Hacker News: FaridIO

New comment by FaridIO in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

FaridIO — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:04:11 +0000

Egging them on online, sure, but these groups have always existed and we're plenty stupid without Russia's help.

New comment by FaridIO in "German companies rely almost exclusively on AI models and services from the USA"

FaridIO — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:27:45 +0000

It wouldn't have. They had over a billion in debt, which Google casually fixed. Google then very conveniently supplied them with GCP server power. And remember all of this was in like 2014, way before the AI hype. They wouldn't have had access to capital to survive long enough to make it to today.

New comment by FaridIO in "Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?"

FaridIO — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:16:43 +0000

Is this really that weird, considering labor now involves mostly looking at a screen? In other words, is the total amount of time we see family really going down vs say the 1800s, when people used to work many more hours.

New comment by FaridIO in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

FaridIO — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:25:14 +0000

The sharing and alcohol were company provided, the game of Guinness is almost certainly a silly one where after your first sip the foam lands in the middle of the G. And based on my own experience if you were to fire everyone who has ever taken psychedelics there wouldn't be many people left in at least SF and NYC tech. He shared the in California legal drug he used to deal with his mother's death. To be honest, the reason is so dumb, it feels like someone was just looking for anything to use against him..

New comment by FaridIO in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

FaridIO — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:23:09 +0000

I didn't know Netflix was such a stick-up-the-ass garbage place to work at. What an incredibly dumb thing to fire someone over.

New comment by FaridIO in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

FaridIO — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:35:10 +0000

That's a very optimistic view. They care about getting elected, and enough tech-savvy people in the country made a big enough stink about it a critical mass of "normal people" got pissed. If they cared about privacy this whole thing wouldn't have been possible in the first place.

New comment by FaridIO in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

FaridIO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:10:22 +0000

The irony.

New comment by FaridIO in "Europe is locking itself in to US LNG"

FaridIO — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:27:23 +0000

You're extrapolating one somewhat rude adiplomatic president to America going to war with Europe? That's enough internet for you, sir. Time to go for a walk.

New comment by FaridIO in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

FaridIO — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:19:05 +0000

And in this hypothetical world where having dangerous opinions has consequences even though sometimes we draw the line incorrectly, I'm assuming you think your personal views could never be marked as such? We still live in a free society where at least the aim is to not hurt people in any way for expressing their own views.

New comment by FaridIO in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

FaridIO — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:38:33 +0000

The problem here is that everyone thinks their ideas aren't radical and that sharing them isn't indoctrination. I once left a religion, peacefully, not loudly or trying to tell anyone else how to live their life. People still in the religion thought I was radical and dangerous to the fabric of society. Charlie invited people to have a debate. Whether he was right or wrong at least to me with my lived experiences feels irrelevant, if that's dangerous to society then society is wrong.

New comment by FaridIO in "Nvidia results show spending on A.I. infrastructure remains robust"

FaridIO — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:39:09 +0000

The idea that the world will ever have enough compute is ridiculous. I'm sure all of this sudden growth will need to be digested at some point, but that won't mean the industry will permanently lose a big chunk of its market cap.

New comment by FaridIO in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

FaridIO — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:37:23 +0000

I hope all this stays true without growth. I hope it wasn’t a temporary utopia built on the tail end of centuries of theft and violence all over the world, and a relative peace subsidized by the US Navy. American problems generally last 4 years, and even our bigger problems sit on top of relative self-reliance. As far as I can tell you can’t even heat your homes in winter without Russian or American gas.

New comment by FaridIO in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

FaridIO — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:54:04 +0000

The folks who allowed the continent to fall behind through over-regulation would like you to know they'll now do a good job at being the capital allocators.

New comment by FaridIO in "iCloud Mail has DNS misconfigured?"

FaridIO — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 06:02:33 +0000

I also use iCloud mail, mine looks slightly better (though not perfect): https://www.mail-tester.com/test-n5b4ip8ey

New comment by FaridIO in "Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M"

FaridIO — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:56:32 +0000

You'd probably have to go through a similar set of bureaucratic steps to get that done.

New comment by FaridIO in "Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people"

FaridIO — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:51:43 +0000

Pretty nominal for Europe to be honest. Most Americans don't realize a) how much money they make and b) how little taxes they pay. Apples and oranges with all the social safety nets and such of course, but still most (healthy) Americans get much more money in their bank accounts after all is said and done than they would in Europe.

New comment by FaridIO in "PUBG developer Krafton make a life simulation game inzoi"

FaridIO — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 05:38:20 +0000

Second Life meets Sims?

New comment by FaridIO in "8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business"

FaridIO — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:13:33 +0000

If your business depends on it, not backing it up in some other place on a consistent basis is a bad idea. The cost of this should be factored into the price you charge people. 800GB would be less than 20 dollars on S3, all you have to figure out is the replication process, but that shouldn't be rocket science either.

New comment by FaridIO in "I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code"

FaridIO — Wed, 08 May 2024 21:15:02 +0000

Quality very much depends on the language I've noticed. I don't use ChatGPT but I do use Github's Copilot. The main way I've been using it lately is to make manually written algorithms more efficient. So I'll write an algorithm, select it and ask it to figure out a more time/space efficient way of doing it. Still makes a mistake every now and then, but at the very least it helps me quickly see things from a different perspective.

New comment by FaridIO in "Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro technique?"

FaridIO — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:39:19 +0000

This is exactly how I feel about it. I'm sure there are some tasks it works really well for, but I have yet to encounter one.