Hacker News: roody15

New comment by roody15 in "Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert"

roody15 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:30:46 +0000

As a software engineer you may be lacking a sense of selfhood(outside of external validation and roles). You may find you are kind of a people pleaser, confident at work, but also privately resentful at times.

The software engineering job skips dealing directly emotional regulation, experiencing emotions and directly confronting others in vulnerable way or a negative way like boundaries.

Instead you are given a problem, and you can fix the problem, control the variables and see if your solution works logically and tangibly.

You cannot do this with people interactions. Emotional orbits, feelings, insecurities, needs, wants are messy overlap .. are not easily definable , and flux … software engineers may not thrive here I would guess.

New comment by roody15 in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts"

roody15 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:57:04 +0000

AI may burst in terms of the subscription model pushed by large corporations here in the US. AI is here to stay as a technology, there is no question at this point that it is powerful effective and a transformative development in human history. Not sure where we go from here but AI is not going away.

New comment by roody15 in "Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters"

roody15 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:52:12 +0000

This is just a waste of tax payer money and will have zero impact on safety. If anything malfunctioning pepper spraying drones is more likely than an active shooter.

New comment by roody15 in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

roody15 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:58:12 +0000

This is a mistake. The last 2 doom games sold quite well and have a unique look and feel that is associated with idtech. This could backfire on Microsoft big time.

New comment by roody15 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

roody15 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:55:40 +0000

These features suck on the few American cars I have seen them. In Florida using a rental driving to Orlando area my vehicle constantly told me to get my eye’s back on the road or to take a driving break. I was on a highway driving completely normal. Just annoying dashboard warnings over and over.

The only feature I like so far is the slight shake of the wheel if crossing over a lane.

Either this tech is janky/new or is just honestly not needed and distracting.

New comment by roody15 in "Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?"

roody15 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:27:34 +0000

Same. This medication along with honest reflection about my own feelings and experiences in the present have been life changing… and I am 47z

New comment by roody15 in ""Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds"

roody15 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:23:27 +0000

I have found this to be true. I manage an organization with around 600 Apple laptops and now when setting them up I always increase the cursor size slightly. No one complains and it does appear to be a smoother experience.

New comment by roody15 in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

roody15 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:11:02 +0000

Yes it’s hard to see Microsoft become what feels to me a shell of what it once was. Back in the day I got MCP certification and MCSA certification for server 2008/2003.

I managed fleets of windows devices and felt Windows and PC’s were efficient and had a good balance of an operating system and schema that is powerful and effective.

With windows 11.. it’s like an all time low emerged. Where I am just fighting against a platform trying a variety of gimmicks designed to extra rents and push tools that are not really all that useful or polished.

Windows 11 feels bloated and just feels like a struggle.

For me it really is the time of Linux. Whether it be a workstation, a server or even a simple kiosk… Linux just seems to embrace the ethos of what windows has left behind.

New comment by roody15 in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

roody15 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:49:35 +0000

Agree, I just meant on the pricing. I like the rpi, have hads lots of fun with the rpi4 making a custom home media player. Just at this price point not sure it makes much sense for as many people to play around with.

New comment by roody15 in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

roody15 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:31:57 +0000

Education price for schools is 499$ for the Neo. Have to agree no longer sure the pi makes much sense at this price point.

New comment by roody15 in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

roody15 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:25:33 +0000

One good thing about the 8gig Neo means that I think Apple will at least work to support M1 8gig for a few more years!!

New comment by roody15 in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

roody15 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:05:04 +0000

Think they will end paying the ransom quietly.

New comment by roody15 in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"

roody15 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:00:34 +0000

No, unfortunately this has been extremely difficult in my life. With raising children you have a shared goal and in although its hard it makes life simpler in you have something meaningful to focus on. Without kids we have had to face our own emotional issues and dynamics and this has not been easy.

New comment by roody15 in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"

roody15 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:17:29 +0000

As a father of 3 daughters now approaching 50 with my oldest now 24 … I will say that I believe some of this is true. Perhaps it is just the life altering effect of raising children or maybe is biological as well. You can definitely pickup on whether another male is a father or not.

New comment by roody15 in "Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989"

roody15 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:34:12 +0000

I remember getting my first 486 33mhz computer and being able to play Ultima 7 the black gate, and later Ultima 7 part 2. This was a turning point for me as the game was way ahead of others on the console side of things. DOS 6 !

New comment by roody15 in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

roody15 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:46:19 +0000

This should not be surprising. The CEO's primary objective is likely to increase profits and so this will be his/her primary focus. Even if the technology is not ready for prime time just making announcements like this likely helps increase negotiating pressure on radiologist group contracts and salaries.

New comment by roody15 in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

roody15 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:54:02 +0000

MacBook Neo is going to sell like crazy. In the education market, educators, students, aides... nothing close at this price point. With memory and SSD prices so high I don't see how Dell, Asus and others are going to be able to compete. Unless the build quality is significantly worse than a M1 macbook air not sure budget PC makers will be able to compete.

New comment by roody15 in "CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider"

roody15 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:47:36 +0000

Agree this reminds me of the level my Herman Hesse “The Glass Bead Game”. Academics and researchers have a moral duty to give back to the larger society that enables their endeavors .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game

New comment by roody15 in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

roody15 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:19:36 +0000

Same I am in outstanding physical health and my diet / exercise is excellent. Taking Lexipro has made a massive improvement on my emotional bandwidth. I take vitamin D / fish oil and bits of other supplements. At least for me no question this medication even at a 10mg dose has made a major positive impact.

New comment by roody15 in "Bugs Apple loves"

roody15 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:17:03 +0000

Searching email in Mac Mail is truly horrendous. I honestly like the program and use it almost daily … but when needing to search I absolutely open a browser window and login / search. The search has been a disaster in Mac Mail well over a decade.