Hacker News: fapjacks

New comment by fapjacks in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

fapjacks — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:18:10 +0000

Not to sound like a codger, but we even said in the 90s that computers are just very fast idiots.

New comment by fapjacks in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

fapjacks — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:08:09 +0000

This is smart but also hilarious.

New comment by fapjacks in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

fapjacks — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:00:10 +0000

Imagine if we did this for countries.

New comment by fapjacks in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

fapjacks — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:32:43 +0000

I dunno. Is AI less than forty years old?

New comment by fapjacks in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

fapjacks — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:21:29 +0000

Huge second to zachtronics.

New comment by fapjacks in "CT Scans of Health Wearables"

fapjacks — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:18:36 +0000

I have worked in tech in many different cities and when I worked for a startup in San Diego, we were surrounded by health tech companies of all sizes. I've never worked in Boston, but I would say San Diego is definitely a health tech hub.

New comment by fapjacks in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

fapjacks — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:05:56 +0000

That's fair. It would have been a weird reunion anyway.

New comment by fapjacks in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

fapjacks — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:47:51 +0000

Weird side question, but any chance you use(d) the same name on Playstation Network?

New comment by fapjacks in "Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining"

fapjacks — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:39:31 +0000

100% this. Hetzner has no problems completely blowing away whatever you've got running for arbitrary reasons. And their support is incresibly bad.

New comment by fapjacks in "Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)"

fapjacks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:44:16 +0000

Sure, the kinda go-to for this is rtl-sdr.com's device (just search amazon). They have a great and comprehensive site, too: https://www.rtl-sdr.com

New comment by fapjacks in "Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)"

fapjacks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:21:42 +0000

Do not post affliliate links.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HGQXC7C

New comment by fapjacks in "How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do"

fapjacks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:59:52 +0000

Yeah, the ancient stoics made a whole philosophy about it.

New comment by fapjacks in "Building the most accurate DIY CNC lathe in the world [video]"

fapjacks — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:11:44 +0000

make me a truly flat surface

New comment by fapjacks in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

fapjacks — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:29:20 +0000

I noticed this also, and ever since, I've made it a point to always have memorized my SO's number and my best friend's number.

New comment by fapjacks in "AOL to discontinue dial-up internet"

fapjacks — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 18:16:16 +0000

No, it is not feasible to run modem signals over VOIP, as the various codecs all compress signals and cut frequencies and all manner of things to reduce bandwidth consumption, which are incompatible with modem signaling. You could get away with it in a homelab for fun, but you have absolutely no control over what VOIP codecs e.g. Comcast is running, so it is effectively impossible. Even if the phone company says they can offer you a copper line, your copper line will eventually get converted to VOIP at the end of the street or wherever, and then it's up to whatever commercial provider you're paying to choose the codecs for VOIP, which are never modem-friendly. I worked on this stuff about ten years ago. There are fax codecs but they are very hard to get working reliably.

New comment by fapjacks in "Helm local code execution via a malicious chart"

fapjacks — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:19:40 +0000

I have no horse in that race but just to see people talking about XML like this a quarter of a century after the first time I saw similar comments is just funny, I don't care who you are.

New comment by fapjacks in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

fapjacks — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:02:54 +0000

I think this is normal for most people, but I've found that one-on-one's are a way more effective tool for revealing these sorts of situations. A good manager, though, is very rare. Maybe there's some surface area here for AI, to identify landmines workers are stepping on. Who knows, maybe AI should just be the ones attending meetings.

New comment by fapjacks in "Why DoorDash fees are so high [pdf]"

fapjacks — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 13:52:57 +0000

I interviewed at DoorDash way back when, could've been about employee #12 or something. But when I sat down to interview with a couple of the cofounders, it seemed to me they were some kind of sociopaths. I have no regrets whatsoever not calling them back. All of my friends that work in the service industry (at the actual restaurants, not delivery drivers) absolutely despise DoorDash. I refuse to use it.

New comment by fapjacks in "The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior"

fapjacks — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:52:21 +0000

It's interesting to note that stoicism -- in my experience perhaps the most difficult thing I've ever done and still fight hard every day to follow -- could be said at its core to work against these baser motivations.

New comment by fapjacks in "Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one"

fapjacks — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 07:16:35 +0000

That's what I've been using for some years and it's never been a problem for me. You are right that you have to have at least a basic understanding of how a mail server works, and there is some configuration to know about. But I think of all the things I host myself, docker-mailserver is the least cumbersome and among the most reliable.