Hacker News: FranksTV

New comment by FranksTV in "OKRs Are Bullshit"

FranksTV — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:40:42 +0000

It's not that I think Andy Grove is a bullshit artist, it's that I'm pretty sure the person assigning the OKRs isn't Andy Grove.

New comment by FranksTV in "Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles"

FranksTV — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 02:35:47 +0000

Easy to say if you live somewhere without winter. AI models are a LONG way off from the kind of driving you need in near-whiteout conditions.

New comment by FranksTV in "Cities: Skylines 2's troubled launch, and why simulation games are freaking hard"

FranksTV — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 16:55:25 +0000

The problems in this game are vastly overstated. I've been playing for a couple weeks and it's great.

Does my framer ate occasionally drop? Yes. Does it matter? No! It's Cities Skylines, not Counter Strike.

New comment by FranksTV in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

FranksTV — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 01:00:25 +0000

Having been sued for something like that tends to empower lawyers to turn a company into a boyscout.

New comment by FranksTV in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

FranksTV — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:53:11 +0000

Most executives are covered by Errors and Omissions insurance which protects them from personal liability.

New comment by FranksTV in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

FranksTV — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:49:43 +0000

Yeah but they also directly accused him of lying. You don't do that in a planned transition.

New comment by FranksTV in "Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)"

FranksTV — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:33:08 +0000

So disable the lining rule with a comment? That way you don't accidentally commit it.

New comment by FranksTV in "Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)"

FranksTV — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:32:08 +0000

agreeWithPreviousCommentOnUselessCode()

New comment by FranksTV in "Interesting Bugs Caught by ESLint's no-constant-binary-expression (2022)"

FranksTV — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:31:21 +0000

I find throwing an error that says "not implemented" to be a good solution. Or at least logging a warning.

New comment by FranksTV in "Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly"

FranksTV — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 01:01:45 +0000

You have a lot of opinions about a game you've never played.

New comment by FranksTV in "Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly"

FranksTV — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 01:01:07 +0000

Because the problems are vastly overstated. I've been playing fine since launch without any issues.

New comment by FranksTV in "Pinball isn't as random as it seems (2018) [video]"

FranksTV — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:02:54 +0000

Space Cadet pinball is a fair game. Real pinball there are magnets under the playing surface that direct the ball and control whether the player loses the ball or not.

New comment by FranksTV in "Trains on another level"

FranksTV — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 05:46:06 +0000

It's very fun, but I also have to have restrictions on myself while playing it.

New comment by FranksTV in "Shopify CEO discourages employees from having side hustles"

FranksTV — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 05:22:41 +0000

It's not the non-competes that matter, it's the assignments of intellectual property.

New comment by FranksTV in "I'm convinced now that “personal LLMs” are going to be a huge thing"

FranksTV — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:34:17 +0000

There are a ton of development tasks that I do infrequently enough that I have to google how to do them every time, because I forget how to do them.

For those things, I can just ask Chat-GPT to write the first draft of it, and it saves me about 80% of the time. I always have to end up doing a few edits, but it works out.

Also dropping in an indecipherable page of logs and immediately getting the source of an error with at least a suggestion of a direction is really useful.

New comment by FranksTV in "Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode"

FranksTV — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 03:02:41 +0000

Yeah but her lawyers know that and he'll have to pay the severance eventually. She probably has money to wait out whatever legal delay tactics Twitter counsel would employ.

New comment by FranksTV in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

FranksTV — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:48:22 +0000

We're also in the middle of a downturn, with many companies laying off tens of thousands of employees.

New comment by FranksTV in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

FranksTV — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:47:11 +0000

If they quit their H1-B gets revoked.

New comment by FranksTV in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

FranksTV — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:46:34 +0000

"But the code is self-documenting!"

New comment by FranksTV in "JeanHeyd Meneide's response to “Why I left Rust”"

FranksTV — Sun, 28 May 2023 23:04:29 +0000

The thing is for some.of the academics involved the social in-and-out are their whole careers. If you're a PhD who's entire work is about rust then this stuff matters a lot.

I think that's why having more corporate involvement is probably good for these kind of orgs. Corporate types value stability because the code needs to work and be maintained long term.