Hacker News: ToDougie

New comment by ToDougie in "Study: MRI contrast agent causes harmful metal buildup in some patients"

ToDougie — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:02:08 +0000

Can you please share more?

New comment by ToDougie in "Claude Memory"

ToDougie — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:40:45 +0000

Yep -- every message I send includes a requirement that CC read my non-negotiables, repeat them back to me, execute tasks, and then review output for compliance with my non-negotiables.

New comment by ToDougie in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

ToDougie — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:02:09 +0000

A minor detail, surely.

New comment by ToDougie in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

ToDougie — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:01:41 +0000

I would prefer if awards were given to people for something they achieved, not for something they promised to achieve.

The Arab Spring did not occur in a vacuum. If you're satisfied with America's public or private involvement, great. General Wesley Clark has a rather infamous interview from 2007 that you may want to consider.

Anyways, I think Trump is better motivated by not giving him the Peace Prize.

New comment by ToDougie in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

ToDougie — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:18:52 +0000

Do you have watch history off? I have never experienced anything like this, but I pay for Premium.

New comment by ToDougie in "The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer"

ToDougie — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:48:18 +0000

Incredible! I love it. And wow what an awesome office..... the walls are exquisite. Thank you very much for sharing.

New comment by ToDougie in "The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer"

ToDougie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:04:05 +0000

> I also have bright rope LEDs surrounding a few of my room ceilings, hidden behind coving. That light reflects smoothly off the entirety of the white ceilings. A great combination of very high intensity lighting, that is also gentle, diffuse and calming. Summer days, indoors, all year round.

I am intrigued -- please can you share any publicly available image of this solution? I'm not sure what to google search, or what it would even look like. But I am interested in feeling better while stuck indoors all day.

New comment by ToDougie in "Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon"

ToDougie — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:24:45 +0000

Lest we forget:

"The entire infotainment system is a HTML 5 super computer," Milton said. "That's the standard language for computer programmers around the world, so using it let's us build our own chips. And HTML 5 is very secure. Every component is linked on the data network, all speaking the same language. It's not a bunch of separate systems that somehow still manage to communicate."

https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-... - April 24, 2019

New comment by ToDougie in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

ToDougie — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:10:05 +0000

Ditto. Learned how to effectively use it in college - I'll never stop!

New comment by ToDougie in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

ToDougie — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:06:21 +0000

Go ahead and make your accusation, you wimp.

New comment by ToDougie in "USB-A isn't going anywhere, so stop removing the port"

ToDougie — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:04:03 +0000

Here I am with my stupid USB-C ports that have an ugly, unwieldy dongle attached to them so that I can use my USB-A devices. If this is the future, I don't like it.

New comment by ToDougie in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

ToDougie — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:14:51 +0000

After moving my kids out of a bad elementary school and into a fantastic district with a highly ranked school, the differences are obvious. The good school has smarter kids with better parents. The bad school had dull kids with bad parents.

The kids at the new school do their homework, read, play outside. The kids at the old school skipped homework, played call of duty, and could hardly read.

The new school has fun exercises like the "word of the week" -- and they swear they will rarely assign homework. The old school had mandated trips to the library so kids could take home books and ignore them, alongside a minimum of 1hr of homework per night.

In the bad school, a class of 24 had 11 kids who would not behave themselves, ever (one of the kids would often pick up his chair and hit other students and his aide). In the good school, a class of 24 has 1 kid with limited behavioral issues.

Anyways, the people make the place -- and that includes kids.

New comment by ToDougie in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

ToDougie — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:37:21 +0000

The Obama administration wielded the power of the executive branch against its political opponents. And then the media ran cover for them -- "the Obama administration had no scandals!"

Using the IRS to target your political opponents should have been disqualifying. Running guns to the cartels should have been impeachable.

New comment by ToDougie in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

ToDougie — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:43:55 +0000

A better example might be the treatment of whistleblowers?

New comment by ToDougie in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

ToDougie — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:55:46 +0000

My Dell Precision laptop running Win11 handles this perfectly. Wish I had tried this sooner :P

New comment by ToDougie in "All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair"

ToDougie — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:21:00 +0000

I haven't seen it. What I have seen is the folks who lie and steal get promoted -- they all seem to be in a big club together. Blatant stealing, too. Here's an example: my team created a new product to address a time-constrained market opportunity. We basically did 99% of the work that two teams would normally do. A VP for those two teams then gets on stage and gives an award to his two teams for doing 100% of the work. My team is given no credit or mention.

Another VP gave an award to one of his teams for implementing a company-wide system. His team was actually one of the last adopters of the system that my team identified, implemented, refined, and delivered.

Anyways, they are running two different companies now.

New comment by ToDougie in "Tesla bid to become a UK electricity supplier gets politically 'charged'"

ToDougie — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:15:22 +0000

Your post just deeply offended me and I am contacting the relevant authorities.

New comment by ToDougie in "Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest"

ToDougie — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:40:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or92IMcLoIc clip for anyone interested. Gripping stuff.

New comment by ToDougie in "White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake"

ToDougie — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:38:17 +0000

I agree with you. I shouldn't have framed this as a false dilemma, and I didn't put a whole lot of thought into my comment.

New comment by ToDougie in "Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room"

ToDougie — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:29:50 +0000

Played an insane amount of WC3 mod with you guys. Thank you for all the memories.