Hacker News: justaman

New comment by justaman in "US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up"

justaman — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:42:21 +0000

It seems like the USA's goal to bring chip manufacturing back into the country only targeted cutting-edge chips. Refocusing on building "old-gen" chips is quicker and more affordable. Drones don't need the latest tech. Most consumer goods don't. I believe Germany did this to some success.

New comment by justaman in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

justaman — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:44:48 +0000

Woodworking. Tables, chairs, etc. You typically a want a hardwood for these crafts. However, it you're going to make cheap stuff that won't last... pine is fine.

New comment by justaman in "Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools"

justaman — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:20:07 +0000

Everyday we move closer to RealID and AI will be the catalyst.

New comment by justaman in "Bluesky just crossed 20M users"

justaman — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:17:04 +0000

It seems that bluesky will be the political left's version of twitter going forward. The same way truth social became a right-wing echo chamber from its inception. I see the world(the US in particular) drawing lines and further devolving online discourse in a time where what we need most is mutual understanding and respect.

New comment by justaman in "Eating meat with lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals"

justaman — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:52:12 +0000

Grow more of your own food. Preserve it in glass jars you reuse every year. Hunt and eat venison.

New comment by justaman in "Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable"

justaman — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:02:41 +0000

Well the education system certainly needs attention and a refactoring. I don't think anyone can dispute that. The details of what the end goal looks like vary wildly based on who you talk to.

New comment by justaman in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

justaman — Fri, 10 May 2024 12:57:18 +0000

Manufactured outrage. Designed to entice clickbait farmers to spread the word. Gone are the days of blasting millions into a TV ad. No new age ad gets that attention anymore. Instead, the idea is to go viral.

New comment by justaman in "FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data"

justaman — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 21:51:22 +0000

We just had our constitutional rights shat on. Slap on the wrist....

New comment by justaman in "We have 4 days to contest KYC being required by internet services"

justaman — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:53:42 +0000

I think everyone has a sour taste left over from decades of half-baked laws written by politicians that don't understand the basics of the internet or technology in general.

With that said, I also don't understand the issues people are having with this.

New comment by justaman in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

justaman — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:23:16 +0000

I would sit on facebook, refreshing and doom scrolling endlessly. When fb messenger came out I was monitoring facebook messenger when it first came out to see who was online. I was always a pretty lonely kid, and I thought social media would connect me with people. It didn't really.

New comment by justaman in "Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe"

justaman — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:19:24 +0000

I just heard about this software today. Seeing that it was a one time purchase, I almost got out my wallet right then and there. Making it a subscription model would immediately turn me off.

New comment by justaman in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

justaman — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:10:24 +0000

I grew up as social media came into being(mid 2000s). When I was 13, I got Myspace. When I was 16, I got Facebook. It wasn't until well into college that I realized the impact social media had on my mental health. I would go further and say nobody until 18 should have social media, but that may be unrealistic in 2024.

New comment by justaman in "Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets"

justaman — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 14:13:52 +0000

Eventually tech leaders will stop hiring Chinese nationals. This keeps happening again and again.

New comment by justaman in "AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server"

justaman — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:16:50 +0000

Will this work against ads on major streaming apps like prime, hulu, and netflix?

New comment by justaman in "Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says"

justaman — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:08:28 +0000

Modern progressive discourse argues that when the west exports their culture it is native-erasure and neo-colonialism(ie racist). So I think your argument is very much up for debate. Sometimes a part of someone's culture is trash. Sure the Mayans built cool temples, but they were also ultra violent.

It sure sounds a lot like you are defending pedos here...

New comment by justaman in "Scholars asked Harvard President Claudine Gay for her data. She said no."

justaman — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:12:07 +0000

The pendulum has begun swinging in the other direction. Seems to follow roughly a seven year cycle. As the world shifts to a more conservative paradigm in the coming years, I hope that people are reminded that things will go too far before self-correcting and find solace in the fact that most people have settled in the middle.

New comment by justaman in "Piracy Is Back: Piracy Statistics for 2023"

justaman — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:57:45 +0000

> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.

Completely impossible. Think of how much bandwidth is used for HD streaming of twitch, netflix, ABC-XYZ +, and social media. Piracy making up even 5% of global bandwidth usage is being overly generous.

New comment by justaman in "Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job"

justaman — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:19:33 +0000

MBAs and cert-chasers make the worst managers/scrum masters. Give me a former dev who had to code less because they got carpel tunnel or a hacker with only one book on agile methodology any day.

New comment by justaman in "Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy"

justaman — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:15:55 +0000

There needs to be an EV van at prices comparable to an ICE. An AWD Crysler or Toyota is around 60usd. Most middle class families can't afford a regular ICE van today with that interest rates are at.

New comment by justaman in "Some Pirate Sites Received More Visitors After Being Blocked"

justaman — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:14:05 +0000

Piracy as a whole is absolutely seeing a resurgence. The fragmentation of cable into the streaming era started wonderfully. There was a time when one or two subscriptions could service your media needs. I think the most egregious offender is the NFL. To follow your team, you need all these services: ESPN, Peacock, Paramount+, Amazon. Or, you can pay for a sub-par service offered by the NFL.

Ultimately, we are paying more for less content with more ads than cable. AND they are selling our data on top of everything.

Piracy will gain enough momentum to warrant government intervention that will further degrade and rob us of internet freedom. Mark my words.