Hacker News: bobbygoodlatte

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

bobbygoodlatte — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:01:14 +0000

Seems pretty on-brand for the Fed

As we say in my family: "close enough for government work!"

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Ocean Iron Fertilization"

bobbygoodlatte — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:52:30 +0000

Wouldn't the darkening be temporary? After the bloom, the plankton are either consumed by ocean life, or die off and sink to the bottom (sequestering carbon in either case)

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Larry Ellison's half-billion-dollar quest to change farming"

bobbygoodlatte — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:34:23 +0000

Hasn't this worked out in a few cases? Maybe Uber as a better solution than taxis as an example?

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

bobbygoodlatte — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:19:58 +0000

I'm curious what sort of unethical suggestions it's coming up with haha

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

bobbygoodlatte — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 01:51:34 +0000

I've tried but I honestly start getting a headache after an hour, more from the weight of the device on my head than eye strain. And that's with the dual loop band

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Clusters of brain cells grown in the lab have potential as a hybrid bio-computer"

bobbygoodlatte — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:13:14 +0000

Agreed :)

But severe stroke victims may not be able to. Hopefully tech like this can restore that ability for them one day soon

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Rumours of SR-71 Blackbird Successor from Lockheed's Skunkworks"

bobbygoodlatte — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:42:00 +0000

That museum might be my absolute favorite in the world. Absolutely stunning collection of aviation + space history on display

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Meta Plans to Grow Threads by Ramming Its Posts to Facebook"

bobbygoodlatte — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:00:35 +0000

Absurd headline. Gizmodo's anti-tech bias is showing pretty clearly here. This makes total sense as a product strategy. Not sure what's so controversial about giving more reach to Threads posts as this already works pretty well for Instagram stories

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "America Needs to Build More (and Better) Ships"

bobbygoodlatte — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:02:39 +0000

Are big-iron investments like this even useful for an outright shooting war with another major power? It feels like our defense budget could be better spent on more cost-effective, unmanned tech

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch"

bobbygoodlatte — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 23:38:42 +0000

Reminds me of the Swiss brand H Moser that makes a mechanical wristwatch which looks like an Apple watch

That said, it's a custom case & their movement wouldn't slot into an actual Apple watch without a lot of machining. But it would be a cool way to immortalize one of these Series 1 watches https://www.h-moser.com/product/swiss-alp-watch-5324-1205/

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Insect pests and radiation: SIT, inherited sterility, biological control"

bobbygoodlatte — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:35:14 +0000

I initially mis-read this as IKEA and was ready for a much more bizarre read

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

bobbygoodlatte — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:06:23 +0000

"recap.engagement.is_replied": 27 "recap.engagement.is_replied_reply_engaged_by_author": 75

I wonder if this is why threads rank so obnoxiously high. They get artificially boosted by the author replying to their own tweet

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Facebook Announces Meta Verified"

bobbygoodlatte — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 21:32:12 +0000

Yep. A very sad truth.

It would be quite a challenge to re-create what FB circa 2006-2010 or so was like. Before influencers and engagement farming. Before it became "social media" and was just a "social utility"

The problem is that even if you re-built that product, it would quickly get overrun by engagement optimizers. If the product is open, they'll rush in.

Group chat apps somewhat fill this product void, but not completely. There was something magical about a social network being somewhat open & organic that group chats can't capture

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Hustle bros are jumping on the AI bandwagon"

bobbygoodlatte — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 04:35:59 +0000

Con artists before the modern era were reigned in by their local communities. A grifter would gain a bad local reputation and find themselves unable to continue running their scheme as they'd run out of rubes to dupe. They'd have to leave to the next town if they wanted to keep grifting. But now with social media, grifters can instantly find a new audience of rubes who are unaware of their past exploits

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Welcome Home, Garry Tan"

bobbygoodlatte — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:05:59 +0000

This makes me so optimistic for the future of YC. Congrats Garry!

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Almost every Ferrari sold since 2005 is being recalled"

bobbygoodlatte — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:41:26 +0000

The car in question uses a dual clutch transmission. You can operate it in either automatic or manual mode. In manual mode you're selecting the gears yourself using paddle shifters. But there's no clutch pedal.

The automatic mode is technically "automatic-manual" in that it operates differently than a true automatic transmission. The computer shifts gears in lieu of you using the paddle shifters. It tends to be slightly jerkier than a true automatic.

These days its extremely rare to find a new-release supercar with a stick-shift manual. They almost all use dual-clutch paddle shifters.

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "I fucking hate Jira"

bobbygoodlatte — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 19:12:34 +0000

Linear https://linear.app/

It's a joy to use

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Bolt announces layoffs"

bobbygoodlatte — Wed, 25 May 2022 22:46:45 +0000

QSBS cutoff is $50M in gross assets owned by the company, not $50M valuation. There are many cases where a valuation can be far above $50M yet still qualify. That said, I have no idea if Bolt would qualify here. FWIW financial services companies don't qualify for QSBS at all, so Bolt may fall under that

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search"

bobbygoodlatte — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 21:42:45 +0000

That all changes if you have a stalker / bad actor going after you online. Once your address hits one of these sites, it's on every one of them. And you'll be playing a constant game of whac-a-mole if you want them removed.

The amount of hoops you need to jump through to protect your privacy / shield your address in the US is quite incredible. And if you don't do it correctly from the start (use an anonymous land trust, etc), you're hosed.

Privacy should be the default. People's home addresses shouldn't be public info

New comment by bobbygoodlatte in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

bobbygoodlatte — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:27:49 +0000

reverse chronological simply won't work as a default without some constraints. Otherwise the "optimal" strategy for folks trying to game the system would be to just post constantly. Those who post seldom would get very little distribution as they'd be drowned out.