Hacker News: blatantly

New comment by blatantly in "The 'Judicial Black Hole' of El Salvador's Prisons Is a Warning for Americans"

blatantly — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:38:54 +0000

A concentration camp for people of a certain race. Blocked by judiciary but proceeded anyway. Nope need more evidence.

It is not prison if there is no due process.

New comment by blatantly in "Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout"

blatantly — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:15:15 +0000

Probably April or May 2025. I'm bullish still. But then I'm not all US stocks anyway.

New comment by blatantly in "Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout"

blatantly — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:12:18 +0000

Cheap stocks people. Got my eye on some that below a certain price it would be a no brainer to buy. Global trade is rerouting around the bottleneck.

Didn't think there would be an opportunity so soon after March 2020.

Got my eye on a tech stock that has dropped about 40% already but was undervalued before IMO.

New comment by blatantly in "Coding Is Over. Now What?"

blatantly — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 02:09:00 +0000

We are not at the stage where AI can replace graduates. No where near. I worked with an intern recently and it was a pleasure. The quality was excellent. An AI couldn't do what they did. In particular it cannot be accountable or really learn anything. Beyond adding more instructions but that is not tacit knowledge. That is like giving a run book to an idiot who doesn't have experience and may or may not understand it.

Stop talking about coding and talk about what humans do.

Otherwise chatgpt could replace any politician because it can recognize and say words. Wording is dead what now!

New comment by blatantly in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

blatantly — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:26:20 +0000

A side project is creative while work is reductive (not necessarily a bad thing!)

Side project is graffiti art on your shed wall, day job is 3 coats gloss white on the ceilings. That needs to be finished by Friday.

I have some side project ideas but need the time! Mainly these would be contributing to OSS databases to get (any!) knowledge of systems proprogramming. Node.js or Go preferred due to familiarity.

New comment by blatantly in "Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity"

blatantly — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:01:35 +0000

I lost the thread a bit. Are we talking about Doge? Yes that is a abysmal. No defence for that.

But in general people need to learn some stuff on the job. E.g. hire an 18 year old hacker and by 20 they are leading projects, debugging code, preparing for SOC compliance etc. Is possible.

New comment by blatantly in "Bored of It"

blatantly — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:57:26 +0000

Oh nice. A culture where asking questions is punished. If this was a problem don't fire people. Train them. Make sure everyone does required training. If they refuse then you may have a case for PIP.

Otherwise it is just landmine driven performance

Rant not at comment! But the situation of the comment. Hope it worked out for you!

New comment by blatantly in "Bored of It"

blatantly — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:25:24 +0000

Crypto or AI?

New comment by blatantly in "On JavaScript's Weirdness"

blatantly — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:21:22 +0000

I'd forgive a few of those. Unicode is Unicode. The for loop capture behaviour makes sense to me. Missing semis should also be in your linter. Sparse arrays is the sort of feature you'd read up on if you use and not rely on intuition. It makes sense that if you loop over a sparse thing the looping is sparse too.

New comment by blatantly in "Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity"

blatantly — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:10:25 +0000

They'd get training presumably. I wasn't qualified for my current job. Luckily they have training! And people to help.

New comment by blatantly in "Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity"

blatantly — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:09:32 +0000

Hire a burglar to give home security advice.

New comment by blatantly in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

blatantly — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 07:07:00 +0000

I think with AI my productivity had increased 1% at most. If I measure time saved per week.

New comment by blatantly in "Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters"

blatantly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:25:52 +0000

And then someone would pay their drug supplier 60M for a monkey NFT

New comment by blatantly in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

blatantly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:28:33 +0000

At $2/m SRE is powered by love only.

New comment by blatantly in "Latent Space Guardrails That Reduce Hallucinations by 43 Percent Now Open Source"

blatantly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:32:08 +0000

What's a Latent Space again (in LLMs?)

New comment by blatantly in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

blatantly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:28:23 +0000

This make no sense. Tariffs are paid by the supplier who is receiving money from the US customer. Are you saying if they pay the tariff in doge coins the tariff is zero doge coins?

As for other polices that "punish USD" "reward MagicCoins" ... well the market would hopefully see both currencies as crap and use Euros or Yuan. Or maybe new currency baskets will emerge to decentralise power.

New comment by blatantly in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

blatantly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:58:57 +0000

Yeah I think this why "Book a call" level customers are really subsidising it. Say $10/m/u and you get 200 seats. You pay $2000/m but the bugs you hit are likely uniform so you loaf support like maybe 20 individual users. 20 individual users only bring in 10%. So you need the whales to keep it going.

New comment by blatantly in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

blatantly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:51:28 +0000

$2 is fun for hobbies but hope you are not running in production for your customers with that sort of service level!

New comment by blatantly in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

blatantly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:42:59 +0000

Which is like burning all the houses (including your own) so you can use your houses to buy other people's houses cheap.

This only works if you have superior manufacturing infra. To some extent the FAANGs export tech. But if FAANG is a tiny thing compared to say Toyota.

New comment by blatantly in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

blatantly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:37:30 +0000

Not quite the same.

An item sold for $1000 say would pay $100 at 10% VAT. The items in the supply chain all charge VAT and reclaim VAT they spent. I think usually this terminates at the import (maybe?)