Hacker News: ponty_rick

New comment by ponty_rick in "AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think"

ponty_rick — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 03:19:28 +0000

If you use github, sure

New comment by ponty_rick in "What Is Entropy?"

ponty_rick — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:54:08 +0000

As a software engineer, I learned what entropy was in computer science when I changed the way that a function was called which caused the system to run out of entropy in production and caused an outage. Heh.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

ponty_rick — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:32:52 +0000

I can see how Microsoft and AWS would now favor Wiz competitors now (Orca, Palo, Crowdstrike etc)

New comment by ponty_rick in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

ponty_rick — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:28:20 +0000

The issue is a lot of customers are going to run away from Wiz now, due to all the Google uncertainty.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Meta Project Aria - Smart Glasses Research Kit"

ponty_rick — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:56:22 +0000

Why not just set up QR codes that link the location to your phone that the glasses can scan instead of a beacon? You could just as many as you want and slabber them on the wall.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration"

ponty_rick — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:52:04 +0000

If we figure it out, it might end up being cheaper than fission eventually.

New comment by ponty_rick in "BYD to offer Tesla-like self-driving tech in all models for free"

ponty_rick — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:20:49 +0000

China has better manufacturing prowess than the USA. Their scale is astonishing and they have an incredible ecosystem of components, logistics and labor to make manufacturing hyperefficient. I'm sure the government helps them out too, but one shouldn't discount just how good they are at manufacturing.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income"

ponty_rick — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:39:35 +0000

I don't think anyone in India is buying old American cars

New comment by ponty_rick in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

ponty_rick — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:21:26 +0000

Pretty sure every vendor uses the kernel. There must be a reason behind none of them exclusively using the APIs.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

ponty_rick — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:25:20 +0000

With the crowdstrike outage earlier last year it was incredible how many hidden security and kernel "experts" came out crawling from the woodwork, questioning why anything needs to run in the kernel and predicting the company's demise.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

ponty_rick — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 05:21:32 +0000

Summarizing in Kevin Malone style - Nvidia good now. Later? No know.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)"

ponty_rick — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:33:32 +0000

I learned to touch things with a metal object like a key, so the charge spreads out across the part of skin holding the object and the pain is less.

New comment by ponty_rick in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

ponty_rick — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:44:26 +0000

IMO they should be for children under 15.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

ponty_rick — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:02:47 +0000

Trains are pretty efficient as well.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

ponty_rick — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:01:26 +0000

Would be interesting if China uses drones with technology from Taiwan to invade Taiwan.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Updates to H-1B"

ponty_rick — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:07:20 +0000

That would work in the short term. In the long term, jobs would leave the USA so companies won't have to deal with immigration uncertainties.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Updates to H-1B"

ponty_rick — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:02:59 +0000

Why not just auction on the candidate's salary instead of paying a tax to the government who will burn your money anyway.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Updates to H-1B"

ponty_rick — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:59:29 +0000

Only the base salary counts, not the total comp. That 280k/yr sounds like total comp - includes base+bonus+RSUs. The average base would be more along the lines of 150k-190k.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis"

ponty_rick — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:16:10 +0000

Data centers require an ecosystem of technology to exist - skilled manpower, fiber optic network, grid capacity etc, they're probably not up for it yet.

New comment by ponty_rick in "Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law"

ponty_rick — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:27:33 +0000

That title really needs updating in that case, it's very misleading.