Hacker News: hondo77

New comment by hondo77 in "Medical aid in dying, my health, and so on"

hondo77 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:28:38 +0000

There is no treatment for death.

New comment by hondo77 in "I Built My Own Audio Player"

hondo77 — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:15:59 +0000

I don't see the problem with cable syncing, which works fine for me with lots of music and three devices I sync to, but you do you.

New comment by hondo77 in "The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick"

hondo77 — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:21:41 +0000

They were falling over themselves to make *a* movie with him. Not so much *another* movie with him. I just happened to watch a video about that this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqoQoN-Pb5I

New comment by hondo77 in "The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick"

hondo77 — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:19:12 +0000

So, you've seen Days of Heaven, too?

(actually, I only lasted through the first 20 minutes)

New comment by hondo77 in "Joining Sun Microsystems – 40 years ago (2022)"

hondo77 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:00:16 +0000

I worked at Disney Animation during the 90s. Yeah, my career may have peaked 30 years ago but not everyone gets a peak like that. "A gift" is the best way to describe it.

New comment by hondo77 in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

hondo77 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:38:57 +0000

> As a maintainer, it is my duty to come across as unbiased and factual as possible...

Sez who?

New comment by hondo77 in "Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update"

hondo77 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:11:37 +0000

Probably so the appliance can let a server know to have your phone notify you that your appliance is done doing what it was doing.

New comment by hondo77 in "Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it"

hondo77 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:11:23 +0000

I don't want to wait that long. If I get diagnosed with Alzheimer's, I am taking a quick farewell tour of family and friends and then I'm done. I don't want to wait so long that I need someone else to off me. I wish that all wasn't necessary but this country (US) isn't going to get smarter anytime soon.

New comment by hondo77 in "Repairable Flatpack Toaster"

hondo77 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 23:19:43 +0000

I bought one from 1965 last year. Got it cheap on eBay. Seller said it didn't work. Seller just didn't know how to turn the knob on the side. I have to buy bread that isn't as wide as I was getting but it's totally worth it. Perfect toast every time.

New comment by hondo77 in "I Went to SQL Injection Court"

hondo77 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 05:07:03 +0000

I have this cousin, Vinny, who's a lawyer, and he was able to use his girlfriend as an expert witness. Both sides agreed she really knows her stuff because that's what really matters.

New comment by hondo77 in "A vending machine, on the internet"

hondo77 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:34:05 +0000

Charge for support emails. $1 (or whatever) to fill out a form and have a support email delivered to you. All other support emails (presumably to old addresses) will be ignored.

New comment by hondo77 in "Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)"

hondo77 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:46:30 +0000

Household electric doesn't necessarily take years but it takes longer than 60 days of YouTube videos.

New comment by hondo77 in "Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)"

hondo77 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:44:45 +0000

So you haven't done bug fixes on something poorly architected initially because the project was started by anyone with a pulse instead of someone experienced?

Same with electrical. Yeah, you can learn the basics but only experience is going to get you to do it right. And two months ain't enough experience to do all the new construction electrical for someone else's house. Doing it for yourself is fine because only you have to deal with what you didn't do completely right when you didn't know any better.

New comment by hondo77 in "DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack"

hondo77 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:42:38 +0000

Not when I worked in the US govt. We were told that everything we did in our Slack was FOIA-able. FWIW.

New comment by hondo77 in "Google kills diversity hiring targets"

hondo77 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:29:32 +0000

> ...the biggest thing these programs did successfully was just diversifying the entry points so that you could even begin to start conversations with people from other backgrounds.

This. This was my experience with DEIA programs in the government. It was always about diverse recruitment, not hiring. People believe what they want to, though.

New comment by hondo77 in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

hondo77 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:33:30 +0000

By your logic, having one small group would be most efficient. Which makes perfect sense, given the tiny size of the US government, in Trumpistan logic.

New comment by hondo77 in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

hondo77 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 20:20:15 +0000

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deleted a group that was devoted solely to making the government more efficient. Makes perfect sense, in Trumpistan logic.

New comment by hondo77 in "Return to In-Person Work"

hondo77 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:47:17 +0000

I worked in a group that was 100% in-person, with the team distributed all over the country. I wonder how this is going to play out for them.

New comment by hondo77 in "An autumn bike adventure down the US portion of the Eastern Divide Trail"

hondo77 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:47:26 +0000

Understandable. I would suggest that when the kids are old enough, consider doing smaller tours (a weekend, a week, etc.) when you can and not waiting until retirement to do any touring. The latter was my plan. Until I got colon cancer. I still ride but I can't do more than a couple of days in a row before I get digestive problems that put a halt to touring. With hindsight, I wish I would have done some one- to two-week tours while I was still able to.

New comment by hondo77 in "Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes"

hondo77 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:13:08 +0000

It's all billionaire fun and games until they try to close post offices. Have fun with that, boys.