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New comment by notesinthefield in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

notesinthefield — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:13:59 +0000

My next door neighbors’ tiny (>50 people) electrical company has been booking millions in lighting protection installation work across the east coast. Theyve made more from dc work in the last three years than the previous 20.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

notesinthefield — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:45:09 +0000

Until I got to the Forerunner 965, my Garmins would easily scratch. I have an Instinct with such a deep gash I cannot see the top 1/4 of the display. The 965 display is wonderful but I still have a couple minor nicks.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

notesinthefield — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:22:00 +0000

> the screen has not scratched

I believe this the least!

New comment by notesinthefield in "LineageOS Statistics"

notesinthefield — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:58:13 +0000

These remind me of the cyanogenmod days where youre rom was AOSP or CM based and nearly every variant was CM based.

New comment by notesinthefield in "America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek"

notesinthefield — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:31:38 +0000

Ironically I have recently transitioned to a TL role because my org has slowed senior IC salaries but keeps increasing management salaries.

New comment by notesinthefield in "AskHN:How do you handle skill atrophy from using coding agents?"

notesinthefield — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:42:49 +0000

I am in the infosec space and do a lot of reading, summarizing of code and a vuln PoC here and there in my day job. Over a busy month I may put out 400-500 LoC.

In my personal life, I am making tools to support hobbies. I typically tackle architecture and design myself and sanity check with an LLM, then Codex does all the programming work.

I'm more interested in making sure the apps I make have the content I want and functionally meets my needs than actually writing the code myself. Making fine detail tweaks are not something I need to do past review and pointing them out to to the LLM.

New comment by notesinthefield in "The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)"

notesinthefield — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:08:28 +0000

I had a similar path and never came back to JS until work forced me to learn. To me, it has only gotten more readable.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

notesinthefield — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:02:46 +0000

Great project! I often check the opinion of one model against others when doing research and a sort of consensus process would save many a c/p

New comment by notesinthefield in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

notesinthefield — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:01:04 +0000

Womens basketball viewership across college, pro and semi pro levels is significantly more popular than equivalent womens soccer levels. Non-USWNT games are surprisingly hard to locate and stream.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

notesinthefield — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:07:00 +0000

Not OP but velocity is typically what these devices are used for. Its a great measure of between-set intensity.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

notesinthefield — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:04:33 +0000

Why so many different devices? (Assuming this is the only reason there could be this much sprawl)

Device based strength tracking is still so weird to me.

New comment by notesinthefield in "A desktop made for one"

notesinthefield — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:35:42 +0000

I dont think it matters at all to OP. Sidestepping the insult, it sounds like they very, very much want to tools that support their needs only, methodology be damned.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Bacteria found in the human intestine capable of improving muscle strength"

notesinthefield — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:30:56 +0000

It is so wonderful to hear someone else say this. My spouse and friends think In so weird for emphasizing optimizing your diet for things that digest well, macro dense and give you good shits. I am quietly pleased when my own looks completely normal and uninteresting.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

notesinthefield — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:11:53 +0000

I do lots of fed cloud work and im stealing this comment to use during the next conversation around why on-prem DoD PKI is now a huge PIA.

New comment by notesinthefield in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

notesinthefield — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:25:19 +0000

My spouse has expressed this nearly verbatim after transitioning out of a 16 year career in middle and grade school education to medical curriculum development. It was hell on her mental health but at least there was a clear motivation and purpose for being there.

New comment by notesinthefield in "The Remote-Work Dream Isn't Dead, but It's Slipping Away"

notesinthefield — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:01:01 +0000

I recently completed my annual job market heat check and after spending months securing only 5 interviews, I will be clinging to my (mostly) remote job for the foreseeable future. It seems the differentiator between those who get them now are people doing principal and higher level work.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?"

notesinthefield — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:37:40 +0000

My statement wasnt a literal reflection of software and data protection controls. Youre free to explore those mentioned.

New comment by notesinthefield in "Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?"

notesinthefield — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:32:53 +0000

Of course, is this a serious question?

New comment by notesinthefield in "Ask HN: How do companies that use Cursor handle compliance?"

notesinthefield — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:45:54 +0000

HIPAA is one of the few that makes clear the types of data (PHI and PII) that come under the frameworks purview during development which makes masking mandatory for non-production environments. Other frameworks families, NIST RMF, FedRAMP and CMMC very much care about software development practices in depth.

New comment by notesinthefield in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

notesinthefield — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:49:25 +0000

I have yet to see anyone, my family included, that actually seemed to enjoy parenting. I know for a fact my father was ready to run to the middle east shortly after I was born, my brother was a total accident and not terribly wanted either. As a result we’ve never been close my parents and I…why would I want to be a parent after that? I have no desire to live a life a child would require either.