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New comment by chachacharge in "Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?"

chachacharge — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:31:08 +0000

when mentoring most people its true. but not always true. some asses need to be "karate-sized". this, by definition, requires effort, intelligence, and denial of all passion. of course, you can alternately find a different mentor if resources are not so limited. Otherwise its time to sweep the legs of those who doubt the power of this fully functional linux operating system.

New comment by chachacharge in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

chachacharge — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:22:12 +0000

sit back and relax for my 1px review

tedious=true, basicallyLame=true, is1px=false

New comment by chachacharge in "Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee"

chachacharge — Sat, 24 May 2025 11:45:13 +0000

or just help a friendly, reputable, firm handle it and take a commission or other favor later

New comment by chachacharge in "Ask HN: Selling software to company I work for as an employee"

chachacharge — Sat, 24 May 2025 11:44:18 +0000

you can help to hire a firm you are friendly with and let them win this time. this is what i do when im in this situation. at least someone wins then

New comment by chachacharge in "Show HN: Genetic Boids Web Simulation"

chachacharge — Sat, 24 May 2025 11:41:35 +0000

Green light is perceived as brighter than other colors because human eyes are most sensitive to it. This sensitivity is related to the wavelengths of light that our visual system responds to, with green being at the peak of our vision

New comment by chachacharge in "Dyson PencilVac [video]"

chachacharge — Sat, 24 May 2025 11:31:06 +0000

dyson is hot garbage. whenever i dry hands on their hand dryer it blows water back onto my body, my clothes, etc, making water stains on my expensive clothing. their vacuum cleaner air outlet blows air directly onto my arm (gross) and much more dumb dumb design... and now we have a pencil vac that requires a whacking motion to clean. nasty. does mr garrison design all their products?

New comment by chachacharge in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

chachacharge — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:47:32 +0000

yes, Massena and Ogensburg. Plagues of flies and mosquitos. Frozen car batteries. Snow plows. Rust.

New comment by chachacharge in "Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)"

chachacharge — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:00:14 +0000

colleague of mine wrote a json parser in sql when the rdbms already had a json parser... guess where all the errors came from

New comment by chachacharge in "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece"

chachacharge — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:54:21 +0000

Gizmodo and all of gawker media= useless waste of electricity

New comment by chachacharge in "Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading"

chachacharge — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:30:12 +0000

Rectum!? Damn near killed em..

New comment by chachacharge in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

chachacharge — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:28:32 +0000

I thought only MS was doing that. I have over 25 admin on/off switches for copilot in the M365 ecosystem that were forced ON in the last year. On the power platform- The authorized consent to move data between regions for ai was AUTOMATICALLY set to YES also and it was sending prod data around to read it and give advice. I guess they sneak it in with some EULA update.. When I open tickets I always get sent to the wrong copilot team because they cant keep track of it and I have to go through a forced AI agent before opening tickets also now. The rushed updates broke a lot of their own JS and its been a bad bad year with over 200 hours wasted on this since last year where I normally spend less than 40 hours a year with such nonsense.

New comment by chachacharge in "DARPA project reveals one person can control dozens of robots"

chachacharge — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:09:41 +0000

WE REQUIRE MORE MINERALS

New comment by chachacharge in "Wends of Texas"

chachacharge — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:23:13 +0000

Plenty of Swedes also. Creating churches and schools. German/Swede congregations helped each other. Later it was the Irish who renovated, buying up old neighborhoods, creating today's hospitals and universities.

New comment by chachacharge in "What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?"

chachacharge — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 09:06:15 +0000

well you said it was "insane busy work" and I do not see how that is possible unless applied incorrectly. 90% plus coverage is some smoke ,for example. I don't use code coverage on most of my projects though because the teams are just one or two people, and the projects only live a few years without ever being updated. The teams would have to be bigger the updates more frequent, and the project life span longer.

New comment by chachacharge in "What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?"

chachacharge — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 09:04:17 +0000

what? like Tony Stark?

New comment by chachacharge in "What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?"

chachacharge — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 09:02:59 +0000

Or I can be trained to meet a standard also - regardless if I want to improve or not, if I do not follow my training and checklists, I will eventually lose my job. I will deliver perfection and leave work on time or else...

New comment by chachacharge in "What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?"

chachacharge — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:54:18 +0000

I recommend that book and also "Coders At Work". I got gud after reading those two books.

New comment by chachacharge in "What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?"

chachacharge — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 08:44:18 +0000

Code coverage should be easy. if it's costing time, you're doing it wrong. if you're trying to apply it to an old project that did not use code coverage from the start: This is one way to do it wrong. you couldn't hold a gun to my head and make me do that. you can have a little bit of code coverage in this case, but not 85% - no. The moment it proves that it will be costing more time than it saves is the moment you can count me out.

New comment by chachacharge in "Want to book a Ryanair flight? Prepare for a face scan"

chachacharge — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:31:28 +0000

To RA: scan my ass

New comment by chachacharge in "Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees"

chachacharge — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 21:32:04 +0000

I worked for this company and they are a sponsor of NPR, but thanks for the link? Was the study conducted and audited by 3rd parties? I had to print from outside the office during PTO sometimes also.