Hacker News: RandomTisk

New comment by RandomTisk in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

RandomTisk — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:12:31 +0000

There's a critical mass of Trump Derangement Syndrome in SV, as this site exemplifies almost daily. The amount of vitriol and hatred spewed here is not healthy, nor are those who spew it. It kills rational debate, nuance and leads to foolish choices like someone cutting off their nose to spite their face as the old saying goes.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems"

RandomTisk — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:10:37 +0000

Frankly it's how they insist themselves onto their potential users. When I toyed around with Edge a year or two ago, just to get the t-shirt, it was impossible to set a custom home page for first-open instead of MSN crap. New tabs could be customized, but not the initial page. Apparently they fixed it since, but I still don't see Edge as a serious browser, just another rent seeking marketing tool.

New comment by RandomTisk in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

RandomTisk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:55:57 +0000

Most likely the first Republican female president will be a former Democrat.

New comment by RandomTisk in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

RandomTisk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:15:45 +0000

Who ultimately pays the tariffs is missing the forest for the trees, their primary function is to tax, and taxation virtually always reduces spending. Don't want to pay tariffs? Buy domestic. Tariffs are the single reason (or one of very few) that the US isn't flooded with BYD electric cars from China. China's dirt cheap labor could decimate the US auto industry, but for tariffs and trade regulation, but I repeat myself.

New comment by RandomTisk in ""They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction [pdf] (2012)"

RandomTisk — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:34:02 +0000

There's a strange pattern of die hard obstinence, even in the face of basic and common facts that we as as society until fairly recently all agreed upon. The reason is that works, if you admit fault/guilt then the usual consequences follow. If they remain obstinate, there's a chance they can project their crime on someone else which doesn't really work except it does retain for them a certain level of public support, from those who "see" what they want to see.

It's devastating society.

New comment by RandomTisk in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

RandomTisk — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:14:30 +0000

One side is understandably on edge but nothing DOGE has been doing is unexpected, except in the sense that it's actually happening or seems to be happening. It went through the whole political process's standard change control mechanism, in other words the current Administration literally campaigned on it and received a mandate via both the EC and popular vote.

New comment by RandomTisk in "When Not to Obey Orders (2019)"

RandomTisk — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:10:34 +0000

How does that in any way answer the question of how Jan 6 was supposedly a coup?

Also there were massive problems with Georgia's election process in 2020, nobody denies that today so why should we keep using the least charitable interpetation possible of Trump's words?

New comment by RandomTisk in "Does the microbiome hold the key to chronic fatigue syndrome?"

RandomTisk — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:41:40 +0000

In the last couple years I've had to overhaul my diet due to sudden onset of all kinds of food allergies since COVID. I used to be chronically tired especially in the afternoons. I now eat very little sugar and no corn syrup/HFCS at all and I've made two interesting observations: My cravings for sweets are virtually zero and my energy levels are stable all day.

There are exceptions but for the most part I'm almost never tired during the day anymore unless I worked out a lot. My energy isn't exactly bouncing me off any walls but it's a noticable improvement.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Apple announces multibillion deal with Broadcom to make components in the USA"

RandomTisk — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:43:30 +0000

Those are still quite livable wages, I'm not seeing tremendous wealth but I'm not seeing any exploitation either. I imagine in fifty years some people will be getting paid minimum wage accomplishing basically the same output that a masters degree + 250k+ salary is pulling in now, it all depends on the technology in the tools.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Intel Blocks Undervolting: The Whole Story"

RandomTisk — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:14:20 +0000

Intel is blocking undervolting because, even though it can improve temperatures and increase clock speeds, it can cause the ME and other black box "features" to stop functioning. Someone doesn't want that.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Florida bill to require bloggers writing about governor to register with state"

RandomTisk — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:48:41 +0000

I'll take one idiotic state senator's public bill that'll never pass over hundreds of government employees colluding with big tech in the shadows to ban speech.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills"

RandomTisk — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:26:47 +0000

America is an extremely peaceful place for many millions of families. There are thousands of smaller communities throughout the vast country where crime is background noise and kids can and do run around outside if they want, even today.

Some places are running untested, never before seen dev code in production trying to improve the justice system, and they virtually always make things much worse, like California is doing and certain metros around the country.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them"

RandomTisk — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:07:28 +0000

Imagine for a moment if you made $100 Billion in profits in 2.5 years.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~17x Faster Sorts in NumPy"

RandomTisk — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:34:54 +0000

AFAIK Consumer Zen4 supports 12 of the 15 AVX-512 extensions, do we know for certain this doesn't target one of the ones AMD is missing?

New comment by RandomTisk in "Whistleblowers take note: don’t trust cropping tools"

RandomTisk — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:24:38 +0000

Any risks with Windows Snipping tool?

New comment by RandomTisk in "How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong"

RandomTisk — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:17:54 +0000

I find Spotify in general to be greatly inferior to Youtube and I listen to JRE a lot less since his move there. I'll catch all his high profile guests but I find I never listen to random podcasts because the Joe Rogan "Experience" downright sucks on Spotify.

- The constant ads in the US, they're skippable but they're obnoxiously long and frequent and annoy the crap out of me. - Spotify app performs poorly, seeking is slow, random freezes/hangs, sometimes I have to close the app completely to get an updated list of shows for a podcaster for some reason. - The interface for viewing shows is inferior. Thumbnails for shows are tiny while they have a ton of wasted space on a typical 1440p monitor.

I also think he's greatly bought into the mob's demands and engages political topics a lot less frequently since at least COVID, despite being lied about repeatedly and basically being correct in almost everything he ever said or questioned.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Tell HN: Coinbase is a joke (product and support)"

RandomTisk — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:58:26 +0000

I'm done with Coinbase too. I first started using it in 2017 or so, things went smoothly until I sold some crypto and tried to cash it out. Transaction was stuck in pending with no way to contact anyone or fix it. I finally got a resolution through some Coinbase employee's social media account.

Then I mostly purchased and sent very little of my crypto out of coinbase, using them as my wallet. Over a five year period I spent (sent out of Coinbase) maybe $500 or so of completely legal purchases around the web.

Last year I wanted to send my crypto to my own private wallet and they wouldn't let me (account restricted, no explanation). They claimed my account wasn't verified, when it was. By then they had chat support, but chat support couldn't help me, they just told me to verify my account again and again and again in some kind of loop of insanity.

Thankfully they let me sell the crypto and transfer the USD back to my bank account and leave that awful platform forever.

New comment by RandomTisk in "AMD Announces 7950X3D, 7900X3D Upto 128MB L3 Cache"

RandomTisk — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:07:43 +0000

Ugly motherboards with 99% of desired featureset: Somewhat almost reasonable prices.

Pretty motherboards with 110% of desired featureset: Insert Fresh Kidney and/or Lung

New comment by RandomTisk in "THC and CBD improve wound healing, may be valuable as skin rejuvenators, study"

RandomTisk — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:10:24 +0000

I've developed a pretty severe allergy to anything cannabis or CBD oil related. It started at the end of 2020 and came out of the blue after taking CBD oil one day. Before that, AFAIK I had no allergy to anything cannabis related. It causes bad respiratory issues for about 48 hours if I consume any and skin hives that take at least a month to fully clear up.

I wish I knew what caused my allergy to appear, whether age, COVID, or something in the oil that wasn't supposed to be there perhaps.

New comment by RandomTisk in "Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants"

RandomTisk — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:33:03 +0000

Some of the plans I've seen has them buried deep underground encased in concrete, requiring little to no maintenance for decades.