Hacker News: dataengineer56

New comment by dataengineer56 in "Incident with Github.com"

dataengineer56 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:42:21 +0000

> Those are both hilarious to me.

Why is it hilarious to believe that the industry leader might be better at something than doing it yourself?

New comment by dataengineer56 in "Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”"

dataengineer56 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:16:03 +0000

I never had dry eyes until I got laser eye surgery. Some mornings I wake up with a very sore dry left eye.

One thing that helps with fatigue was to get some very weak glasses that I use when I'm working at a computer. They just make my eyes much more relaxed.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:24:03 +0000

I'm not asking for guesses thank you (especially if they turn out to be incorrect).

New comment by dataengineer56 in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:50:37 +0000

What does "LCOE" stand for?

New comment by dataengineer56 in "No Data Centers in My Backyard"

dataengineer56 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:28:37 +0000

>But it is amusing to see how humanity continues to oppose tech and the tech buldozes anyway, like a evil monster.

So you're saying the UK should never have built a railway system? It sounds like tech is right.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

dataengineer56 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:31:40 +0000

The way compound interest works then the impact of taking months off mid-career can have a huge impact on retirement age. I'd personally rather just work continuously and retire younger.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:07:02 +0000

Switzerland is in Europe

New comment by dataengineer56 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:03:21 +0000

> Qatar was manifestly unsuitable

Every stadium was within a 30 mile radius and fans reported a clean, safe experience. Sounds like a good place for a tournament to me.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:02:36 +0000

CONCACAF almost always share opinions with UEFA, that really wasn't a surprise or anything new.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:01:34 +0000

CONCACAF and UEFA almost always vote together, but they are far outnumbered by every other region and FIFA only needs a majority vote for a rule to pass. You're excluding about half of the planet by only mentioning Africa.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

dataengineer56 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:57:27 +0000

The new Chromecasts and Apple TVs are really pretty good. I connect my LG TV to the wifi every few months to run updates, then disconnect it after. I control my TV through the Chromecast remote, so I never see any LG dashboards/apps.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "CarPlay Is Additive"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:57:41 +0000

Another advantage of the "it's on your phone" aspect is Consistency. You get into a new car, all you need to figure out is how to open CarPlay, no need to learning a completely different and often complicated infotainment system.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

dataengineer56 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:42:40 +0000

This has been the standard for most/all major tourist attractions for years now.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

dataengineer56 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:10:33 +0000

15 years ago a FAANG flew me from England to the US for a grad interview. The HR recruiter met me for a coffee before the tech interviews started and said she'd ask me some gentle questions to ease me into the day.

She opened with "do you believe in god?" Not knowing laws or workers' rights in a foreign country then I had to give a very stunted, mumbled response. I complained after I got back home and was told she should not have asked that question.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

dataengineer56 — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:49:50 +0000

A 30 min 1-1 per week per report would be a full working day. Never mind that if you're an IC then you'll also be expected to support other people using your code, as well as analysing and approving decisions for your reports.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:13:14 +0000

> For whatever reason, I forwarded this email to my parents, brother, and then-fiancee Dana.

A very strange action to take for someone who claims to have no recollection of the meeting.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)"

dataengineer56 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:46:31 +0000

Is there a way to get rid of the text box overlay or does it just disappear when you print it?

New comment by dataengineer56 in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

dataengineer56 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:05:29 +0000

In my experience many of them do feel like they're doing something important, and some seem principally motivated to do the job by the promise of being able to bully travellers.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "Claude outage"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:55:24 +0000

I asked a novel question, well-written and clear, and a "subject matter expert" decided it was too similar to another question (it wasn't), so they defaced it, downvoted it and closed it.

Stack Overflow is dying, it's extremely difficult to get new questions through. Even if they survive moderation then they're unlikely to get answers.

New comment by dataengineer56 in "Claude outage"

dataengineer56 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:35:57 +0000

If I have a question for SO these days then I ask Claude instead and tell it to use SO where possible. It's preferable to actually asking it on SO which often results in the question being edited, downvoted and closed by someone with an anime child profile picture.