Hacker News: JambalayaJim

New comment by JambalayaJim in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

JambalayaJim — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:04:09 +0000

I'm an Indian 1.5 gen immigrant living in the west, and I'm by no means ashamed of my Indian culture or heritage. I would never move to India and I feel sorry for many of my Indian friends or cousins living there. They are too often emotionally stunted people, and held down by India's oppressive work culture.

The one benefit of living in India is cheap household labour...only possible because of a massive underclass of people!

New comment by JambalayaJim in "You're probably using Agent Skills wrong"

JambalayaJim — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:17:53 +0000

Can you elaborate on what "verified success" means?

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

JambalayaJim — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:19:31 +0000

You grumpy old guys probably own a house. As labour continues to get devalued, it feels like assets are the only path to prosperity. That's where my anxiety is coming from, anyway.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "What Happens When Hyperscalers and Clouds Buy Most Servers and Storage?"

JambalayaJim — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 21:56:38 +0000

This is ludicrous and I’d revolt. A desk is already too much space to give up to my workplace.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Google lays off more employees and moves some roles to other countries"

JambalayaJim — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:01:06 +0000

What if you’re a new grad that does have drive? You might still end up in a situation where all the experienced people want to work from home, and half of them are offshore anyway.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Cipherleaks is the first demonstrated attack against AMD SEV-SNP (2021)"

JambalayaJim — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 07:08:04 +0000

I work at a business that sells a product built on Intel SGX.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80k Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs"

JambalayaJim — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:34:31 +0000

So the impact to the employers is low; whereas the potential to help disadvantaged racialized people is high. That’s a perfectly acceptable trade off.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan"

JambalayaJim — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:27:26 +0000

The vast majority of commuters in NYC use public transit to get around. This idea that only the poor are forced to drive has no basis in reality.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Home buyers need 80% more income to buy than 4 years ago"

JambalayaJim — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 01:08:27 +0000

Most of these couples are people who grew up in and/or have strong networks in those cities to begin with.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless"

JambalayaJim — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:26:48 +0000

Face to face meetings are a thousand percent better than virtual meetings.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

JambalayaJim — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:51:13 +0000

My area could very much use more green space

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

JambalayaJim — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:50:08 +0000

The idea is that if parking lots are built, they should be at the very least well utilized. We have a big problem of shopping centres over-building parking. For example, optimizing for everyone being able to always find a spot even at peak holiday seasons. As opposed to optimizing for having that parking lot being ~90% full for most of the day.

The fact that your home garage and work parking lot are also empty most of the time is also a huge problem. It makes cities much larger than they need to be, and serving public transit across them impossible.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

JambalayaJim — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:33:04 +0000

>And yet, I know of no malls that ever gained residence areas within walking distance

How is that even possible?

Here in the Greater Toronto Area, practically every large mall has at least a few high rises. Some malls are even constructing residential units directly on top of the mall. Even a larger strip mall will generally have some medium sized apartment buildings nearby.

Downtown Mississauga has dozens of high rises up now right next to its biggest mall. Those buildings have completely changed the city's skyline.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

JambalayaJim — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:19:35 +0000

The price of a car itself is significant, there may well be zero utilization in an area where residents simply don’t own cars.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

JambalayaJim — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:17:31 +0000

Why isn’t a parking space specifically attached to a residence than bought it? That’s the reason for the fights right there.

Letting the developer maximize profits also lets residents choose residences without parking spots, to save money.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "The absurdity of the return-to-office movement"

JambalayaJim — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:46:24 +0000

“School” includes university as well

New comment by JambalayaJim in "On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney"

JambalayaJim — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:26:20 +0000

They actually do exactly this, they’re just not thinking about it. You buy a book because you want the physical possession, which gives you the ability to sell it or give it to someone or display it. Not because you want to read the contents - else you would just borrow it from a library.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney"

JambalayaJim — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:17:12 +0000

It is NOT okay for machine owner to profit from learning, unless the machine owner compensates the owners of the training data. That is where the line should be drawn.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone"

JambalayaJim — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 18:42:41 +0000

She specifically set herself up to be recorded and then shared it across the internet. That is the problem part, not her questioning of the HR people (which was a show for the camera!) That kind of “I’m the main character” type energy would be a lot to deal with, especially for a 4 month employee.

New comment by JambalayaJim in "If There Are No Stupid Questions, Then How Do You Explain Quora?"

JambalayaJim — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:16:21 +0000

What in God’s name were they thinking placing ChatGPT answers in there? Can users not just go to Chat GPT to get those answers?