Hacker News: cwbriscoe

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Stop picking my Go version for me"

cwbriscoe — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:44:37 +0000

I always stay up with the latest go releases and if I am touching one of my packages that are set to lower in go.mod, I update it. It is an easy maintenance task to make sure I am keeping up with the latest standard library and tooling changes and improvements.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

cwbriscoe — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:57:50 +0000

I just write my own code and then ask AI to find any issues and correct them if I feel it is good advice. What AI is amazing at is writing most of my test cases. Saves me a lot of time.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

cwbriscoe — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:25:20 +0000

You must not have heard, Biden is no longer president.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

cwbriscoe — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:15:57 +0000

Even if someone starts a meeting early, I still don't join until the start time out of spite.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

cwbriscoe — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:58:17 +0000

No kids, rent is $1800 a month for a 1 bedroom. I could rent the same for cheaper but I like this place. I'm in Washington State, Software Devs make decent money where I am but not SF wages. I make good money but nowhere near the top. I have an easy job, WFH and rarely work over 40 a week.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products"

cwbriscoe — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:21:55 +0000

> Xbox was THE gaming console 20 years ago

Maybe in the US, but not overall.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

cwbriscoe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:10:58 +0000

Before Covid, I lived on about 25K a year since I had a paid off condo then. Now, I am renting and live on around 36K a year. I realize my situation doesn't work for everyone. Some people cannot fathom not buying a new phone and computer every year and a new car every 3 years.

Also, now, I am fully working from home so that helps with saving on gas and not eating out as much. I make my coffee every morning instead of Starbucks on the way to work and I make my own lunch and dinner 95% of the time.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

cwbriscoe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:04:06 +0000

Numbers don't matter. If you can save 80% of your paycheck for 15-20 years and you invest it wisely, you are FI on the 4% rule.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

cwbriscoe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:47:52 +0000

I haven't got to 10m yet, but I saved 70-80% of my take home pay since ~2008 and I have enough to quit at any time and live the rest of my life without working. That is just by investing in the 3-fund portfolio and without the crazy SF salaries.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

cwbriscoe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:52:55 +0000

Being FI helped me out greatly in December 2020 when My company laid off half of my team and expected me to take on double the load, including lots of extra after hours on-call support. I had a pretty great time not working for ~3 years during Covid. However, I am back to work after an old friend and boss offered me a WFH job that I couldn't refuse. He has since retired so I will stick around until current management pisses me off again, they downsize me or I just get sick of logging into teams/outlook at 7AM every morning.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage"

cwbriscoe — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:40:26 +0000

I wish I would have done what you did. Especially since I wanted 128GB. Now I am probably going to settle for 64GB or maybe 96GB.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable"

cwbriscoe — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:28:57 +0000

I've only played with CachyOS in a VM but I plan on installing it on my next computer build.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Why Bcrypt Can Be Unsafe for Password Hashing?"

cwbriscoe — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:50:25 +0000

You could always pre-hash the password with sha256 or something similar to guarantee you won't go over the 72 byte limit.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Blocking LLM crawlers without JavaScript"

cwbriscoe — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:40:20 +0000

I am not well versed in this problem but can't the web servers rate limit by known IP addresses of these crawler/scrapers?

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Go's Sweet 16"

cwbriscoe — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:17:50 +0000

Error handling isn't even a pain to write any more with AI autocomplete which gets it right 95%+ of the time in my experience.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

cwbriscoe — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:53:46 +0000

Well that may also be because ChatGPT is worse than Gemini and Claude for coding. I don't know what the benchmarks say, I am just saying that from my own experience.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

cwbriscoe — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:55:59 +0000

Yes, but a lot of linux games use an Arch distribution such as CachyOS since SteamOS also is. They get updates faster because of the rolling releases.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "You already have a Git server"

cwbriscoe — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 05:11:29 +0000

Wasn't that how it worked before Microsoft bought Github?

New comment by cwbriscoe in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

cwbriscoe — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:16:24 +0000

It's funny that they keep renaming it and everyone still calls it AS/400. I remember when they wanted people to call it iSeries but everyone just still used AS/400. I didn't even know about the others you posted and I still use the AS/400 occasionally.

New comment by cwbriscoe in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

cwbriscoe — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 19:30:07 +0000

That would still be PS3 for me.