Hacker News: Izikiel43

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

Izikiel43 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:35:25 +0000

Highest COL in the country, a lot of it due to regulations, zoning and prop 13 which prevent density and building. Paris has the same area as SF but 3X the population.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

Izikiel43 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:30:42 +0000

> it requires return only when funded by US government program

Not true, I had J1 visas without US government program intervention and I still had the home requirement. Since there wasn't any US government intervention I was able to get a waiver for the home requirement, but it took a couple of months.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

Izikiel43 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:06:37 +0000

Yeah, most of us think of tech, but the program affects doctors, nurses and teachers for rural America.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

Izikiel43 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:04:32 +0000

> The Unified Memory pool is what will continue to be the “game changer” in systems architecture, especially outside of data centers.

The ps4 was the prime example of this, and how it could run so many great games.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "India's surprise baby bust"

Izikiel43 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:49:51 +0000

> Thought experiment: if you had five million dollars extra right now, would you have a kid tonight?

Yes, next question

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

Izikiel43 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:12:47 +0000

> From the existing series

Which one? Universe? Atlantis? SG1?

New comment by Izikiel43 in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

Izikiel43 — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:06:12 +0000

How do you use it, as in, hey, write a doc about this, or do you iterate more like a conversation?

I do the second approach for coding with smallish steps and the output is fine

New comment by Izikiel43 in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

Izikiel43 — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:13:48 +0000

> hire foreign competition (H1b

Not so much anymore, still a lot but much less than it used to be

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Ferrari Luce"

Izikiel43 — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:35:12 +0000

Design wise, compared to previous Ferrari designs, a kick in the nuts is nicer than this.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Ferrari Luce"

Izikiel43 — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:10:38 +0000

> Looks like a Tesla with a Ferrari logo.

Just saw it and wow, that's an accurate description. Gone is everything that makes a Ferrari a Ferrari

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

Izikiel43 — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:56:43 +0000

That's the one, thanks!

New comment by Izikiel43 in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

Izikiel43 — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:28:49 +0000

There is the non boxing option, and this is the first iteration of the work, it's not one and done.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

Izikiel43 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:38:07 +0000

This is a nice feature to have, it already tells you if an artist you like is coming to your city, and redirects to Ticketmaster for tickets, but it doesn't have the data to know if you already bought a ticket, so it keeps pestering you. Also, some competition against Ticketmaster is welcomed.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

Izikiel43 — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:17:58 +0000

I still remember the one where they nuked all the storage of I think an Australian insurance company I think, luckily the it department had done a multi cloud setup for backups

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

Izikiel43 — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:25:10 +0000

For the religion bits, if I remember correctly, it was a bit of Hyperion but mostly the Endymion books, which are the latter half of the cantos.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

Izikiel43 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:28:49 +0000

This reminds me of the second half of the Hyperion cantos by Dan Simmons

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

Izikiel43 — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:56:44 +0000

> But then I learned humility, and I don't believe in good intentions anymore.

I don't either, I agree with that's how they sell it, the problem is that the marketing works and good intentioned people rally behind it, so the saying still applies.

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

Izikiel43 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:24:45 +0000

> Both (i) and (ii) have led the government to this dark place, thinking they're doing good.

You can summarize a lot of government actions of any spectrum with: "The road to hell is full of good intentions"

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

Izikiel43 — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:58:12 +0000

Here, I translated it for you (https://translate.kagi.com/?from=linkedin&to=en_us)

"We’re basically using our own staff as guinea pigs. Our AI usage has spiked 600% lately, mostly because everyone from HR to marketing is leaning on bots to do their actual jobs. We’re forced to restructure the whole company around these agents just to keep up with the hype, hoping it actually helps us ship something useful and justifies the "better internet" PR we keep pushing."

New comment by Izikiel43 in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

Izikiel43 — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:42:03 +0000

Often I get asked to spot someone while their lift and I don’t mind, maybe you had bad luck.