Hacker News: beardbandit

New comment by beardbandit in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

beardbandit — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:18:35 +0000

Author is absolutely from Microsoft

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226

New comment by beardbandit in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

beardbandit — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:36:31 +0000

You don't want to live in a society where an increasingly large percentage of the population have nothing to lose.

Regardless of whether it benefits our industry or socioeconomic status, it'd be incredibly shortsighted to just do all of that at the expense of the lower classes.

New comment by beardbandit in "4o Image Generation"

beardbandit — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:32:08 +0000

The easy infographic generation scares me on the implications for society.

New comment by beardbandit in "Exponentially Better Rotations (2022)"

beardbandit — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:26:38 +0000

I can't describe how fast my eyes glazed over seeing all those numbers. The cow was very cute.

New comment by beardbandit in "JSON Hero: Enhanced JSON structure visualization"

beardbandit — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 04:52:50 +0000

I can think of one valuable use-case: parsing through JSON responses for APIs with poor fields/response documentation -- especially if you have to parse through a ton of information.

Still way more readable than XML.

New comment by beardbandit in "Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings"

beardbandit — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 18:02:14 +0000

Seriously. Its not like alternatively I can code for 8 straight hours. I treat meetings like breaks for the most part.

New comment by beardbandit in "Show HN: An app that helps engineers fight back against pointless meetings"

beardbandit — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:11:28 +0000

This is incredibly passive aggressive lol.

New comment by beardbandit in "Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines"

beardbandit — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:59:29 +0000

I agree. Its a coin flip. We don't know what the long term effects of COVID are, we don't know what the long term effects of the vaccine are. I'd argue that we know more about what COULD happen with the vaccine long term and I'd rather place my bets on that. The alternative is hiding away for 20+ years and not getting vaccinated or contracting COVID, obviously not feasible.

New comment by beardbandit in "Humanity Has Flipped the Amazon Forest from Carbon Sink to Source"

beardbandit — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 12:58:33 +0000

What good does blame do if the only thing that can potentially change the course is public policy?

I find it a lot harder trying to convince everyone to change versus forcing everyone to change through policy and enforcement through government.

New comment by beardbandit in "Three things to never build yourself: auth, notifications, payments"

beardbandit — Thu, 13 May 2021 21:29:03 +0000

I think that's where the confusion lies. Are people suggesting someone to write their own auth from the ground up, or write auth in coordination with their stack's auth library of choice?

New comment by beardbandit in "Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom"

beardbandit — Thu, 13 May 2021 21:23:07 +0000

I'd rather the money and fines flow to the US government, not random hacker groups.

New comment by beardbandit in "Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit"

beardbandit — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 02:28:20 +0000

I've had my variable annual bonus converted into a permanent salary increase.

I will say I like this a lot more.

New comment by beardbandit in "Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims"

beardbandit — Sat, 23 May 2020 21:15:45 +0000

Man, people really hate Mongo.

We use it for a very specific use case and its been perfect for us when we need raw speed over everything. Data loss is tolerable.

New comment by beardbandit in "Advent of Code 2019"

beardbandit — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 02:03:32 +0000

Yeah. That sounds like work and me begging business side for better requirements.

New comment by beardbandit in "Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone"

beardbandit — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:05:35 +0000

You can use RDBMS for anything that requires complex relationships and map them to unique identifiers in the Mongo documents.

In most cases though, Mongo fits use cases, we never try to use it as a wholesale RDBMS replacement.

New comment by beardbandit in "A world of hurt after GoDaddy, Apple, and Google misissue 1M certificates"

beardbandit — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 02:01:54 +0000

Its 50/50.

Either you crack it or you don't.

New comment by beardbandit in "Post-Mortem and Security Advisory: Data Exposure After travis-ci.com Outage"

beardbandit — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 04:08:10 +0000

Now convince a place that isn't doing this to spend time and resources to put this into place.

'Ship fast and break things' is one of the best and worst cultures in the tech industry.

New comment by beardbandit in "When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?"

beardbandit — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:32:02 +0000

Being 100% sedentary + eating less calories is pretty difficult.

For some reason unbeknownst to me, exercise makes eating less a lot easier.

New comment by beardbandit in "When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go?"

beardbandit — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:28:30 +0000

"I can't help but groan at some of the "obvious" health and weight loss platitudes that get smugly thrown around."

On the flip side, the people that are told this are the ones that are annoyingly attempting to maintain their bad eating habits while just adding exercise, or adding fab foods, or anything really to delude themselves into thinking they can continue to eat the same way.

New comment by beardbandit in "Desktop compositing latency is real"

beardbandit — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 17:29:22 +0000

This is pretty much my setup. Higher quality TN panels don't have that much of a dropoff from median quality IPS panels.