Hacker News: sudofail

New comment by sudofail in "Actions reflect your priorities"

sudofail — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:14:12 +0000

Really sorry there isn’t more support for you and your son. American drug prices are insane. In Australia it’s about 600/month

New comment by sudofail in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

sudofail — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:45:06 +0000

A lot of countries honestly should be taking this approach. Fabrication is just too important for national security. At least some domestic production is critical.

New comment by sudofail in "OpenAI Codex CLI: Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal"

sudofail — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:41:17 +0000

Same, there are so many options these days for writing CLIs without runtime dependencies. I definitely prefer static binaries.

New comment by sudofail in "Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70%"

sudofail — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:54:44 +0000

Pretty obvious outcome given the PR nightmare

New comment by sudofail in "Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore"

sudofail — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:04:51 +0000

I've had "unlimited PTO" for most of my 15 year career. I've never been able to take at most, 3 weeks off due to the reasons you mentioned.

New comment by sudofail in "MacBook Air, M2 Chip, 8GB RAM: Nothing is open, but half the memory is gone"

sudofail — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:16:04 +0000

I thought this as well and bought my wife the 8GB model, thinking it would be enough for her casual use. With nothing open but Chrome or Safari (dozens of tabs, sure) it will lock up and sometimes even hard restart. 8GB is just not enough for anyone anymore.

New comment by sudofail in "WWDC 2024 [video]"

sudofail — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:16:31 +0000

I'm very disappointed they didn't make any improvements in this area. This was the number 1 thing I was hoping from.

New comment by sudofail in "Clues to disappearance of North America's large mammals 50k years ago"

sudofail — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:55:50 +0000

Or simply because we don't have evidance of Homo Sapiens in the Americas until ~20k years ago, 30k years after megafuana extinction.

New comment by sudofail in "Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online"

sudofail — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:07:05 +0000

In my view, we need legislation to step in and enforce some level of algorithmic tuning. Modern algorithms drive engagement at all costs, regardless if it's healthy for the individual. I want to be able to tune the algorithm to potentially use a timeline feed instead, or limit content to only come from topics I subscribe to, etc. We probably need parental controls that allow parents to enforce algorithm tuning as well.

A recent example of an algorithm going wrong is Reddit. Home used to show you strictly a feed of reddits you subscribed to, and it was shown as a timeline. The most recent changes not only removed the timeline approach to the feed, it's now injecting subreddits you don't subscribe to and asks if you're interested in them.

New comment by sudofail in "Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma"

sudofail — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 15:30:27 +0000

I personally use RocketMoney. I think it actually does a better job than Mint

New comment by sudofail in "Archaeologists discover oldest wooden structure"

sudofail — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:55:14 +0000

Considering beavers make wooden structures for their own benefit and survival, it's not really surprising that ancestors of Homo Sapiens did as well.

New comment by sudofail in "This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI"

sudofail — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 03:39:08 +0000

I think a great use case for this technology could be to preserve dying languages. I'm sure a lot of work has already gone into preserving the written form of these languages, but training models on data sets of native speakers could be a way to preserve pronunciation.

New comment by sudofail in "Valve hit a home run with the first year of Steam Deck"

sudofail — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 18:15:35 +0000

I've been hesitant to buy one just because it seems like the screen is subpar. The OLED Switch screen is beautiful, and I'd really like to see something like that in the Steam Deck before purchasing it.

New comment by sudofail in "Microrobots can brush and floss teeth in a proof-of-concept study"

sudofail — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:39:21 +0000

Philips Sonicare is the way to go. Lot of different options, but they're all great.

New comment by sudofail in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

sudofail — Wed, 25 May 2022 16:22:12 +0000

I personally forget the controls (Witcher), or forget quest and storylines.

New comment by sudofail in "Hard to work with"

sudofail — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 03:27:35 +0000

I've seen this many times and completely agree. Nearly every issue that I've had managing teams that hasn't easily resolved with communication has come down to ego. I'd go so far as to say that weeding out ego during the hiring process is the most effective thing you can do.

New comment by sudofail in "1Password Blue Ocean Strategy"

sudofail — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 07:09:54 +0000

I'm sure those are valid use cases. It's just not something I've ever needed in 10 years of 1PW. Keychain covers passwords and credit cards, which are all I need it for.

New comment by sudofail in "1Password Blue Ocean Strategy"

sudofail — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 01:35:01 +0000

I've used 1Password for the better part of a decade, but I've slowly been weaning off of it. I'm in the Apple ecosystem, and have switched to using keychain for all my passwords.

I was pretty unhappy when 1Password switched to a subscription model, which is partially why I chose to leave.

1Password's mobile experience also isn't great, especially when compared to iOS's native keychain syncing abilities.

All in all, I'm fairly bearish on 1Password for the personal use case. If you're not in the Apple ecosystem, Google has similar capabilities. If you want to be agnostic, then there are free alternatives as well.

New comment by sudofail in "Rome: Decline and Fall? Part II: Institutions"

sudofail — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 04:32:28 +0000

I may be wrong, but don't taxes at large scale predate Rome by millennia? We have thousands of examples of Babylon's detailed record keeping for taxes, for instance.

New comment by sudofail in "Prioritization, multiple work streams, unplanned work"

sudofail — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 00:25:32 +0000

We do something very similar to what's laid out here. One note on the On-Call stream though. We've found that On-Call can become a catch-all, and force engineers to work in domains they have no familiarity with. It hasn't worked very well for us.