Hacker News: gman2093

New comment by gman2093 in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

gman2093 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:10:40 +0000

Alternatively, and sometimes more cost-efficient: you can find a developer who can write bespoke if statements. There are dozens of us!

New comment by gman2093 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

gman2093 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:52:42 +0000

Not just bikes did collect some data for a youtube video here: (Skip to 13:03 for EVs specifically)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

In summary, ICE vehicles are louder, but not by as much as you might guess.

New comment by gman2093 in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

gman2093 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:23:37 +0000

It also decreases the consumption rate. introduction of immigrant populations has not been shown to increase the unemployment rate, rather the opposite.

https://www.epi.org/blog/immigrants-are-not-hurting-u-s-born...

New comment by gman2093 in "Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers"

gman2093 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:54 +0000

Most systems use fresh water for cooling. Salt water can corrode pipes and deposit sediment, but maybe there's a way to use ocean water efficiently.

They also need to be powered and connected to a network, but that seems like an easier problem.

New comment by gman2093 in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"

gman2093 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:23:08 +0000

Excel/google sheets can be no-code, low code, or full-on VBA macros. I think they are pretty helpful.

New comment by gman2093 in "America's economy looks set to accelerate"

gman2093 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:02:37 +0000

Beans, boots, and bullets. You can't eat gold.

New comment by gman2093 in "I Test Drove a Flying Car. Get Ready, They're Here"

gman2093 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:00:25 +0000

This seems worse than the Dubai quadcopter taxis in general, but it would be cool in niche situations. I wonder if it can be adapted to land on water with inflatable landing gear.

New comment by gman2093 in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

gman2093 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:48:21 +0000

We have these smaller wheeled vehicles on a college campus, I'll note that they are not autonomous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yDtLhRygs

New comment by gman2093 in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

gman2093 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:59:40 +0000

apex predator of grug is complexity

New comment by gman2093 in "Why We Should Care About This War over the Future of Money"

gman2093 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:16:46 +0000

I would have considered this article as overly grandiose a year ago. Part of me wonders if there is some possibility that this is becoming a more prevalent thinking. Even if bitcoin crashes to $0.01 USD, it still has some usefulness as a way to transfer value (Western Union's market cap: $2.77 billion). If the mighty dollar eventually falls out of favor, is the volatility enough to drive people away? Can it become a collective delusion to rival gold? For the near and medium term, I think giz user 'curry for breakfast' had a relevant comment:

"Money? No, not money, just dollars, and specifically dollars because that's all that are at stake here.

The bitcoin bubble could burst tomorrow and the rest of the world, and their currencies, which are backed by their nation's economies, will trundle on as happily as they've always done.

The only real losers would be the unlucky crypto gamblers. Wrong bet, wrong time. "

New comment by gman2093 in "A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs"

gman2093 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:57:40 +0000

"We'll burn that bridge when we come to it"

- one of my favorites

New comment by gman2093 in "American Disruption"

gman2093 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 15:43:37 +0000

If this were a goal, the USA would not want to push other countries into China's sphere of influence. The simpler explanation is that non-tariff taxes require congress and are not fully under control of the executive branch. This allows the executive branch to seize the power of the purse.

New comment by gman2093 in "Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage"

gman2093 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:47:55 +0000

Also, don't shrink away from toil or lack of pleasure- to an extent.

New comment by gman2093 in "PagerDuty to Lay Off 7% of Staff; Revenue Officer to Exit"

gman2093 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 18:55:41 +0000

I work for a company called "Fetch" and I call us "Fetchens"

New comment by gman2093 in "Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop"

gman2093 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:13:51 +0000

>JBS, Tyson, Danone

It is in the best interests of these companies to preserve the status quo of sub-par veggie burgers

New comment by gman2093 in "Is forced treatment for the mentally ill ever humane?"

gman2093 — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:45:47 +0000

With respect, your statement about ECT is not aligned with reality. ECT is evidence-based and effective, with side effects that are less pronounced in many cases than drug-based therapies. It is approved for use in pregnant patients in the USA. One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is not peer-reviewed.

New comment by gman2093 in "Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?"

gman2093 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:10:11 +0000

Some places make money selling software, some places make money selling out their employees!

New comment by gman2093 in "Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire"

gman2093 — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:13:08 +0000

You jest, but they are absolutely on it

New comment by gman2093 in "The Fed has made a historic mistake on inflation"

gman2093 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 19:55:26 +0000

You can't eat gold or bitcoins.

New comment by gman2093 in "Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags?"

gman2093 — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:18:26 +0000

Seems like a lot of folks here and at spotify do, as do we at my gig. Where do you keep your feature flags? Do you have to perform a reset to update them or do you cache them for X minutes?