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New comment by foysauce in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

foysauce — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:04:42 +0000

I'm seeing most people's arguments here explaining that remote work has given them the opportunity to voluntarily engage in extra curricular social functions.

I think to them, they are totally right that remote work leaves them with enough energy for them to do this, and they are happier for it. What I'm concerned with is the people who do not naturally have such a drive to seek this out, but for whom social activities would be equally important whether they realize it or not.

Personally I find the friction of leaving the house and making new friends in a city I'm not from difficult to overcome, and in this case I love having an easy way to meet people (and in some cases make some of my longest lasting connections) by simply going to the office 2-3 days a week.

New comment by foysauce in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

foysauce — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:07:47 +0000

Yet here you are engaging with the article. In my mind, the clickbait title has done its job.

New comment by foysauce in "Oh My Zsh adds bloat"

foysauce — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:06:27 +0000

> couldn't be easier

Except for the single step workflow: like you do on POSIX shells?

New comment by foysauce in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

foysauce — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:07:27 +0000

I can't speak for everyone, but in the 6 years and 4 companies I've worked for, we have hired only 2 front-end engineers. Full stack is simply what we want a vast majority of the time. So I'm not saying it's impossible to find something but just from a numbers perspective it's just not in demand (I worked at 2 startups and 2 mid-size companies, big tech probably does hire front end devs, but I can't say for sure).

New comment by foysauce in "Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it"

foysauce — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 18:01:29 +0000

I don't think I'm alone in that if I'm reading something that is anywhere near a 1-star, I don't finish it. And then go on to not leave a review. This skews my ratings indeed, because not every book I start is between 3-5 stars, but almost every book I _finish_ is.

New comment by foysauce in "The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our moral universe"

foysauce — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:54:17 +0000

Have been reading "What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies" by Tim Urban? I've been loving it, and he talks about the importance of 2 counterparties identifying what _is_, before distinguishing what _should be_.

New comment by foysauce in "10 Reasons Why Current Music Sucks So Hard"

foysauce — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 13:12:24 +0000

This is an era where "what you listen to" is entirely a personal choice, no 2 groups of people hear the exact same set of songs unless they want to. Same goes for movies, TV, any consumed media really.

New comment by foysauce in "A: A CLI tool to generate code snippets from GPT3 written in Rust"

foysauce — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:09:44 +0000

Interesting that the top 2 comments (when reading this) are at opposite ends of the sentiment spectrum over the name. Personally I think it's one of those names that sucks to use in conversation but great to use on the command line. Of course aliasing or abbreviations can also get you there.

New comment by foysauce in "Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes"

foysauce — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 02:24:04 +0000

I believe a very similar use case was the original primary function of Richard's compression algorithm in the show Silicon Valley. Which of course was entirely underutilizing the technology but that was the joke.

New comment by foysauce in "Elon Musk Tesla email: Remote work is no longer acceptable"

foysauce — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 05:44:57 +0000

Fwiw, The "To" field in the email is "ExecStaff" so it's not completely inferred.