Hacker News: Drakim

New comment by Drakim in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

Drakim — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:54:07 +0000

Do you object against calling people "farmers" because their way of operating is not the same as how farmers operated 500 years ago?

New comment by Drakim in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

Drakim — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:19:36 +0000

Doesn't that support the point?

Computers came in and "took" the job of calculating numbers (I assume usually budgets and finances), but instead of every layman just using a computer to organize their company's finances, they still hire a professional to use the computer to organize the company's finances. The role shifted, but it wasn't eliminated.

New comment by Drakim in "Do agents.md files help coding agents?"

Drakim — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:54:16 +0000

You are absolutely right, thank you for pushing back. Upon further examination, I've confirmed that the referenced paper says no.

New comment by Drakim in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

Drakim — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:30:48 +0000

There are asteroids with concentrations of precious metals more valuable than earth's entire economy. Why don't we just send up spaceships to mine them and send the haul back to earth? What country would say no to free money?

After all, it's just an engineering challenge, not impossible.

New comment by Drakim in "Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months"

Drakim — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:56:06 +0000

You aren't allowed to use the same super cheap subscriptions if your company is big enough.

New comment by Drakim in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

Drakim — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:50:03 +0000

You could also transfer the heat to tungsten rods and drop them on rivaling earth-bound data centers.

New comment by Drakim in "The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble"

Drakim — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:19:14 +0000

I have a question, is the short lifespan of GPUs because they get worn out and are destroyed, or because they get outdated by the ever expanding demands of the AI bubble?

Because if it's the later, I would assume that growth would not continue at the same rate after the bubble bursts?

New comment by Drakim in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

Drakim — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:01:03 +0000

I agree with your point (that AMD does a lot more harm than what they are indignant about) but not the way you go there. If emotional abusive behavior is not "physical harm" because it's just emotions, then financial abusive behavior is not "physical harm" either because it's just numbers. When you consider what incredible harm being emotionally unwell can lead to, I don't think it deserves to be dismissed.

AMD is clearly just putting on a performance here though, using the backlash they get as a weapon.

New comment by Drakim in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

Drakim — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:17:51 +0000

Eh, what's the worst that could happen? Developers opting to run an old version of Python due to incompatible changes? I can't see that happening.

New comment by Drakim in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

Drakim — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:14:50 +0000

That's the ideal dream scenario, but in reality the market isn't that efficient. Lots of markets gouge their customers and due to power imbalances the customers can't really do anything about it. The free market solution to this is just generally to let people suffer.

New comment by Drakim in "The abandoned war: Why no one is stopping the genocide in Sudan"

Drakim — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:05:36 +0000

Can you? When our economic system's only driver is "extracting wealth", can we actually develop a country without it? The extraction of wealth isn't some unfortunate byproduct, it's a central cog in the machine of what makes it operate. Money is invested for returns.

New comment by Drakim in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

Drakim — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:21:01 +0000

While technically true, it's so much slower that it's essentially a different thing. Third party packages being attacked is a near daily occurrence. First party attacks happens on the timescale and frequency of decades.

It's like the difference in protecting your home from burglars and foreign nation soldiers. Both are technically invaders to your home, but the scope is different, and the solutions are different.

New comment by Drakim in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

Drakim — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:06:57 +0000

That is also an advert, just a personal one.

New comment by Drakim in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

Drakim — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:31:28 +0000

In English, you can say "we" or "they"

New comment by Drakim in "HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents"

Drakim — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:13:49 +0000

I am capable of self-improving yet I haven't taken over the world yet.

New comment by Drakim in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

Drakim — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:28:30 +0000

Yes, why surround yourself with people who are critical of you, when you can surround yourself with yes-men who will loyally toe the line? Positive contributions comes from loyal subjects who agree with their betters.

New comment by Drakim in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

Drakim — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:57:53 +0000

If the damaged party tries to sue the police for the damage they caused, the police can get the case instantly dismissed underqualified immunity.

New comment by Drakim in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

Drakim — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:44:23 +0000

I'm not sure I follow, are you saying that because the current US government is so bad that people are rejecting Microsoft products, the rest of the world should be thankful to the US for "waking them up"?

New comment by Drakim in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

Drakim — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:44:29 +0000

Don't they have different x,y,z positions?

New comment by Drakim in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

Drakim — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:43:15 +0000

But that has zero effect on revenue, it only affects profit.