Hacker News: loco5niner

New comment by loco5niner in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

loco5niner — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:53:43 +0000

I think not, mostly just removes ads, and a few other features

New comment by loco5niner in "Obsolete Sounds"

loco5niner — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:26:48 +0000

This is the completely wrong take. Yes, perhaps GP may have gone a bit far in his comments, but so have you. I also don't see the point in bringing up the current US situation when the UK has had similar issues in the past. The pot calling the kettle black.

I have also been frustrated in the past with organizations putting stickers haphazardly over screens etc, and it's worth reminding them.

New comment by loco5niner in "Building Better Country Selects"

loco5niner — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:38:50 +0000

This completely ignores those of us who fill forms by tabbing through fields to stay on our keyboard.

TAB into the country field, type 'Uni', down-arrow a couple times to United States. TAB to the next field. Simple.

Having the suggested country at the top for mouse-bound folks helps, but a standard select dropdown can also pre-select a default choice (via the 'selected' attribute).

New comment by loco5niner in "Study shows two child household must earn $400k/year to afford childcare"

loco5niner — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:14:56 +0000

My wife is MUCH more nurturing, than I am. I'm glad she is taking on the role of caring for our children full-time. She is also homeschooling 2 of our kids at 3 and 4, and "has her finger on the pulse of our children's lives" as I like to say. I don't think she'd be able to do that with a full-time job, and I definitely wouldn't do as good a job as her. Also, if she had a full time job, she would still feel the drive to take on household and family tasks that would fall to the wayside if I were in charge of them, and frankly find herself overloaded. It's working well for us to fall into traditional roles.

New comment by loco5niner in "What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted"

loco5niner — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:31:59 +0000

Yeah, but I want to get to that point.

Currently, there are a lot of things in my life (old house, old cars, etc) that more money will simply remove from being a headache in my life.

New comment by loco5niner in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

loco5niner — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:11:40 +0000

I have that same problem but I attributed it to gaining weight. I'm sure it's the shirts.

New comment by loco5niner in "Nearly 1 in 4 Americans think they have a personal social security account"

loco5niner — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:09:42 +0000

I think of Social Security as an annuity, or reverse life insurance.

New comment by loco5niner in "What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription"

loco5niner — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:42:01 +0000

I was able to take the little rubber piece out of the remote. just left 4 little openings.

New comment by loco5niner in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

loco5niner — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:46:15 +0000

They were rolling out matching services state by state. Something like 12 last year. And Turbo tax is NOT "free for federal filers with no business income". Just look at the Costco Turbotax stands every year.

New comment by loco5niner in "Some people can't see mental images"

loco5niner — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:57:53 +0000

She has both. I described both, and I think they are related.

New comment by loco5niner in "Some people can't see mental images"

loco5niner — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:38:24 +0000

It's not a confusion of terms. I can easily conjure up picture-quality images in my head, whether my eyes are open or closed. Compare that to my wife who says she can't even see my face in her head, at all, and has a hard time recognizing faces to the point where she asked my not to do anything about the red dot on my face (broken capillaries) because that's one way she recognizes that it's me. She can't see images in her head. She can't recall visual memories in her head, she sometimes struggles to remember which shelf the cups go when emptying the dishwasher. Perfectly normal and smart and capable. Not arguing that it's binary, but there are distinct ends of the spectrum. It might also be stronger for me because I tend to 'think' in pictures when the problem calls for it and it's a 'style of thinking' I'm used to.

New comment by loco5niner in "AI can code, but it can't build software"

loco5niner — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:38:31 +0000

Well, the right answers have been put in the knowledgebase. It's just that the prompt may be wrong.

New comment by loco5niner in "60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds"

loco5niner — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:00:23 +0000

without knowing anything, that sounds more dangerous for an infant to me

New comment by loco5niner in "Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos"

loco5niner — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:21:03 +0000

Ha! Me either. The plan is to collect them now, enjoy them later. Not even deleting the bad pics like I would usually do.

New comment by loco5niner in "Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos"

loco5niner — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:01:17 +0000

similar on the 2TB, but at 500GB. Having toddlers will do that. I'm trying to capture so much.

New comment by loco5niner in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

loco5niner — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 22:07:48 +0000

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Being told, understanding, and choosing to behave well are not perfectly correlated. They will choose their actions for themselves. Of course you don't allow them to continue acting that way and over the course of time try to raise responsible adults.

New comment by loco5niner in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

loco5niner — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 21:59:39 +0000

Ha! Yep, I question my parenting every day. Every kid is different, so yes, this is one of many norms. Before I had kids I believed as you do, but believe you me, every kid is different even inside the womb.

New comment by loco5niner in "I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens"

loco5niner — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:55:12 +0000

As a parent with one of those kids, you never know which mode they will start off with, even with the right prompting. And yes, you correct them and steer them in the right direction and hope they will eventually learn how to behave.

New comment by loco5niner in "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study"

loco5niner — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:31:30 +0000

That's not the type of theft they were talking about. Rather, self scanners purposely not scanning items to get them for free, etc

New comment by loco5niner in "Coursera’s Preview Mode"

loco5niner — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:11:30 +0000

Same here. Finally got a dev job a few years after graduating with my Computer Science degree when a boss noticed I was taking a MOOC during my slack time. Graduated just after the dot com crash.