Hacker News: TedDoesntTalk

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

TedDoesntTalk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:16:03 +0000

Were you still alive after paying it off?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

TedDoesntTalk — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:14:57 +0000

Agree. I almost never watch them when posted in comments. Sometimes if it’s a main article I might.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "TypeScript 7"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:37:21 +0000

Java has a lesson of what can go wrong with types, just as parent says. That example is dates and times. So many types…

And before Java finally settled on what we have today, we had 3rd-party libraries like jodatime that tried to fix it.

I guess it’s in a good state today, but it took a LocalDateTime.MAX to get there. I mean an Instant.MAX. No, I mean an OffsetDateTime.MAX. No, I mean new Date(Long.MAX_VALUE). Oh wait I meant new Timestamp(Long.MAX_VALUE). No, I mean LocalTime.MAX.

I’ll stop now, but i could go on.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 +0000

I’m in the USA and have a Tenda WiFi usb stick. Not as popular as other brands but they are around

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]"

TedDoesntTalk — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:35:26 +0000

> So it was undiscovered for 16 years until now

Publicly undiscovered

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Do you hate XML? (2010)"

TedDoesntTalk — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:04:17 +0000

Cardinality is the easy way to resolve this. If the data has a cardinality of 1, it should be an attribute. If cardinality > 1, it should be a child element/node.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

TedDoesntTalk — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:15:43 +0000

Loyalists were gone by from America by the mid-1780s.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

TedDoesntTalk — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:31:56 +0000

I found it interesting that you used the term European several times, but never once the term American. He served in the American military, lived in America, had an American father (according to the article).

So you consider 19th century America to be Europe, or is there another reason for your choice of words?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

TedDoesntTalk — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:48:35 +0000

How much does corporate espionage help them?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

TedDoesntTalk — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:44:04 +0000

He could have sold those printouts instead of giving them away.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

TedDoesntTalk — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:06:28 +0000

Experts have beginner’s mind.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:05:15 +0000

Great story. Had no idea. Still love the name Uwe. One of those German names that doesn’t have an English equivalent unlike, say, Pieter.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

TedDoesntTalk — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:51:01 +0000

> the more they will tend to gradually pull that into some homogenous abstract equilibrium

I experienced this with resume editing. The LLM removes everything that differentiates my resume from a pile of junior engineers with “average” experience. Anything that was special or unique or different was eventually replaced with generic stuff

Of course I didn’t use what it produced, but it was maddening because the LLM kept insisting this was better than what I had.

I found LLMs to be much more useful in suggesting edits to very small chunks of my resume (a sentence or three) rather than the overall vision of the document.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Teaching Claude Why"

TedDoesntTalk — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:30:06 +0000

You may disagree with Freud, but he is responsible for mental health therapy becoming a socially acceptable practice in the West.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:40:55 +0000

Where does he mention “without Robux”?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:31:35 +0000

It’s not debt bondage in Roblox. It’s company scrip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:28:09 +0000

The CEO does not say it’s a horrible idea. The interviewers say that. CEO says it’s “brilliant idea”.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

TedDoesntTalk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:27:05 +0000

In case you don’t want to watch the video: his answer is yes BUT he needs to figure out how to do it legally in the different jurisdictions that control kids gambling.

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

TedDoesntTalk — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:59:12 +0000

Were the payments considered income?

New comment by TedDoesntTalk in "Wood Gas Vehicles: Firewood in the Fuel Tank (2010)"

TedDoesntTalk — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:50:32 +0000

Electrics won’t replace ICE until the range issues in cold weather is figured out.