Hacker News: r_hoods_ghost

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran"

r_hoods_ghost — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:58:52 +0000

It wasn't sparsely populated until you murdered everyone

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran"

r_hoods_ghost — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:58:17 +0000

Yes, the poor European settlers out there raping and a pillaging, burning and a looting,destroying cultures and entire people's to build their shiny palace on the hill. Remove the beam from your eye septic

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "British redcoat's lost memoir reveals realities of life as a disabled veteran"

r_hoods_ghost — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:55:49 +0000

Yes. America had no empire. Except for the giant land empire that was, and is, America. Or does invading and occupying thousands of square miles of land, annihilating entire nations, and enslaving and slaughtering the natives, a process that was still very much ongoing between 1860 and 1890 not count as empire building?

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Blender 4.5 LTS"

r_hoods_ghost — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:54:32 +0000

No they probably do mean the jump between the interface in 2.49 which was somewhat unique and very, very different to the current UI, to that in 2.5 which the current interface mostly resembles. 2.8 was a smaller jump that introduced left click select as the default, along with various cosmetic enhancements and a rework of the depsgraph.No idea what you're talking about with contexts being selected in the middle of the screen etc. I suspect you're using "context" in a way unique to you

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board"

r_hoods_ghost — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:15:26 +0000

Amoral literally means "lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something." Generally this is considered a problem if you are designing something that might influence the way people act.

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time"

r_hoods_ghost — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:51:58 +0000

I do this all the time and have done with every boss I've had over the past 25 years. None have ever objected. The phrase I use with my current CEO is "I'm not sure what you're asking for, can you clarify?" With my line manager this is shortened to "huh?" But then again I don't work for Americans who seem to be much more into hierarchy in the workplace and not asking questions.

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI "Actors" in Crowd Scene"

r_hoods_ghost — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:39:58 +0000

Can you give me a single example of people creating games/movies/books/music etc. bia ML that are of much better quality than those churned out by AAA?

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?"

r_hoods_ghost — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:46:42 +0000

Not the op, but it's the opposite, at least in the UK. I worked in hospitality as a yoof, was manager of a small hotel and a receptionist in big (independent) 5 stars. I absolutely did care about extra bookings because I got a big commission on walk-ins and a smaller commission on phone bookings. I also had leeway to discount rooms on a sliding scale down to "barely covers the cleaning costs" levels on the night. As a booker if I have the time I still call places up and can usually get a decent discount if they have availability, especially off season or last minute.

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Microsoft Edge swapped Cancel and Confirm on privacy dialog"

r_hoods_ghost — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 06:10:12 +0000

He's complaining that the privacy preserving option is given more prominence. OK...

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "The Death of Unity"

r_hoods_ghost — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:35:12 +0000

Unity is cheaper only in certain circumstances. UE5 is free and then you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenues over $1m. This avoids a lot of the issues faced by indie developers with the new pricing model (having to pay for copies you give away, having to pay a flat fee that eats the profit margin of 99p games, needing to pay for a subscription up front etc.)

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach"

r_hoods_ghost — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:44:16 +0000

Do it in a country with much laxer KYC laws for a haircut and then use one of the myriad other methods of transferring large amounts of illegitimate wealth across borders that existed prior to cryptocurrency and which continue to be widely used. Frankly at this point tof you're transacting in cryptocurrency most banks and governments are going to assume that you are either an idiot, a conman or a criminal and treat you as such so the entire chain is already "tainted".

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach"

r_hoods_ghost — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 13:38:49 +0000

Until the company changes their logo...

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "UK pulls back from clash with Big Tech over private messaging"

r_hoods_ghost — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 07:34:00 +0000

Not the patent but... incredibly environmentally destructive by design. Utterly privacy violating as you're publishing every transaction you make for the world to see on a public ledger so now your neighbour (and government) get to know about your badger fetish. Non reversible transactions are an invitation to fraud and theft and make routine errors like overpayments and payments to the wrong address potentially disastrous. Not to mention the "problems" it claims to fix like instant, fee free transactions and easy international transfers have been fixed for many years in countries with modern banking systems (i.e. not the USA) Etc. Etc. Etc.

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real"

r_hoods_ghost — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:30:21 +0000

According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics the mean hourly wage for cabinet makers and bench carpenters as of May 2022 was $20.25 per hour. Even in San Francisco the mean hourly wage was only $26.37. Lesson for today - your instincts abiut whay real world, non-dev jobs pay are totally out of whack with reality

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?"

r_hoods_ghost — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:47:30 +0000

Do you not use POs? Much easier, allows you to approve spend if necessary and means the person paying I voices doesn't need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of your employees and keep up to date with which ones have ledt

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "The end of cool small cars"

r_hoods_ghost — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:57:37 +0000

Ummmm under sixteens have had free bus and tram travel in London for years. Or do you not want them to interact with members of the public and live in a sanitised bubble consisting solely of you and your nanny?

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro"

r_hoods_ghost — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 14:39:29 +0000

How on earth is forcing someone to go to a store, probably only in a few select locations far away from where you live, low friction?

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Epistemological Relativism (2016)"

r_hoods_ghost — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 19:55:59 +0000

Given relativism is a term that started being used in English philosophy in the 1860s and in German philosophy prior to that you'd be dead wrong.

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "The Surprising Power of Documentation"

r_hoods_ghost — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 06:51:28 +0000

Hire a couple of technical writers with experience and let them get on with it, and then make your devs document every new feature and change. Nothing passes code review unless it is accompanied by updated documentation. Getting your devs to document the existing codebase when you've inherited a shitshow like this will pull them away from their jobs for too long.

New comment by r_hoods_ghost in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

r_hoods_ghost — Wed, 31 May 2023 07:40:53 +0000

"It’s funny how computing might soon include elements of psychology and magic incantations nobody understands"

As a sysadmin I can tell you this is already the case...