Hacker News: baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=baggy_troughHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:37:47 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "They’re made out of weights"]]>Don't dogs have similar social issues?

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:15:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404022baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404022https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404022<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true"]]>Is there something strange or funny about that?

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:55:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403050baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403050https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403050<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"]]>If AI is good enough to cause peoples' skills to atrophy, then why would it collapse? It would seem that it was very useful indeed in that case.

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:46:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401229baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401229https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401229<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"]]>Can't remember the last time that happened.

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:46:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389787baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389787https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389787<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]>It is not malware at all.

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:28:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387810baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387810https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387810<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]>That sounds extremely dramatic when what we're talking about is features in a mail program.

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:00:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386574baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386574https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386574<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]>Because that is not what malware is.

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:59:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386557baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386557https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386557<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "My Students Can't Read"]]>The fundamental cause is lack of accountability which my points address. Also, you are rude.

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:02:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379756baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379756https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379756<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "My Students Can't Read"]]>California already spends half the state budget on education. Isn’t that more than enough, if spent with a modicum of sanity?

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:00:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379739baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379739https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379739<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "My Students Can't Read"]]>Do we have the courage to do what's necessary to fix education in the United States? That is:

- abolish teachers unions

- fail / keep back students who don't meet standards, in a completely objective fashion with no regard for racial / ethnic / gender sensitivities

]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:24:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378601baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378601https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378601<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]>Please do not call it malware, because it is not. It is just bad software UI.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:17:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376439baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376439https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376439<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Love systemd timers"]]>In decades of trying, I do not believe there was one time that I ever got a cron job to work properly in the first attempt. Systemd timers are a godsend.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:21:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48370649baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48370649https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48370649<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"]]>This would be a exquisitely horrible way to live.

]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 19:38:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314317baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314317https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314317<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]>Certainly not, but it would have been natural for the American Indians to desire this. They lacked the means to carry it out of course.

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:28:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253758baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253758https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253758<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"]]>What's the worst hack to affect users of rubygems?

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 19:27:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250555baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250555<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"]]>Those other means being winning a free and fair election?

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:35:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238215baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238215https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48238215<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"]]>A referendum is neither of those.

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:50:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236730baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236730https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236730<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"]]>For what crime?

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:24:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236298baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236298https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236298<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide"]]>Of course not, but it helps, and we need all the help we can get.

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:08:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236074baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236074https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48236074<![CDATA[New comment by baggy_trough in "A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide"]]>Are you aware that police use these cameras to track and arrest criminals?

]]>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:47:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227280baggy_troughhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227280https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227280