Hacker News: franktankbank

New comment by franktankbank in "U.S. science is in chaos"

franktankbank — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:37:57 +0000

I'm sorry but Rome certainly didn't have airplanes.

New comment by franktankbank in "Linux 7.1"

franktankbank — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:10:42 +0000

Maybe that points to an architecture issue? Is kernel driver support general enough to support all hardware in theory? If so it should be on hardware to provide a compatible api IMO. Note: I really have no experience in any of this there is probably more important things to consider like security/control or something.

New comment by franktankbank in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

franktankbank — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:09:53 +0000

Avoid walls when walking in hallways.

New comment by franktankbank in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

franktankbank — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:36:55 +0000

> we might finally become productive enough to exhaust the world’s appetite for software.

I think we are past this point personally. Lots of blasphemously useless crap being built.

New comment by franktankbank in "Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)"

franktankbank — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:59:16 +0000

Does not consider global kickback schemes skimming money off the before profit revenue.

New comment by franktankbank in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

franktankbank — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:36:06 +0000

What hardware are you running? I haven't had issues like you describe in the last decade.

New comment by franktankbank in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

franktankbank — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:35:20 +0000

Who has the balls to form that team? Were they disbanded?

New comment by franktankbank in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

franktankbank — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:11:06 +0000

You will lose every time. The bar is being lowered to the ground so far that any human can do better, guess where thats cheap as fuck?

Tech in America can't implode soon enough.

New comment by franktankbank in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

franktankbank — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:03:23 +0000

> mechanics also have a pricing book for the task, they know how many hours a task will take on a certain car

I do want to point out that this is used to suppress mechanic salary. Certain jobs are absolutely fucked how its time calibrated. Doesn't matter to business owner they can charge $$$ how they want.

New comment by franktankbank in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

franktankbank — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:19:20 +0000

Its right there in the damn name!

New comment by franktankbank in "McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)"

franktankbank — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:31:07 +0000

That sounds illegal.

New comment by franktankbank in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

franktankbank — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:20:57 +0000

No I don't really have any expectation at all, just sharing my experience how hard it is even with a pretty bog standard native English upbringing.

New comment by franktankbank in "Write some software, give it away for free"

franktankbank — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:13:14 +0000

Reminds me of "Jia Tan" using sock puppets to bully the maintainer of a critical infrastructure project.

New comment by franktankbank in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

franktankbank — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:55:12 +0000

English has a wide variety of accents, expose yourself enough and its probably healthy for your brain. I used to not be able to understand different American accents and I'm from the Midwest. Context and patience is king.

New comment by franktankbank in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

franktankbank — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:07:29 +0000

> but apparently it's the responsibility of whoever finds the vulnerability

Aka a white hat professional which should be a prized function richly rewarded. Do you really want these things to be calcified into a government function?

New comment by franktankbank in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

franktankbank — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:58:14 +0000

Same case goes to the same court too many times and you are gonna raise eyebrows.

New comment by franktankbank in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

franktankbank — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:29:55 +0000

> Don't worry, this is beyond unlikely

Ch-eye-na

New comment by franktankbank in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

franktankbank — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:17:25 +0000

Faulty to think we can outsource our inflation globally when that chain can get yanked outside our control.

New comment by franktankbank in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

franktankbank — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:06:18 +0000

Would you let your nanny subcontract?

edit: Can't reply because I've posted a whole 4 times.

I believe we have different world views which is hardly a disagreement. Answering my question could pretty well highlight our difference of opinion.

New comment by franktankbank in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

franktankbank — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:40:22 +0000

Because you are at the whims of the bot they are at least partially dependent on.