Hacker News: cushpush

New comment by cushpush in "Drinking 2-3 cups of coffee a day tied to lower dementia risk"

cushpush — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:58:20 +0000

Who funded this research? Big Coffee?

New comment by cushpush in "A sitting US president launched two memecoins that wiped out $4.3B+"

cushpush — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:54:37 +0000

Being upset that meme coins underwent a boom and bust is like getting angry at fire for being hot.

New comment by cushpush in "Why vampires live forever"

cushpush — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:50:14 +0000

Fantastic. Several halloweens ago I wore vampire fangs and told a beautiful girl at a concert that I worked at the local blood bank. She said "yeah?" and I followed up with, "would you like to make a donation?"

New comment by cushpush in "iPhone Pocket"

cushpush — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:28:37 +0000

Will be a hit in Asia

New comment by cushpush in "Ask HN: Difficult Interview Question"

cushpush — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:52:19 +0000

Another machine or ... another ip address [that is virtually a machine in a data center]?

New comment by cushpush in "Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired"

cushpush — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:52:18 +0000

From a systems thinking perspective there can be virtuous cycles or vicious cycles that self-reinforce. It could be that there are 449 ghost jobs being posted for every one real job. There are alternative explanations possible to why it took 450 applications to land one position. I disagree with your conclusion.

New comment by cushpush in "Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired"

cushpush — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:29:24 +0000

It's their job to go through applications.

New comment by cushpush in "Ask HN: Panhandling Engineer?"

cushpush — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:27:25 +0000

It might be more productive on a metaphysical level.

New comment by cushpush in "Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired"

cushpush — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:21:33 +0000

Having been applying to a lot of roles I appreciate the post you made. I will hang in there. I started working on an Elixir application to grow my skills while applying. It is an exhausting process and I'm glad you got a job. Hopefully I will get one soon.

New comment by cushpush in "Addictions Are Being Engineered"

cushpush — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:59:46 +0000

Fascinating, bet the battery life is great. Probably no games on your phone but texting works like normal I'm guessing?

New comment by cushpush in "Engineered Addictions"

cushpush — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:54:35 +0000

Do you think a nonprofit model could work?

New comment by cushpush in "If not React, then what?"

cushpush — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 22:17:49 +0000

Surprised nobody has mentioned Electric Clojure yet, with client and serverside blocks nested in _one file_.

New comment by cushpush in "If you need the money, don't take the job"

cushpush — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 12:48:08 +0000

>So it’s about being reassuringly expensive.

> It really is. You have to actually be good at what you’re doing too, of course, or the whole scheme falls apart. What the client’s money really buys, though, is that delightful feeling of making the thing somebody else’s problem. You know, we’ve turned it all over to a top-tier expert, and now we just don’t have to think about it anymore. The more that person charges, the more reassured the client feels.

Great advice.

New comment by cushpush in "The Dual Nature of Events in Event-Driven Architecture"

cushpush — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:31:36 +0000

I don't understand where this distinction is useful - signals are data, just a tiny bit, and data is a signal, just a lot of it. Are you talking about transmission-size? Or are we resigned to the fact that intra-computer communication is inefficient and it's enough to postulate about the sizes of bandages?

New comment by cushpush in "Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak"

cushpush — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:28:21 +0000

Every vote counts. The problem is that some votes are counted twice.

New comment by cushpush in "Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak"

cushpush — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:27:41 +0000

"Can you without prolonged access?" Hahaha have you heard of any of the three letter agencies and what they have on hand? Do you know what a rainbow table is? Is this a tech forum, or just newbies trolling experts?

New comment by cushpush in "Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak"

cushpush — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:27:04 +0000

Are the machines physically incapable of internet?

New comment by cushpush in "Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart"

cushpush — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:11:44 +0000

> I expect it is also easier to verify the correctness of and find bugs in my diagram if someone were to want to.

This will vary on the language in which it is implemented, right?

New comment by cushpush in "Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak"

cushpush — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:08:44 +0000

Uh oh. Ignorance of computing showing. IF they need two passwords to combine to make one, but sometimes have one of them, they just need to brute the other open... I think it's a bigger problem than the administration understands, unless the passwords are for something inert like wattage delivered to the machine.

New comment by cushpush in "ChatGPT Search"

cushpush — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:52:29 +0000

Paging Sergey