Hacker News: turkey99

New comment by turkey99 in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

turkey99 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:24:26 +0000

If you use a credit card, but can’t pay it immediately then you pay interest. It’s a trap the less wealthy fall into.

New comment by turkey99 in "A forgotten social media post may hold key clues to Covid-19's origin"

turkey99 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:25:00 +0000

Same with my sister and her husband (London) Worst flu they ever had, I was looking after their kids. That said, later they tested positive for Covid antibodies

New comment by turkey99 in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

turkey99 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:52:50 +0000

I’ve never seen any knife crime anywhere.

There isn’t really any location. Its socioeconomic. It’s young black men 16-24 who disproportionately end up dying to knife crime.

New comment by turkey99 in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

turkey99 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:11:22 +0000

Male genital mutilation is very common

New comment by turkey99 in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

turkey99 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:33:56 +0000

Are you still talking about Opus 4.5 I’ve been working on a Rust, kotlin and c++ and it’s been doing well. Incredible at C++, like the number of mistakes it doesn’t make

New comment by turkey99 in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

turkey99 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:44:09 +0000

Had to look it up but I found Indian and Nigeria specifically as country of origin for work related migration

New comment by turkey99 in "Addictive-like behavioural traits in pet dogs with extreme motivation for toys"

turkey99 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:42:24 +0000

I’m hoping this is a puppy trait. Thats what my one year old golden-doodle does

New comment by turkey99 in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

turkey99 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:30:10 +0000

I’ve had this scenario several times.

The last was when the company I worked for was acquired. We needed to adopt their CSS library for all our applications.

I changed their component based library to have semantic style css and dropped it right in.

New comment by turkey99 in "Implementing the President's "DOGE" Workforce Optimization Initiative"

turkey99 — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:12:58 +0000

Depends where you are socio-economically

I’d rather be poor in the UK I’d rather be chronically sick in the UK, that is if I’m not already wealthy and insured I’d rather be in the US and middle class - particularly with inherited wealth I choose to live in the UK as an high level (middle) manager with my similar status American wife

New comment by turkey99 in "Tuberculosis is rising in the U.S. again. How did we get here?"

turkey99 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:13:51 +0000

What about vaccines? In the UK we all have a scar from BCG vaccine

New comment by turkey99 in "AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products"

turkey99 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 05:09:00 +0000

Seems a bit of a stretch. Git is not linear, and there’s no consensus mechanisms

New comment by turkey99 in "What I Learned Working for Mark Zuckerberg"

turkey99 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:59:10 +0000

I’d argue in the UK probation periods are effectively 2 years long.

New comment by turkey99 in "Anti-patterns in event-driven architecture"

turkey99 — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:35:33 +0000

Yes, it’s a great tool for integration. We have a product suite and it’s our chosen way to connect products.

New comment by turkey99 in "Design better software abstractions using bipartite composition (2019)"

turkey99 — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:23:09 +0000

So the opposite of encapsulation?

New comment by turkey99 in "Sorting the Self: Assessments and the cult of personality"

turkey99 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 23:04:22 +0000

It’s an interesting topic but I find the article’s writing style impenetrable.

For example:

> The polish applied in adjectival designation inclines one to believe that a definition has been achieved, a conclusion won. A pile of qualities furnishes a synoptic view of the whole, and so begins the slippage from the conditional mood to the declarative.

Sorry, me too dumb to parse. This is just one sentence picked at random

New comment by turkey99 in "Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed"

turkey99 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 21:37:28 +0000

Portland closed mental health institutions before (unrelated to) decriminalisation.

The west US just isn’t the same as Portugal in terms of care. It’s not there.

New comment by turkey99 in "The Angel, Islington"

turkey99 — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:23:14 +0000

Just walked by for the first time in years.

I was surprised to see the buildings across the road demolished and Jamie Oliver restaurant is now called 411 bar.

New comment by turkey99 in "Agile Is a Tainted Term"

turkey99 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 13:28:58 +0000

Scrum is easy to criticise. Agile less so. One such Agile criticism is about principle “that working software as the primary measure of progress”. I understand the sentiment but it’s not enough, it’s got to meet the customer’s needs. Scrum is far too sprint release coupled. Sure you could separate them, but are you really doing Scrum then?

New comment by turkey99 in "Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?"

turkey99 — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:40:01 +0000

Did Google really use the “DevOps model”? Observing from the outside it looked like SRE was their alternative

New comment by turkey99 in "Quordle: Four Wordles in One"

turkey99 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 00:36:23 +0000

I like it, but too often there are words that you never use!