Hacker News: bongothrowaway

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

bongothrowaway — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:47:49 +0000

And by the same token, if my job turns around and requires me to do something I don't want to do, I would quit. Or try to get fired, if I was feeling spiteful.

I'm not arguing on this guy's behalf, I only made a comment.

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

bongothrowaway — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:30:05 +0000

No, but it's not a job for me. Someone has to do it, though, but I'd rather it not be me.

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

bongothrowaway — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:13:03 +0000

I mean... this is exactly why I've avoided becoming a manager in the past. I will accept being responsible for my own work, but I don't want to be accountable for someone else's work.

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

bongothrowaway — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:58:52 +0000

I have been asked if these ads also apply to the paid version of Nova.

New comment by bongothrowaway in ""My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore.""

bongothrowaway — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:50:06 +0000

So here's my question: if the story is fake, what's the goal here?

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Solitaire"

bongothrowaway — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:40:10 +0000

Undertale's code base is apparently no better. For games I don't think code quality is nearly as paramount; there's not a whole lot of maintenance going on there, though this doesn't apply to live service games.

New comment by bongothrowaway in "45 years ago CompuServe connected the world before the World Wide Web"

bongothrowaway — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:26:55 +0000

My father used the CB simulator, but I was more inclined to use the chat features they added to the popular forums. I met my partner of more than 25 years in one of those. Good memories.

New comment by bongothrowaway in "I found a security issue on a competitor, got fired and served a summons"

bongothrowaway — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 12:50:28 +0000

Isn't that the job of the person who is responsible for the code, and NOT the responsibility of a well-wishing outsider who stumbled across the bug in the first place? Unless you're actually angling to get the job of fixing the code.

New comment by bongothrowaway in "When my wife developed Alzheimer’s, the story of our marriage kept us connected"

bongothrowaway — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:09:47 +0000

Hear, hear. I've found the same. Love, like any sort of relationship, takes work and compromise, but when you do it with honesty and candidly, it grows far more easily.

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Ask HN: How did an adult ADHD diagnosis help you?"

bongothrowaway — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:28:04 +0000

Mostly, it's helped me understand where some of my own idiosyncracies come from.

I don't take any medication for ADHD, mainly because I also have general anxiety and my understanding that is anxiety and ADHD medications tend to interfere with one another. I need the medication for my anxiety more; I've gone 30+ years coping with my ADHD symptoms and working around them, so I don't really need medication for them. But an official diagnosis is remarkably freeing, because at least I can finally say "THIS is why I'm like this".

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece"

bongothrowaway — Thu, 06 May 2021 18:57:41 +0000

It is. The -point- of the term is to reverse the usual dynamic between the privileged and the disadvantaged. What that dynamic is depends on whether you see the categories in this comparison as only two (the haves and the have-nots) or three (including a "normal" category which lies somewhere between the two), or perhaps as a spectrum (where privileged and disadvantaged arguably lie at the extremes of the bell curve).

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Bongo Cat"

bongothrowaway — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 17:24:58 +0000

No, just happen to be a friend of theirs. More specifically, I know the artist, not the person who made it a meme. It's been very strange seeing their art evolve from doodle to meme to merchandise to whatever this qualifies as. Derivative work?

New comment by bongothrowaway in "Bongo Cat"

bongothrowaway — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:13:53 +0000

It's getting increasingly more surreal to see Bongo Cat popping up everywhere when you know the person who did the original art for it. NEVER expected to see it here on Hacker News.

Now back to lurking.