Hacker News: tjr225

New comment by tjr225 in "Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs"

tjr225 — Tue, 23 May 2023 03:06:55 +0000

What? These people have lives better than 99% of the population.

New comment by tjr225 in "Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs"

tjr225 — Tue, 23 May 2023 02:42:41 +0000

If these workers could get remote jobs, they would- but they can’t. Amazon knows this, and probably can’t wait for them to quit.

For now all they can do is complain about having to go to an office to be a spoiled, overpaid tech worker. If I had that job I would be keeping my mouth shut and enjoying the paycheck, but to each their own I suppose.

New comment by tjr225 in "Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad"

tjr225 — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:03:31 +0000

And 199$ is already an insanely good deal for what you get.

New comment by tjr225 in "West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island (2021)"

tjr225 — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:37:22 +0000

“Hacker” news

New comment by tjr225 in "Please tell us what features you’d like in news.ycombinator (2007)"

tjr225 — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 04:00:14 +0000

Just get shadowbanned like me!

New comment by tjr225 in "ChatGPT listed as author on research papers: many scientists disapprove"

tjr225 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:12:53 +0000

AI can’t do that either.

New comment by tjr225 in "Incoming potentially catastrophic storm for SF area"

tjr225 — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 04:39:27 +0000

My garden level apartment was destroyed by flooding on December 23 of 2020. Homeless in Seattle with a wife, a kid, and two dogs and two cats for Christmas.

To this day I have ptsd when it rains hard, particularly around Christmas. Now I live on the top of a very big hill…

New comment by tjr225 in "Building a walking routine"

tjr225 — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 05:25:48 +0000

I would only add to this: try it without podcasts and music. Let your mind go somewhere else.

New comment by tjr225 in "People have been having less sex, whether they’re teenagers or 40-somethings"

tjr225 — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 04:08:16 +0000

That was forty years ago…

New comment by tjr225 in "Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era"

tjr225 — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:25:28 +0000

Cue the requisite hacker news hurfing and durfing about how this is actually good due to being introverted.

New comment by tjr225 in "People have been having less sex, whether they’re teenagers or 40-somethings"

tjr225 — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:36:27 +0000

Oh ok. So one person(maybe) at the Washington Post. I guess you’re technically correct.

New comment by tjr225 in "People have been having less sex, whether they’re teenagers or 40-somethings"

tjr225 — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:31:57 +0000

You just think you do.

New comment by tjr225 in "People have been having less sex, whether they’re teenagers or 40-somethings"

tjr225 — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:31:36 +0000

Who says this?

New comment by tjr225 in "I make $8k/year sending cheap flight alert emails"

tjr225 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 03:06:06 +0000

Pretty standard in the PNW: https://www.olympiacoffee.com/collections/coffee/products/mo...

New comment by tjr225 in "I plan to leave tech to pursue art"

tjr225 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:51:56 +0000

You’ve got me all wrong- surely you would agree there is a difference between arts and crafts… right?

New comment by tjr225 in "I plan to leave tech to pursue art"

tjr225 — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:24:41 +0000

And yet if you don’t have an audience, what is the point? Even the most outsider artists managed to gather a following some way or the other. It isn’t just happenstance.

New comment by tjr225 in "I plan to leave tech to pursue art"

tjr225 — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:16:08 +0000

You’ve read too much into what I’ve said and taken too much offense. Text is hard so I don’t blame you. “retiring and doing art” is an absurdly simplistic path to point someone towards and it’s not helpful to anyone who wants to actually create anything at all. And it probably doesn’t work in most cases.

“It’s what I’ve done!”

New comment by tjr225 in "I plan to leave tech to pursue art"

tjr225 — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 06:42:52 +0000

That is very cool about Cezanne, but I suspect he is one of the outsiders I am referring to.

New comment by tjr225 in "I plan to leave tech to pursue art"

tjr225 — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 06:41:06 +0000

I don’t care.

New comment by tjr225 in "I plan to leave tech to pursue art"

tjr225 — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 06:37:07 +0000

I try not to be presumptuous- as I honestly have no idea what art is because I’m too old to keep up- so maybe you can give me some examples that buck the trend? If not I’ll just assume you’re offended because you’re old. And honestly, if you think art is as easy as retiring and doing it; you deserve to be assumed to be presumptuous. You have a lot to prove and nothing to lose. Suck it up. Prove yourself or deal with mediocrity. Or worse, you’re just pretending.