Hacker News: carlivar

New comment by carlivar in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

carlivar — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:56:04 +0000

Isn't this using Biden administration guidelines?

New comment by carlivar in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

carlivar — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:54:17 +0000

With screen operated motorized vents. Eww.

New comment by carlivar in "Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10"

carlivar — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:27:48 +0000

It mentions "Overpayment interest for the 2020–2023 disaster period" which I figured could be applied broadly, but I guess that was more my interpretation rather than the intention.

New comment by carlivar in "Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10"

carlivar — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:14:52 +0000

It seems to also argue that we all have claims for lost interest on what we paid to the IRS during the period in question, but that's a stretch. I am getting Wesley Snipes tax advisor vibes here and will move along.

New comment by carlivar in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

carlivar — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:06:21 +0000

Since when do Linux users care about something being a huge pain in the ass?

New comment by carlivar in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

carlivar — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:08:07 +0000

16-18 years ago. Is bigotry always a permanent condition?

New comment by carlivar in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

carlivar — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:08:44 +0000

This isn't really a bad thing. Any company that monetizes credit cards can only do so because of their real, core product. They aren't really just banks like people claim. If they didn't fly people places reliably the whole thing collapses.

It's really just a surprising morph of their economic model in the post regulation era.

New comment by carlivar in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

carlivar — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:13:27 +0000

When you think of them as bailouts it makes more sense.

New comment by carlivar in "Stop Flock"

carlivar — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:41:13 +0000

Have you read "Brave New World"? It predicted the future better than "1984".

New comment by carlivar in "NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025"

carlivar — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:42:23 +0000

They have enough food to stay that long?

New comment by carlivar in "LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud"

carlivar — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:12:07 +0000

Didn't LinkedIn create Kafka? Was that some of the overengineering?

New comment by carlivar in "LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud"

carlivar — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:10:56 +0000

We are working to migrate from Azure to on-prem because it's so bad. It is an uncoordinated mess indeed.

New comment by carlivar in "LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud"

carlivar — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 14:07:31 +0000

Well, to take it full circle, they don't dogfood LinkedIn on Azure. How about GitHub for that matter? Wouldn't that indicate Amazon can dogfood more?

New comment by carlivar in "Cybertruck Launch"

carlivar — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 23:08:29 +0000

By "themselves" do you mean Elon Musk? I wasn't under the impression that Tesla was much of a collaborative environment. Musk bans Kanban and Toyota Production System principles after all.

New comment by carlivar in "Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious"

carlivar — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:40:28 +0000

Maybe they should have an additional phase between test deploy and customers such as "employee personal vehicles".

Rivian software update bricks infotainment system, fix not obvious

carlivar — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:22:50 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2023/11/14/rivian-software-update-bricks-infotainment-system-fix-not-obvious/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38266340

Points: 277

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New comment by carlivar in "Smart garage door controller is no longer smart"

carlivar — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 05:40:20 +0000

There's also this, which I have used successfully for a while now with an old opener.

https://opensprinkler.com/product/opengarage/

New comment by carlivar in "The product manager role is a mistake"

carlivar — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:22:52 +0000

Ultimately the issue is a lack of clear roles and responsibilities of a PM role defined, and a lack of accountability.

I agree with you that the "product org" is an entity that can become a political and bureaucratic entity rather than an enabler.

Personally, I think the Product role should be embedded within engineering teams and report up to the same leaders (level is debatable) so that a bad PM can be dealt with just like a bad engineer. Of course if your company can't get rid of bad engineers either, you have other problems.

New comment by carlivar in "The product manager role is a mistake"

carlivar — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:13:05 +0000

And that's how it should work. The article is poorly written, but it does suggest more ownership from roles such as "area leads" which is close to Apple, I guess. With Jobs being the Uber Lead.