Hacker News: strathmeyer

New comment by strathmeyer in "U.S. added 911k fewer jobs in year through March than reported earlier"

strathmeyer — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:57:30 +0000

Always interesting to find what we aren't supposed to be talking about.

New comment by strathmeyer in "House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias"

strathmeyer — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:32:29 +0000

Everything is projection. They're upset they can't insert their own bias into Wikipedia and want that bias codified by law or at least by corrupt lawmakers.

New comment by strathmeyer in "Michigan Supreme Court: Unrestricted phone searches violate Fourth Amendment"

strathmeyer — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:06:25 +0000

A good HackerNews poll would be to ask how many people have had their phones cloned by the police, I didn't know it was uncommon. I guess they've stopped since phones are encrypted.

New comment by strathmeyer in "'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market"

strathmeyer — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:07:06 +0000

I graduated in 2004 with a BS in computer science from CMU. I was always told I hadn't worked hard enough to become a software developer, even though that's what I was doing in minimum wage jobs where my title was DBA. Finally gave up after 12 years of searching. YMMV. It was weird when all my professors who said they'd help me find a job if I couldn't find one suddenly didn't have any time for me. Start your life now don't wait just because society tells you that's what you're supposed to do.

New comment by strathmeyer in "What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?"

strathmeyer — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:51:06 +0000

Good luck getting a recall if you used your battery enough to rub off the serial number.

New comment by strathmeyer in "Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”"

strathmeyer — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:11:54 +0000

Whenever someone charges me a smoking fee I assume they are just saying they don't want me staying there. I'll find some place either much better or much shittier that is appreciative of my business. The Hilton Garden Inn in Princeton NJ has charged both my and my wife a smoking fee on different dates because we were hiking. In Denver you aren't allowed to smoke on the streets, there's no terraces in the hotel, so we were charged a smoking fee after hot boxing our car. They aren't cleaning the room. It's ten cents of spray and an open window at most. I've stayed at hotels where they Febreeze every room daily. What a scumbag thing to do to your customers.

New comment by strathmeyer in "ICE is getting unprecedented access to Medicaid data"

strathmeyer — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:00:36 +0000

Does the state you live in have concentration camps, yet?

New comment by strathmeyer in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

strathmeyer — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:54:16 +0000

You can still get a PVG100 on Amazon

New comment by strathmeyer in "Let Kids Be Loud"

strathmeyer — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:01:20 +0000

Our dorm was next to a playground in college. It was impossible to sleep in. They were literally just screaming at the top of their lungs for hours at a time. I guess it's different when it's someone else's day you're ruining.

New comment by strathmeyer in "AI cameras change driver behavior at intersections"

strathmeyer — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:25:11 +0000

There's nothing wrong with pointing an unloaded gun at someone. There's no bullets in it, so what's the harm. You can even put your finger on the trigger without any real danger

New comment by strathmeyer in "-2000 Lines of code"

strathmeyer — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:46:17 +0000

A manager asking you to tell them how many lines of code you wrote is peak middle-management. Like what are you even doing, you count them.

New comment by strathmeyer in "Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver"

strathmeyer — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:04:52 +0000

T9wording is still the easiest way to text while working a stick shift.

New comment by strathmeyer in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

strathmeyer — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:22:37 +0000

But how is it different than those of us who access it for free? I get a popup asking me to pay once a month but that's about it. Are you just happy to throw your money away if it goes to a giant corporation?

New comment by strathmeyer in "Crypto Investor Charged with Kidnapping and Torturing Man for Weeks"

strathmeyer — Sun, 25 May 2025 05:17:58 +0000

Great job score one for crypto holders who plan on not revealing their key under torture.

New comment by strathmeyer in "A romance scam compound–and how people get tricked into being there"

strathmeyer — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:49:10 +0000

Just turn off Javascript. When a page won't give you and article without Javascript just don't read it. A scammy popup asking someone to pay money before you can read an article is not some place a hacker would send somebody.

New comment by strathmeyer in "No Instagram, no privacy"

strathmeyer — Mon, 05 May 2025 20:24:49 +0000

Does anyone want to socialize but not have to socialize? I know I sure do / don't.

New comment by strathmeyer in "Why can't Ivies cope with losing a few hundred million?"

strathmeyer — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:15:18 +0000

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

New comment by strathmeyer in "Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left"

strathmeyer — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:10:12 +0000

It's a bargaining tactic from a lunatic. Trump thinks countries will call him offering to do things to have the tariffs removed. You are applying reason to someone who has been showing signs of dementia for decades.

New comment by strathmeyer in "Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-Generated Comments"

strathmeyer — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 21:41:09 +0000

> The idea that my opinion on an issue could have been influenced by a fake personal anecdote invented by a research bot is abhorrent to me.

Then stop basing your opinion on issues on personal anecdotes from complete strangers. This is nothing new.

New comment by strathmeyer in "Is Linux under the control of the USA gov?"

strathmeyer — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 22:43:07 +0000

They could be as effective as the old cryptography export controls, a pop up appears asking you not to download things to an illegal country.