<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: chrneu</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chrneu</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:29:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=chrneu" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems to be a really common issue with NextCloud. I'd say about 30% of installs seems to just..be slow? I've had this happen to me on a handful of installs, and i've had friends/collegues it's happened to.<p>I'm not aware of any "Fix" besides whiping your install(s) and trying again. Try not to use a backup if you can, as it can keep the slowness/lag across installs.<p>It's really annoying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:36:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491811</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "You can just say it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI repeats itself. You aren't enjoying anything new, you're enjoying a version of an average.<p>In however many years we'll wake up and wonder why everything is the same....oh wait.<p>this is exactly why people dont like this. it creates an echo chamber in art which kills what art itself is about. it normalizes noise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 00:45:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331205</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's worth mentioning that this isn't a produce/fruit only thing. Dairies regularly dump milk when it isn't profitable, often in ways where it winds up in the ground water or watershed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 02:29:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031425</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correction: Carbs are not "unhealthy". That's a wildly inaccurate and broad thing to say.<p>Excess consumption of processed and/or "unhealthy" carbs is unhealthy.<p>Excess consumption of protein is also unhealthy. Same with fiber.<p>I'm not commenting on anything else, just the fact that "carbs are recognized now as seriously unhealthy" is absolutely untrue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 02:27:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031415</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031415</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "I am building a cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything is about trading convenience for knowledge/know how.<p>It's up to the individual to choose how much knowledge they want to trade away for convenience. All the containers are just forms of that trade.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:02:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876571</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they're pointing out that the US is insanely stupid when it comes to healthcare and retirement. the stuff we do in this country is so much extra work/effort/cost and all of it comes at the worker's cost.<p>they were being sarcastic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:16:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859346</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>everyone is guessing<p>some are just a bit better at guessing</p>
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<p>that plus pump n dump/hype train investing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:00:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787422</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>american fast food learned that if they try to hit the business market they can sell higher mark up items. it's why mcdonalds for a long time went to premium chicken and premium burgers that were more expensive. they changed strats, but for a while in the US that's what a lot of fast food was doing. they were chasing whales.</p>
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<p>I had to get out of tech for that reason: i need a physical good I can create and hold. Using my engineer skills to build physical things satiates my brain so much more. I don't think I can ever go back to coding as a job. I just don't care about other people's garbage code, lol.<p>i got out of tech/coding so i could apply my skills to more real world stuff. it's been so much better. i don't make as much but i end each day with a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. i wouldn't trade it away. my social life has gotten so much better, as well, because i'm happier in general and i talk to so many more people as a result. i smile more, i think is the main thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:02:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685503</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My partner is a therapist and so I wind up in a lot of therapist groups and support groups for therapists. Many of them are youth therapists. I also coach kids and help coordinate youth athletics. My best friend is also a middle school teacher, along with his partner. So I think I have a decent grasp on where kids are at nowadays. At least in my area.<p>Most people I know who work with kids agree that the majority of children nowadays lack basic skills that will really handicap them in life. From a lack of basic reading/writing/typing/math skills to an ability to handle any kind of confrontation. The anti-social stuff is really, really bad and it compounds as life goes on, where kids never learn skills as they need to. Avoidance is really prevalent in people nowadays and this leads to never learning or atrophying basic skill sets. Then it also leads to not learning how to learn, or asking for help, etc.<p>Kids also lack the basic ability to put a series of tasks together to accomplish a larger goal. Critical thinking is severely lacking. Kids have grown up being able to ask a search engine a question or have an AI do tasks for them. The ability to understand how things work, then manipulate those things to meet a goal is just not there for a large amount of kids. I think we really need to bring back things like shop class, home ec, etc to get kids using their hands more. Kids need to be able to have an idea and then implement it in the real world. This is a skill I rarely see in kids nowadays. Way too often kids are told to avoid making mistakes and to get someone/something else to do things for them. The agency is just not there.<p>I really feel terrible for a lot of kids nowadays. Luckily, since I work with athletics and STEM kids, most of my tribe are eager to learn and move about. This is definitely not the norm nowadays though. My teacher friends are really struggling to feel like they're making a difference or benefitting these kids. It's sad because the problems are mostly related to their parents, not really the school system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:43:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668331</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>a few years ago I stopped using social media to interact with fans. One thing I realized is that no matter how i use my blog to present a story, 90% of users simply dont interact with content in a meaningful way.<p>The reason I mention social media is all the apps operate the same way: the user swipes up or down, left or right, double taps and moves on. A website or blog or interactive content requires interaction, it requires thinking, it requires the possibility of a mistake. Those things make most users never click more than once on a website. Once a website goes beyond the first page most users leave.<p>It's really weird how folks are conditioned to do the least amount of effort in everything and then we complain when things are confusing. Convenience is a disease.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:38:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668286</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the internet really needs to stfu about tesla and get over that oatmeal comic that spawned a billion internet myths. dude was a decent inventor but suffered from chronic mental health issues and, in his lifetime, wasted so much time/energy/money and burned so many bridges with his horrible attitude. there's a reason most people didnt like him in his day, he was a depressed asshole who alienated everyone around him, and yes I know he was likely gay in a time when that wasn't cool. the fact still remains; his inventions are massively overblown by internet nerds.<p>the podcaster Sebastian Major from "Our Fake History" did a looonnngg patreon episode on tesla and debunked most of the weird myths around tesla. Sebastian doesn't have a vendetta or anything, it's just amazing how much of the Tesla stuff is just nonsense or is viewed through a very weird bias nowadays. Major also briefly touches on the weird Edison stuff and how the internet has twisted Edison into a villain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:30:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512912</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a "frequent post" section of my blog and a "deeper" section. Unless you're interested in the frequent posts they aren't in your face on my blog. It's kind of a best of both worlds type thing.<p>The frequent posts also let me quickly try out new methods of telling stories or presenting information or new techniques. I think this tends to speed up how often I post larger effort things cuz I can practice skills with frequent posts.<p>A good comparison would be a youtuber with a patreon. The youtube gets the produced media, whereas the patreon gets "cell phone in the moment" updates.<p>but i totally agree that when folks are finding things to post about that can be problematic and annoying.</p>
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<p>a lot of these are internal tools that they just haven't disabled access to for whatever reason. old.reddit still exists for whatever reason.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:48:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395020</link><dc:creator>chrneu</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by chrneu in "What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked at Intel for a while and might be able to explain this.<p>There were/are often projects that come down from management that nobody thinks are worth pursuing. When i say nobody, it might not just be engineers but even say 1 or 2 people in management who just do a shit roll out. There are a lot of layers of Intel and if even one layer in the Intel Sandwich drag their feet it can kill an entire project. I saw it happen a few times in my time there. That <i>one specific node</i> that intel dropped the ball on kind of came back to 2-3 people in one specific department, as an example.<p>Optane was a minute before I got there, but having been excited about it at the time and somewhat following it, that's the vibe I get from Optane. It had a lot of potential but someone screwed it up and it killed the momentum.</p>
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<p>I have nothing to base this on other than "it makes sense", but it seems like there has to be some form of revenue sharing here. OpenTTD is the reason why atari can even think this rerelease would work. I'm not saying there wouldn't be interest, but that I don't think any of the suits at atari would think to do this without OpenTTD keeping the interest there.</p>
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<p>i build lil free libraries and bird houses to get rid of my scrap wood. it's a fun limitation on the project that often makes ya think outside the box, so to speak.</p>
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<p>It's relatively easy. It's basically a command for each step you want to do and it tends to fail gracefully nowadays.<p>If you can install a linux distro you can flash a custom rom on a well-supported phone.<p>If it were more mainstream I could see GUI apps to manage all this for people, if they don't already exist. Idk I just use adb.</p>
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<p>I got like $230 from that paypal breach. Pretty rad.</p>
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