Hacker News: piuantiderp

New comment by piuantiderp in "Air pollution may contribute to development of lung cancer in never-smokers"

piuantiderp — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 04:42:33 +0000

But meanwhile keep focusing on CO2....

New comment by piuantiderp in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

piuantiderp — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:06:38 +0000

Owners of car companies, to make more money. More disposable, more expensive cars, in less easily entered industry. How else will they keep BYD and others from coming in?

New comment by piuantiderp in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

piuantiderp — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:34:36 +0000

Google is going to lap them. The hardware muscle they have has not even started flexing

New comment by piuantiderp in "In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture"

piuantiderp — Sat, 31 May 2025 08:09:47 +0000

You'd be surprised. And sure, in the 1930's about 80% of Asian immigrants got deported out of Mexico. But even before and after, their descendants became very well integrated and mixed with the rest of society. Also, they tend to not identify as Asians, just like Mexicans unless it is very obvious or 2nd generation

New comment by piuantiderp in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

piuantiderp — Fri, 30 May 2025 05:57:24 +0000

You just haven't been to a good one.

New comment by piuantiderp in "In Vietnam, an unlikely outpost for Chicano culture"

piuantiderp — Tue, 27 May 2025 22:26:13 +0000

Look up Chaufa, and yes, you can get Chinese food everywhere...

New comment by piuantiderp in "Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law"

piuantiderp — Sun, 18 May 2025 04:28:05 +0000

A lot of theater

New comment by piuantiderp in "Energy drinks linked to rise in colorectal and blood cancer"

piuantiderp — Sat, 17 May 2025 16:22:48 +0000

Not all gut bacteria cause this, but the bad ones sure, will break sulfur-aminos into badness.

New comment by piuantiderp in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

piuantiderp — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:45:45 +0000

Read that you can very quickly blow the budget on the 200/mo ones too

New comment by piuantiderp in "Uber staff revolts over return-to-office mandate"

piuantiderp — Mon, 12 May 2025 01:27:02 +0000

WFH is the perfect example for execs to point out why offshoring is now incoming.

New comment by piuantiderp in "An interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers"

piuantiderp — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:12:34 +0000

Plato detected

New comment by piuantiderp in "Damn Vulnerable MCP Server"

piuantiderp — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:37:37 +0000

Ad populum fallacy will now be replaced by Ad AI said so.... the funny part is the "Sources??" people are some of the most reliant on it

New comment by piuantiderp in "In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants"

piuantiderp — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:22:04 +0000

Think of the other side of the coin. Through history the first thing slaves are denied are weapons. And there is many countries that allow weapons at home, US, Mexico, Latin America....

New comment by piuantiderp in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

piuantiderp — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:23:10 +0000

Brazilians are the proverbial boiling frogs....

New comment by piuantiderp in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

piuantiderp — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:43:54 +0000

In True Communism (tm) there would be no need for advertising! Because anything people could want they would already have!!!!

New comment by piuantiderp in "Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive"

piuantiderp — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:55:58 +0000

The world is better with multiple flavors instead of one bloated one.

New comment by piuantiderp in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

piuantiderp — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:02:58 +0000

One does not use the trackpad in a thinkpad. If anything they should be removed. The old keyboards are a dream to type on... Only computer that came close (that I had was HP DV1000)

New comment by piuantiderp in "Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023)"

piuantiderp — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:58:01 +0000

Or you know, you could just use .NET?

New comment by piuantiderp in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"

piuantiderp — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 05:38:43 +0000

Book by Christopher Bryson. Needed context

New comment by piuantiderp in "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket"

piuantiderp — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:23:26 +0000

Maybe 5y