Hacker News: bluebit

New comment by bluebit in "The workers have spoken: They're staying home"

bluebit — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:47:25 +0000

Cute that you think a person can just move house when they get a new job.

New comment by bluebit in "Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)"

bluebit — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 06:10:04 +0000

So he's playing both sides, like a true philosopher. The simple fact is, work for survival sake is often mind-numbing and soul destroying. Finding work you have a passion for that creates a positive impact in the world is something everyone should strive for, even the wealthy trust fund kids that don't need to lift a finger.

New comment by bluebit in "It's OK to abandon your side-project"

bluebit — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 06:08:02 +0000

That's called "a good problem to have". Seek monetization, funding, scale - popularity is a difficult thing to achieve in a world of infinite choice.

New comment by bluebit in "Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music"

bluebit — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:41:06 +0000

And we broke it.

New comment by bluebit in "Retro personal computer ads from the 1980s"

bluebit — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:24:25 +0000

Is it just me, or do all these photos have some odd sexual tension in them? Perhaps its societal conditioning, but I don't seem to have the same response from modern days ads (even though objectively modern ads are more sexualized).

New comment by bluebit in "FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts"

bluebit — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:08:15 +0000

Can we all agree to call them FB friends, not friends.

New comment by bluebit in "FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts"

bluebit — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:04:03 +0000

Instructions unclear, piled all available capital into the "metaverse" instead.

New comment by bluebit in "The next Google"

bluebit — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 07:38:43 +0000

And boom, we're back to the original problem Google had - how to initially seed authority sites.

New comment by bluebit in "A new wave of Linux applications"

bluebit — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 09:20:35 +0000

2022 is finally the year of Linux!

New comment by bluebit in "Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds"

bluebit — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 07:15:30 +0000

There is zero link between a hardware wallet's private key and the original account that purchased the wallet.

New comment by bluebit in "How to start a successful freelance business as a software developer (2017)"

bluebit — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 10:04:39 +0000

Honestly it couldn't be easier if you have some degree of skill - register on Toptal.com and the jobs literally flow in ($70p/h + depending on skills) and you don't have to worry about contracts, marketing, management, invoices etc - you literally just do the work.

New comment by bluebit in "ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions"

bluebit — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 08:55:49 +0000

I honestly don't know what people are arguing here - in what universe would a non-CSAM image that has been incorrectly flagged ruin a person's life?

New comment by bluebit in "For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm"

bluebit — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:31:29 +0000

That's the last thing I'd direct my kids towards. To spend a third of your waking life digging in people's dirty mouths because of the stable income is how dreams die.

New comment by bluebit in "The Problem with Ethereum"

bluebit — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 07:03:28 +0000

I'm not sure we should treat the base money of the internet the same way we do tech startups - to "move fast and break things". I would like to know that my BTC is stored in a network backed by code that is secure with slow and steady progress.

New comment by bluebit in "Paint.wtf"

bluebit — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:31:20 +0000

Terrible app. If you paint solid blocks of color it ranks the picture extremely highly. Actual good art was thrown to the back of the pile.

New comment by bluebit in "My Experience at Apple"

bluebit — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 08:37:47 +0000

Original was deleted: https://web.archive.org/web/20210101181528/https://ex-apple-...

New comment by bluebit in "Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?"

bluebit — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:01:29 +0000

You do realize that the bull run is back again? Might be a good idea to look into this again.

New comment by bluebit in "I no longer build software"

bluebit — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:56:05 +0000

Honest question, what is a great career pivot for someone that's been in development all their life? It seems that nothing pays as well as building software, unless you go into management which most developers would enjoy even less than digital plumbing.

New comment by bluebit in "I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors"

bluebit — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:53:51 +0000

At his current revenue growth rate, he will likely surpass $200k in the next 12 months with very little additional effort.

New comment by bluebit in "This isn't fun anymore (2017)"

bluebit — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:12:49 +0000

Seriously? Amazon has more filters and categories than I know what to do with, it would be very hard not to find exactly what you're looking for. How would you improve the experience?