Hacker News: carrychains

New comment by carrychains in "I quit drinking for a year"

carrychains — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:52:13 +0000

I recommend therapy in addition to not drinking for anyone who thinks eating a chocolate is drinking.

New comment by carrychains in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

carrychains — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:23:48 +0000

Can't wait to try some of the readers in this thread. I landed on inoreader not long after the Google reader died. The old reader wasn't doing what I needed back then. I've probably been using this a little too long without checking for what else is out there.

New comment by carrychains in "I'm Not Consulting an LLM"

carrychains — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:50:09 +0000

Same can be said of search engines, encyclopedias, or wikis compared to seeking out books, journals, and other source material. If you don't sit there for 8 hours in a library to find the same information on your own, you've missed out on the experience. It's a standard Luddite's argument. Tools of any kind that enhance efficiency have always actualized lazy outcomes. It has always been the human responsibility to, not only rely on their best effort, but to figure out what actually encompasses their best possible effort.

New comment by carrychains in "Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos"

carrychains — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:16:25 +0000

No one's in the same boat as meta. They've been out front leading the fleet all by themselves since their inception.

New comment by carrychains in "'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025 (trying to make chatbots work)"

carrychains — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:03:10 +0000

This article is garbage. I was half expecting or hoping for a nuanced analysis of regressions manifested in a specific leading model as a result of purported "upgrades" but instead found an idiot who doesn't understand how LLMs work or seem to even care, really.

Idiots like this seem to want a robot that does things for them instead of a raw tool that builds sometimes useful context, and the LLM peddlers are destroying their creations to oblige this insatiable contingent.

New comment by carrychains in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

carrychains — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:06:49 +0000

It's me. I'm the LM having work assigned to me that junior dev used to get. I'm actually just a highly proficient BA who has always almost read code, followed and understood news about software development here and on /. before, but generally avoided writing code out of sheer laziness. It's always been more convenient to find something easier and more lucrative in those moments if decision where I actually considered shifting to coding as my profession.

But here I am now. After filling in for lazy architects above me for 20 years while guiding developers to follow standards and build good habits and learning important lessons from talking to senior devs along the wa, guess what, I can magically do it myself now. The LM is the junior developer that I used to painstakingly explain the design to, and it screws it up half as much as the braindead and uncaring jr Dev used to. Maybe I'm not a typical case, but it shows a hint of where things might be going. This will only get easier as the tools become more capable and mature into something more reliable.

New comment by carrychains in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

carrychains — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 05:58:48 +0000

I'm 47. It has always been like this with resumes.

New comment by carrychains in "What Hallucinogens Will Make You See (2023)"

carrychains — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:45:02 +0000

The visual experience is last on the list of things psychedelics are proven through clinical study to help with. Also, unless one of those objectives is to avoid the help psychedelics can provide, having clear objectives in life isn't a predictor of how helpful it will be. Finally, "contact with the spiritual universe it whatever" isn't even on the list things that actually help subjects in these studies.

Cool story, though.

New comment by carrychains in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

carrychains — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:59:03 +0000

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of the South Korean government is the storied tradition of physical confrontation in their parliament along with more than a few viral videos of brawls and such over the years. It used to be better in the US, but with the intensity of discord in our government lately, I don't think anyone really knows anymore.

New comment by carrychains in "The Amazon Kindle War Against Piracy"

carrychains — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 13:36:39 +0000

The industry standard is draconian.

New comment by carrychains in "Cinematography of “Andor”"

carrychains — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 11:56:28 +0000

That "cut" happened before they even started working on the show. Despite the original thought of 5 seasons, it was essentially planned for 2 seasons right from the start.

New comment by carrychains in "A Reddit bot drove me insane"

carrychains — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:01:07 +0000

Seems like the resulting attention on the repost makes for decent justification in this case. I'm glad to have seen this, and I don't like the idea of good content slipping through the cracks because of timing and circumstance.

New comment by carrychains in "Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third"

carrychains — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:22:11 +0000

That's not the opposite. It's different context.

New comment by carrychains in "AI Is the Black Mirror"

carrychains — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 12:33:06 +0000

Indistinguishable to who?

New comment by carrychains in "Horse – The Organized Browser"

carrychains — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:39:35 +0000

I use it as a work main because it's a Microsoft ecosystem with Teams, ADO, SharePoint, etc., and I learned a very long time ago that there are consequences to shunning slices of the Microsoft ecosystem for preference. I spot legit little quality of life integrations occasionally, but on the balance, I have no idea if it has been worth it to deal with some of the bugs and occasionally terrible design decisions that come and go. It's, at least, nice to stay aware and be reminded that my persistently disdainful view of Microsoft over the years actually extends to the poor quality of their recent offerings. I still keep Firefox running for personal browsing. Is this stupid? Maybe. I cannot recommend it.

New comment by carrychains in "The Unforeseen LSD Overdose of 1972"

carrychains — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 02:56:12 +0000

Bad psilocybin mushroom trips are similarly common as bad LSD trips.

New comment by carrychains in "0-days exploited by commercial surveillance vendor in Egypt"

carrychains — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:11:10 +0000

Poignant, not really. Prescient, maybe.

New comment by carrychains in "NYU Chemistry Professor Fired After Students Said His Class Was Too Hard"

carrychains — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 13:15:09 +0000

The students were not petitioning to have him fired and were reportedly surprised with that outcome. The petition also seems to have circulated before the redo offer. This is on the uni.

New comment by carrychains in "LSD-like molecules counter depession without the trip"

carrychains — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 06:35:21 +0000

Your preference is unnecessarily pedantic and logically reduces in specificity to the exact phrasing that peeves you.

New comment by carrychains in "Flip the Switch for 5.5 Seconds"

carrychains — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 06:44:34 +0000

As a child I was taught to count out 1 one thousand, 2 one thousand, 3 one thousand... I used a clock to set my cadence the same day that I received this instruction, and I've recalibrated a couple of times since. 5.25 first try. 5.44 second try.