Hacker News: faidit

New comment by faidit in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

faidit — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:32:03 +0000

At Google there is one guy who knows how to fix the problem.. he's a monk who is also in 700 different teams and the only one who remembers how the systems were built. You have to climb all the way up to his mountain abode, hope that he is home and pray that he will hear your cries and help you

New comment by faidit in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

faidit — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:49:21 +0000

Synergy often means layoffs. As in, we merged two companies and now have two of every department, one of each has to go, and the remainder can do the work of both (yay synergy).

New comment by faidit in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

faidit — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:52:34 +0000

I always checked the harbor for unlocked boats and took them on joyrides.

New comment by faidit in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

faidit — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:13:51 +0000

tries to think .. 67 .. sigma rizzler .. AI cats dancing .. hehehe .. gives up .. yeah no. nothing comes to mind

New comment by faidit in "[dead]"

faidit — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 07:49:26 +0000

All is forgiven.

New comment by faidit in "New YC homepage"

faidit — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:31:50 +0000

I'm doing my part!

New comment by faidit in "Proof of Corn"

faidit — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:36:17 +0000

The Torment Nexus can't even put a loaf of bread on my table, so it's obvious we have nothing to fear from it!

New comment by faidit in "Nuclear elements detected in West Philippine Sea"

faidit — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:11:59 +0000

This Chinese study says it was dispersed through global atmospheric circulation and mentions the liquid and gaseous discharge from nuclear facilities at Sellafield (UK) and La Hague (France) as sources. Russian tests are mentioned as well but they are apparently not the sole or primary source.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...

New comment by faidit in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

faidit — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:37:08 +0000

Scary.. Did the airline comp you for that?

New comment by faidit in "Men Who Are Super Competitive About Sleep"

faidit — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:55:09 +0000

Don't even talk to me if you aren't dressed up like kidnapped Maduro while you sleepmaxx.

New comment by faidit in "Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats (2025)"

faidit — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:16:00 +0000

100% agree on banning glue traps. Snap traps aren't perfect though. I had to finish off a mighty survivor of one once. The rat was huge. When I heard the rattling in the shed I panicked and grabbed a shovel lying nearby. My mind has erased the memory of what happened next, I just remember the aftermath and being splattered with lots of rat blood. I deeply regret doing that and wish I had let her limp away to an uncertain fate. I stopped setting traps after that and just let them run rampant through the moldy old walls of that place until I moved.

New comment by faidit in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

faidit — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:42:11 +0000

I fondly remember getting banned from some MUD around that time, for talking back to an admin. It was a formative experience.

New comment by faidit in "The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity"

faidit — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:35:01 +0000

Call centers that leave people on hold for a minimum of 10 minutes are positively Napoleonic.

New comment by faidit in "Is the Fate of the West Being Sealed for Good in Greenland?"

faidit — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:15:55 +0000

A few longships full of berserkers ought to do the trick.

New comment by faidit in "Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect"

faidit — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:18:44 +0000

Good. I don't mind the noise since it happens during daytime. Put on headphones and lock in or something. But it's impossible to get good air quality during the day with them running nearby constantly. Always smelling the gas and thinking about the CO content and other toxins you're inhaling. Thus having to shut the windows and watch your CO2 levels rise, knowing it's degrading your mental acuity while you're trying to code..

New comment by faidit in "Google broke my heart"

faidit — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:17:23 +0000

Good analogy, I would go further and say a lawnmower has more humanity than an Ellison.

New comment by faidit in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been struggling with search lately?"

faidit — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:50:41 +0000

Google search quality was deliberately harmed to boost ad revenue. Forcing you to search multiple times and refine your query means you see more ads and are more likely to click on them. Ads were also obviously prioritized over real search results long ago. The good guys within Google who wanted to preserve search quality lost the internal debate to the ad people. Emails that surfaced in the recent antitrust case strongly indicated this.

New comment by faidit in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

faidit — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:09:18 +0000

This is only good advice if your company has high profit margins or funding and an expectation of growth, or your manager is extremely kind and trusting, or there are signs your manager is about to be fired/reorged and consultants or higher ups are asking if you want to replace them. More established industries or stagnating companies with low profit margin and no VC backing do not have a lot of room at the top, there are "negative selection" processes for management, and trying to do your boss's job is likely to be seen as insubordination. In those organizations the managers keep their job not by excelling at it (typically they would have leveled out due to the Peter principle) but by actively culling threats, and have all kinds of dirty tricks they can use to get rid of you if you show too much initiative.

New comment by faidit in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

faidit — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:25:15 +0000

Taiwan has never declared independence from China. Popular opinions aside, the ROC govt still officially adheres to the One-China Policy which considers it to be a single country together with the mainland.

New comment by faidit in "Trump says U.S. operation captured Venezuela's president Nicolas Maduro"

faidit — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 13:18:23 +0000

I didn't say they were. What's ridiculous is to suggest that piracy, war crimes and kidnapping by the dictator-loving Trump regime will bring about free elections.