Hacker News: beepboopboop

New comment by beepboopboop in "Men who stare at walls"

beepboopboop — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:08:59 +0000

I’d venture that there’s less to process staring at a wall. Unless you’ve got exciting walls in your parts.

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

beepboopboop — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:25:44 +0000

But they get to live in Europe

New comment by beepboopboop in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

beepboopboop — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:20:25 +0000

That’s hundreds of millions of people in the US, of varying ages and mostly out of school already. Seems like a good thing to try but I’d imagine it doesn’t make a tangible impact for decades.

New comment by beepboopboop in "UK banks still run software code written more than 60 years ago"

beepboopboop — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:22:39 +0000

Must be good code.

New comment by beepboopboop in "Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods"

beepboopboop — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:18:51 +0000

Why is that surprising?

New comment by beepboopboop in "Temu pauses Google Ads, falls from #2 to #19 in app store"

beepboopboop — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 02:02:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing, that’s really cool and something I wish I had the time/skill/patience for. The amp looks great and love the name - might have to dust off the tools for a “Now and Then” model.

New comment by beepboopboop in "Take this on-call rotation and shove it"

beepboopboop — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:28:48 +0000

That just covers electricity. They seem to be implying coverage of a multi-failure scenario.

New comment by beepboopboop in "How to know when it's time to go"

beepboopboop — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:11:25 +0000

A couple things struck me from what you said:

- Have you talked to your manager about a promotion?

- On one hand you said it bothers you that others are being promoted to managerial positions, on the other you said you’re not crazy about getting into management. It’s ok to not go into management - the developer career path does not begin as a developer and end as a manager, it begins as a developer and ends as a developer. And on the flip side, the software development manager career path typically begins as a developer and ends as a manager. They’re just different paths, one will fit better than the other.

- When you have a young child, consistency and security are good features in a job. You can take risks later if that’s what you want to do. In my opinion, some stagnancy is a reasonable trade off to better enjoy these early years with your kid that you’ll only get once.

New comment by beepboopboop in "Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything"

beepboopboop — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:21:56 +0000

AI Whisperer

New comment by beepboopboop in "I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up"

beepboopboop — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:36:01 +0000

How does your heat pump do on cold days like today? Do you still use an AC in the summer?

New comment by beepboopboop in "My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks"

beepboopboop — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:33:54 +0000

I don’t think OP is saying it’s not effective. It can be a virus and effective. The point is more about the consequences.

New comment by beepboopboop in "McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis"

beepboopboop — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 13:04:22 +0000

> and my pockets

Do they give money out at these lunches??

New comment by beepboopboop in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

beepboopboop — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:52:22 +0000

Do didn’t reply to the OP so I had to look one thread deeper

New comment by beepboopboop in "CT Scans of New vs. Used SawStop"

beepboopboop — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:00:49 +0000

I’ve seen more bugs in software rather than hardware, I’ll tell you that.

New comment by beepboopboop in "Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line"

beepboopboop — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 02:35:11 +0000

This guy edge-cases

New comment by beepboopboop in "Mazda's $10 Subscription for Remote Start Sparks Backlash"

beepboopboop — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:24:41 +0000

It auto-shuts off right? I’d hope the timeout would be lower than the amount of time to kill someone in a garage.

New comment by beepboopboop in "Mazda's $10 Subscription for Remote Start Sparks Backlash"

beepboopboop — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:17:07 +0000

> People feel that they paid double – which was actually not true, but perception is reality, I always say.

Do you have any ideas on why the double cost is not true? Maybe manufacturing efficiencies make it cheaper to install the parts despite whether the customer paid for the upgrade?

New comment by beepboopboop in "Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”"

beepboopboop — Sat, 18 May 2024 11:24:15 +0000

Disagree, I’ve already changed my title to “ML professional” on linked in. Aside from the odd hallucination, I’m indistinguishable from an expert to the average hiring team.

New comment by beepboopboop in "Meta AI claims to have a child in a NYC public school"

beepboopboop — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 01:37:00 +0000

You’re not worried about the child’s well-being? Monster.

New comment by beepboopboop in "Amsterdam public transport drops Musk's X over constant hateful messages"

beepboopboop — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:23:52 +0000

It’s possible that they were getting DMs that were hateful too.

Good point about turning off replies though, seems like a one-way communication method should meet their requirements if they can set it up that way.