Hacker News: valiant55

New comment by valiant55 in "Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers"

valiant55 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:50:36 +0000

I could get behind "stunts on" instead of "slams" for article titles.

New comment by valiant55 in "Video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts"

valiant55 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:46:46 +0000

I don't think we should be constructing data centers anywhere near population if the are constantly producing noise pollution. XAI has been setting up generators to support their centers, possibly illegally. The strain on supply chains (RAM) is going to have ramifications that touch every part of the economy.

New comment by valiant55 in "Video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts"

valiant55 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:41:54 +0000

> Anti-AI sentiment is pointless if they can't tell the difference.

I disagree, you can object on moral grounds of which there's a few angles that could take.

New comment by valiant55 in "Mario Meets Pareto"

valiant55 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:30:12 +0000

Probably but they could be arrived at via different means. In WoW for instance top players run simulated combat using third party tools to compare different gearing setup, often to determine if a new piece of gear is better than their current piece. This often isn't immediately obvious if the stats are completely different and "simming" is the easiest way to evaluate a piece of gear.

New comment by valiant55 in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

valiant55 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:11:18 +0000

The one that stuck out to me was all the automation, full breakfast etc but the house has to remind them to pay the bills.

New comment by valiant55 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

valiant55 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:18:31 +0000

A lot of the programming adjacent subreddits have been post after post of weekend vibe coded projects. It's become really exhausting how easy it is to turn out a new wheel that's going to get abandoned in a few weeks at best.

New comment by valiant55 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

valiant55 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:25:56 +0000

I have a CRV with adaptive cruise (USA) and while the car reads the speed limit signs it only uses them for display. There are instances where it misreads signs which is understandable because some of the road signs are very similar or the posted speed only applies to trucks ect.

But it does not adjust based on the reading, I manually set the speed but of course it'll slow down if there's a car in front. Automatically adjusting to the speed limit sounds insanely dangerous. It's very common place, at least in the US, to go 10 over the posted limit on controlled access highways, does the EU not operate in a similar mode?

New comment by valiant55 in "Rent collections are down in New York"

valiant55 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:08:33 +0000

The pandemic didn't end when Mamdani was elected. The economic impact from the pandemic is going to be felt for decades.

New comment by valiant55 in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

valiant55 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:46:20 +0000

In what way does buying a property and renting it create wealth? Isn't buying a property with the intent to rent it manipulation of economic conditions?

New comment by valiant55 in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

valiant55 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:31:22 +0000

A comment the adds nothing to the discussion but derails the conversation with an anecdotes from the writers childhood because how this topic vaguely reminds them of something kind of similar.

New comment by valiant55 in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

valiant55 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:41:54 +0000

PA did this with construction zone cameras. I'm not sure where that landed because its been a while since I've seen one. I successfully appealed my ticket to the magistrate. It initially started as a pilot program and the law requires signage which during the pilot was quite inconspicuous. After the launch the sign was changed to a tiny little thing, about 1/5 the size of the pilot program.

I was going 5 over the reduced speed limit, in the slow lane with rush hour traffic. That thing must've issued thousands of tickets.

New comment by valiant55 in "C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper"

valiant55 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:07:41 +0000

There's a data type precedence that it uses to determine which value should be casted[0]. Nvarchar is higher precedence, therefore the varchar value is "lifted" to an nvarchar value first. This wouldn't be an issue if the types were reversed.

0: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/data-...

New comment by valiant55 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

valiant55 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:50:25 +0000

This is definitely not always the case[0], let's not pretend these companies give a fuck about the communities in which their data centers operate[1].

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk...

1: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/texas-hood-county-cr...

New comment by valiant55 in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

valiant55 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:45:59 +0000

I got the battery extension and it lasted more than 10 months (I have it on a 30 minute refresh). Highly recommend TRMNL if you want something to hack on without fussing with hardware.

New comment by valiant55 in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

valiant55 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:42:45 +0000

I'm too entralled by TikTok to build a guillotine.

New comment by valiant55 in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

valiant55 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:06:44 +0000

The powers that be have always saught wealth. At some point they gained enough power to start usurping the law that was supposed to keep them in check.

The Temper Language

valiant55 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:45:46 +0000

Article URL: https://temperlang.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535498

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by valiant55 in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

valiant55 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:48:59 +0000

I'm not doing FIRE, I have children and just live below my means. I'm hoping to retire around 55 assuming the AI bubble doesn't nuke everyones portfolio.

New comment by valiant55 in "The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow"

valiant55 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:46:00 +0000

Yeah, and the tooling is changing more quickly than JavaScript and is riddled with security issues. I think the best move right now is at best using AI as a (in)glorified Google / Stack overflow and waiting until the dust settles on tooling.

New comment by valiant55 in "Was it a billion dollar mistake?"

valiant55 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:22:29 +0000

Unity isn't written in C#, it's C++. C# is used as the scripting engine.