Hacker News: taocoyote

New comment by taocoyote in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

taocoyote — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:32:56 +0000

Stack ranking

New comment by taocoyote in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

taocoyote — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:24:00 +0000

Exactly how many North Korean scientists are working in the U.S. right now?

New comment by taocoyote in "A critical look at MCP"

taocoyote — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:13:47 +0000

I don't understand the logistics of MCP interactions. Can anyone explain why they aren't stateless. Why does a connection need to be held open?

New comment by taocoyote in "Discworld Rules"

taocoyote — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:47:22 +0000

The stories in Discworld books are character driven. LOTR is much more plot driven. I feel like this is an apples and oranges comparison.

It also feels a bit like the false dichotomy arguments from my teenage years, where you could like either Star Trek or Star Wars, but not both.

New comment by taocoyote in "Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?"

taocoyote — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:08:45 +0000

I think you mean HexiBase?

New comment by taocoyote in "YouTube Oddities"

taocoyote — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:27:48 +0000

I have my childrens accounts under my main account. If they watch a lot of certain types of videos, that will show up as a suggestion under my main account. I'm positive its not because they are using my account, I watch videos with them.

I also have a second account for watching more technical videos and that leaks into my main account suggestions.

New comment by taocoyote in "I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)"

taocoyote — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:14:41 +0000

In my personal experience, Excel.

JIRA is a tool, it doesn't do the work for you. If someone knows how to organize, plan and track a project really well, the tool used doesn't matter as much.

New comment by taocoyote in "Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone"

taocoyote — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:07:49 +0000

A lot of VCs don't do any due diligence.

New comment by taocoyote in "Confusing Git Terminology"

taocoyote — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:08:22 +0000

Literally potty humor.

New comment by taocoyote in "AWS Icon Quiz"

taocoyote — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:34:58 +0000

Of course, you will need to assign the appropriate IAM Role per icon type.

New comment by taocoyote in "Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand"

taocoyote — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 05:37:23 +0000

Outside of Auckland you can do quite well on 150k.

New comment by taocoyote in "I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)"

taocoyote — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 21:52:39 +0000

Similar experience but I was in the military and I didn't have a choice to say no. I have 5 fillings. They wanted to schedule 2 more but I was due to be reassigned overseas. They tried to delay my reassignment over it. Eventually, they cleared my paperwork but made it clear I was to see the dentist at my new base as soon as possible.

My new dentist says there is nothing wrong with my teeth whatsoever.

New comment by taocoyote in "Upwork just stole $10k from me"

taocoyote — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:00:51 +0000

Guilty with no way to prove innocence.

New comment by taocoyote in "One common behavior seen in “mature” software engineers"

taocoyote — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 01:03:18 +0000

I once knew a soldier that had reconfigured his tent heater to be out of the way by placing it against the side of his tent. The tent caught fire. He received and award for putting out the fire.

I have seen this pattern repeated a few times throughout my career. People are rewarded for putting out fires they created (metaphorically), but people who are diligent and don't create problems to solve are overlooked or seen as less than capable.

New comment by taocoyote in "Ask HN: Can I download GPT / ChatGPT to my desktop?"

taocoyote — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 20:27:21 +0000

Possibly, but that would be 10 of thousands of dollars worth of GPUs.

New comment by taocoyote in "The End of Programming"

taocoyote — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:06:42 +0000

When electronic calculators replaced slide rules it wasn't the end of math.

New comment by taocoyote in "Stable Diffusion 2.0 and the Importance of Negative Prompts for Good Results"

taocoyote — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 23:00:09 +0000

When I first read about Latent Space, it struck me as quite similar to the L-Space as described in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.

New comment by taocoyote in "Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire"

taocoyote — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 21:30:35 +0000

Firewall fives, I forgot about that, or maybe blocked it from my memory. It’s the same for enlisted.

New comment by taocoyote in "Who wrote this shit?"

taocoyote — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 19:58:36 +0000

Find incomprehensible code. Get email from blame. Search for them on Linkedin. If they are working as a developer in some senior capacity, then the code is probably a learning opportunity for me. If they are working as a scrum master code is probably as bad as it looks.

I say this in jest, mostly...

New comment by taocoyote in "My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine"

taocoyote — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 23:59:10 +0000

This really should be it's own blog post. It has given me some interesting perspective.