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New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city"

mr_00ff00 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:02:38 +0000

I think for most big NFL fans, they know that tanking can help, but nothing is stronger than team ownership and team culture.

The Browns are perpetually bad because their owners allow it.

Look at the Lions, new owner, completely new mentality.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

mr_00ff00 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:43:15 +0000

It’s way easier to keep fentanyl out of drugs when you are distributing the drugs.

The government can’t regulate a black market.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

mr_00ff00 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:49:12 +0000

The question in terms of memory is, will vibe coded rust get around ownership issues by .clone()-ing everything.

Maybe this has changed since I wrote Rust, but that was a classic beginner fix. Just throw memory at it.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect"

mr_00ff00 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:16:44 +0000

Having used it in Mexico, they usually have a suggested price that you can just pitch with, and usually people would accept that or add a tiny amount on it.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

mr_00ff00 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:11:41 +0000

No it’s not. Look up the definition of an order of magnitude.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:58:42 +0000

People say this and then use AI for literally everything they do.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:46:57 +0000

Valid point, but this looks like (roughly) 1 billion to 5 billion in a period of 10 years.

5x in a decade. The way it’s talked about you would think it’s orders of magnitude.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:24:05 +0000

What about the constitution specifically?

You are saying this like there are other of nations that didn’t need to struggle for equal rights, workers’ right etc.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

mr_00ff00 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:56:10 +0000

This is well thought out and a good point, it does feel like though there should be some “special case” for donating land to keep for public use as a park.

You are right though, how long can someone who doesn’t own that land, have authority on how it is used.

Ask HN: I am about to go from SWE to Product Manager, what is your day 1 advice?

mr_00ff00 — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:56:07 +0000

As title says, what advice do you have for someone who is a mid-level SWE (4-6 YOE) and about to become a product manager?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301886

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:24:28 +0000

Maybe a bit out of scope for this article, but seems like in every country “Younger millenials and Gen-Zers” are turning to gambling online while traditional gambling (like Vegas) dies.

I feel like this might be a net negative from the pure speed and access in which you can lose money online vs real life, but idk.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

mr_00ff00 — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:19:30 +0000

In regard to number 1, it really is such a hard problem to get money and aid to those that need it. Autocrats and every person with power along the way is happy to pocket it.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

mr_00ff00 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:59:29 +0000

“Tbh they could've just hooked up zig translate-c to c2rust”

This doesn’t work like you think it does. These things are full of errors and make the code very verbose and hard to reason about. It works with small apps, not entire rewrites.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:57:50 +0000

Having dabbled with both Zig and Rust, they do things so fundamentally differently, it isn’t possible to do exact lines like that.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "GPT-5.5"

mr_00ff00 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:08:34 +0000

Because you are worried about bills or are concerned about waste.

If we design an AI to do work, it won’t innately care about not working to preserve power.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "GPT-5.5"

mr_00ff00 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:56:02 +0000

Saving energy is something we are biologically trained to prefer.

Computers won’t necessarily have the same drivers.

If evolution wanted us to always prefer to spend energy, we would prefer it. Same way you wouldn’t expect us to get to AGI, and have AGI desperately want to drink water or fly south for the winter.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

mr_00ff00 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:45:43 +0000

Not saying you are wrong, but you could argue they made their big move with the Metaverse. Then again with those crazy AI contracts to ML people.

Maybe Meta missed on those big plays and now there’s too much pressure to make another.

I don’t know if I believe that, but worth considering

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

mr_00ff00 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:45:00 +0000

> But traders weren’t just active on Polymarket: there were similar surges of oil futures trading activity just hours before Trump announced updates to the conflict that would lower oil prices.

Prediction markets are all the buzz, but banning them isn’t fixing the problem. This has happened forever. Let’s not forget there was an unusual amount of put option buying right before 9/11: https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jnlbus/v79y2006i4p1703-1726.ht...

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

mr_00ff00 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:41:26 +0000

I don’t know if just one instance means direct democracy is bad. For example, in the US referendums have been used a lot for issues that are popular for voters, but politicians won’t touch.

(Weed legalization in many states, Abortion protection in Missouri I believe)

You could also argue Brexit. Ultimately, most of the UK was okay with shooting themselves in the foot to feel more independent like the good olds days. Maybe was wrong long-term, but if it’s what the people wanted, then maybe it’s good. Politicians never would have done it despite the people wanting it.

New comment by mr_00ff00 in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

mr_00ff00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:36:40 +0000

Layoffs.fyi maybe? Not sure if that’s the data you are asking for