Hacker News: tupac_speedrap

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

tupac_speedrap — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:24:16 +0000

Glowies aren't even trying anymore

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "No more US Military aid to Israel"

tupac_speedrap — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:39:10 +0000

They'll just send aid discreetly instead, Israel is the US government as far as control of the US government is concerned and they aren't gonna give up their American cannon fodder and weapons that easy

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

tupac_speedrap — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:42:12 +0000

The whole ad is vague slop tbh, I can see why it wasn't allowed to air, also I don't know why people fixate on CCTV when the vast majority of it is used by private companies and the government doesn't have access to it without a request, there isn't any mass surveillance in this case just business owners managing risk and monitoring for crimes on their property

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted"

tupac_speedrap — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 11:09:51 +0000

Honestly, I've never known any company that has a good promotion and career development structure. Most shoehorn you into management roles or force you to jump through hoops to get a promotion so nowadays I don't care as long as I get a decent salary, 33 days of annual leave and they let me take off 3 weeks to go to Japan every year

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

tupac_speedrap — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:14:23 +0000

And Microsoft don't care in the slightest, they have lots of market share so they have been pivoting to the enshittification phase especially over the past few years... the UX is still a cluster fuck but hey there's plenty of space for ads and AI integration now

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads"

tupac_speedrap — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:42:53 +0000

We have IVA in the UK but it is mostly used to import Japanese cars at the moment because you only need a few modifications to most cars (fog lights, indicators) and the Yen is weak at the moment so a lot of people are importing cars like the Suzuki Jimny which meet our standards but aren't sold due to Europe wide emissions regulations. You would have to do a lot more to an American car because the safety standards are different so it isn't an attractive option unless you really want a specific vehicle at any cost.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality"

tupac_speedrap — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:26:08 +0000

Yes, what America needs now is more students working in the grey economy after their student visa expires.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality"

tupac_speedrap — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:20:43 +0000

That's a little dramatic, many countries have this rule for visa applications.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "America Needs Tough Grading"

tupac_speedrap — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:10:07 +0000

Parents won't allow tough grading lets be honest, they just like how it sounds on paper. There's far too many kids nowadays with parents who think they can do no wrong terrorising classrooms and sapping attention from students who actually put the effort in but if you actually contact their parents and tell them maybe their kid shouldn't assault other people or put some more effort in to get better grades they enter this weird denial state and lash out and their kid keeps up the bad behaviour.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire"

tupac_speedrap — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 02:56:31 +0000

You seem to be prejudice and cherry picking to backup your opinion judging from the way your post reads and the random unhinged comments on Spain for some reason, HN is attracting more pseudo-intellectuals these days unfortunately. I don't think anyone can help you apart from maybe a therapist but getting laid and interacting with people outside in a non-transactional may help

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

tupac_speedrap — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:03:57 +0000

Unfortunately this is the fate of most modern sites, they start off simple then they start bloating the website with social media and analytics. SV blokes don't care or notice on their $5k+ top of the line laptops but for everyone else it's an issue

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread"

tupac_speedrap — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:59:43 +0000

Lovely platitudes but "nature" stops being abstract once it is happening to you, we are talking about mammals being eaten alive here, so that could be you, your family, your pets, cattle...etc. Of course people are going to react to that.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "Objects should shut up"

tupac_speedrap — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:53:37 +0000

I don't know the law in your country but most forms of credit have a 'cooling off' period where you can return the money or asset and reset the credit agreement within a certain time but I'm not sure if doing it a lot in a small period of time would flag to a future creditor though.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "Palantir gets $10B contract from U.S. Army"

tupac_speedrap — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:09:22 +0000

It makes sense to have information on your future adversaries. I mean ICE already act as Trump's brownshirts, it makes sense that they would expand their power base to other services.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "Ask HN: Is your company forcing use of AI?"

tupac_speedrap — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:09:12 +0000

Yep, the same thing happened while Blockchain was a thing, all the companies were suddenly doing it to look valuable in front of shareholders or the board but in reality it is a niche thing that isn't useful to most companies

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering"

tupac_speedrap — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:32:12 +0000

I mean at some point it is probably easier to do the work without AI and at least then you would actually learn something useful instead of spending hours crafting context to actually get something useful out of an AI.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek?"

tupac_speedrap — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:50:21 +0000

You've got to learn to play the game, the only reward for working hard nowadays is more work so you have just work just the right amount

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "Notes on Tunisia"

tupac_speedrap — Fri, 30 May 2025 10:27:40 +0000

Could you please not turn travel into a pissing competition? People enjoy different things in different ways, also you are making a huge number of assumptions with little information and ranting quite a bit which makes it hard to take you seriously since you take yourself too seriously.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears"

tupac_speedrap — Sat, 24 May 2025 23:37:28 +0000

Mate, not everything in the world is some 4D chess conspiracy. I think it's more likely they just don't want to get send to Guantanamo Bay or El Salvador tbh.

New comment by tupac_speedrap in "FDA Approves Wegovy for Heart Conditions in Game-Changing Move"

tupac_speedrap — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:30:52 +0000

To be fair, even "just increased weight loss" would be huge, obesity is a factor in so many causes of preventable deaths bringing people closer to a healthy weight would help a lot.