Hacker News: okeuro49

New comment by okeuro49 in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

okeuro49 — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:13:42 +0000

The ability to solve maths problems still doesn't mean it is intelligent.

It doesn't know what it is doing.

New comment by okeuro49 in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

okeuro49 — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:36:25 +0000

Its funny that the article uses Wikipedia as an example, given it is a tool that always needs a caveat: "anyone can edit it, always use the source, never trust it directly."

There are many instances where I have seen Wikipedia have bias, or be misinformation.

AI just needs the caveat that it is not really intelligent, but a very good predictive text machine, which you should always ask to provide citations.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Ruby for Good"

okeuro49 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:53:54 +0000

The CoC reminds me a lot of this quote by Sowell:

"...if the answer to the problem is that people should just be virtuous, then there is no problem, because we have known that for thousands of years."

New comment by okeuro49 in "NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots' voices"

okeuro49 — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:21:19 +0000

Why did they need the spectrogram?

New comment by okeuro49 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

okeuro49 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:10:08 +0000

I live in the UK and am citing an article based on Freedom of Information requests.

The UK has a problem with free speech at the moment. This is why the https://freespeechunion.org exists.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

okeuro49 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:36:44 +0000

I don't think so. This is an interview with the German authorities: https://youtu.be/-bMzFDpfDwc

New comment by okeuro49 in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

okeuro49 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:02:41 +0000

In the UK 30 people are arrested a day for social media posts online. Only about 10 percent resulting in convictions.

Police don't face criminal charges for this.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr...

New comment by okeuro49 in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

okeuro49 — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:32:21 +0000

When I log into AWS there is a big graph saying "Cost savings" and offers all the different ways to save money.

The idea that AWS is abusive seems a bit much to me. There is Amazon Lightsail for people who prefer pay-monthly upfront costs.

New comment by okeuro49 in "I Will Never Use AI to Code"

okeuro49 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:49:20 +0000

I love using AI to code, as it saves me a lot of boring and repetitive typing.

I only commit code that is roughly the same as I would have written anyway.

It feels as good for developer ergonomics as the move away from CRT monitors.

New comment by okeuro49 in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

okeuro49 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:23:41 +0000

I've used a dynamically typed language extensively. I don't think they are suited for anything but small scripts.

Refactoring is a nightmare, as as types don't exist, the compiler can't help you if you try to access a property that doesn't exist.

I think generally people have realised this, and there are attempts to retrofit types onto dynamically typed languages.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

okeuro49 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:17:57 +0000

I used gtk2, it was ok, but I preferred Ubuntu's Unity interface when it came out.

Gnome 3 seems similar to Unity nowadays, and it is pretty good.

I find it much easier to use than Windows or Mac, which is credit to the engineers who work on it.

New comment by okeuro49 in "So you wanna build a local RAG?"

okeuro49 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:32:30 +0000

Do you run the models locally?

No local model for me manages to get function calling right.

New comment by okeuro49 in "PHP 8.5"

okeuro49 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:40:42 +0000

Doubtful it is anything to do with simplicity.

Python's success is explained by it being the language of choice for AI.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Nutella maker in hazelnut stand-off with Turkish dealers"

okeuro49 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:04:29 +0000

"Turkey" is what most English people would use, which makes it the defacto official name, despite what the UN might say.

Most English people aren't even able to type ü on a keyboard.

New comment by okeuro49 in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

okeuro49 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:37:37 +0000

FPTP forces coalitions to form before the vote, as otherwise they never get power.

In alternative systems, you vote and then coalitions jostle to form a majority afterwards.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

okeuro49 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:07:01 +0000

Do you have any information e.g. blog posts on this pattern?

New comment by okeuro49 in "The staff ate it later"

okeuro49 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:50:20 +0000

It reminds me of the proposal to shake hands at the end of Goldeneye:

> Miyamoto, with a series of suggestions for the game. “One point was that there was too much close-up killing – he found it a bit too horrible. I don’t think I did anything with that input. The second point was, he felt the game was too tragic, with all the killing. He suggested that it might be nice if, at the end of the game, you got to shake hands with all your enemies in the hospital.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/26/goldeneye...

New comment by okeuro49 in "Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions"

okeuro49 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:59:51 +0000

"Ireland also has relatively little money in politics, limits on donations..."

There are a crazy amount of NGOs in Ireland, 1 for every 155 people, many pushing forward their own political policies and views.

https://unherd.com/newsroom/in-ireland-its-progressives-who-...

New comment by okeuro49 in "IRS Direct File on GitHub"

okeuro49 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:11:10 +0000

With virtual threads it's difficult to see WebFlux being used in new projects.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O"

okeuro49 — Thu, 08 May 2025 14:43:19 +0000

According to mongodb it is acid compliant.

https://www.mongodb.com/resources/products/capabilities/acid...