mature have an innate desire to work. It is good for body and mind.

That doesn't mean it has to be wage labor though.

New comment by Devasta in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

Devasta — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:28:49 +0000

> the value just in the co-opting of another human being's attention?

Thats a weird way of describing it.

A machine telling me to exercise and eat right will be ignored, even if the advice is correct. A person I trust taking me aside, looking me in the eye and asking me the same would be taken far more seriously.

New comment by Devasta in "Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed"

Devasta — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:55:09 +0000

Sorry, is it your assertion that Trump isn't a child molestor???

New comment by Devasta in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

Devasta — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:25:11 +0000

Bluesky is very strange, it's got potential to endure as a fairly popular social media site but it's kinda obvious that it's staff are contemptuous of their users.

The intended audience was meant to be blockchain weirdos with encyclopedic knowledge of the age of consent in every state, but instead they are stuck with a core userbase of Furries and LGBT people.

They don't know how to fix this, so they'll be stuck floundering for a while to come trying and failing to return to their core mission.

New comment by Devasta in "Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed"

Devasta — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:12:40 +0000

Regardless of what you feel about the government of Iran, it is not inaccurate to say that country is in a fight for survival against a cabal of child molestors working to bring about the apocalypse.

Anything they do in this conflict is justified, anything less than their total victory is a disaster for the world.

New comment by Devasta in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

Devasta — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:21:46 +0000

This is awful news, but I don't know what can be done, is it possible to have a new GPL4 that deals with this? I doubt it.

New comment by Devasta in "Relax NG is a schema language for XML (2014)"

Devasta — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:51:04 +0000

It is heavily used today, it's everywhere in finance and banking, it's just not on the web, so browser and web devs are forced endlessly to re implement shitty versions of things they could have had out of the box decades earlier.

New comment by Devasta in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Devasta — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:19:45 +0000

Iran is a lesson to all: as soon as Israel or the US take a disliking to you you have to rush for nuclear weapons.

Iran has been the grown up in the room for well over a decade at this stage and it didn't matter one bit. You cannot appease Israel or the US because that don't want to be appeased, they want to bomb Iran into a lawless wasteland. They could have switched to a secular liberal democracy and it'd make no difference.