Hacker News: brohoolio

New comment by brohoolio in "You’re a slow thinker. Now what?"

brohoolio — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:28:07 +0000

Everyone is on their own journey and there are so many reasons a person might think a particular way.

The comment you are responding to is just trying to explain their own situation and say the person who wrote the article might want to investigate a similar experience compared to their own. I read the article as one where someone is exploring and ADHD is would be exploration. I would specify that ADHD inattentive type is the one that it reads most like to me.

I don't see why you'd want to knock someone's choice of treatment for a particular condition. You might not see a need for a particular treatment option, but many folks get relief from anxiety or other things such as RSD while being medicated for ADHD. They can make their own decisions.

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

brohoolio — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 21:44:12 +0000

Lots of articles about skipping vetting or bypassing normal process.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-temporary-secu...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-cabine...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/22/judge-extends-doge-...

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

brohoolio — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:11:27 +0000

The context is that administration bypassed the typically vetting processes for almost everyone and is flaunting various rules openly (see signal controversy). Those processes for vetting are important to ensure that folks won't betray the U.S.A. and can be trusted.

This individual might be highly talented and completely trustworthy, but because of how the administration is operating opens everything up for scrutiny including things that should have a bit of scrutiny.

New comment by brohoolio in "Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries"

brohoolio — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 01:36:25 +0000

The U.S. makes mistakes in terms of doing the wrong thing. But because it’s a democracy, it is capable of recognizing those mistakes and attempting to make amends. For example the internment of people of Japanese descent during world war 2, it was terrible for the folks rounded up and put into camps. It took 40 years, but we acknowledged it was wrong.

“In 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 – the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – that acknowledged the injustice of "internment," apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was incarcerated.”

If you are in a dictatorship, that acknowledgement of a past wrong is absolutely impossible. That’s why democracy is so important. George Takei makes this point much more eloquently that I ever could, and it’s why he believes so strongly in democracy.

New comment by brohoolio in "Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)"

brohoolio — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:45:04 +0000

Thankfully the various parents are all pretty good about restricting screen time.

New comment by brohoolio in "Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)"

brohoolio — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 08:02:23 +0000

For my own kids when they are bored there is a flow of requests. First they ask if they can watch TV. Then they ask if they play video games. Then they ask if they can goto a friends house that they like. Then they ask if they can see a neighbor kid who they are kinda meh about. If I keep saying no to all the distractions they typically will enter a complainy phase about how they are bored, but after a bit of boredom they enter a very imaginative state where we can end up with some top tier kid games, the kind you might see on Bluey.

New comment by brohoolio in "US Navy successfully connects aircraft carrier to the cloud"

brohoolio — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:06:01 +0000

China has tremendous leverage over him via whether he can access their markets.

New comment by brohoolio in "Volvo to shift EV production to Europe to escape China tariffs"

brohoolio — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 10:11:50 +0000

996 is an example. It means workers work from 9am to 9pm 6 days a week.

Another example is the massive subsidies the government gives manufacturers.

New comment by brohoolio in "Volvo to shift EV production to Europe to escape China tariffs"

brohoolio — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 09:57:54 +0000

Can you explain what you mean?

I fail to see the downside for EU manufacturers.

New comment by brohoolio in "Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic"

brohoolio — Sat, 18 May 2024 17:35:02 +0000

I'd argue the way American culture is constructed (drive everywhere, less opportunities to walk, folks are socially isolated) in a way that actually puts people in a situation where they are much more likely to be overweight.

So the costs are ones we as a society are putting on individuals are coming back to bite everyone in the ass.

New comment by brohoolio in "School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere"

brohoolio — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 13:23:49 +0000

My kids are still playing catchup in terms of illnesses since the pandemic. Our district masked for the first two years. Neither of my kids were sick for those two years.

Since then they’ve been playing catchup immunity wise as they’ve been exposed to all the colds and other viruses. Which means they are absent more.

I’m hopeful that they are almost caught up in terms of what they have been exposed to and the amount of times they are sick in a year will be declining.

Seriously it blows my mind that folks say masks don’t work because if you’ve had school age children you know how often they are sick and for those two years the district was masking we had nothing. It was glorious while it lasted.

New comment by brohoolio in "Cancer under age 50 increased 80% from 1990 to 2019"

brohoolio — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:47:32 +0000

I’m surprised if tobacco utilization has increased during the time period in question.

New comment by brohoolio in "BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar"

brohoolio — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:53:53 +0000

This is so great

New comment by brohoolio in "Killing VMware"

brohoolio — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:10:24 +0000

Probably spun off

New comment by brohoolio in "The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)"

brohoolio — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 07:25:01 +0000

For folks who don’t know, this is a great read and explores how we are connected and communicate is more important than what is communicated. Highly highly recommend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Medium_Is_the_Massage

The slightly alternative title is a play on words that was originally an error.

New comment by brohoolio in "US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War"

brohoolio — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:19:08 +0000

It could have been a surge of temps at USPS to handle holiday mail volume.

New comment by brohoolio in "Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study"

brohoolio — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:50:46 +0000

I’m sure they are. What’s the screentime per day for the cohort? 2 hours? 4 hours? 8 hours?

New comment by brohoolio in "VMware is now part of Broadcom"

brohoolio — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:44:27 +0000

VMware is notorious for continuously changing SKUs and licensing models to make things more expensive. I would suspect that Broadcom will continue putting the squeeze on customers. If hyper-V (or whatever it's named now) was a viable alternative, I suspect you'd see tons of folks fleeing VMware.

New comment by brohoolio in "VMware is now part of Broadcom"

brohoolio — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 19:40:35 +0000

vCenter is a huge target. VMware docs differ from the the Crowdstrike recommendations, with security vendors saying basically to lock it down to the 9th degree or suffer the consequences.

New comment by brohoolio in "In the gut's 'second brain,' key agents of health emerge"

brohoolio — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:27:31 +0000

For you gluten might be fine, but for others it’s not fun, just like cream sauces for you. Everyone’s different.