Hacker News: pensatoio

New comment by pensatoio in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

pensatoio — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:15:33 +0000

A dollar bill is exactly the same (roughly) always. Banning models of gun parts (or anything 3D printed, for that matter) is like trying to ban the patterns of dust in the wind. There are millions of permutations and ways to slice the problem.

New comment by pensatoio in "Google has the same AI adoption curve as John Deere"

pensatoio — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:17:31 +0000

This is a very smug post with very little substance.

New comment by pensatoio in "AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human"

pensatoio — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:18:36 +0000

I'd immediately chargeback any subsequent charges. That's what it's for. You have nobody to talk to and no other recourse (unless you hire a lawyer.)

Probably a great reminder for everyone not to park your domain in the same place you do everything else.

Also, why are you paying 18k for resources you aren't using?

New comment by pensatoio in "AI employees don't pay taxes"

pensatoio — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:00:50 +0000

What a weak argument against the “it’s just a tool” defense.

New comment by pensatoio in "Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness""

pensatoio — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:16:20 +0000

I think it's important to agree with you and point out the obvious, again, in this thread. The people behind Sage are responsible (or, shall I say, irresponsible.)

The attitude towards AI is much more mixed than the attitude towards guns, so it should be even easier to hammer this home.

Adam Binksmith, Zak Miller, and Shoshannah Tekofsky are _bad_ people who are intentionally doing something objectively malicious under the guise of charity.

New comment by pensatoio in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

pensatoio — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:15:19 +0000

Are they really much more complicated than a hybrid? Think RAV4 Hybrid. I’d much prefer a fully electric drivetrain with an electric generator to the joyless CVT.

New comment by pensatoio in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

pensatoio — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:08:22 +0000

If a shelf stable fuel like LP could be integrated into an EREV, I think that would be the perfect combo. All the dynamics of an EV with the extended range and easy fuel availability.

I’ve owned a M3P and MY, and I really want a truck, but it needs to be more capable than the electric offerings. An EREV truck would be fantastic.

New comment by pensatoio in "Can “second life” EV batteries work as grid-scale energy storage?"

pensatoio — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:33:28 +0000

What we really need is standard two way charging on these cars. Every home with an EV should have a backup battery built into the deal.

New comment by pensatoio in "Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]"

pensatoio — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:45:00 +0000

Why is eSIM related? I want to understand. To me, SIM cards always seemed ridiculous and pointless.

New comment by pensatoio in "Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public"

pensatoio — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:55:42 +0000

Love my P365, but I'm not buying another product from Sig after the P320. I can't trust them to make a dangerous tool in a safe and reliable manner.

New comment by pensatoio in "Sig Sauer citing national security to keep documents from public"

pensatoio — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:27:07 +0000

Their reputation is absolutely shot. It's not just the P320 either, the XM7 and XM5 were also poor choices.

New comment by pensatoio in "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study"

pensatoio — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:08:23 +0000

It’s just engineers getting high on their own supply. All the hype men for the software are software engineers (or adjacent.)

Frankly, any time I see research indicating software engineering is at a high risk of being automated, I outright dismiss it as pseudo science. It ain’t happening with current tech.

New comment by pensatoio in "Go is still not good"

pensatoio — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:16:58 +0000

> caused a production issue

that's not a production issue, and it's a very niche use case

New comment by pensatoio in "Air Force unit suspends use of Sig Sauer pistol after shooting death of airman"

pensatoio — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:23:26 +0000

Honestly, I’d take the $200 and run.

New comment by pensatoio in "AWS Lambda Silent Crash – A Platform Failure, Not an Application Bug [pdf]"

pensatoio — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:25:21 +0000

While I have no empathy or patience for Amazon’s support model, you’re really asking for it when you write backend code in Node.

I get that some big businesses are using JavaScript on the backend, but I’ll bet almost every single one would be better off switching to a type-safe, compiled language.

New comment by pensatoio in "Silly job interview questions in Haskell"

pensatoio — Fri, 23 May 2025 03:36:44 +0000

Fifteen years into my career, and I'm finally realizing that "expressive" languages are practically unreadable.

New comment by pensatoio in "Try Switching to Kagi"

pensatoio — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:35:18 +0000

I tried it a few months back, and it blew me away how much search could be improved. I am now a paying customer and extremely satisfied with the product.

New comment by pensatoio in "Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API"

pensatoio — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 04:21:14 +0000

Haha. No...it's just a _distributed system_. One with firm, precisely-defined boundaries around each horizontally scaled sub-system.

New comment by pensatoio in "Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API"

pensatoio — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:08:34 +0000

Yes. The use cases are very different, as far as these things go. To say otherwise is borderline misinformation.

You can build services internally with gRPC and serve a public graphQL API that aggregates them.

New comment by pensatoio in "Go Protobuf: The New Opaque API"

pensatoio — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:01:25 +0000

Why? I'm going to encourage my engineers and other teams to use it. Using this API would 100% have prevented bugs created by accessing the generated structs directly, especially in the presence of an optional value.