Hacker News: thomk

New comment by thomk in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

thomk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:28:38 +0000

How did you solve the Minecraft issue?

What podcasts are you listening to?

thomk — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:52:30 +0000

Looking for recommendations for anything well done and engaging.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111006

Points: 44

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New comment by thomk in "How I've run major projects (2025)"

thomk — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:42:58 +0000

At a certain point cash isn’t an incentive. Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose become much bigger rewards. Check out Drive by Daniel Pink.

Why Can't We Make Simple Software? – Peter van Hardenberg [video]

thomk — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 04:42:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzAVuVz7u4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42286247

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by thomk in "Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre"

thomk — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:18:30 +0000

Any idea where those could be located on the us side of the border in Detroit?

New comment by thomk in "Google Quantum AI"

thomk — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 12:10:41 +0000

Ther are plenty of well documented uses for quantum computers, the hardware is just too nascent to fully accommodate them. The most powerful quantum computers today still only have just over 1,000 qbits.

New comment by thomk in "What contributing to Open-source is, and what it isn't"

thomk — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 18:21:57 +0000

Id like to contribute to a large project like Linux or python by writing docs, testing or some other non development activity. Is that possible or needed? How would I go about doing that?

New comment by thomk in "Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine"

thomk — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 09:52:31 +0000

A “No network required” insignia is in order.

New comment by thomk in "Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed"

thomk — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:53:30 +0000

I don't think Apple predicts the future as much as it drives the future. Just my opinion.

New comment by thomk in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

thomk — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 22:50:50 +0000

When the iPad came out I thought to myself "Who needs a big iPhone? also, god what a dumb name, 'iPad'. Apple really missed the mark on that one." Welp, I was wrong then. I don't personally see myself using this but that doesn't mean it is not going to be successful. I'll just wait and see.

Ask HN: Where is AI headed? What’s the end game for humanity?

thomk — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 16:14:12 +0000

AI can write both text and code with simple prompts, it can create art and keep us safe and guide us in our travels. Over time how will this affect humanity? 5, 10, 20 years into the future. What’s your guess?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35504064

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by thomk in "‘Preparing to die has a lot to do with having had a good life’"

thomk — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 02:18:07 +0000

I have found some solace in gardening that helps me accept mortality.

Life and death is around you every day in a garden.

When you start seeds, some turn to seedlings, some don't. Some seedlings die, some live. If you are as bad of a gardener as I am, you plant triple the seeds so hopefully some germinate and grow, the weak ones I just pluck out and compost. Some of those seedlings thrive and become big healthy plants, some never really amount to much and they die early. Blight killed a lot of tomato plants a few years ago. The soil is teeming with life that is thriving because of decaying (dead) plant matter. I few years ago I bought 500 worms for the garden. They eat dying plant matter and turn it into amazing compost. Some worms died before I could get them in the ground, some helped my cucumbers grow to 15' tall. Living, but, destructive pests do not live long in my garden, but helpful insects are welcome. I plant a pollinator garden just for them. Then, at the end of the season everything dies. In the spring it all stars again. You get to see the entire circle of life play out every day and then again every season. It has a training effect on me. Some people go to church for answers, I water tomato plants.

It has given some comfort to know I'm part of a bigger organism and my death will perpetuate life of another kind, if I choose to let my body feed life.

Also, if you are young and reading this, when you hit 50, and/or when you have kids, that's when mortality really hits you. But that's when you are (usually) most able to positively impact others. The point of life is to have kids and perpetuate our species. The meaning of life is to help others. I mean locally, help other people. People near you. Your mother or your neighbor or the mailman. Maybe you have little impact on the entire world but you can make a huge impact on a person very near you. Do that enough and when you are dying one day you will think of their faces and the faces of the kids you helped and accept the unknown and that you did the best you could.

New comment by thomk in "How Async/Await Works in C#"

thomk — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:01:27 +0000

Is that the point of .Net Core? No platform specific dependencies required?

Ask HN: Technical parents; how do you teach coding?

thomk — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 21:07:44 +0000

What are tools, techniques and programs do you use to teach young kids (1st grade) to code?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074740

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by thomk in "Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade"

thomk — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:54:49 +0000

Less abortions + more guns = more deadly crime (soon).

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_eff...

Carbohydrate: The Dose Is the Poison

thomk — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 05:28:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2g-OW-NZcY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30134347

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by thomk in "Ask HN: How did you correct your sleep patterns?"

thomk — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 21:19:18 +0000

regarding caffeine, I noticed that if I drink caffeine at any time during the day it has some effect on the quality of my sleep. Removing it completely has made a profound difference in my sleep quality. YMMV.

New comment by thomk in "This page is a truly naked, brutalist HTML quine"

thomk — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:02:59 +0000

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30719221/is-html-turing-...

New comment by thomk in "Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival apps to develop competitors"

thomk — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 17:15:16 +0000

I feel like the problem has more to do with big players owning the app stores. They have access to all of the data that allows them to know which apps are popular and profitable. It's easier for them to know which apps to knock off; the own the data that tells them that.

New comment by thomk in "Google reportedly keeps tabs on usage of rival apps to develop competitors"

thomk — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 02:31:16 +0000

Having less options because one giant company ate up all the small companies is always bad for consumers. Competition is good for consumers. Monopolies are good for corporations.