<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: tremorscript</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tremorscript</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:08:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tremorscript" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tremorscript in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh no :-( but why the far right? 
You can sponsor sensible politics and politicians so that we get more of those.<p>I am a very happy customer since the service is extremely very good, the vpn problem was solved and I am so sorry but the smallest amount that I pay even if it is 0.01 cent cannot go to support the far right(or the far left).<p>Sorry.<p>But now the problem is to find a decent vpn service that is not private equity or malware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732726</link><dc:creator>tremorscript</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tremorscript in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow. You launched in 2008? Congratulations!!! 17 years, privately owned, in the business of search which is tough because google just dominates.
I wish you another 17 years bro. DuckDuckGo is my primary search now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:52:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260392</link><dc:creator>tremorscript</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260392</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tremorscript in "Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct me if I am wrong but I think, Russinovich may now be the CTO of Azure because once upon a time as an independent developer he wrote sysinternals. Its one way to show your talent as an independent developer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 03:03:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563625</link><dc:creator>tremorscript</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42563625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tremorscript in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds about right and it explains a lot about the current quality of google products and google search. :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 03:15:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42013730</link><dc:creator>tremorscript</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42013730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42013730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tremorscript in "Citi Missed a Fat Finger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Peter see OK button. Peter click OK button. Peter no read or have a thought.</p>
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<p>I like github's solution to deleting a repository.
A popup makes you type the repository name before confirming deletion.<p>In this case, if the value is unusually high say greater than 100 billion, make the trader type 100 billion before proceeding.<p>I confess that I also ignore popups and just click ok. This is where i appreciate github asking me to type the name of the repository, just to make sure that I know what I am doing.</p>
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<p>I am not surprised. When in doubt and when you have screwed things so badly, blame the people who don't look or speak or earn like you.
Boeing did have $9 software engineers working for them. They were working on the accounting and ERP softwares. But as soon as 700 people lost their lives, apparently they were working on MCAS, a core system that only NASA engineers should have worked.
I dont believe anything that Boeing says or does, the company is pure evil.
If it's Boeing, I'm not going.</p>
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<p>Reminds me of another story my friend told me.<p>In university, he and his friends contracted with a cook who would make them lunch and dinner. The cook made his money from students in the university especially student sick of canteen food.<p>Around the end of the month, which was payment time, the food would keep getting hotter each passing day till he and his friends paid up.<p>The cook never asked for the money directly, something to do with his cultural background.<p>I thought it was brilliant. The students had to figure out themselves why the food kept getting hotter. Debugging in real life.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://crankygrumpyangry.mataroa.blog/blog/how-should-we-think-about-building-software/">https://crankygrumpyangry.mataroa.blog/blog/how-should-we-think-about-building-software/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162980">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39162980</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://crankygrumpyangry.mataroa.blog/blog/to-the-boring-99-a-call-to-arms/">https://crankygrumpyangry.mataroa.blog/blog/to-the-boring-99-a-call-to-arms/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119792">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39119792</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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<p>Never miss an opportunity to be a kill joke!!!
Python was named after Monty Python the British comedy group. 
If you have not watched them, I highly recommend.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#Naming" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 02:56:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38065214</link><dc:creator>tremorscript</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38065214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38065214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tremorscript in "Powell: Inflation is still too high and lower economic growth is likely needed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"This man leads our economy and has decided people need to loose jobs to ‘fix’ inflation"<p>Maybe we should start with him :-)</p>
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<p>I don't really like the headline, it makes it sound negative.<p>Big Tech tends to have negative connotations, nowadays. So, here the FT is trying to say that a democratically elected government is living in fear of private firms.<p>While it may be true that our government are now living in fear of not just Big Tech but all types of Big whatever, the fight was way beyond just big tech. Sure Big Tech helped but it still is a badly written and badly thought out think-about-the-children type law that was being fought by everyone not just big tech.<p>I didn't bother to read the article. Headlines are important There are other things to rage about Big Tech, this is not the one.</p>
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<p>> experts say, is mostly a function of the increasing role of power and velocity in the sport. Even clay courts, historically the slowest surface, play hard and fast these days.<p>Yeah this line was the key for me. But I think it is the opposite. They don't play hard and fast, they play hard and slow. This is why, I think, we do not have a lot of serve and volley players nowadays or one-handed backhands, not like the 90s. Because the baseliner has enough time to return your serves.<p>I watched the Wimbledon final and although Alcaraz went to the nets, it did not feel it is his style like a McEnroe or a Sampras. It felt like it was a strategy against Djokovic. Barely managed to hold on though.<p>Anyways, I stopped watching tennis a while ago (except the wimbledon finals), there is too much power and bullying involved, not enough grace and beauty. It feels like, I dare say, when field hockey decided to use astroturf instead of grass. In one stroke, all the flair players that relied on the unpredictability of grass were out and "hard running" and "precision scientific passing" won the day. Field Hockey stadiums are now almost always half-full, the beauty is gone.<p>Football and Rugby, I hope they stay the same.<p>EDIT: One other thing I noticed is that, in the 90s and early 00s, you had clay court specialists, hard court specialist and grass court specialists. The 4 grand slams were called the Vivaldi 4 seasons, they were that different. Winning all 4 was exceedingly tough. I think, now they are all the same, hard and slow. The variablility and unpredicatability is gone. You win 1, you can win them all.</p>
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<p>Agree. It is also the mindset.<p>If I am reading Gauss, my mind wants to process facts immediately.<p>If I am reading the New Yorker, my mind would like to wander a bit.<p>It all depends on what you are reading.<p>A new yorker style article explaining for loops in a programming language. 
Yeah nobody wants that.</p>
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<p>I would like the H1B to be eliminated too.<p>The new immigrant is denied some basic rights like being able to find a new job without employer permission and the america suffers because it might not get quality. Because unless the situation in your home country is really desperate or you are in your early 20s, any decent experienced professional would balk at the terms in the H1B visa.<p>As for the standard, "immigrant keeping wages down thing". Maybe the US can look at the "Shareholder Value", "Stock Buybacks" and "Monopolies are efficient" philosophies pervading the economic establishment for "keeping the wages down".</p>
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<p>There is already a Larry David - Curb your enthusiasm episode on this one. I thought it was just Larry being Larry. But as the article suggests it was done only for a smaller planes not the large ones.</p>
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<p>Yeah maybe your are right. It will take time to change the system.<p>Luckily, I think everyone agrees that corporate power is bad.<p>An Antitrust judiciary hearing happened one day after she lost the MS case. She actually received support from Republicans. Maybe change is coming. Maybe even the republicans see how bad some of these judgements are. The MS one was especially very poorly written.<p>I think she will be here for a while.<p>The article:-
<a href="https://prospect.org/power/2023-07-14-jim-jordan-misfires-attacks-lina-khan/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://prospect.org/power/2023-07-14-jim-jordan-misfires-at...</a></p>
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<p>Cory is a bit radical, yes.<p>However, some of your talking points I suspect are coming from the WSJ which I think is the Cory for the other side.<p>Philosophically, I think one must not be afraid to lose, it leads to inaction.<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34397551-the-chickenshit-club" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34397551-the-chickenshit...</a></p>
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<p>The WSJ has a very personal unhealthy obsession with Lina Khan.
<a href="https://twitter.com/DouglasLFarrar/status/1661436191936327680" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/DouglasLFarrar/status/166143619193632768...</a><p>Personally, I like her. It has been very long since someone from the government has shown some fight. One who is not afraid to lose. Some lawyers like to boast about not losing a single case in their career. There is something fake about that. Somehow you have found a way to game the system.<p>Vertical Integrations are bad and turn out to be bad in the long run. The Robinson Patman_Act was especially created to stop vertical integrations.<p>Consumer prices may go down. But what about quality. More Redfalls for you.<p>Today, people generally want corporate power to be checked. The judiciary has not got the memo yet. At the very least, someone is forcing them to think about it.</p>
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