Hacker News: PetriCasserole

New comment by PetriCasserole in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

PetriCasserole — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:13:00 +0000

Coming from a former production manager, communication takes style and you have to meet people where they are at. If they're at "Crocker's Rules," awesome! That takes 25 to 50% of the work out of the writing. They could be at "my best work was just trashed and I'm ready to quit," to which you could slow your roll and work through the crisis. Keep adding to your comm tools and you won't need one-size-fits-all theories.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing"

PetriCasserole — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:58:31 +0000

People who are paying attention see that the government is changing rules daily. Feel safe today? Wait until tomorrow when Trump decides he wants to do something that you're in the way of.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

PetriCasserole — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:04:57 +0000

To be blunt, you can count on real estate people wanting to smell each others' buttholes... and they have money. They provide the motivation and the cash, you provide the mechanism. Seems like a match made in heaven.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "Google to Provide Pentagon with AI Agents"

PetriCasserole — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:01:10 +0000

War Games II anyone?

New comment by PetriCasserole in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

PetriCasserole — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:33:20 +0000

Just commenting to let you know I enjoyed exploring your site and reading your posts.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

PetriCasserole — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:16:38 +0000

I would have loved this when I worked in commercial real estate. Monitoring competition may have hooked me but I think there's another layer to monitoring clients.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

PetriCasserole — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:39:57 +0000

I know I'd be listening intently if I were on the jury. I'm a "sauce good for the goose is good for the gander" kind of guy.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

PetriCasserole — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:15:06 +0000

Bwahaha! I'm 55 and just started grad school at an R1 because I can't compete. Fucking scary as hell! My lab partner is 23, I get up as my peers are going to bed, and I work hard to not say, "In my day..." BUT, I love being enrolled. The resources are incredible and networking is in high gear again.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)"

PetriCasserole — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:39:24 +0000

I had the privilege of living in a remote village in the Catskills. I've never missed a place so much! I can attest to the Science of Awe. We need that connection in our lives.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "Proof of Corn"

PetriCasserole — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:11:11 +0000

But that's how it goes. As late as 2005, the real estate agents I worked with finally began to trust email over fax machines. It cracked an egg wide open for them. Now relying on email, they were able to do 10x the work (I have no real data BUT I do know their incomes went from low six figures to multiple six figures). Prior to their adoption, they just thought email was a novelty and legally couldn't be relied upon.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "The Checkerboard"

PetriCasserole — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:30:17 +0000

Also, do you own something if it can be forcibly taken away when you don't pay an annual fee? Rent or tax, call it what you want, the outcome is the same if you don't pay.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest"

PetriCasserole — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:41:14 +0000

Taking all the tokens people gave the deceased for their afterlife journey sounds like highway robbery.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

PetriCasserole — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:47:44 +0000

My contribution: Making cookies out of chocolate cake mix is so good that I stopped doing it. I couldn't say no to them. I used Dolly Parton cake mix and substituted 1/2 the neutral oil with unsalted butter. That and sweet Chex mix are diet destroyers.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "The Collapse of the FDA"

PetriCasserole — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:21:36 +0000

That just means the FDA was restricted. The FDA is fine. The people funding the FDA are not.

New comment by PetriCasserole in "New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms"

PetriCasserole — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:21:50 +0000

Simple way to detect if you're in an area with ticks: tape a white washcloth to a long stick and swish it back and forth around the ground. Check the cloth for ticks every so often and you'll find the tick "hotspots" and can avoid them. Permethrin-treated clothing is also fantastic for protecting against ticks - it's just highly toxic to water life and cats in liquid form.