Hacker News: ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ohnoitsahumanHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:52:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Can Style Be Timeless?"]]>I love Monty Don and his clothing is awesome. Just make sure you can pull off being Tom Bombadil too if you go that route.

]]>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 01:00:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529522ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529522https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529522<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "The Gen X Career Meltdown"]]>Gen X here. This author found the marginally productive people who can't read the room and adjust.

Us punk kids who photocopied their 'zines are doing just fine because we paid attention and moved on and then moved on again.

And the kids say: "skill issue, get gud"

]]>Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:22:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512451ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512451https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512451<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "DoorDash Offering Payment Plans for Food Delivery Sparks Backlash"]]>Because for me, overspending is a bad habit, even if there's no interest.

]]>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:03:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461242ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461242<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "DoorDash Offering Payment Plans for Food Delivery Sparks Backlash"]]>Depends. If your poor in America, then spending is often part of the equation. If your poor in India then perhaps not.

]]>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:02:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461228ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461228https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43461228<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Executive Order Shutting Down Department of Education"]]>Public schools are so good that nobody would use their vouchers for private school.

Right?

]]>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:13:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434689ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434689https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434689<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Doge Social Security Closures: Recipients Need to Visit Offices to Get Benefits"]]>A good portion of people in such situations will have children or loved ones who will walk them through online portion.

]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:48:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429360ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429360https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429360<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "[dead]"]]>Apparently hyperbole works too.

]]>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 14:05:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412175ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412175https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412175<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Tesla Will Die"]]>Many of us upper-class liberals have moved to the right.

Shitty cities filled with crime and weirdos after your kids will do that to you.

]]>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:54:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412048ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412048https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412048<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "[dead]"]]>It's a shame that terrorism works.

]]>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:52:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412014ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43412014<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked"]]>The BMW links says zero to 30 mph in 2.6

Not bad but it's not zero to 60 mph in 2.6

]]>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:34:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251039ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251039https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43251039<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Hive Roaster Handheld Smoke Incinerating Coffee Roaster"]]>There's only one way to properly enjoy bean juice.

]]>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 04:25:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180584ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180584https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43180584<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"]]>Let's vote Labor and Liberal to keep the UK from going fascist on our data.

Oh wait....shit.

]]>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:35:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129556ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129556https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43129556<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "A drill bit that can also drive screws"]]>You've been missing out.

At first blush it does seem stupid to use an impact driver in a wood screw, but they just don't strip or cam out.

They're the same size as drills now.

]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:34:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036207ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036207https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036207<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "New DOGE site update breaks down government jobs by salary/age/headcount"]]>Austerity is horrible for those that don't produce goods and services that are desired.

For those that do, it's fine.

]]>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:29:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036168ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036168https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43036168<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "The Physicians Are Healing Themselves, with Ozempic"]]>>>No one is saying that being overweight is healthy.

Uh...

https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/health-and-wellne...

]]>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:34:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007915ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007915https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007915<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Palantir designed to 'power the West to its obvious innate superiority' says CEO"]]>The west is a culture not a race. For example many Asian people are more western than many white Americans.

]]>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:55:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936898ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936898<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Air traffic controller 'left work early', one was left to handle the air traffic"]]>There should have more controllers to fill the gap. People should be allowed to leave work early now and then without having to worry if it's creating an unsafe situation.

]]>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:34:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903149ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903149https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903149<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Air traffic controller 'left work early', one was left to handle the air traffic"]]>Here's one person's claim

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/01/31/diversity-hir...

]]>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 22:32:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903138ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903138https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903138<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard and firmware"]]>I got lazy and ran a list of points through a language model. The key is to give it direction, like "be succinct".

(NB Just did this)

]]>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:46:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889242ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889242<![CDATA[New comment by ohnoitsahuman in "[dead]"]]>If your quilt depicts a giant bundle of blood, I'm not going to get upset when the normies decide they don't want to see it.

]]>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 14:11:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887854ohnoitsahumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887854https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887854