Hacker News: shoopadoop

New comment by shoopadoop in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

shoopadoop — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:48:42 +0000

Well said. It's a psychological defense mechanism to cope with the anxiety of their existence. It makes no sense because it comes from the amygdala.

New comment by shoopadoop in "Stop Making TUIs"

shoopadoop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:12:39 +0000

You can make a crummy TUI like you can make a crummy GUI...

New comment by shoopadoop in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

shoopadoop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:02:47 +0000

Huh? Check out the Twitter feeds of your favorite Republican or Republican-aligned personalities. It's racial or nationalistic dog whistles all day every day.

New comment by shoopadoop in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

shoopadoop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:01:26 +0000

Tariffs have been hell for marina renovation work I'm associated with. Things paid for well in advance have exploded way past their budgets thanks to all the raw material costing so much more. Thanks to Trump.

Even the MAGA folks I have to deal with are bitter about it. They still voted for Trump but they can't deny the cause and effect. I think they'd still vote for Trump though. I don't understand how they manage to deal with the cognitive dissonance.

New comment by shoopadoop in "Stop Making TUIs"

shoopadoop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:45:01 +0000

Modern TUIs aren't like the form-based TUIs of yesteryear, though!

They're wannabe window managers.

New comment by shoopadoop in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

shoopadoop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:12:43 +0000

Check out the Downs-Thomson paradox.

New comment by shoopadoop in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

shoopadoop — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:28:06 +0000

In my experience AI coding is often about making lots of additive changes without a lot of (or any) thinking in advance.

Not sure how either of those things are conducive to performance

New comment by shoopadoop in "The World Has Moved On"

shoopadoop — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:47:45 +0000

Also, are these actions the expression of a coherent set of values?

New comment by shoopadoop in "DNI Gabbard Reveals Evidence of U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Global Biolab Program"

shoopadoop — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:40:39 +0000

Her real boss is probably thrilled.

New comment by shoopadoop in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

shoopadoop — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:49:30 +0000

Oh yeah. You can bang out your inputs so fast and with so much confidence on those keys.

New comment by shoopadoop in "The Last Technical Interview"

shoopadoop — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:23:21 +0000

It's an obstacle when hiring people who are currently enjoying stable employment. Probably fine for juniors, but not for experienced people with families and whatnot.

New comment by shoopadoop in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

shoopadoop — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:35:58 +0000

Musk wants all the money, but at the same time he also says that money is passe and that you don't need to worry about retirement in the upcoming era of Amazing Abundance(TM)

New comment by shoopadoop in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

shoopadoop — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:26:10 +0000

You want to play some old classic games so you spend five days getting a Raspberry Pi set up just right with Retroarch and then when it's setup just right you do something else.

New comment by shoopadoop in "Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid"

shoopadoop — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:37:44 +0000

For me everything moist smelled like seaweed.

I could smell fats (e.g. a grilled steak) but anything vaporous just smelled like the sea. Even diesel cars smelled like low tide. Ugh!

New comment by shoopadoop in "Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid"

shoopadoop — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:23:58 +0000

Please send me some gum

New comment by shoopadoop in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

shoopadoop — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:39:01 +0000

It sure feels that way.

New comment by shoopadoop in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

shoopadoop — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:38:17 +0000

The massive, destabilizing layoffs feel like AI psychosis to me.

New comment by shoopadoop in "7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities"

shoopadoop — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:13:40 +0000

And so what, if the datacenters render the place uninhabitable? Even if its budget is in the black the county sounds awful to live in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAliBRyq_1c

Look how close all these shrieking buildings are to residential areas.

New comment by shoopadoop in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

shoopadoop — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:51:44 +0000

Overwhelming abundance makes things boring. Just think of how you own ALL the games for your emulators and how it actually makes it hard to focus on actually playing them.

New comment by shoopadoop in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

shoopadoop — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:03:13 +0000

You can replace references to "gay" to "Christian". and it works just as well. I think it's simply the role playing aspect that escapes the guard rails.