Hacker News: valiant55

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.

New comment by valiant55 in "Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)"

valiant55 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:48:42 +0000

Buyer beware, this game has been in alpha for 10 years despite sufficient funding. The cash shop is charging $25 for skins in a alpha game.

New comment by valiant55 in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

valiant55 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:24:15 +0000

I had this issue with my alternative account. Despite my main account being associated (not by recovery, I think this predates that feature), and most messages being forwaded to my main I was never able to successfully recover the credentials.

New comment by valiant55 in "Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale"

valiant55 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:55:21 +0000

I'm struggling to understand what the issue that the author is getting at. The point of a database is that it's ACID compliant, wrap insets/updates/deletes in a transaction and no such drift would occur. What am I missing?

New comment by valiant55 in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

valiant55 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:47:16 +0000

There's a guy complaining that the creator is poisoning the collective code used to train LLMs. If that's all it takes we have a moral responsibility to flood GitHub with garbage.

New comment by valiant55 in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

valiant55 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:32:10 +0000

Complexity demon everywhere.

New comment by valiant55 in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

valiant55 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:52:33 +0000

One example is linked in the article where he expressed women are biologically less interested in tech.

New comment by valiant55 in "Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer"

valiant55 — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 02:18:48 +0000

Copy-Item is a cmdlet, the native way to do it in PowerShell. Gp posted a hack to replicate the GUI in PowerShell.

New comment by valiant55 in "Perl's decline was cultural"

valiant55 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:38:20 +0000

I'd love for politics to not infiltrate most aspects of life. Until everyone is able to, at least in part, persue life without being oppressed because of their immutable attributes, their belief or lack of belief system, who they choose to love and/or how they view themselves I think it's our civic duty to crusade for those causes.

New comment by valiant55 in "Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes"

valiant55 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:03:06 +0000

I'm not sure I'd refer to some of these individuals as "luminaries" which typically has a positive connotation.

New comment by valiant55 in "Why millennials feel hopeless about the economy"

valiant55 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:11:30 +0000

It's upsetting that it's commonly pushed that something as complex as "the economy" could ever be summerized or understood through a single, uncontextualized number. E.g. GDP, jobs reports, SP500 or unemployment rate.

Even just breaking down unemployment rate by race starts illuminated a better understanding of our current conditions. Labor participation sees at least some discussion in the main stream but trying to distill everything into a 5 second headline is hurdling us to doom.