Hacker News: bragh

New comment by bragh in "Don't be a meat proxy"

bragh — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:02:36 +0000

Quite a few people do believe that a good specification is long, has multiple levels of headings, interspersed bold text, bullet points, and so on. Definitely, this is what they have seen happen throughout their lives: competent people have heaped praise on documentation which has had these signs, so this must be what good documentation looks like.

New comment by bragh in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

bragh — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:51:01 +0000

Yes, but the film was made for modern audiences using the modern translation. Isn't it somewhat ridiculous to criticize a film for exactly following the cultural conventions it is supposed to follow?

New comment by bragh in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

bragh — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:48:30 +0000

It was a direct quote from the review. Yes, she did use "sex scenes".

New comment by bragh in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

bragh — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:01:11 +0000

Fair enough about the other points. But this is a ridiculous "hot take":

> There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.

Yes and if there were sex scenes, then the film would get criticized for having sex scene(s), not being able to tell the story of a Greek epic without turning it into erotica or something.

New comment by bragh in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

bragh — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:13:43 +0000

Awful choice for whom exactly? From their point of view, it is the rational choice.

New comment by bragh in "Programmers need to start meditating"

bragh — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:47:33 +0000

They crashed yes, but not for too long and they did recover. And was it ever confirmed it was because of vibe coding? Not sure how much if any it even impacted their stock.

New comment by bragh in "Programmers need to start meditating"

bragh — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:56:04 +0000

Maybe we just aren't far enough in the vibe coding side of things and there are still too many people in the industry who still pay attention to details, so no major catastrophes haven't happened yet because of vibe coding. So the people who pay attention to details are still carrying their organizations, but I do wonder how long it is going to be sustainable.

When it comes to joy killers because of AI, then it is dismal how plagiarism (going by the definition of "presenting someone else's work without attribution") suddenly became widely accepted. When I see long lists of bullet points with interspersed bold text, I know that it is something the sender did not write or bother reviewing. Absolute cherry on top when in the end of that text you see the typical LLM suggestion that you can ask for more information, which the sender didn't even bother removing.

New comment by bragh in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

bragh — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:18:49 +0000

Oh, the people who work on secure boot, attestation, DRM, and other such features know very well, but don't care. This is because the claimed benefits for them, such as less hackers, less malware, less bot traffic, outweigh any possible downsides for the society.

New comment by bragh in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

bragh — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:31:03 +0000

Yes. It's not a hard concept?

New comment by bragh in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

bragh — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:29:53 +0000

Say what? Technology has been awesome, it pretty much eliminates the risk in social interactions. With Internet, you are not forced to be part of a community you have no interest in and who do not like you anyway because of your interests, but you can choose and pick your own community. And the same goes for dating apps, they help completely derisk the initial approach and as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, risk of being seen as a creep.

New comment by bragh in "40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households"

bragh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:24:43 +0000

The phrasing in your sources is absolutely horrible and brings back high school vibes of "lonely kids are bad because they are lonely, so they must be bullied to make them normal again". Just great.

New comment by bragh in "40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households"

bragh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:14:53 +0000

> lots of them stay adolescent well into their 30s and require a caregiver or a substitute mom more than a gf/wife

What do you actually mean by this part?

New comment by bragh in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

bragh — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:20:30 +0000

Amazing, checked just now and seems that these are now in stock in many places. When I checked last week, they weren't, seems like some stock got released for EU then.

New comment by bragh in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

bragh — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:02:04 +0000

In EU, have not seen PA32QCV ever in stock anywhere.

New comment by bragh in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

bragh — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:01:00 +0000

If those people got a haircut, brushed their teeth and took a shower, they would be attractive!

New comment by bragh in "I rebooted my social life"

bragh — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 02:11:40 +0000

You misunderstand me. No, I do not think that it is a good thing that society works this way, but yet it does.

New comment by bragh in "I rebooted my social life"

bragh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:50:31 +0000

Eventually it doesn't end well indeed. But modern society has made it pretty clear that older men aren't actually needed and are more of a burden. Just look at how triggered the GP of the thread got just about a mention that men might want a different approach when it comes to social stuff.

Well, not needed, unless an actual shooting war breaks out and you need a lot more people pulling guard duty or just some very high-risk stuff younger men should not be wasted on. Like that Ukrainian unit of pensioner men in a ground-attack missile unit who source their own missiles by repairing unexploded ones.

New comment by bragh in "I rebooted my social life"

bragh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:34:42 +0000

> For example, studies have shown that men who decide to isolate themselves to be "family men" die earlier at age 58.

Yes, but isn't it a benefit to society as a whole though? All the prime working years are gone by then and there is no need to pay pension to those men or for expensive medical treatments. And younger generations can be happy for there being one less cishet white male boomer in the world.

I mean, it sure sucks for the individual not being able to enjoy their retirement, but for the society it seems that it will be a benefit.

New comment by bragh in "PowerShell's curl runs JavaScript code with system access"

bragh — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:29:08 +0000

Everybody say "thank you, Microsoft!". Until PowerShell 6, curl in pwsh was an alias to Invoke-WebRequest: https://lazyadmin.nl/powershell/using-curl/

Obviously, it does not cause any confusion at all because all the Windows admins always install the latest and greatest versions of Powershell into the environments they administer.

New comment by bragh in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

bragh — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:58:52 +0000

Why should somebody donate to somebody else's luxuries if they could spend it on their own luxuries?

Anyway, yes, direct donation is always better, be it to some random guy down on his luck in the street (unless they have just missed their bus and need ticket money for the next one and so for 3 years in the same bus station) or to some trusted person/group who actually does deliver the stuff to the area. Way too many random NGOs have popped up in Europe promising to do good things, just transfer money to their bank account and they will take care of it all for you.