<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: talldrinkofwhat</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=talldrinkofwhat</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:32:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=talldrinkofwhat" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author of the article had an interesting solution to this.  Flip a coin to see who implements the feature.<p>Heads you code. Tails you review.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45129303</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45129303</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45129303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where does one apply for a generalist role / any flexibility on Visa sponsoring if I relocate myself? (My experience is lock and key for what you've got going e.g. I founded a robotic tile laying company, and an IoT Ag-tech company)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43247799</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43247799</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43247799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "The A.I. Monarchy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A wishlist as short as it is improbable:<p>1.  Overturn citizens united. (get money out of politics)<p>2.  Rank-choice voting. (get extremists out of politics)<p>3.  Remove cap on House of Representatives (washington only wanted 1 rep per 30,000 people... we're currently at 1 per 750,000...) (get lack of representation out of politics)<p>4.  Mandatory voting / national holiday.<p>e.g. at its core, people are not being heard (or even worse, feel like their voice doesn't matter) and vested interests have fully taken the wheel.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:23:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43247589</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43247589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43247589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hard to multiply without a host.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:24:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124587</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's worth noting that we can't even combat the real horrors.  The fox is already in the henhouse.  The quote that sticks with me is:<p>"We've already lost our first encounter with AI" - I think Yuval Hurari.<p>Algorithms heavily thumbed the scales on our social contracts.  Where did all of the division come from?  Why is extremism blossoming everywhere?  Because it gets clicks.  Maybe we're just better observing what's been going on under the hood all along, but it seems like there's about 350 million little cans of gasoline dousing American eyeballs.<p>Make Algorithms Govern All indeed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:51:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031522</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031522</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43031522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Insomnia, Control"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Genetic diversity is a damnable thing.  Listen to your body.  Mine gets "hot" when I drink (I suspect it's general inflammation when my liver is working overtime to break everything down), which then disallows proper sleep.<p>If I've been dry for ~ a week, I'll notice sleep degradation around two beers drank <4 hours before going to bed.<p>If I've been in a groove of going out, the limit is higher.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:16:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987362</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "What really happens inside a dating app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would watch this romcom.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 17:37:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975287</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you ever get the opportunity, have a chicken perch on your finger.<p>First thing you'll notice is much lighter they are than they look.<p>Second thing you'll notice is how hot their feet are.<p>A tangible lesson in the importance of surface area vs volume wrt mechanical, thermo, aero systems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:41:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967644</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967644</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey I'm trying to alleviate this issue from a technical standpoint and am trying to find others to join me.  It's no cure-all, but the other paths would upend a century of legal precedence.  Shoot me a PM if you're looking for work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:37:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742359</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Trump wins presidency for second time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"You’re supposed to make only two quarts of Kool-Aid from a package, but he always made a gallon, so his Kool-Aid was a mere shadow of its desired potency. And you’re supposed to add a cup of sugar to every package of Kool-Aid, but he never put any sugar in his Kool-Aid because there wasn’t any sugar to put in it.<p>He created his own Kool-Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it."  -Brautigan</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:42:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42068125</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42068125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42068125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still waiting for January and my morning ritual of juicing a small grapefruit into an 8oz ice-filled mason jar.<p>It's a damn shame we haven't figured out how to coerce citrus like we do tomatoes.</p>
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<p>When the only evidence of existence is a horrendous rip on youtube, I'm not exactly surprised they don't stock Mr. Haangala's sophomore offering:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZWftEpqRWQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZWftEpqRWQ</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 06:35:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41622946</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41622946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41622946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Pour over Coffee Got Good"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice things I own:<p>1.  1zpresso hand grinder<p>2.  1974 Honda CL125S<p>3.  Black totem cam x 2<p>Everything else can go to the dump as far as I'm concerned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 01:00:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41470827</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41470827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41470827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The way I read it:they inserted the manager as a litmus test AGAINST aggression / toxic culture.  Kind of like when a psychology test is given, the __thing__ they're trying to measure is always one level removed / abstracted to avoid subjects gaming the system.  I suppose deceptive practices in interviews don't bode well, but I could see the argument given the interviewee could be deceptive (something that this site complains about a lot with upper management / ChiefBullshittingOperatives etc.)</p>
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<p>Furthering the love, without the cursing, bent tweezers, and ruined retainer clips (getting the connectors out of the casings sometimes results in all of the above), you can purchase pre-crimped wires, then assemble as needed (<a href="https://www.pololu.com/category/299/ribbon-cable-with-pre-crimped-terminals" rel="nofollow">https://www.pololu.com/category/299/ribbon-cable-with-pre-cr...</a>).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 21:07:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909717</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "A Man with an Impossible Memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you haven't done yourself the favor already, read the referenced story, Borges' "Funes the Memorious".  It, like most of his work, is a pearl of simplicity and haunting implications.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 17:23:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400475</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "The only two log levels you need are INFO and ERROR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This sounds extremely appealing as I either have to take the performance hit and nose through the entire debug log to get to where the error occurred, or have errors occur and not be able to reconstruct the events that drove them.<p>Any tips on rolling your own?  My first whack would probably be treating it like a packed message, e.g.<p><start_char>
<n_packed_bytes>
<time>
<file>
<line>
<n_args>
<arg1_type><arg1_raw_dump>
...
<format_str><p>with everything aside from the format string having agreed upon byte-counts, and probably have the file names getting dumped to a lookup chart.  There's probably something more elegant, but I've never been good at straying too far eclectic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 01:14:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40218452</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40218452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40218452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Daily-Driving a Blackberry in 2023"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where exactly are you accounting for wasted time?  On navigation?  On posting about not having a smartphone?  The amount of time saved not having a smartphone (interacting with the internet using a computer [keyboards, adblockers, multiple screens, user vs owner dynamics]) outweighs any extra costs in my opinion.  Navigating around town becomes second nature once you stop receiving turn by turn directions from Google-et-al.  The only argument I've ever heard of that rings true is not having access to ride shares (ironicly named to boot).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025967</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40025967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are no step-by-step guides for living your life.  If there were, the only person who could write them would be you 20 years in the future.  If you were to follow them, the person who wrote them would not exist, because the wisdom of knowing what to do and what not to do is borne from error embodied.  Work on yourself, but do not wait for some magical moment where you say "ah, so this is what it's like to be complete".  The moment does not exist.  Find people who will accept you as you are, and they will help you become the person you strive to be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:09:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39994566</link><dc:creator>talldrinkofwhat</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39994566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39994566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by talldrinkofwhat in "Banning open weight models would be a disaster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If posts with multiple paragraphs encircling a topic seems suspect, then we're all guilty.  Their points are cogent.  If they've dressed the arguments in robes of "purple", so be it.</p>
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