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New comment by confidantlake in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

confidantlake — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:30:30 +0000

My father's generation had much more leisure time than my generation. When he was out of the office at 5pm work stopped. There were no laptops, slack pings, etc, etc. Vacations were longer, pensions were a thing. You could get a job supporting a family right out of high school. Things have absolutely gotten worse in the west no matter how much you want to twist the stats.

New comment by confidantlake in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

confidantlake — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:39:32 +0000

I'm sorry what? There isn't some super secret legal definition of every word. Buy means buy.

New comment by confidantlake in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

confidantlake — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:10:40 +0000

Opened this thread expecting to see a bunch of anecedotal sleep tips. Did not disappoint.

New comment by confidantlake in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

confidantlake — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:36:02 +0000

Ah I always felt like novels were a partnership in a way. He is putting down words and I am using that to create a world in my mind. 2 people reading the same novel are creating 2 different worlds.

New comment by confidantlake in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

confidantlake — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:28:25 +0000

That is an entirely unserious graph.

New comment by confidantlake in "I Learned to Read Again"

confidantlake — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:41:49 +0000

Try going for a walk when listening to an audiobook. When I do that I rarely zone out. When I don't I nearly always zone out.

New comment by confidantlake in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

confidantlake — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:19:32 +0000

Who trained the first philosopher?

New comment by confidantlake in "Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid"

confidantlake — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:12:08 +0000

If the purpose of college is not to get a job, then why do they give out degrees? Why do they give out loans?

Many colleges heavily advertise how it will help your career prospects. Yet when called out on the less than rosy outcomes they retreat to a position of oh it isn't about career at all.

New comment by confidantlake in "How little exercise can you get away with?"

confidantlake — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:59:27 +0000

People not liking cardio was always a weird one to me. Kids love to run around. They naturally do it, no one has to prompt them. Not sure what happens to people as they grow up that makes them lose this joy.

New comment by confidantlake in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

confidantlake — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:04:19 +0000

MIT. A degree from MIT. Kind of joking but not really.

New comment by confidantlake in "US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials"

confidantlake — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:44:14 +0000

They provide very few employment opportunities.

New comment by confidantlake in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

confidantlake — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:39:05 +0000

Why would you want to lock condoms?

New comment by confidantlake in "Ask HN: How are you finding work/gigs as a SWE?"

confidantlake — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:25:38 +0000

If I get laid off I assume I am done.

New comment by confidantlake in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

confidantlake — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:05:16 +0000

Nah they are just following the herd. When everyone was hiring they hired, when everyone was firing they fired. Go along to get along.

New comment by confidantlake in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

confidantlake — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:22:25 +0000

A bad one.

New comment by confidantlake in "Pre-2022 Books"

confidantlake — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:47:00 +0000

Guess you haven't met any old people. I know a few who don't read/watch/listen to anything after 1969.

New comment by confidantlake in "Pre-2022 Books"

confidantlake — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:37:43 +0000

Wonder if the people liking were socket puppet's in order to encourage the patreon donations.

New comment by confidantlake in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

confidantlake — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:48:16 +0000

I thought I knew CORS before but after reading all the comments I don't think I know anything anymore. Guess I will just make a coffee and move on with my day.

New comment by confidantlake in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

confidantlake — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:46:47 +0000

> they also don't understand webdevelopment in general, especially the http protocol. I find that somewhat strange, because they also can't do native application

Why would that be strange? Someone who is bad at thing A is likely also bab at closely related thing B.

New comment by confidantlake in "Ask HN: What is the job market like?"

confidantlake — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:02:42 +0000

If you are leading hundreds of people then you really should not be cold applying to jobs. Someone in your network should bring you onto their team.