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New comment by binary_slinger in "Search PPP Loans by Zip Code"

binary_slinger — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 06:38:00 +0000

Many sole proprietorships registered and individuals in my area have these loans. I suspect this was a major contributor to inflation.

For example, a neighbor who owns several franchised restaurants received a few million in PPP loans. But during COVID he also bought a Cirrus Vision Jet. Very suspicious.

The PPP loan program is a borrower self-certified program. Meaning the gov't did absolutely nothing to ensure funds actually went to payroll.

New comment by binary_slinger in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

binary_slinger — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 04:15:54 +0000

If you have some evidence of their brilliance you can post it now.

New comment by binary_slinger in "The 22-Year-Old Who Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Rome"

binary_slinger — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:39:06 +0000

There’s a good reason this is being posted now.

Your astroturfing should have begun months ago.

New comment by binary_slinger in "Ask HN: Why is air traffic control radio comms so poor?"

binary_slinger — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:55:34 +0000

> 2. More importantly, the pilots and ATC folks speak excessively quickly and do not enunciate at all.

Multiple aircraft’s one frequency. Need to speak short to allow other potentially higher priority calls. Also take a moment to read: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/fs_html/...

Of course in practice there are deviation's from the phraseology.

I do agree the DC ATC audio is very poor. Not all ATC communication is that poor. And often it is quite clear especially once you get use to how radio calls are made.

New comment by binary_slinger in "My electric toothbrush was acting up, so I tried to reboot it"

binary_slinger — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:27:18 +0000

A bug right now on Windows 11 is if you use a USB switch too fast on windows it breaks USB. Disconnecting the switch or reconnecting the devices to the host doesn’t fix it. Only a hard reboot of Windows will bring the USB stack back online.

New comment by binary_slinger in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

binary_slinger — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:01:02 +0000

> The guys featured in this gross and irresponsible hit piece by Wired, by all accounts, are brilliant engineers. Top 1%.

Wheres the evidence of their brilliance? A few projects in GitHub isn’t impressive.

Seriously if they’re brilliant this is the perfect PR opportunity to highlight the highly talented people making a difference. But instead we have secrecy.

I suspect the real reason for these choices is they needed people who are young and naive, will not ask too many questions, easy to manipulate, and coerced to work long for little pay.

New comment by binary_slinger in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)"

binary_slinger — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:23:50 +0000

Some trades are more physically demanding on the body. I was thinking more along the lines of any field that requires a gov't license like nurse/counselor/barber/pharmacist/CPA/lawyer/administrator/teacher/air traffic controller/operator of some heavy machinery.

New comment by binary_slinger in "Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)"

binary_slinger — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:08:25 +0000

Any field that requires a certification and cannot be done from a computer is worth looking into.

New comment by binary_slinger in "Django MongoDB Backend Public Preview"

binary_slinger — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:02:34 +0000

This is really great work!

New comment by binary_slinger in "Dell ends hybrid work policy, demands RTO despite remote work pledge"

binary_slinger — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:57:03 +0000

> On top of that, forcing everyone to commute up to an hour each way is a blatant disregard for people's personal time.

Commuting is dangerous and stressful. Stressed employees cannot perform their best. It is in a company's best interest to reduce stress and danger.

New comment by binary_slinger in "Sourcegraph will fast-track DOGE applicants"

binary_slinger — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:33:58 +0000

What makes a DOGE applicant so special?

New comment by binary_slinger in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

binary_slinger — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:18:51 +0000

This is proof that people will downvote to silence things they don't like. This is a gross abuse of the spirit of HN. The statement above was factual.

New comment by binary_slinger in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

binary_slinger — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:10:31 +0000

Trump was elected, and Elon was appointed by Trump?

New comment by binary_slinger in "Ask HN: What should I do with an intern who can't complete any task"

binary_slinger — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 07:14:11 +0000

Thanks for this info. This is paid.

New comment by binary_slinger in "CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design"

binary_slinger — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:50:54 +0000

Look at all the individuality in these designs: https://www.csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/

The web became super boring with the invention of Bootstrap.

Ask HN: What should I do with an intern who can't complete any task

binary_slinger — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:40:53 +0000

I hired a software engineering intern with a decent resume for an undergrad. I decided to give them a chance after an in-person interview. It's been about a year, and they still haven’t completed a single task in Jira. At first, I thought the tasks might be too complicated, so I assigned something simpler. I even asked about their interests and assigned a task accordingly. When that didn’t work, I started meeting with them daily, but it turned into an exercise in testing my patience.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839179

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New comment by binary_slinger in "Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email"

binary_slinger — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:59:50 +0000

It would be an interesting experiment ditch the Roundcube or any web UI to decrease the attack surface.

New comment by binary_slinger in "Apple Enlists Veteran Software Executive to Help Fix AI"

binary_slinger — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:24:19 +0000

Apple innovative edge has always been taking existing technologies and applying that right layer of UX on top. I think they need to really take a step back and figure out what that right layer is.

New comment by binary_slinger in "Meta to spend up to $65B this year to power AI goals, Zuckerberg says"

binary_slinger — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 09:00:31 +0000

I haven't seen Meta's AI assistant incorporated to the Quest 3. There is a lot of low hanging fruit there.

New comment by binary_slinger in "Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades"

binary_slinger — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 08:56:53 +0000

Perhaps the answer isn't Siri or summarizing or whatever else they had planned. Perhaps the entire interface needs to be rethought. To me this is more like the switch from text-based to graphical. They're missing the Alto to copy from this time.