Hacker News: grakker

New comment by grakker in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

grakker — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:29:18 +0000

I quit my last job. I found myself thinking that the easy way out was really attractive, and I was seeing fewer and fewer downsides. Then I thought, I might as well quit, enjoy as much as I could, then take the easy way out when my account ran down to zero. Then, as it was approaching zero, I found out I could start withdrawing pension from my old job, with a heavy penalty for doing so early. Fuck it. I did that. Now I'm limping by on about $1500 a month. It's working for now, but I can imagine the end not too far away. But that eternal darkness is more attractive than dealing with the day to day bullshit of working while my country falls quickly into fascism, in addition to the normal fucked up capitalist morality and thinking.

New comment by grakker in "Show HN: Daily-notes.nvim – fuzzy time journal and planning plugin"

grakker — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:46:06 +0000

This is what I've used for years. I guess my use case is probably different than what OP posted as I don't understand what I might gain from his plugin.

New comment by grakker in "LA Times Flips Anti-RFK Jr. Op-Ed into Pro-Kennedy Propaganda"

grakker — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:40:51 +0000

I don't see a single thing wrong with that sentence.

New comment by grakker in "Caltrain's electric fleet more efficient than expected"

grakker — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 03:29:41 +0000

The article says this version sends it back out on the same power lines, either used by other trains or pushed back into the grid. Seems like a perfect job for supercapacitors, although I have no idea about the feasibility of that solution. I imagine that batteries having huge input/output cycles like that wouldn't be healthy for them. Again, pulled from my imagination because I don't really know much about battery wear/use.

New comment by grakker in "I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up"

grakker — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 03:01:22 +0000

He was out of town for 3 weeks the year before. He then compared to previous years and his use is way down.

New comment by grakker in "Staffers unload on Amazon 'leadership' after return-to-office for desk shortage"

grakker — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:44:45 +0000

What's a middle manager to do if s/he can't Lumbergh around the office?

New comment by grakker in "Moral Progress Is Annoying"

grakker — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:29:36 +0000

I developed my own internal system of values or ethics when I was in high school. I thought it was great. Then I went to University, read Hume, Mill, et al. and realized that my thoughts were not original at all. That didn't make them less relevant, just made me a little disappointed. I spent a disillusioned year or two thinking University was just going to be giving proper names to thoughts I'd already pondered.

New comment by grakker in "Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?"

grakker — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:18:38 +0000

Is that really an issue? I just haven't seen a file name with a newline in it. If so, couldn't it just be run with -o0?

New comment by grakker in "Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?"

grakker — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:08:08 +0000

Just install a couple Magisk modules and your banking app should work fine. At least mine does.

New comment by grakker in "Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me"

grakker — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:22:16 +0000

Any complaint that starts with "used meta..." just loses me. It's like, I stuck this needle into my left testicle and now that testicle hurts.

New comment by grakker in "VW breach exposes location of 800k electric vehicles"

grakker — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:47:10 +0000

I bought a used '14 Leaf in '16. It has been a great car with very little battery degradation. Sure, I'm not going to be taking it on any long trips, but for 90% of my driving it is great. I paid $11k for it. Best car purchase I've made in 30+ years of car ownership.

New comment by grakker in "Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy"

grakker — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:30:30 +0000

> backpacking with high school friends in the Catalina Islands

Channel Islands or Catalina Island. Something fishy there. Probably some OpenAI written article. Don't trust it. The new AI overlords are trying to manipulate us all.

New comment by grakker in "Why are so many Americans acting like a pack of ghouls?"

grakker — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:11:49 +0000

Seems like a nothing opinion piece offering no new insights.

New comment by grakker in "Yinpiao Zhou Charged with Drone Flying over Vandenberg"

grakker — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:46:08 +0000

I wonder what a drone shot would give the CCP, that they wouldn't already have from satellites.

New comment by grakker in "ChatGPT Is Down"

grakker — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 02:05:40 +0000

Oh no. How will I be able to "write" code or reply to an email?

New comment by grakker in "Louis Rossmann for FTC chair [video]"

grakker — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:20:17 +0000

He's not even close to being corrupt and stupid enough for the incoming adminstration.

New comment by grakker in "What TDD is good for"

grakker — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:36:53 +0000

I've found that if I'm in a fight with someone with a better ground game than I have, my TDD really is important.

New comment by grakker in "Laragon: A portable, isolated, fast, powerful universal development environment"

grakker — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 04:14:19 +0000

Looks like Windows only, at least I only see an exe.

New comment by grakker in "Tesla Cybertruck workers begin 3-day furlough, signaling demand slowdown"

grakker — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:26:18 +0000

So many of those freaking ugly shitmobiles in my area. I think 1/2 of those numbers probably ended up here. People with money and no taste or research skills.

New comment by grakker in "Why 'open' AI systems are closed, and why this matters"

grakker — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:48:41 +0000

Reminds me of Asimov's story The Feeling of Power.