Hacker News: rumblestrut

New comment by rumblestrut in "Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year?"

rumblestrut — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 00:50:38 +0000

“On Tyranny,” by Timothy Snyder

New comment by rumblestrut in "Stack Overflow Does Not Want to Help You"

rumblestrut — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:30:46 +0000

I pay $20/month to Claude.ai, and consequently don’t go to SO anymore.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Show HN: AI Image Upscaler and Photo Enhancer with up to 10x resolution boost"

rumblestrut — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 19:33:17 +0000

No free trial? Pass.

New comment by rumblestrut in "No "Hello", No "Quick Call", and No Meetings Without an Agenda"

rumblestrut — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 14:52:12 +0000

I am so glad to be in the office.

For instance, every morning when I come in there is a person on my team that will talk about their family, their kids, their life, and that goes on for about 15 minutes. In the spirit of team building, I entertain it for awhile. But that does come with a cost.

Someone came in a few weeks ago not feeling well, but decided not to stay home. Ended up having covid and spread it to others. It's hard to be productive when half the team is out sick.

Every day I have to be in the office with others, I truly hate it. The pandemic was hard, but I absolutely miss being able to work from home every day.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Microplastics detected in human testicles, troubling researchers"

rumblestrut — Thu, 23 May 2024 16:32:16 +0000

"I certainly would not have a child with anyone who has been jabbed"

LOL, OK.

"or has testicular microplastics."

Again, LOL. They are everywhere.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Dell tells remote workers that they won't be eligible for promotion"

rumblestrut — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 02:54:54 +0000

I was going to replace my kid’s aging laptop this year with a Dell. But, I’m a big believer in remote work being the future.

I’m sure I will hardly send an impactful message, but dude, you’re totally not getting a Dell now.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Death by Neti Pot"

rumblestrut — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:56:33 +0000

This is just propaganda put out by Big Distilled Water.

They’ll never get my $0.99!

New comment by rumblestrut in "Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack"

rumblestrut — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 22:25:25 +0000

Over the past few years I’ve felt like Google itself is a spam attack.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective"

rumblestrut — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:23:13 +0000

I know someone who used to work for Tesla.

They said after working there and seeing how poor the quality was, they would never buy one.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Acquia, my Drupal startup"

rumblestrut — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 15:20:00 +0000

Maybe I'm wrong here, but I feel like a lot of the comments are referencing the Drupal of the past, not today's Drupal.

Drupal 8, 9, 10 and beyond is quite different than what came before it.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Acquia, my Drupal startup"

rumblestrut — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 15:16:01 +0000

You can easily use Drupal to create the backend for a headless CMS. It's about as simple as turning on the JSON API module that comes out of the box, and then start creating content types.

But then you're having to maintain the CMS, which isn't as appealing as using something like Contentful. It really depends on your use case (like all technologies, of course).

New comment by rumblestrut in "Leaving the Phone at Home"

rumblestrut — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 02:57:55 +0000

I’ve been waiting on Cricket since the Apple Watch came out with cellular. They don’t have a plan on when/if it will be available, which seems silly since Cricket is owned by AT&T.

But I’ll never go back to AT&T’s prices, so I guess I’m just out.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Hacker News Classic"

rumblestrut — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:43:24 +0000

I realize this isn't about the diplay, but for those of you looking for a different UI, I use https://hckrnews.com every day.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life"

rumblestrut — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:45:03 +0000

Not family wide but very personal: MacroFactor. It healed my relationship with food, and helped me lose 60 lbs. Worth every penny ($12/month subscription).

New comment by rumblestrut in "Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords"

rumblestrut — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:10:59 +0000

Oh man, I use that a lot.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Red Programming Language"

rumblestrut — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 13:58:15 +0000

Still new to many.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Red Programming Language"

rumblestrut — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:18:46 +0000

Whew. I’m glad this exists. It’s been a few days since yet another programming language has been introduced into the world.

Sarcasm aside, while I think striving to be better is great, sometimes I wish there was just a standard language for programming.

I realize it depends on the context (mobile, web, desktop application, different platforms) but it can feel overwhelming when in the end, they all pretty much do the same thing: tell a computer to do things.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Vasectomies rose after the end of Roe"

rumblestrut — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 01:29:55 +0000

Do you regret the procedure or the one who did it?

My vasectomy was 100 percent worth it.

New comment by rumblestrut in "Playing with Fire – ChatGPT"

rumblestrut — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:27:48 +0000

I hate to be “that guy,” but every time I go to a website that is not mobile friendly, I immediately discount it and close the tab.

There’s something in my head that thinks, “This writer is out of touch” (even if they are not).

I admit my logic may be faulty.

New comment by rumblestrut in "High egg prices send profits at largest US producer soaring more than 700%"

rumblestrut — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:51:39 +0000

To paraphrase Russell Brand: we have created a world where it's most profitable to have an ongoing crisis forever.