Hacker News: RHSman2

New comment by RHSman2 in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

RHSman2 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:16:10 +0000

I can off a few times and did loose the energy and focus.

I really noticed the effect coming back in but now it is my new normal.

New comment by RHSman2 in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

RHSman2 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:34:42 +0000

My personal experience has been dramatic:

5/6g a day.

Very demanding job with lots of ‘thinking’

3 times a week gym

Pre creatine I would struggle to maintain ability to do the hard thinking around 3pm. Just like, fog or I could feel my brain didn’t have capacity.

Now, I am capable till the end of the day. Feels like a well trained athlete at the end of a game being able to deliver rather than just holding on.

New comment by RHSman2 in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

RHSman2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:30:40 +0000

Suburbia is the creepiest thing known to man.

New comment by RHSman2 in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

RHSman2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:03:45 +0000

Above a price point their is no objectively ‘better’

I have been playing for 40 years and can tell you I can be mediocre on a fender/squier/gibson

New comment by RHSman2 in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

RHSman2 — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:57:46 +0000

In 10 years the world will not be the same.

New comment by RHSman2 in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

RHSman2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:43:00 +0000

Ai rewards the curious

New comment by RHSman2 in "Willingness to look stupid"

RHSman2 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:25:52 +0000

How do you know if someone has an MBA? They’ll tell you.

New comment by RHSman2 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

RHSman2 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:00:56 +0000

That is a good LinkedIn endorsement of ever I saw one!

New comment by RHSman2 in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

RHSman2 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:13:10 +0000

I started their but it felt like a dodgy way (as it could be seen to be illegal). We then just went aloffical and went through Google search API’s with LinkedIn as the target. Worked a treat and was cheaper than recruiter!!!

So when pay the highest scraper, it’s ok! Same data, different manner.

New comment by RHSman2 in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

RHSman2 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:06:08 +0000

I had the pleasure of scraping LinkedIn for a client. Great fun.

New comment by RHSman2 in "Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn"

RHSman2 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:55:53 +0000

You should study a bit of physical geography and glacialology.

Not all ‘ice ages’ are the same.

A true ice age as you discuss is due to the distance we are from the sun. Unfortunately, we are in the opposite and the compounding effects of human induced greenhouse effect will doom us. It’s a bit like nature/nuture.

There is stuff we can control. How we handle our species and our home, the earth.

New comment by RHSman2 in "California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info"

RHSman2 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:36:36 +0000

It is a delete request. Your behavior may change and is on you. So, if you always don’t consent, nothing to delete.

New comment by RHSman2 in "YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same"

RHSman2 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:50:22 +0000

CEO of tobacco do the same. What’s your point? We sell things that are bad for humans. It’s a significant part of our global GDP

New comment by RHSman2 in "GPT-5.2"

RHSman2 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:23:08 +0000

The problem is not the intelligence of the LLM. It is the intelligence and desire to make things easy of the intelligence using them.

New comment by RHSman2 in "Is it a bubble?"

RHSman2 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:18:27 +0000

Because people who can’t code but now can have zero understanding of the ‘path to production quality code’

Of course it is mind blowing for them.

New comment by RHSman2 in "The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and the over-reliance on PowerPoint (2019)"

RHSman2 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:50:32 +0000

I hope he knows you are proud of him.

New comment by RHSman2 in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

RHSman2 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:30:36 +0000

Yes. Money does make you happy (really, the pursuit of the money does not as it is not what we are evolved to be happy about)

New comment by RHSman2 in "Log by time, not by count"

RHSman2 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:58:00 +0000

Btw: logging and the ability to observe systems was the single and most successful act I have done in my career as a Data Product Manager. I have had to fight, do tricks and ‘play the game’ so much.

I cannot stress the importance of understanding atomic movements.

The cost is high but not as high as the cost of not knowing.

New comment by RHSman2 in "Log by time, not by count"

RHSman2 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:47:12 +0000

Logging (at scale) is the most important thing to understand reality in your system. At scale, realities are many.

Metrics enable the ability to aggregate concepts into some kind of meaning.

Meaning can then have alerts associated to them.

You cannot create metrics on things you don’t know, which is why logging is the base.

New comment by RHSman2 in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

RHSman2 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:37:00 +0000

I think you might be coming across as the moron here. Not someone who has done their ‘ritual’ for 10 years.