Hacker News: Zanneth

New comment by Zanneth in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

Zanneth — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 20:00:19 +0000

Crowdstrike is run by humans just like you and me. One mistake doesn’t mean they are completely incompetent.

New comment by Zanneth in "Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow""

Zanneth — Fri, 17 May 2024 16:02:42 +0000

And this attitude is why there is so much of it.

Why don’t you call it what it is: destruction of public property?

New comment by Zanneth in "What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane"

Zanneth — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 05:48:25 +0000

I don’t think healthcare for employees comes anywhere close to the list of top expenses for a company as large as Boeing.

Based on the article, it sounds like the expertise of more experienced workers was preventing the reckless management from shipping poorly tested products earlier, and this was the actual reason for terminating them.

New comment by Zanneth in "Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]"

Zanneth — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:21:09 +0000

Maybe a better way to say it is: when you’re investing millions of dollars in risky ventures, reputation is very important.

New comment by Zanneth in "Tech's DEI backlash is here"

Zanneth — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:49:31 +0000

I don't think giving a bunch of free money to people is a good solution either.

New comment by Zanneth in "Fastmail Employees Form a Union"

Zanneth — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 18:49:10 +0000

Why would workers accept someone else negotiating on their behalf unless things are running very poorly?

New comment by Zanneth in "Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes"

Zanneth — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:03:25 +0000

That's a very presumptuous thing to say. I'm not any different from anyone else.

The greatest lie that politicians ever told was that they have power over how you live your life. The sooner people stop believing this, the sooner we can all move on from politics and start building stuff again.

New comment by Zanneth in "Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes"

Zanneth — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:07:59 +0000

Naomi has taken to an extreme view on COVID, claiming that policies that are any less authoritarian than the (now provably failed) “zero COVID” policy are attempts by the state to purposefully kill elderly and sick people so that survivors can apparently enjoy greater tax revenue.

https://x.com/realsexycyborg/status/1647827136416464896?s=46

This is only one of many examples where she used her platform to stoke the intercultural flamewars between China and the West.

New comment by Zanneth in "Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes"

Zanneth — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:56:11 +0000

I never said she should be persecuted by her government. You are unfairly attempting to put words in my mouth.

New comment by Zanneth in "Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes"

Zanneth — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:28:39 +0000

I used to like Naomi, but like a lot of intelligent people online recently, she has caught the politics mind virus and began using her platform to spread even more hate and division.

These days I find myself desperately craving an online community that just focuses on building cool projects and learning about new stuff, rather than pointless political debates that have extremely little relevance in anyone’s lives.

New comment by Zanneth in "The office is a theatre for work (2019)"

Zanneth — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:09:40 +0000

> The problem we have as a species is that we’ve been so effective at optimisation that we have eliminated the need for anyone to exist. A few farmers can feed the country. A few automated production lines could produce the goods.

This couldn’t be further from the truth. Human labor is still desperately needed throughout the world in order to keep things running. It’s not just farmers. You also need drivers, clerks, mechanics, accountants, etc. And that’s just to get food into your local grocery store.

Nothing in modern life is free, even though it may seem easy for most of us living in the developed world. All of this stuff exists only because people are working really hard to keep it that way.

New comment by Zanneth in "Rarbg Is No More"

Zanneth — Wed, 31 May 2023 16:33:08 +0000

Try working at a big company for a little while.

New comment by Zanneth in "Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT"

Zanneth — Mon, 22 May 2023 16:39:46 +0000

I like to think of it as similar to talking to the smartest person you know. You can constantly learn something new from this person, but they make mistakes just like anyone else does. Trust, but verify.

New comment by Zanneth in "I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)"

Zanneth — Wed, 17 May 2023 16:31:53 +0000

You should give GNOME another try one of these days. The GNOME team has done some amazing work on standardizing the look and feel of GTK apps.

New comment by Zanneth in "Donald Trump Under Arrest"

Zanneth — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 05:08:20 +0000

I don’t understand. How is he under arrest if he was able to leave right after?

New comment by Zanneth in "Most data work seems fundamentally worthless"

Zanneth — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:57:46 +0000

It’s not because they didn’t see the point in what they were doing. These people had a lot of free time and only worked a couple of hours per week.

New comment by Zanneth in "Most data work seems fundamentally worthless"

Zanneth — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:06:59 +0000

Everyone I know who works in these kind of jobs are financially secure but extremely depressed.

One of the mistaken beliefs underlying the UBI argument is that the fulfillment part will come automatically for most people. Who wouldn’t want to spend every day painting, writing, or playing music? The problem is that most people who are not ideologically self-motivated are unable to find sources of fulfillment without some sort of economic influence.

New comment by Zanneth in "Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes"

Zanneth — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:48:51 +0000

Replacing roads with railways means nearly complete reliance on a central authority for all transportation needs. This authority decides who gets to leave town and who doesn’t, which companies have priority when delivering goods, how or if the parallel railways should scale to meet more transportation demand, etc.

Transportation safety is important but it shouldn’t be considered in isolation when there are potentially catastrophic consequences to prioritizing safety at the cost of everything else.

New comment by Zanneth in "Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes"

Zanneth — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:41:54 +0000

You’d prefer to make an appointment at a dealership and have to physically drive it in?

New comment by Zanneth in "Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?"

Zanneth — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:47:49 +0000

> I do see this however being the bell tolling of White Anglo-Saxon heredity being removed from the throne and replaced with people with more melanin in their skin. This may not sit well with those who subscribe to racially ethnic purity ideals as what Hitler envisioned as a superior race is biologically reversed to be inferior until genetic mutations bring them back to a norm again.

I was with you until you said this. Choosing who you want to lead based on how much melanin they have in their skin is an extremely dangerous precedent. Statements like this are exactly why it's impossible to debate social issues today.