Hacker News: roflulz

New comment by roflulz in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

roflulz — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:57:15 +0000

The S&P Shariah index fund is required to exclude SpaceX and already exists https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-500-shar...

New comment by roflulz in "Interview with Geoffrey Hinton"

roflulz — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:46:25 +0000

name a country that is better that isn't a petrostate?

New comment by roflulz in "Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike"

roflulz — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:08:29 +0000

labor is being abused by the capitalists - isn't it perfect that labor can be replaced by robots instead of being abused by the capitalists?

New comment by roflulz in "Denver gave homeless people $1k/mth. Year later, nearly half had housing"

roflulz — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:51:00 +0000

then this wasn't a good experiment at all then

New comment by roflulz in "Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday"

roflulz — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 04:47:50 +0000

the commenter is probably a junior boot camp web dev...

New comment by roflulz in "Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio"

roflulz — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:03:01 +0000

everyone knows the Stripe founders tho...

New comment by roflulz in "Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco"

roflulz — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 06:48:40 +0000

SF is 6.9 per 100K -> pretty high... higher than any city in Europe or Asia not currently with an active war... (On those continents, only Ukraine, Iraq, and Afghanistan are more dangerous than SF)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rat... excluding those at war.

New comment by roflulz in "Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon"

roflulz — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 04:40:35 +0000

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/04/27/body-app... they fire people or grind them to dust.

New comment by roflulz in "Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon"

roflulz — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 04:39:30 +0000

apple just fires continuously rather than letting dead weight stay at the company until a layoff gives management a way to finally let them go.

New comment by roflulz in "Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations"

roflulz — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:15:50 +0000

is apple keychain safer than all these 3rd party options now?...

New comment by roflulz in "What I learned at Gitlab that I don't want to forget"

roflulz — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:07:39 +0000

it seems like an easy way to create ambiguous bias to fire someone who is in the grey area before the Ritz Carlton. (i.e., I stayed at Motel 6, and this other person who I also hate stayed at the Holiday Inn - lets get rid of them)

New comment by roflulz in "Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020)"

roflulz — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:18:41 +0000

AMD and Intel and old semiconductor companies have always had titles like - "Engineer 1" "Engineer 2" "Senior Engineer" and then -> "Member of Technical Staff" above that. (Search MTS, SMTS, PMTS etc. on LinkedIn to see a million of them)

New comment by roflulz in "Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook"

roflulz — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 06:25:16 +0000

talking about the US?

New comment by roflulz in "Crypto firm Bitpanda lays off around 20% of its people"

roflulz — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 22:14:42 +0000

with Django (or other heavy opinionated frameworks targeting a CMS system), this seems like a ~3 hour project for a basic CMS.

New comment by roflulz in "Famines and Epidemics Trigger Wars"

roflulz — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:04:58 +0000

We did cause 1M deaths.... and our troops are still in Iraq.... you should be protesting Biden for maintaining the troops there still just as hard as Russia, and boycotting products sold by the US.

New comment by roflulz in "We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned"

roflulz — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:30:01 +0000

monorepo until it becomes too big -> then, splitting it into 2-3 repos, until each one also gets too big to manage...

New comment by roflulz in "Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees"

roflulz — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 22:47:33 +0000

as someone who has actually tried to start a company - he deserves it and more

New comment by roflulz in "‘Biodegradable’ drinking straws contain PFAS"

roflulz — Tue, 03 May 2022 01:08:11 +0000

the waxes we should be using are the ones from plants and animals, and they degrade like any other organic compounds. paraffin wax is the petroleum derived ones - and yeah - we should try to ban those.

New comment by roflulz in "Military mulls recruiting plan to enlist college athletes"

roflulz — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 22:28:19 +0000

Iraq was still an illegal war where fake intel was used on purpose by leadership to mislead people.

New comment by roflulz in "Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere"

roflulz — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:04:35 +0000

I know someone who became mentally ill when the bootcamp switched from in-person to remote and had enough stress to develop schizophrenia from the stresses of trying to apply for jobs remotely and alone in 2020.