Hacker News: birdyrooster

New comment by birdyrooster in ""Never, ever, no matter what, go to a timeshare presentation""

birdyrooster — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:14:22 +0000

It's really not that bad, I just tell them there is no way they are making a sale, that they made a mistake to ever let me come, and they let me go early.

New comment by birdyrooster in "Prominent S.F. developers charged with bribery in widening corruption scandal"

birdyrooster — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:19:40 +0000

Ahh yes these pesky pretexts like regulations… look no further than China for what happens when one takes this to its logical conclusion.

New comment by birdyrooster in "Quake Brutalist Jam II"

birdyrooster — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 15:39:58 +0000

This was right when “zero tolerance” school discipline was in favor of administrators. Doing something like that could get you put in A) in school suspension, B) suspension or C) expelled where I lived.

New comment by birdyrooster in "Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss"

birdyrooster — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 02:01:59 +0000

And yet, there are few who disagree and it's worth mentioning.

New comment by birdyrooster in "Show HN: LLaVaVision: An AI "Be My Eyes"-like web app with a llama.cpp backend"

birdyrooster — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 06:24:12 +0000

Watching the chat gpt workflow is cool because it captures your intent along with the code change without need for a commit comment

New comment by birdyrooster in "Open source is struggling and it's not big tech that is to blame"

birdyrooster — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 05:19:54 +0000

Asahi Linux is another good example

New comment by birdyrooster in "Fuchsia F14"

birdyrooster — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:32:34 +0000

It would be nice if macOS had some competition.

New comment by birdyrooster in "I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it?"

birdyrooster — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:28:39 +0000

Do you have large hands? I was wondering if Colemak-DH has less utility for people who don’t feel the stretch is significant when using Colemak. I’ve been using Colemak for 11 years and it’s saved my wrists from RSI

New comment by birdyrooster in "Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario"

birdyrooster — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:23:45 +0000

lmao you have to be kidding me

New comment by birdyrooster in "Talk-Llama"

birdyrooster — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 14:10:08 +0000

I don’t want to talk to anything in my terminal. It’s a shitty interface for that.

New comment by birdyrooster in "Tesla wins first US Autopilot trial involving fatal crash"

birdyrooster — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:26:28 +0000

The alcohol is a red herring and everyone knows it. Unless you have police verifying his BAC is over the legal limit, you aren't making a salient point -- you are speculating irresponsibly.

The car veered off the road like a maniac took the wheel, that maniac was software written by Tesla. I certainly wouldn't trust my family's safety with this, whether I had a drink of alcohol or not.

New comment by birdyrooster in "Tesla wins first US Autopilot trial involving fatal crash"

birdyrooster — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:58:01 +0000

tl;dr: Tesla won’t be held liable for misleading marketing or buggy software because humans are capable of being distracted

New comment by birdyrooster in "Southern California Beyond the Freeway"

birdyrooster — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:20:28 +0000

Another freeway-revolving city must be Houston but for the opposite reason because they engineered a truly massive multi-ring hub and spoke setup. Getting anywhere requires it given how spread out the city is and how hot and humid/rainy it gets.

New comment by birdyrooster in "I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars"

birdyrooster — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 15:39:27 +0000

> They can just be stock holders or launch their own company

New comment by birdyrooster in "I2P: End-to-end encrypted and anonymous internet"

birdyrooster — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:49:43 +0000

We will still need VPNs to get good connectivity to other residential ISPs until some government entity (or market condition) inspires ISPs to invest in more hardware and peering with each other. CDNs and VPN providers are now sadly a requirement for the internet to work the way we expect it to.

New comment by birdyrooster in "Americans' confidence in technology firms has dropped"

birdyrooster — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:59:51 +0000

Yeah people trust them to steal their data and sell it.

New comment by birdyrooster in "Microsoft completes $69B deal to buy Activision Blizzard"

birdyrooster — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:47:29 +0000

Forza is pretty good

New comment by birdyrooster in "FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number"

birdyrooster — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 20:24:21 +0000

oh lmao damnit, thanks for clarifying

New comment by birdyrooster in "FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number"

birdyrooster — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 21:33:48 +0000

I am sorry we didn't serve your interests

New comment by birdyrooster in "Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)"

birdyrooster — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 03:07:02 +0000

I used to overclock my Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop and putting it into a mini fridge helped keep the Prescott P4 running cool for benchmarks.