Hacker News: UnpossibleJim

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions"

UnpossibleJim — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:12:29 +0000

We are committed to keeping the Brainfuck community healthy -- best sentence ever

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Close to 2k environmental activists killed over last decade"

UnpossibleJim — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 16:27:56 +0000

I don't know what happened and I fully admit that, but let's take the cop section out of it, so none of this "Cops lie all the time" business.

    1) A person was shot by someone at the scene

    2) A different person who was in conflict with the first person had a gun with the same ballistic profile (caliber etc.)

    3) There are two separate parties with an interest in the outcome who witnessed the crime

    4) The first party with an interest, was actively aggrivating people at the scene, causing hightened tensions

    5) The second party was in direct conflict with the first

I have a hard time believing the first party shot their own in order to press charges on the second party. It doesn't pass the Occam's razor test, TBH

EDIT: I suck at formatting

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "The WFH future is destroying bosses' brains (2021)"

UnpossibleJim — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 19:11:37 +0000

Why aren't people paid a full time salary for the work they're expected to do instead of the time they sit at a desk? It's a question I genuinely struggle with.

If the employee is doing all that's expected of them, then the "contract for owning someone for a period of time" (not my words - and relatively creepy) should be fulfilled. It doesn't seem a period of time that is expected but a force of work delivered.

I am willing to be wrong in this assumption, however, given the right argument.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset"

UnpossibleJim — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 04:14:22 +0000

He needed to look at hardware platforms of the past. If you can't get people to develop for a system and make good apps, then the hardware is useless.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Health System in Minnesota Cuts Off Patients with Medical Debt"

UnpossibleJim — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 03:07:51 +0000

It's a matter of priorities. If we decide these things are important as a nation they don't have to be scarce. We make the best war machines on the planet and spend a lot of money on them. That is more of a priority than the good health of our nation.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "AI is taking the jobs of Kenyans who write essays for U.S. college students"

UnpossibleJim — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 14:04:56 +0000

It can't be too much of a surprise that a lot of white collar jobs involve a fair amount of BS. I have 3 to 4 meetings a day and only 1 or 2 are really necessary =[

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?"

UnpossibleJim — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:54:20 +0000

What do you see as your best routes to monetization on the Apple v. Android and how FTP differs on each platform? Also, what routes of promotion have you been taking to build a customer base?

Sorry to ask so many questions, but as a maker of personal projects which are games, I'm curious about the promotion and monetization of mobile games =)

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces"

UnpossibleJim — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:45:55 +0000

There's just so much data available, I don't see how it couldn't be the prevailing trend.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Apple’s Best Hope for New Headset: a Smartwatch-Like Trajectory"

UnpossibleJim — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:32:04 +0000

This! I have resisted the Apple platform due to personal tastes but if they get the blood sugar monitor working (which they say they're close to), I'll switch my entire platmorm ecosystem over to Apple for that one specific feature.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access"

UnpossibleJim — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 03:40:26 +0000

LOL, according to this, my family's group text thread is illegal under this law, as DMs can only be between 2 people.

EDIT: serious question; would Slack be professional networking or, how does that work under this bill? It's DMing for business, but it isn't really networking.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Still Have a Use for Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working to Safely Emulate It in Rust"

UnpossibleJim — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:23:50 +0000

It's almost sad to admit these days but Flash started me down my path with Actionscript. It was the first language I thought I could really use and threw myself into, creating small games for the web (at the time). It was a blast!

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank"

UnpossibleJim — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:00:37 +0000

So, first off, I am not very literate when it comes to the comings and goings of banking procedures, so forgive me if this is a dumb question.

Would an incident like this make other banks shore up their defenses about this sort of thing happening to them, or will more banks fall due to market conditions in general?

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

UnpossibleJim — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 04:36:31 +0000

Drugs ate pushed on television stations a hundred times a day. There are so many commercials for drugs, it's disheartening. There are adds to be more beautiful, thinner, more muscular with drugs and products that promise all of these things. Syrupy sugar drink commercials and fast food restaurants are plastered on TV and print all day, everyday. All for the kids to see.

Don't forget the evils of "harmful lyrics" that Tipper Gore saved us from. That was teaching children forbidden concepts like inner city music and dangerous metal music.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

UnpossibleJim — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:01:46 +0000

At that point, why bother to allow gambling or alcohol a place in society. If people truly have no self determination, why not let a state or federal agency dictate all of their rights and wrongs. Eat only what's good for you because if it isn't healthy and slimming, you can't say anything about it because obese people are an "at risk" population. No more addictive medications of any kind. Doctors aren't agents of the state and couldn't possibly be as educated as a government representative, like your congressman. And intimating that your government officials lied to the public at large would be strictly verboten, I'm sure.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate"

UnpossibleJim — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:05:33 +0000

You don't think it might have something to do with the billion dollar campuses FAANG companies had built?

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Early morning university classes linked to poor sleep and academic performance"

UnpossibleJim — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 16:03:44 +0000

This is exactly why I didn't get a degree in biology. Organic chem was at 7:30 in the morning and I couldn't cut it that early in the morning. All the lectures just washed over me.

All worked out in the end though =)

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Google cautions against 'hallucinating' chatbots"

UnpossibleJim — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:00:56 +0000

sadly, I had to have multi level marketing to me.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Google cautions against 'hallucinating' chatbots"

UnpossibleJim — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:48:43 +0000

MLM... Machine Learning Model?

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff"

UnpossibleJim — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:02:16 +0000

Isn't that attrition going to happen anyway? And with mass layoffs, wouldn't top talent, with plenty of options, be wary of a company who is likely to layoff 7% of its staff to please stockholder share pricing? I don't know the answer to top talent retention, but it seems easier and less expensive to turn your existing staff into "top talent" under the tutelage of the existing top talent and implement a hiring freeze with no huge news cycle.

New comment by UnpossibleJim in "Ask HN: What are we even chasing?"

UnpossibleJim — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:13:44 +0000

If you want a somewhat existential answer, I treat my life like I treat my art. It's open for interpretation but I know what I'm trying to say with my life. Figure out what you want your life to say and create it as best you can.