Hacker News: cricketsandmops

New comment by cricketsandmops in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

cricketsandmops — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:36:57 +0000

This should be up to parents to parent. If their child has social media, or viewing sites that are for adults then the parents should be fined. In the US every weekend teens are shooting each other, i think we have bigger concerns than them being online

New comment by cricketsandmops in "AI Is Too Big to Fail"

cricketsandmops — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:28:02 +0000

The US would only be screwed in that type of scenario if they allowed themselves to be. If things really got to that point they would just take over the deposits.

New comment by cricketsandmops in "US Intel"

cricketsandmops — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:48:44 +0000

I always hear about Taiwan and TSMC for Nvidia, but what I never heard until recently is that all these forbidden and banned chips are still assembled into GPUs in China. I am not sure how the US beleives any of this will do much good when the the chips are still sent to China to be completed into GPUs and other AI devices.

New comment by cricketsandmops in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

cricketsandmops — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:24:37 +0000

I've been using Getflix for years to have my location spoofed to another country. It is a pay product though. I've used it on Amazon and mainly use it for BBC Iplayer. I couldnt ever get netflix to play nice using it or a vpn, so for it I just tunnel to my traffic to a residential address i have in mexico

New comment by cricketsandmops in "Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills"

cricketsandmops — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:18:09 +0000

I look at it more as an investment in our citizens . If you don't keep your grades up or fail out you should have to pay it back, but if you graduate and start your life, pay taxes etc the loans should be forgiven. The country would eventually get their investment back via taxes. They could implement this and some type of oversight to reign in the university costs. Easier to control indebted people though so it wont happen.

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

cricketsandmops — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:02:24 +0000

Perhaps the author heats with a wood stove. You have to get wood through your labor or buying it though, so it's not truly 0$. Plus the time and effort to keep it going.

New comment by cricketsandmops in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

cricketsandmops — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:50:18 +0000

The referrals come from the c-suite. They can call up board they're on and friends that they have. I was laid off last fall and went straight HR told them where i applied and they reached out to the ceo and he called someone with me in the office. Had a job offer 1 week later

New comment by cricketsandmops in "A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work"

cricketsandmops — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:37:46 +0000

My perception of work changed after a layoff last fall. I had the typical C-Suite reaching out and 6 months of severance. After giving over a decade of my time to a company and given 6 months of pay in return my thought process changed. I was offered a job due to their contacts, but I would be in a similar situation with no laws to protect me, so I decided to decline and left the country. I had a contact in Mexico... after reading about their labor laws I decided while the pay was 50% of what i made in USA. I didn't have to worry about layoffs. For perspective had I been laid off in Mexico and worked the same amount of time my severance by law would have been about 3 years salary. That was the bare minimum by law (if the company offered a savings accounts, which most larger ones have here). A friend in HR down here did some calculations and said I would have been most likely closer to 4-5 years because of stipulations in contracts.

New comment by cricketsandmops in "AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers"

cricketsandmops — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:08:34 +0000

This happens to me and I just move to another AI program if i have 0 idea, but I have been getting better at figuring things out too.

New comment by cricketsandmops in "AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers"

cricketsandmops — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:06:58 +0000

I would fall into this camp. I don't understand everything I am doing, but I have learned a lot through trial and error. I have an IT background in infrastructure and dabbled in automation, but never enough to be good. AI has allowed me to create things from my ideas that interest me. Is it good, no. Do I sell it though, no. I create things for myself. I wouldn't be able to do these things without it though because I didnt have the time and the teaching I had tried didnt interest me.