Hacker News: jeromegv

New comment by jeromegv in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

jeromegv — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:13:53 +0000

Yes we have real problems, and this one isn't and it takes 1 minute to solve. "Okay thank you, will change it for next time".

New comment by jeromegv in "Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%"

jeromegv — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:54:16 +0000

Except for the part where he named an anti-vaxer as the Secretary of Health, which oversees the CDC

New comment by jeromegv in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

jeromegv — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:27:20 +0000

Nationalization might be an avoidable disaster, but privatization is virtually guaranteed to make things worse. See: every time anything has ever been privatized. There was a reason these things were owned by the government in the first place.

New comment by jeromegv in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

jeromegv — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:33:59 +0000

Roux is just for hair colour in French. Not the same as rouge.

New comment by jeromegv in "Sites in ChatGPT"

jeromegv — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:20:49 +0000

4 months ago you wrote that AI was the biggest swindle of all time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48302450

You are a bot that just says whatever is convenient for you to get upvotes in a thread.

New comment by jeromegv in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

jeromegv — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:20:11 +0000

No, nothing public, we are all speculating. But we can surely guess at 99% that Canada would get no voting power, being that we are in North America and Canada isn't interested in that kind of arrangement.

New comment by jeromegv in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

jeromegv — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:19:05 +0000

The referendum was triggered by him making a bad political calculation that he would win it and could squash the aisle of his party that was pushing his idea. This was never truly due to a failed negotiation. The hardliners in his party wanted entirely out either way.

New comment by jeromegv in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)"

jeromegv — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:19:04 +0000

Regardless, he wouldn't be in America without immigration. That's the point.

New comment by jeromegv in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

jeromegv — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:51:09 +0000

But weren't they... spies?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_Michael_Spavor_an...

> According to a report by The Globe and Mail in November 2023, Spavor sought a multimillion-dollar settlement against the federal government for involving him in espionage activities without his knowledge. Spavor alleged that he provided Michael Kovrig with intelligence on North Korea, which Kovrig then secretly gave to the Canadian government and its Five Eyes allies without Spavor's permission, leading to their arrest and detention

New comment by jeromegv in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

jeromegv — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:55:01 +0000

Israel starts new war every month, you can understand that it is risky to put your data in a data center that could be the target as well.

New comment by jeromegv in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

jeromegv — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:48:22 +0000

Claude/ChatGPT still end up making things up when they can't find anything, notebook is much better to 99% reply based on quotes. But yes a backup is to use Claude and grep, but not quite the same.

New comment by jeromegv in "Grok 4.5"

jeromegv — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:37:42 +0000

I have met him and also saw him standing next to Donald Trump and at political rallies. It wasn't imagined by left wing billionaire.

I have also read his Twitter account where he is spreading his right wing politics, every single day.

New comment by jeromegv in "Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills"

jeromegv — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:41:20 +0000

Ah yes.. the threat to invade us... should be taken lightly. Right. We should fall in line, let them bully us, do nothing, keep sending our money there.

I'm sure that your dear leader would also take lightly any threat of invasion against the United States.

New comment by jeromegv in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

jeromegv — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:07:17 +0000

We are talking of entrepreneurship and new companies, what small business are required to do for returns/refunds in the US is definitely not ahead of Europe for consumer protection.

It's not word choice, you are just making the wrong argument.

New comment by jeromegv in "Identity verification on Claude"

jeromegv — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:37:03 +0000

> That’s totally unclear.

Lol, welcome to US foreign policy. Or US trade policy. Totally unclear, and it's a feature.

Yes, lack of stability and clarity is entirely why people are steering away from the US. Yes things can change again next week, it's not a good thing.

New comment by jeromegv in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

jeromegv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:10:44 +0000

But it's not always massive, it's a good practice to see what the diff is and ensure there is no weird dependency (aka supply chain attack) showing up in there.

New comment by jeromegv in "W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty"

jeromegv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:46:57 +0000

Threads is just another node that connects to ActivityPub, there is no "road" to enshittification.

Mastodon is independant, each instance manages itself, some are bad, some are good, you can even host your own, that's the power of decentralization.

New comment by jeromegv in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

jeromegv — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:42:24 +0000

I heard of it randomly few months ago, and for me and my wife it's been a game changer for using our phone on transit or in the car.

New comment by jeromegv in "US-Canada border library gets new Quebec-only entrance"

jeromegv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:22:15 +0000

This... has... nothing to do... with how the 2 countries view guns or blasphemy laws (??).

This library worked well for a hundred of year, and then the US government decided they wanted to invade Canada, wage an economic war, and needed to protect their border at all cost in case an invasion of migrants would come from... that library.

New comment by jeromegv in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

jeromegv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:57:45 +0000

We already have US threatening to invade for absolutely no reason while the American people stand by and keeps arguing about the scandal of the day, I think this argument has sailed for Canadians. The US is now a very unreliable business partner, nothing else.

We can get fucked on both sides but will do business with those that don't want to destroy our economy.