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New comment by arnonejoe in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

arnonejoe — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:18:30 +0000

It’s disturbing. I sometimes wonder what would happen if I were pulled over and my window and door is closed. If I reach for the door handle will the cop think I’m reaching for gun? Do wait for him to scream at me through the window? How do I keep from things escalating? Is there a place in the US where the cops aren’t totally insane? SF? Santa Barbara? Maybe Marin County?

New comment by arnonejoe in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

arnonejoe — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:37:13 +0000

Just reading the title made my tinnitus come back.

New comment by arnonejoe in "Guilty Displeasures"

arnonejoe — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:42:01 +0000

Same. The other good track on that album is Slippery People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx2_iHftARo

New comment by arnonejoe in "UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A (2025)"

arnonejoe — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:27:19 +0000

For some reason I was thinking it was that $99 dollar Sinclare from the 80s which had the most unusable keyboard on earth.

New comment by arnonejoe in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

arnonejoe — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:20:30 +0000

Totally agree on ai assisted coding resulting in randomly changed code. Sometimes it’s subtle and other times entire methods are removed. I have moved back to just using a JetBrains IDE and coping files in to Gemini so that I can limit context. Then I use the IDE to inspect changes in a git diff, regression test everything, and after all that, commit.

New comment by arnonejoe in "U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession"

arnonejoe — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:45:08 +0000

I looked this up. "10 of the 11 recessions between 1953 and 2020 began under Republican administrations”. It seems Republican = Recession.

New comment by arnonejoe in "Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time"

arnonejoe — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:28:26 +0000

My job as a software engineer is not going anywhere. It’s only getting more interesting. Nice vibe blog / fear mongering piece.

New comment by arnonejoe in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

arnonejoe — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:50:31 +0000

Also, manufacturers that make 3d printers simply wont sell in NY. They’ve solved nothing with this.

New comment by arnonejoe in "Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds"

arnonejoe — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:28:44 +0000

The fed would almost certainly intervene aggressively resuming large scale QE to buy up treasuries and stabilize yields.

New comment by arnonejoe in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

arnonejoe — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:48:17 +0000

The way I learned to write software was years of cutting my teeth on hard problems. I have to wonder what happens when the new developers coming up don’t have that teeth cutting experience because they use language models to assist with every algorithm, etc?

New comment by arnonejoe in "Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator"

arnonejoe — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:22:57 +0000

Looks super awesome. Strong work! It showed the karman line at 98-99km. Maybe a tiny tweak needed.

New comment by arnonejoe in "Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI"

arnonejoe — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:43:56 +0000

What swe would want to work there after reading this.

New comment by arnonejoe in "“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill"

arnonejoe — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:55:30 +0000

I think you can see the actual numbers on capitol trades. https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians

New comment by arnonejoe in "In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation"

arnonejoe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:48:32 +0000

Thank you ;)

New comment by arnonejoe in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

arnonejoe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:29:34 +0000

You don’t know until unemployment and GDP numbers are released. Generally when the fed starts making successive rate cuts, the economy is doing poorly. Since 1953 10 out of 11 recessions happened when republicans held power. So maybe that is also why I think we have a little way to go before things get better. I’m not sure why that is and I don’t want to start a political debate. Things will get better. They always do.

New comment by arnonejoe in "In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation"

arnonejoe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:21:32 +0000

Give each victim 100 shares of company stock. You lose your company to the people that you hurt. Seems fair.

New comment by arnonejoe in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

arnonejoe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:59:13 +0000

It seems we are nearing the bottom of the business cycle. I lived through 2001 and 2008. Both were worse than now. It will get better.

New comment by arnonejoe in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

arnonejoe — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 02:23:58 +0000

There is also a nice ice rink next door that looks like a Swiss Chalet. I think it’s also part of the museum.

https://www.snoopyshomeice.com/

New comment by arnonejoe in "Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix"

arnonejoe — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:40:54 +0000

Maybe it’s in part because films from the 80s and 90s were filmed on actual film.

New comment by arnonejoe in "Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)"

arnonejoe — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:19:44 +0000

I love C#. When combined with JetBrains Rider it may be the most satisfying dev experience I’ve had in my career.