Hacker News: mbrameld

New comment by mbrameld in "Maladaptive Frugality"

mbrameld — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:56:35 +0000

> I'd rather enjoy my life in my 20s than save money to do nothing in my 40s.

I think this is a lie that people who are bad with money tell themselves, that the only two options available are to spend without restraint or live miserably frugal.

New comment by mbrameld in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

mbrameld — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:32:59 +0000

And if the surprise is unpleasant you can disable it by turning off memories and holidays in the settings of the photo app. Not so easy to escape Copilot on Windows.

New comment by mbrameld in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

mbrameld — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:34:38 +0000

It sounds like your point is that people should be willing to give up their privacy in return for the chance of detecting (not preventing) violent crimes.

I think it's also disingenuous (or at best, completely naive) to pretend like harm from Flock and other surveillance is hypothetical/theoretical. Here are just 2 recent examples of REAL harm:

https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/crime/2026/01/12/men...

https://kenoshacountyeye.com/2025/12/12/deputy-on-leave-accu...

You can guarantee that there are many more that haven't been caught.

New comment by mbrameld in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

mbrameld — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:46:34 +0000

That's been exactly my experience recently in the US. Most recently it was some Hot Hands hand warmers. They just had me go to the end of the line where you get your bags ouf of the scanner and the agent brought my bag down there on the other side of the rollers. They set it on the table in front of me, and there was a monitor above the table where they pointed to the hand warmers on the screen. They said something along the lines of, "Looks like you might have some hand warmers in the main pocket, would you mind taking them out?" I pulled them out, showed them to them, they thanked me and I put it back in the bag and went on my way. This was in Juneau, AK.

New comment by mbrameld in "How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart"

mbrameld — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:59:32 +0000

It doesn't take years, and it's less expensive than writing off the mortgage.

New comment by mbrameld in "My Truck Desk"

mbrameld — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:44:31 +0000

If you understand the causes of ADHD you should definitely reach out to the Mayo clinic, as recently as earlier this year they admitted that they don't understand the causes of ADHD! https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/adhd/symptoms...

New comment by mbrameld in "Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?"

mbrameld — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:08:38 +0000

I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that result is platform-dependent?

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/floatingpoint.html#floati...

New comment by mbrameld in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

mbrameld — Thu, 29 May 2025 22:46:38 +0000

Ask it. Instead of just telling it what you're doing and expecting it to criticize that, ask it directly for criticism. Even better, tell it what you're doing, then tell it to ask you questions about what you're doing until it knows enough to recommend a better approach.

New comment by mbrameld in "Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups"

mbrameld — Thu, 29 May 2025 21:08:48 +0000

Isn't it a waste to spend more for a flight when you could get the same flight for less if you also booked an accommodation you don't plan to use?

New comment by mbrameld in "The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon"

mbrameld — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:31:43 +0000

Can you describe a driving scenario where the correct action couldn't be determined "mechanically"? Are you thinking of something like the trolley problem?

New comment by mbrameld in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

mbrameld — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:23:04 +0000

Too many to list even 1?

New comment by mbrameld in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

mbrameld — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:21:48 +0000

I don't know about his blog since this is a thread about whether or not his comment is AI-generated, but I ran his comment through GPTZero and it reports it's confident the comment is entirely human. I asked Claude to summarize his comment and ran that summary through GPTZero and it reported it was confident that it's entirely AI-generated. Maybe the comment didn't set of my llm radar because I didn't draw conclusions about the comment by looking at the blog, which very well might be 100% AI-generated.

New comment by mbrameld in "The great displacement is already well underway?"

mbrameld — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:47:33 +0000

The US military does. The branches all state an age limit, but it's easily and routinely waived.

New comment by mbrameld in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"

mbrameld — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:22:51 +0000

Is it just the list? I'm curious what specifically sets off your llm radar.

New comment by mbrameld in "The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport"

mbrameld — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:46:56 +0000

Instructors routinely take the flight controls, it's not embarrassing at all.

New comment by mbrameld in "The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport"

mbrameld — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:45:15 +0000

I agree with everything you said, just want to point out that there's a "street to seat" program for Army aviators, so the warrant may have never served as an enlisted soldier. I still don't think a reluctance to act based on rank was the issue, like at all. Aviation is different from the rest of the military, there is generally a culture of safety that supersedes the rank structure.

New comment by mbrameld in "The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport"

mbrameld — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:33:05 +0000

> As much as the article tries to balance it out that the controllers should have done more it seems that ultimately the pilot flying was distracted and not following instructions from the instructor sitting next to them. It happened at least twice based on the captured recordings.

I'm a helicopter flight instructor, although I've never flown in the military. There are 5 magic words the instructor can, and I would argue is obligated to, use to fix the situation: "I have the flight controls"

Knowing they were 100 feet high and flying into the approach corridor with an aircraft on short final and not taking the controls is an enormous failure on the part of the instructor. The student was likely task-saturated and the instructor should have recognized that.

New comment by mbrameld in "Bench accounting services shutting down"

mbrameld — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:02:14 +0000

You're arguing a different point. The old CEO claims it's his absence that caused the failure, not the presence of the new CEO. You're arguing that it's the presence of the new CEO that caused the failure. GP is pointing out that if the absence of the old CEO is what caused the company to fail as the old CEO claims, and not the actions of the new CEO, then it wasn't in good shape to start with.

New comment by mbrameld in "Advent of Code 2024"

mbrameld — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:21:26 +0000

But you can use an AI to do all of it effectively. What's your point?

New comment by mbrameld in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)"

mbrameld — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:49:30 +0000

Think you want this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42297422