Hacker News: tbomb

New comment by tbomb in "Grok 4.5"

tbomb — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:04:09 +0000

How popular is Grok compared to other companies models for SWE tasks? I almost never hear it talked about against OpenAI's or Anthropic's products

New comment by tbomb in "I don't like curved displays"

tbomb — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:17:07 +0000

For me, I've found that some curved displays are better than others. My home monitor is curved, on a seemingly very large radius, and I love it!

However some that I've used that are more curved make everything look distorted.

New comment by tbomb in "The Physicians Are Healing Themselves, with Ozempic"

tbomb — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:31:46 +0000

you beat me to it :)

New comment by tbomb in "People who are good at reading have different brains: study"

tbomb — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:32:10 +0000

I have this conversation with my wife (who is an avid book reader) at least once per month. I read so many technical documents for work, via my computer, that I often don't want to read a book for pleasure.

New comment by tbomb in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

tbomb — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:37:22 +0000

> Companies forget this.

they don't care about your commute at all. "if [c-level exec] can make it to the office every day, so can you" not to mention that, said exec does not in fact make it to the office every day

New comment by tbomb in "Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid reminder of life's value"

tbomb — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:13:13 +0000

I agree, I don't need an existential crisis every time I open a terminal session

New comment by tbomb in "Show HN: Start every terminal session with a vivid reminder of life's value"

tbomb — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:10:51 +0000

similar, only I use dadjoke and the thinking cow to keep things a lighthearted :)

  dadjoke | cowthink -s

New comment by tbomb in "Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID"

tbomb — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:30:57 +0000

I love FF and have gone back you it for the last few months, after using chrome for years, CPU and battery usage is great now, but coincidentally I've been getting these weird hangups on my laptop. So yesterday I opened up my activity monitor with 6-7 tabs (including 1 youtube tab in a separate window) open I found FF using ~12gb of memory on my MBP. Then to get a comparison, I opened the exact same tabs in a chrome browser (separate window for youtube and all) and found it using under 1gb of memory. This may be is an exceptional case, but for now I just don't have the memory to run FF with docker and dev environments up too.

New comment by tbomb in "The Internet Loves a Rest Stop in Breezewood, Pennsylvania"

tbomb — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:48:20 +0000

It's same with a lot of the rural south too. Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas. I grew up driving past these types of towns all the time.

New comment by tbomb in "On Being a Principal Engineer"

tbomb — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 01:07:03 +0000

One of my go-to closing questions in interviews is to ask them if they have any concerns/doubts about hiring me for the role.

So far I've gotten pretty good and honest feedback from it. It also gives me an opportunity to explain myself and/or try to turn around any doubts.

New comment by tbomb in "The Food of My Youth"

tbomb — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 18:21:16 +0000

I think the reason is 2 part.

Part 1 being often these "junk" processed foods are cheaper to buy for more quantity. eg. a box of macaroni and cheese can feed a family of 4 on $2USD. Possibly mix in a couple hotdogs which on the cheaper end can cost under $5USD for 16. in the end your feeding a family of 4 dinner for under $5.

Part 2 being time. Typically in lower income families (I grew up on the low end of the "middle class") both parents are working. my mother didn't have the time or energy to come home from and 8-10 hour work day and then cook for the next 90 minutes. that same box of macaroni and cheese (with hotdogs) can be made in ~30 minutes with little attention to it. and once my sister and I were old enough to help out, it was something we could do for her.

Thats my anecdotal and oversimplified answer anyway :)

New comment by tbomb in "Hardware Isn’t Hard, Competing with Apple Is Hard"

tbomb — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:24:55 +0000

> Apple also maintains very high margins, something that leaves more than enough room for another company to compete on price. The trap here is instead of producing a good product at a better price, most companies produce the cheapest possible product in a race to the bottom.

This is what companies like Anker and Aukey are doing too. They compete directly against Apple's accessories with a well polished, durable product, for cheaper than what Apple charges.

New comment by tbomb in "Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk: study"

tbomb — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:42:20 +0000

They mention smoking it, isn't smoking ANYTHING be harmful to your cardiovascular health? What is the increased risk vs cigarettes vs cigars etc.? How does this hold up for users who smoke it vs. eat it?

New comment by tbomb in "Why Germans pay cash for almost everything"

tbomb — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 16:25:46 +0000

Which card is that, that takes away the incentive? I use Apple Pay pretty frequently and still get my cashback rate, or double points incentives on the cards that I use.

New comment by tbomb in "In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income”"

tbomb — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:57:39 +0000

Don't forget the defense industry, a lot of my friends who graduated from UCF went to Boeing, Lockheed, and Homeland Security

New comment by tbomb in "In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income”"

tbomb — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:53:26 +0000

Cafe colada is what I miss most about Miami, having now moved to California :(

New comment by tbomb in "HipChat security notice"

tbomb — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 21:30:19 +0000

Do they really need a captcha on BOTH username AND password input? I get that they are different submit pages, so they are likely querying the database on each page, but is that really necessary? I don't see any benefit from it, as a user, while trying to log in to my account.

New comment by tbomb in "New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary"

tbomb — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 19:48:17 +0000

At a previous company I found an internal excel document with everyone's salary, from the CEO down to his assistant. On the doc my salary was inflated ~25K to what my actual gross was, I can only assume these perks/benefits were included on top of the salary. But it shows they see that on paper that's how they saw my salary hit. I think it would be wise to include these in your previous "salary".

I never did find any more details on the document though :(

New comment by tbomb in "New York City bans employers from asking potential workers about past salary"

tbomb — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 19:37:31 +0000

This happened to me, not necessarily in a bad way, but makes me think what I should've asked for.

I attempted to do research on the company and their salaries for that position via glassdoor, salaries in the area, etc. (they are rated as an open company). They asked what I was looking for in compensation, so I went little bit higher than what my homework said they were paying (this was still substantially more than my current pay), we negotiated a tiny bit on bonuses, but eventually got the amount I was "looking for" in my offer letter.

In the end they ended up being a great company to work for, and I'm really happy there.

New comment by tbomb in "NASA budget would cut Earth science and education"

tbomb — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:03:46 +0000

On the bright side, that's much less of a budget cut than what I was expecting!