Hacker News: rrr_oh_man

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does"

rrr_oh_man — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:30:02 +0000

I thought it was for distributed DBs?

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?"

rrr_oh_man — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:10:59 +0000

You can also start a fire by letting your pan get too hot, but nonetheless you make your own eggs.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale"

rrr_oh_man — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:30:52 +0000

> In general, the spec must be human readable, and I believe to achieve that we must do away with SQL

Eh. Carthago delenda est? Why?

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Most advice is right for the person giving it"

rrr_oh_man — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:45:19 +0000

A ton of YC advice (e.g. I remember a Mondo co-founder) is "We did X, and it really worked, but it was a really bad and dangerous idea, so don't do X" without stopping to think whether X might have been the reason the company survived in the first place. Basically: do as I say, not as I do / did.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Most advice is right for the person giving it"

rrr_oh_man — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:43:13 +0000

> Once 30% of the country is on it, expect buffets to go out of business and restaurants to need to shift to smaller portions in response

It's funny how a buffet in almost every other country really just exists for the self-serving simplicity/cost-savings and a broad-ish selection for customers, not to trigger overeating.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Most advice is right for the person giving it"

rrr_oh_man — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:39:42 +0000

Nah, the better analogy is "don't spend more than you make".

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

rrr_oh_man — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:16:54 +0000

> It's just a somewhat narrow, (in this case) inconsequential, but also valid, nitpick.

YES. You got it, thanks! That's why I was referencing #386 :)

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

rrr_oh_man — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:52:03 +0000

Possibly we are talking about different things. I am not prescribing or postulating anything. This is just reality.

  Average Revenues/Sales (¢/kWh)

  End-use sector    July 2026
  Residential           18.31
  Commercial            14.53
  Industrial             9.77
  Transportation        14.97
  --
  Total                 14.99

Source: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/end-use.php

The reason is mostly higher consumption = lower average price.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

rrr_oh_man — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:20:09 +0000

I didn't express myself correctly.

The analogy is false.

Domestic electricity is priced per kWh, wholesale electricity is priced per kWh, the latter is, as a rule, cheaper. It is not fixed vs variable rate.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

rrr_oh_man — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:35:45 +0000

> This is analogous to variable vs fixed rate electricity. Paying the real time wholesale price is a massive economic advantage if you can figure out how to control the demand side of the house.

Wholesale electricity is almost always cheaper.

Sorry, I have to be that guy... https://xkcd.com/386/

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

rrr_oh_man — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:41:37 +0000

> But I’ve noticed that most people when faced with the same person can’t help but try and figure out what makes them tick, or their redeeming qualities, or if even anything can be redeemed. It seems to be a social equivalent of “nerd sniping”; most people just have a very hard time declaring “this person is worth 0 additional seconds of my time” and actually following through.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone put this into words.

Thank you. A very compelling thought.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States"

rrr_oh_man — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:20:30 +0000

> Klamath

Don't Tread on the Bear!

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States"

rrr_oh_man — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:55:18 +0000

> fish cannons

It's absurdly funny/weird/scary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGzdOpCisnQ

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Porsche Mission S"

rrr_oh_man — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:42:55 +0000

Yup.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Porsche Mission S"

rrr_oh_man — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:42:22 +0000

LLMsplaining in every second paragraph…

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

rrr_oh_man — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:47:04 +0000

> Uphill battles are often worth fighting.

A number of military historians would beg to differ.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

rrr_oh_man — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:02:51 +0000

That sounds like decent sized gaps between the teeth, wide jaw, not eating a ton of (sweet) stuff that gets stuck, etc. Or just lucky genes in general. YMMV.

E.g. there are many examples of people chain-smoking until the ripe age of 90+ and never having lung problems, but that does not invalidate the other 95% of the bell curve.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

rrr_oh_man — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:02:20 +0000

Really good question.

I personally treat it like gym: it's most important that you do it, not so much in what order or even how well.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Gemini 4 Argon"

rrr_oh_man — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:41:59 +0000

Oh, fuck, I just realized those are actual apps?! Holy cow.

New comment by rrr_oh_man in "Has AI tells"

rrr_oh_man — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:36:19 +0000

Pay more, or advertise fake AI slop jobs with higher pay?