Hacker News: agentgumshoe

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

agentgumshoe — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:17:34 +0000

Now, define 'social media' clearly and we're all good.

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)"

agentgumshoe — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:19:10 +0000

ROI depends on whether the company is profitable going forward too I'd imagine...

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)"

agentgumshoe — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 10:18:02 +0000

Which... Is the same maxim still

New comment by agentgumshoe in "So long, and thanks for all the bytes"

agentgumshoe — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:59:24 +0000

Much like societies, there is no 'one way' to do it all.

Best is to really understand what you are trying to do in the first place.

New comment by agentgumshoe in "So long, and thanks for all the bytes"

agentgumshoe — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:55:49 +0000

The other key factor is probably the person hiring/hiring being able to identify a 'good' programmer. Whether that's through their own competence or having some knowledge of the candidate outside their resume.

Speed to market is also a factor. If you pushing to release a new product, good engineers are very important. For big corporates with established marketshare and profits, it seems to be the thousand monkeys with typewriters approach

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Wind River Linux"

agentgumshoe — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:18:51 +0000

Nah, obviously she just likes wearing glasses that sit at a funny angle...

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate"

agentgumshoe — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:35:14 +0000

Err.. except the environment they exist in - 'crypto' - tends to be full of anti-gov/3letteragency types, so you'd think this is a bad PR angle to take.

At a guess, I would say this is more flagging to their real customers that their funds aren't safu...

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate"

agentgumshoe — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:32:34 +0000

It's not an audit. Attestations mean they move a bunch of funds into the account, get the auditor to check that indeed that money was there at that point of time, then move it away again. Every legitimate auditor they've engaged has quit.

Also, the 'auditors' they are approaching are more and more into the 'not quite competent' end of the line if you look into them.

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate"

agentgumshoe — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:39:13 +0000

So... Half the appeal of crypto and Tether & co has been a separation from the current financial system and 'deep state,' yet here we are embracing both with hugs.

The cryptoverse is no place for making sense.

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate"

agentgumshoe — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:33:55 +0000

Tether has not completed a single audit yet

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Tether reveals partnerships with Secret Service, FBI in letter to U.S. Senate"

agentgumshoe — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:18:54 +0000

Still not a partnership. Tether spin.

New comment by agentgumshoe in "I'm skeptical of low-code"

agentgumshoe — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:16:50 +0000

Which of course becomes the CTO saying of course the business can build skyscrapers with these simple kit sets.

New comment by agentgumshoe in "NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances"

agentgumshoe — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 07:40:43 +0000

Clearly fair use? What if I pay ChatGPT to give me the NYT article it sourced verbatim as stored (i.e. without referring me to the NYT source)?

New comment by agentgumshoe in "NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances"

agentgumshoe — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 07:37:50 +0000

What if I ask ChatGPT to print the article verbatim as sourced, from its own dataset?

New comment by agentgumshoe in "The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster"

agentgumshoe — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:57:44 +0000

Not all LGBTQ people mind you, just the latest more minority group within (or appended to).

It gets to the point of absurdity when we expect to add more complexity with new workarounds to make things simple again.

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs"

agentgumshoe — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:34:52 +0000

What percentage of users actually, really care how marginally more efficient their web browser is these days?

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government"

agentgumshoe — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:28:55 +0000

Well that's what Ukraine are doing in voting for Zelenskyy's views... I think we often overestimate the qualifications behind our politicians, they're not much different to the celebrity love-ins or corporate nepotisms running rampant as-is (the obvious ones being Trump and Biden).

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government"

agentgumshoe — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:24:53 +0000

So just like politicians (cough, Lindsay Graham, cough)...

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government"

agentgumshoe — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:21:46 +0000

She doesn't even have to opine, she could just state how important the policy decision could be and make sure people are aware of it.

New comment by agentgumshoe in "Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government"

agentgumshoe — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:19:41 +0000

That's exactly why I mentioned Kanye. All the influence with none of the outcomes.

Perhaps Swift should postpone a concert until one such disagreeable law is changed...