Hacker News: rubyist5eva

New comment by rubyist5eva in "How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong"

rubyist5eva — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 01:04:18 +0000

Podcast experience on desktop is absolutely miserable. I just want a list of the most recent unplayed episodes in chronological order, is that too much to ask? Like jeez, it sounds like the most basic feature imaginable that should be part of an MvP for crying out loud.

Only reason I still use it is because it's easier to cast to my google nest minis than Apple Podcasts.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?"

rubyist5eva — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:46:45 +0000

It's a bunch of smoke and mirrors akin to blockchain, bitcoin (and the entire web3/crypto space in general) - a whole bunch of hype and "evangelists" who keep saying it's going to change the world (and make them a whole lot of money in the process, how convenient!) but if you do look at it critically even at a surface level you realize it's just a bunch of really computationally expensive BS that isn't any better or more officient than existing status quo solutions.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Bing AI can't be trusted"

rubyist5eva — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:14:07 +0000

What about lying and fabricating facts about the Israel and Palestinian conflict?

https://twitter.com/IsraelBitton/status/1624744618012160000

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Modern Mono"

rubyist5eva — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 03:32:41 +0000

last year I made a custom build of Iosevka using the customizer on the website and building it on my machine, and I can't use any other font now. If you like the general look of Iosevka, but prefer certain glyph variants over others - highly recommended to look into creating a custom iosevka build for yourself

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern"

rubyist5eva — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 14:20:33 +0000

Reminding me of my younger days, during my lolbertarian phase where I thought people would do the right thing and have safety procedures in place because "market forces" would shut them down if people died. To be that naive again...

New comment by rubyist5eva in "No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health"

rubyist5eva — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 14:49:05 +0000

As I’m getting older I’ve basically had to swear off alchohol and marijuana completely. Even if I don’t get intoxicated (or stoned), I nearly always just feel like absolute garbage the next day (not hangover, just feel gross and groggy). Sometimes it’s lasted for days, even when I only have one drink or smoke barely enough weed to get a little buzzed. Fortunately I’ve also reached a point where I just don’t really feel good from being intoxicated either so I don’t really have a recreational incentive to do it anymore either.

I don’t know how these things affect other people’s “sober lives” but if it’s anything like that I don’t see how people can function when getting intoxicated semi-regularly. The cost-benefit just seems completely lobsided.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Most Crypto Developers Aren't Working on Bitcoin or Ethereum"

rubyist5eva — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:32:40 +0000

Of course not, they’re too busy coming up with their own Ponzi scheme.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "GoDaddy Announces Layoffs of “About 8%”"

rubyist5eva — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:25:19 +0000

> It's understandable that the external perception of the company is bad (and even sexist)

> They were adamant about hiring women.

So it seems like the perception is justified then.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Google stock tumbles 8% after its Bard AI ad shows inaccurate answer"

rubyist5eva — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 19:42:45 +0000

I fail to see the value of an AI that basically just regurgitates something you could already find in a search engine, on top of just spewing out completely nonsensical garbage if it can't find something. All this AI chatbot crap just seems like a step-backward as a whole, not too different from cryptocurrencies and blockchain where it offers no tangible benefit over the status-quo, costs way more for worse performance, and is still outperformed by traditional systems.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company"

rubyist5eva — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:58:37 +0000

> In my opinion, it would be beneficial if DEI initiatives were confidential and kept "hush hush" within a company.

They shouldn't exist at all. If DEI favored white people, it would be "problematic", and that tells you all you need to know. As if non-white people can't be successful on their own and need special treatment. Tokenizing human beings to get social-credit for your corporation is, frankly, disgusting and extremely racist.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Don’t teach during code reviews"

rubyist5eva — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 01:22:37 +0000

Do you talk about your “senior engineers” this way to their faces? Using scare quotes to refer to the titles of your colleagues? Do you refer to them as minions too?

You sound like an absolutely insufferable person to work under.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with ‘esm-apps’ enabled"

rubyist5eva — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 14:47:46 +0000

> If you're running Ubuntu anywhere there's a bit of bureaucracy, like a government or large business

> businesses that can’t afford $500/year/server

Pick one

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Ask HN: How are you handling Section 174 changes for bootstrapped companies?"

rubyist5eva — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 16:52:24 +0000

classic regulatory capture, thanks Trump!

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Reducing technical debt by valuing comments as much as code"

rubyist5eva — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:47:38 +0000

As a "rails folk", we aren't all like that :)

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Nim and Go programs identified by Carbon Black as malware on Windows"

rubyist5eva — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:35:46 +0000

anti-virus software is the most dangerous malware that exists, it extracts money from you while slowing down your computer and generally making your life hell for no next to no benefit whatsoever

the amount of productivity lost to useless anti-virus software is incalculable

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney"

rubyist5eva — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:56:23 +0000

Can tell it's AI generated because the "plot" makes absolutely zero sense, lol.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Coinbase’s chief product officer will leave with a $105M payday"

rubyist5eva — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 16:50:35 +0000

Buddy, have you ever heard of this thing called "cryptocurrency"?

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos"

rubyist5eva — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:55:46 +0000

Mercurial's branch management makes more sense. If you want to know which branch a commit originated from in git, good luck.

Many things in git, are frankly anti-patterns in any other sane versioning system - comitting partial changesets because of the index? gross. Rewriting history and force pushing? absolutely insane.

The fact that I don't have to "grok" mercurial like you need to git is actually a plus. Mercurial can do everything that git does (and more: check out changeset evolution in mercurial, it blows anything you can do with git rebase out of the water) and it doesn't require Ph.D. level knowledge in directed acyclic graphs to do it either.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "Git-sim: Visually simulate Git operations in your own repos"

rubyist5eva — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:09:58 +0000

Mercurial should have won, it's superior in every way. For pesonal projects I use Fossil, which is fantastic.

New comment by rubyist5eva in "AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law"

rubyist5eva — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 15:12:21 +0000

good