Hacker News: dexzod

New comment by dexzod in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

dexzod — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:27:28 +0000

Fastmail

New comment by dexzod in "Iran warns U.S. tech firms could become targets as war expands"

dexzod — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:34:32 +0000

It is buried way down in the article. Iran issued this statement after us/Israel targeted Iranian banks.

New comment by dexzod in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

dexzod — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:39:40 +0000

Greater Israel project

New comment by dexzod in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

dexzod — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:30:44 +0000

Looking at the list, it appears to be wheather the country or its population is pro-israel or not

New comment by dexzod in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

dexzod — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:09:01 +0000

I think this move could harm US in two ways: It will reduce the immigrant diversity which might make the population skew towards the biggest immigrant population such as from India and Mexico which are not in this list. Second it will remove USA as top destination for talent, which will help stop brain drain from these countries causing their local industry to benefit and thereby reducing the edge of US companies.

New comment by dexzod in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

dexzod — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:06:22 +0000

Basically, just like the airlines, the hotels are saying if you are such a broke destitute to be able to upgrade to our premium tier, then go suffer in the smell of your own shit.

New comment by dexzod in "Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience"

dexzod — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:14:39 +0000

Agree 100% the website is very well layed out. The information is presented in very readable format. After a single scroll I was able to fully understand the issues and conclude that the guy has a valid case. Too bad for Volvo for having a horrible customer support

New comment by dexzod in "Making C and Python Talk to Each Other"

dexzod — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:32:06 +0000

The title of the article is misleading. Making C and python talk to each other implies, calling python from C and calling C from python. The article only covers the former.

New comment by dexzod in "Tesla Cybertruck Drives Itself into a Pole, Owner Says 'Thank You Tesla'"

dexzod — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:43:26 +0000

   Thank you @Tesla for engineering the best passive safety in the world. I walked away without a scratch.

I walked away without a scratch. This could have easily killed an innocent pedestrian or bicyclist. How is this best safety engineering? If the FSD failed there should have been some secondary system to detect an imminent collision and apply brakes.

New comment by dexzod in "Beej's Guide to Git"

dexzod — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:56:22 +0000

It is the same with Git

New comment by dexzod in "Is 'Toxic Fashion' making us sick? A look at the chemicals lurking in our clothe (2023)"

dexzod — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:18:32 +0000

> have access to medical care. Often the types of doctors that will address this - they don't take insurance. They only take cash

Is he implying that the doctors who take insurance will not tell the truth

New comment by dexzod in "U.S.-Saudi petrodollar pact ends after 50 years"

dexzod — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:43:19 +0000

I think this will have some interesting consequences. The US dollar used to be backed by gold, then Nixon ended that and then it got tied to oil, so in effect it was still backed by something tangible. The rest of the world currencies being somewhat linked to dollar were also indirectly tied to oil. Now the dollar is backed by nothing and by extension the rest of the currencies. In that sense dollar is now just a digital currency.

New comment by dexzod in "Intel pauses work on $25B Israel fab"

dexzod — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:42:35 +0000

Besides with the attacks happening right now on commercial ships in Gulf of Aden. It could become very expensive to bring anything out from these fabs or providing raw material

New comment by dexzod in "Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time"

dexzod — Fri, 31 May 2024 19:17:00 +0000

Is it accurate though?. If I fix the time and slide by the month, I expect the shadow to move east to west, but it only grows or shortens, which would mean the sun is exactly at the same vertical line on ground every day of the year but the height above horizon changes.

New comment by dexzod in "Half of Google's white-collar staff 'does no real work,' Silicon Valley VC says"

dexzod — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:37:53 +0000

I think there are a number of advantages of having extra staff if a company can afford it. 1. Talent is pulled away from competition that can threaten Google's dominance. 2. Talent is prevented from creating their own startups that can threaten Google's dominance. 3. Engineers are available to handle extra work that suddenly shows up leaving the others to keep focusing on "real work". 4. Engineers are available to do work that is not "real". Meaning work that nobody wants to do but still has to be done. 5. Hiring more people shows that the company is growing causing the stock value to go up. 6. Firing people can also cause the stock price to go up because it shows company is doing something to cut costs.

New comment by dexzod in "Why Is Panera Exempted from California's New Minimum Wage Law?"

dexzod — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:03:32 +0000

But doesn't it help the state overall, because more people will become ineligible for tax breaks and other diverse subsidies and programs the state offer's for the low-income households. Has any study taken a look at that?

New comment by dexzod in "Scientists aghast at AI rat with genitals in peer-reviewed article"

dexzod — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 01:19:42 +0000

makes sense, because the peer of AI can only be AI

New comment by dexzod in "Aho – a Git implementation in Awk"

dexzod — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 07:27:34 +0000

I don't understand how you can write more that one line long program in a language where all variables are global by default even if they are inside a scope delimited by brackets. You can have local variables but the syntax is weird. https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Variable-...

New comment by dexzod in "The wealthy are cutting the line at the airport, Disney World and ski resorts"

dexzod — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 20:03:29 +0000

> By removing the wealthiest or highest-paying customers from a line, there’s little incentive to advocate for better service for the rest.

Why would the business want to have a better service, the long lines is the means for the business to make people pay up the premium for cutting the lines. Ideally they would want even longer lines so more people pay the premium

New comment by dexzod in "How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)"

dexzod — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:11:15 +0000

Well if any one can log into paypal and open and close cases, they might as well just use the paypal account to pay themselves directly or buy stuff. I don't understand why the seller had to use FB to scam people when they could manipulate the paypal account directly