Hacker News: dominicrose

New comment by dominicrose in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

dominicrose — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:52:51 +0000

Using a very lightweight lock for the frame and ideally having a saddle and wheels that can't come off without tools would change things economically, especially if the bike is cheap but good enough.

The issue is having to rely on luck and the fact that humans are risk and loss aversive even when the risk is worth it.

New comment by dominicrose in "HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager"

dominicrose — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:40:51 +0000

Does it do anything DBeaver doesn't do?

New comment by dominicrose in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

dominicrose — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:30:34 +0000

Donald Trump Wants His Blue Blazer "Black" | Friends

New comment by dominicrose in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

dominicrose — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:19:45 +0000

The Playstation store subscriptions have different tiers and within each tier different prices depending on the number of months.

These psychological tricks don't need to work every time (or on everyone) to be effective.

New comment by dominicrose in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

dominicrose — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:09:44 +0000

Maybe you should try Paypal next time, if allowed by the seller

New comment by dominicrose in "Hacker News front page as a site"

dominicrose — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:59:21 +0000

It renders really well! Sad not to see the Ferrari Luce though.

New comment by dominicrose in "Does anybody like React?"

dominicrose — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:55:26 +0000

I like scripting so I like having a

and then do everything in JS. No need for Typescript or React, innerHTML=`...` works fine. For a serious project, React and Typescript make sense but it can still be used wrong. The default Laravel project that's generated when choosing React looks really bad to me. Too many files and comments and tests. It's over-engineered.

New comment by dominicrose in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

dominicrose — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:25:53 +0000

Outside of social media, I never saw a slop grenade except in places where it already existed without AI, like SAV responses or other scripted marketing/HR stuff.

Even a real person calling me on my phone to talk 5min about its company without allowing me to interrupt feels like a kind of grenade. Obviously I could interrupt the impolite way but that's beside the point.

New comment by dominicrose in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

dominicrose — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:14:18 +0000

Talking about a bigger scale may be confusing because some of the information AI can train on comes from niches.

I wouldn't mind if an AI trained on old Disney movies (or new ones for that matter), but exploiting niches (like local newspapers) seems bad.

New comment by dominicrose in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

dominicrose — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:33:26 +0000

Apparently it knows nothing of Age of Empires II: https://halupedia.com/wololo

New comment by dominicrose in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

dominicrose — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:03:29 +0000

I've worked 10+ years as a developer in France where salaries weren't too high to begin with, but I certainly noticed the added competition as it was harder to find a job. I stopped "fighting" for a high-paying role so my experience didn't provide net gains but it still protected me from inflation. The net "gains" rather came from spending less by moving from a rent to a mortage and then making it smaller.

I'm OK with this now, it is what it is, but these years weren't smooth as there were ups and downs and a down after an up can be stressful if you're not ready for it.

New comment by dominicrose in "Functional programmers need to take a look at Zig"

dominicrose — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:38:26 +0000

IME Ruby is really good for working alone on tiny projects without an IDE (trying to get more than syntax highlighting causes problems). Sometimes I write single-file scripts or even just use interactive Ruby.

New comment by dominicrose in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

dominicrose — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:29:03 +0000

He should be ashamed. Why did (does) he see the punishment for the 7th octobor attack as a genocide but the 7th octobor attack itself as not-an-issue? (not an attempted genocide)

The law protects people up to a point. Collaborating with the enemy is an issue especially if you're not a confirmed citizen.

New comment by dominicrose in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

dominicrose — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:09:28 +0000

It's not clear what constitutes a hijacking and how they are going to detect it. It may be OK to override the button as long as it's used in the intended way which is to go back. In a single-page application it may not trigger a navigation event.

New comment by dominicrose in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

dominicrose — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:46:37 +0000

IMO the walled garden doesn't have to be the employee's computer but centralized servers holding the data, intranet services, etc.

New comment by dominicrose in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

dominicrose — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:47:41 +0000

It's hard to see how the US benefits because the US is geographically very far away from this region but I don't think it was an expensive war: short duration, mostly just an air campaign. IMO Trump did this to send a message to the world.

Gulf countries and Israel should feel much better though, despite the losses, knowing that Iran's capacity is now limited to terrorist-like harassment. This is not the end however as the US, Israel and hopefully other countries should continue to monitor Iran closely.

New comment by dominicrose in "You can't cancel a JavaScript promise (except sometimes you can)"

dominicrose — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:15:29 +0000

as long as there's no leak interrupting a promise should be good for performance overall, not necessarily for the front-end but for the whole chain.

New comment by dominicrose in "New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds"

dominicrose — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:50:34 +0000

Is "not paying" effectively the same thing as unsubscribing?

I guess they could keep providing you the service and keep track of the debt you "owe" them. Once it becomes high enough they would find ways to claim the money.

New comment by dominicrose in "Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods"

dominicrose — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:07 +0000

They didn't want to bother with EU's General Data Protection Regulation. Its a local newspaper.

New comment by dominicrose in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

dominicrose — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:30:14 +0000

Managers are expected to say that we should be productive yet they're responsible for the framework which slows down everyone and it's quite clear that they're perfectly fine with this framework. I'm not saying it's good or bad because it's complicated.