Hacker News: tussa

New comment by tussa in "Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance"

tussa — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 17:37:23 +0000

> The cameras cannot capture audio, she added.

This is a classic political statement. Perhaps 100% correct.

But notice how they didn't say "no audio is recorded in the room".

New comment by tussa in "Web Scraping in Python – The Complete Guide"

tussa — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:28:57 +0000

It applies to many other project too: cling on to the raw data as long as it isn't bogging you down too much.

New comment by tussa in "A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings"

tussa — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 10:44:44 +0000

We'd know about them if they existed as a company today.

Remember that what became Google was Larry's and Sergey's PhD project that no one wanted to buy.

New comment by tussa in "A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings"

tussa — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:05:59 +0000

I often find myself searching on HN, then Reddit (via google) and then good old sad google, in that order.

When Google arrived, it had the solution people were desperately waiting for. It was pretty much everything we wanted. And it even "wasn't evil!"

Now it feels like people at Google are just making sure they'll qualify for their annual bonus with total disregard to what happens to the company.

I forecast that in the next 1-3 years, we'll see another company steal the search market, just like Google it back in the day. But Google, don't worry, they'll "just be a search company".

New comment by tussa in "Google slips as OpenAI said to be working on search product: report"

tussa — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:43:12 +0000

Bing's reputation is such that they'd have to be giving out free money for people to switch.

Besides, GPT was only available on Edge. Again, reputation.

New comment by tussa in "Bayesian Analysis with Python"

tussa — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 15:27:33 +0000

I'd say black and white. I haven't seen anything as rubbish from Manning.

New comment by tussa in "Bayesian Analysis with Python"

tussa — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:17:52 +0000

I'd never buy anything from Pakt without seeing it endorsed by someone I trust.

It's a shame because there is good stuff in their catalogue, but it's littered with trash.

New comment by tussa in "Postgres as queue"

tussa — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:09:23 +0000

I believe the right terminology is immutable.

New comment by tussa in "Postgres as queue"

tussa — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 08:45:37 +0000

Don't forget the plain old postit notes.

New comment by tussa in "Eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula"

tussa — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 23:51:22 +0000

No heating and no hot showers or hot running water.

New comment by tussa in "How to hire low experience, high potential people"

tussa — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 16:38:57 +0000

Most people I know would walk out of that trainwreck of an interview.

New comment by tussa in "Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself""

tussa — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:12:02 +0000

7% is $26.8 billion for last year.

New comment by tussa in "Show HN: Pika – Simple blogging software"

tussa — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:56:01 +0000

Pardon the vulgar words. This is just a copy paste from an Icelandic dictionary: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/p%C3%ADka

Noun

píka f (genitive singular píku, nominative plural píkur)

    (anatomy) a vulva, a pussy, a cunt
    (vulgar, slang) a bitch

New comment by tussa in "SI Units for Request Rate"

tussa — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 20:08:18 +0000

Just because something can be counted in a fixed timeframe doesn't mean it makes sense to slap a Hz unit on it.

What's your frequency (in Hz) of sexual intimacy?

New comment by tussa in "Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice"

tussa — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 10:01:00 +0000

About time!

New comment by tussa in "Goodbye non-KISS appliances"

tussa — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 09:54:30 +0000

Ah good old planned obsolescence.

Some people argue it's just incompetence, not PO. But if you've been in the business of making the same type of hardware/appliances for more than a few years then it's definitely planned obsolescence.

New comment by tussa in "Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time"

tussa — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:07:24 +0000

What happened with this one?

https://hnrankings.info/39073285/

It just disappeared from HN.

New comment by tussa in "MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device"

tussa — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 01:21:26 +0000

Probably because the actual product is garbage.

Remember the Google assistant demo, where it booked a table at a restaurant?

That never materialized. Google assistant is just eating crayons today.

New comment by tussa in "Coding on Copilot: Data suggests downward pressure on code quality"

tussa — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:25:34 +0000

Would it? What does 1% reduction in code quality translate to in terms of delivery time and profits?

I don't know. But I'm pretty sure 50% reduction results in project failure and company bankruptcy.

New comment by tussa in "Why focus on AI meeting transcripts if the real problem is bad meeting prep?"

tussa — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:22:11 +0000

Would be good to have a landing page to tell us what this does. Straight to the point and skip all this marketing PR jargon.