Hacker News: code4life

New comment by code4life in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

code4life — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:31:44 +0000

I’m not sophisticated enough to enjoy abstract art. Maybe AI will bring abstract software projects to the world next.

I can imagine all the people staring at these software projects amazed at the genius it must have taken to create them. :)

New comment by code4life in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

code4life — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:53:59 +0000

Are you talking to someone else?

This seems like an unnecessary threat based in your bias.

Chatgpt seems to concur.

New comment by code4life in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

code4life — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:27:30 +0000

It is both scary to watch and yet fun to be alive to see it come to fruition.

It is occurring in every dimension, including the ability to track who buys and sells with crypto currencies along with the ability to punish or reward people based on ai hardware software infrastructure deployments.

New comment by code4life in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

code4life — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:05:29 +0000

Thats because I’m going by actual measurements. Not predictions based on evidence.

New comment by code4life in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

code4life — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:54:57 +0000

Im not dismissing anything. I’m just saying, when a measurement was taken in my region in 1925 it was warmer then than it was 100 years later in 2025.

New comment by code4life in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

code4life — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:57:40 +0000

Where i live, we had the coldest winter on record in 30 years. I’m going with that.

New comment by code4life in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

code4life — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:24:24 +0000

> It's like this in a lot of places now. We're seeing climate change in the interval of a generation. It's absolutely scary.

I have lived in the same place my whole life. The weather and seasons are effectively the same, from the day i was born until now. Both observationally and by way of looking at average daily temperatures.

New comment by code4life in "Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow"

code4life — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:03:30 +0000

You should consider thinking of people as precious, rather than these odd fine tuned segregated negative groups seemingly based on skin color, political leanings or social status.

New comment by code4life in "Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow"

code4life — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:59:39 +0000

They refuse to look critically at the trade offs. I don’t even know how thats possible at this point.

Everything in life has trade offs. Everything.

New comment by code4life in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

code4life — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:59:45 +0000

It really feels like we are in the middle of a recession.

New comment by code4life in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

code4life — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 02:36:50 +0000

I don’t believe they last as long as a natural gas boiler, so the total cost of ownership needs to take that into account.

They now make really efficient refrigerators for your kitchen that you get to throw out every 2-5 years.

New comment by code4life in "Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?"

code4life — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:32:30 +0000

> Finally, people don't really care about the truth.

What is truth? Pontius Pilate

New comment by code4life in "Replacement.ai"

code4life — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:21:30 +0000

This is what minimum wage deals with to some extent. Governments decide what jobs may exist based on how much a company can pay to do the job.

New comment by code4life in "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"

code4life — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 16:24:57 +0000

I learned once (on npr when i used to listen to it) that when you hear some new information, you should immediately think the opposite. This gives you the ability to not subconsciously weight the idea you heard higher than you should. After all, for every point in life a reasonable counter point exists. I've done this for many years and I do believe the practice has helped me not blindly believe things.

New comment by code4life in "Battered Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Considers Asset Sales, Bailout"

code4life — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:32:44 +0000

You could be a millionaire if you are right.

New comment by code4life in "“Ask 'why' five times about every matter”"

code4life — Mon, 09 May 2016 13:03:39 +0000

I'd probably ask "Why 5 times?" and then it would be game on.

New comment by code4life in "Apple Stole My Music"

code4life — Thu, 05 May 2016 14:47:54 +0000

I imagine it's intended to be a feature. You can instantly listen to any of your songs on any device.

They should have just left it on the local drive as well. Terrible.

New comment by code4life in "Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board"

code4life — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:47:57 +0000

American government was intended to be limited. That would limit the number of people, and the power that they have in government.

Today, our government is huge, and has a lot of power. This means that often times the people that get into government aren't doing it as a servant to the people, but instead as a service to themselves.

We need more servants. Viewing this reality and calling it Apathy or not Apathy is a perspective. We are all free to our perspective, and I think the wider variety, the better.

New comment by code4life in "Eric Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board"

code4life — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:41:09 +0000

Aha! So maybe Trump does have a way to turn off the internet!

New comment by code4life in "Before Growth"

code4life — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 22:30:13 +0000

When you decide to start a business, often times, you'll be doing lots of things you don't really want to be doing for that business. Like filing paperwork with the state or making sure your taxes are done on time. This stuff adds up and there is a lot of it.

To start a business, you really have to enjoy the product you are building enough to cover the work you don't want to do and enough to no longer do some things you enjoy doing in your life, as you may no longer have time for it.

Starting a real business is a challenge. I would suggest, if you do have an idea, try to build it. If you can build the idea, you might want to consider starting a business around it.