Hacker News: OzzyB

New comment by OzzyB in "C100 Developer Terminal"

OzzyB — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:17:02 +0000

Put in a couple of MIDI ports and I'll pretend it's a modern day Atari ST and run some Cubase...

New comment by OzzyB in "Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane"

OzzyB — Wed, 21 May 2025 15:09:31 +0000

_this_ is the Judgement Day we were warned about--not in the nuclear annihilation sense--but the "AI was then let loose on all our codez and the systems went down" sense

crazy times...

New comment by OzzyB in "Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator"

OzzyB — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:54:53 +0000

Thank you for taking up the mantle!

New comment by OzzyB in "A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis"

OzzyB — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:03:46 +0000

So it turns out that AI is just like another function, inputs and outputs, and the better you design your input (prompt) the better the output (intelligence), got it.

New comment by OzzyB in "Is Design Dead? (2004)"

OzzyB — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:54:20 +0000

Perhaps you're a testament to why we actually want "managers who are also engineers" in these roles - for exactly cases like these, where you have the experience to know what "done" means.

New comment by OzzyB in "Bret Victor update"

OzzyB — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:16:56 +0000

Semantic Web FTW xD

New comment by OzzyB in "ChatGPT can help yield more accurate stock trading predictions – study"

OzzyB — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:04:14 +0000

This was dramatized in Darren Brown's "The System"[1] some years ago, but instead of stock picks he used horse race betting.

Its amazing to see the people that won on the previous Nth rounds believe that their next tip was a "sure thing".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-3EfC17Rc

New comment by OzzyB in "The Untold Story of a Music Royalty's Tragic End"

OzzyB — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 22:39:37 +0000

> "poor little rich boy story,"

I think you're taking my example a little too literally there... it's an example. The point is to save the reveal (spoilers?) till the end so that you can relate to the story more.

New comment by OzzyB in "The Untold Story of a Music Royalty's Tragic End"

OzzyB — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 15:53:04 +0000

That's exactly why it's written this way -- to devoid the reader of any prejudice and humanize this tragic story -- because it is tragic. If it was written "normally", like "Elvis' Grandson Ben killed himself, and here's why..." some people might hand wave it away as just another "poor little rich boy story". This is also probably one of the reasons for his suicide (IMO of course). I mean, he's Elvis' kid he couldn't possibly be unhappy, right?

As to whether or not this is appropriate for HN, I'm also not so sure... but I enjoyed reading it.

New comment by OzzyB in "Joe Rogan Interviews Steve Jobs"

OzzyB — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:34:09 +0000

> 01:04 "And I can't even say his name"

Well, it looks like a big fail right off the bat.

New comment by OzzyB in "Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months"

OzzyB — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:03:43 +0000

I believe that would be BONDS (or GILTS if you're in the UK)

New comment by OzzyB in "Nightdrive"

OzzyB — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 18:51:58 +0000

Yes, it's a demo, welcome to the Demoscene™

New comment by OzzyB in "Film: Frame Interpolation for Large Motion"

OzzyB — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 14:32:18 +0000

Don't worry, by the time this kid's old enough to even care, he'll be unrecognizable. If it's any consolation. I cannot recognize this kid as anything other than a "kid". Good looking kid for sure, but still a kid.

New comment by OzzyB in "Ffmpeg Buddy"

OzzyB — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:49:58 +0000

Hmmm... not really, irrc you will be bound by memory limits of your browser/wasm context. Small videos would be fine, large ones, not so much...

New comment by OzzyB in "I became the world's most prolific DJ, using code"

OzzyB — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:53:59 +0000

I think prolific in this case is more the "Super Whizkid DJ Creates 100,000 Tracks in a Week" sense -- not in the sense that you may or may not have heard of them...

New comment by OzzyB in "Google Is Holding All Your Old Free G Suite Accounts Hostage"

OzzyB — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:50:17 +0000

I maybe mistaken but I believe you can create additional aliases under the same account -- I seem to remember doing that a few months back when I got auto-updated to Google Workspace.

New comment by OzzyB in "Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf"

OzzyB — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:11:14 +0000

Yes indeed.

IMO this is also a good example of engineers looking for complex bugs and solutions which are simply not there.

New comment by OzzyB in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

OzzyB — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:42:00 +0000

Opps! Yeah you're right. I need to read better xD

New comment by OzzyB in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

OzzyB — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:21:51 +0000

> Harvard

I wonder how much this plays into your being left alone and not being challenged by your co-workers. My guess is a lot. I'm sure the cachet of being an "Harvard Guy" has deterred many from even trying and simply assume you know what you're doing etc.

New comment by OzzyB in "Next.js 12"

OzzyB — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:50:26 +0000

> url imports

Aren't they just taking a feather out of Golang's hat?