Hacker News: laserlight

New comment by laserlight in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

laserlight — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:43:29 +0000

Agreed. Just like one doesn't owe the society their voluntary work, the society doesn't owe one protection from criticism.

New comment by laserlight in "The Last Technical Interview"

laserlight — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:41:13 +0000

The case supports my argument though. Trying not to hire a bad candidate is not a resilient strategy. Someone might fall through the cracks. You still have to screen the candidate after the hire. Heck, even not hiring is not a good strategy, because someone inside may turn bad.

New comment by laserlight in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

laserlight — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:40:54 +0000

Louis Rossmann's video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRnno9VIZx0

New comment by laserlight in "The Last Technical Interview"

laserlight — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:04:40 +0000

What if a bad apple is hired despite all the checks? The system should be able to detect and eliminate bad apples before they give “so much damage” regardless of when they are hired.

Of course the organization should do its best to avoid bad hires. It should do so because of the opportunity cost of not hiring the right person, not because of the damage that they might give to the organization.

New comment by laserlight in "The Last Technical Interview"

laserlight — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:33:32 +0000

> a bad hire could cause so much damage through incompetence let alone malice

The fact that an organization cannot deal with such a case is a bigger problem in the first place. Eliminating incompetence and malice is among the basic skills of an organization.

New comment by laserlight in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

laserlight — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:58:23 +0000

What do presets have to do with the touchscreen? Tesla didn't invent presets. Many cars with physical buttons have had presets.

New comment by laserlight in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

laserlight — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:00:43 +0000

> he only designed the interiors not the car body

TopGear reports otherwise [0]:

> In a genius move, they hired design agency LoveFrom to handle the exterior and interior execution: that’s headed by former Apple chief design officer, Sir Jonathan Ive.

[0] https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/its-finally-here-m...

New comment by laserlight in "Ferrari Luce"

laserlight — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:41:02 +0000

I don't agree that difference equals boldness. Boldness of Cybertruck comes from its statement. There is no such statement behind Ferrari Luce. It's a cheap Ferrari-for-your-kid kind of design.

New comment by laserlight in "Ferrari Luce"

laserlight — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:31:14 +0000

> That's a pretty bold claim.

Behind every stupid design there are apologists, who claim that the critics don't get it.

New comment by laserlight in "Ferrari Luce"

laserlight — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:59:16 +0000

What is bold about this cheap design?

New comment by laserlight in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

laserlight — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:38:17 +0000

> long term people who complete courses are your best marketing as they tell others and so completion is importation and thus the deadlines

I don't see why completing courses is a customer satisfaction criterion. I've had many courses that I didn't complete, yet I was quite satisfied with the content and could recommend it to friends.

New comment by laserlight in "Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes"

laserlight — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:02:29 +0000

Executive function problems are symptoms of ADHD, therefore renaming it as executive function disorder would omit the root cause. Dr. Edward Hallowell proposes Variable Attention Stimulus Trait (VAST) as a better name.

New comment by laserlight in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

laserlight — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:37:44 +0000

Not that it impacts your argument significantly, but for the sake of completeness, Apple employs a huge number of retail employees.

New comment by laserlight in "OpenAI Privacy Filter"

laserlight — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:30:15 +0000

> predictably do what they are programmed to do

And now they predictably do what they are not programmed to do.

New comment by laserlight in "I am building a cloud"

laserlight — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:46:46 +0000

> I can't shell into ECS

Is there a specific reason why you can't shell into ECS? IIRC, I was able to do so by following the guide [0].

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/new-using-amazon-ecs...

New comment by laserlight in "Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors"

laserlight — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:38:23 +0000

> 200ml shot

It's not an espresso.

New comment by laserlight in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

laserlight — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:05:24 +0000

> A certain large company

Which one is it? And, more importantly, why not name it?

New comment by laserlight in "Productive Procrastination"

laserlight — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:28:37 +0000

Note that not being okay with that idea is a symptom of ADHD. Talk about it with your psychiatrist.

Microcontrollers for a Lightbulb Turned Project of IoT Button Devices [video]

laserlight — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:15:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljrKFFjFT04

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730295

Points: 1

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New comment by laserlight in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

laserlight — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:22:05 +0000

Wow. This is news to me. Office Lens had been my trusted scanning app for ten years. It was years ahead of Cam Scanner bullshit, which many people used, likely because of marketing.