Hacker News: verve_rat

New comment by verve_rat in "Claude Code Routines"

verve_rat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:52:46 +0000

We find it incredibly hard to articulate what separates a productive and effective engineer from a below average one. We can't objectively measure engineer's effectiveness, why would we thing we could measure LLMs cosplaying as engineers?

New comment by verve_rat in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

verve_rat — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:16:40 +0000

I mean, a one time fee, maybe even per mini-game, doesn't seem gross?

New comment by verve_rat in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

verve_rat — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:16:05 +0000

The people that did the Great War series (at least some of them, I believe there was a little bit of a falling out) went on to do a WWII version on the World War II channel: https://youtube.com/@worldwartwo

They are currently in the middle of a Korean War version: https://youtube.com/@thekoreanwarbyindyneidell

New comment by verve_rat in "Show HN: Browser MCP – Automate your browser using Cursor, Claude, VS Code"

verve_rat — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 02:01:42 +0000

Yeah, I do wonder if there are any ADA implications with that?

New comment by verve_rat in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

verve_rat — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:49:28 +0000

Is your veil weighted?

It is not equally likely you will benefit from advertising as it is likely you will be harmed by advertising under a veil of ignorance scenario.

New comment by verve_rat in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

verve_rat — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:27:36 +0000

Note: the proposal being discussed is to ban advertising, not marketing.

New comment by verve_rat in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

verve_rat — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:00:17 +0000

Although... 4D chess move, if a state starts prosecution against Musk, get the DoJ to do it first and then pardon him after the fact.

Double jeopardy would stop the state from continuing with the prosecution, and the pardon means no consequences.

I hate that I consider this an actually possibly.

New comment by verve_rat in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

verve_rat — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:23:12 +0000

But now Bing would have a chance of becoming the default search engine of the most used browser in the world.

That's the difference.

New comment by verve_rat in "National Archives Pushes Google Gemini AI on Employees"

verve_rat — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:24:02 +0000

The people running the demo called it an expert.

Which just demonstrates the complete lack of respect for the domain they are trampling on.

New comment by verve_rat in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"

verve_rat — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:56:08 +0000

Or maybe he is just a gready lier? From the outside looking in how can you tell the difference?

New comment by verve_rat in "The magic of small engineering teams"

verve_rat — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 22:21:21 +0000

Yup, in NZ a two pizza team would average out to about three people I think.

Are US pizzas giant?

New comment by verve_rat in "How to get stuff repaired when the manufacturer don't wanna: take 'em to court"

verve_rat — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:52:33 +0000

If you are willing to offer an extended warranty for X years, then that's pretty good evidence that I should be covered by the CGA for at least that long.

New comment by verve_rat in "South Pole Water Infrastructure"

verve_rat — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 22:45:57 +0000

See also: all the shower scenes in M*A*S*H.

New comment by verve_rat in "Largest Autonomous Ride-Hail Territory in US Now Even Larger"

verve_rat — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 01:20:03 +0000

> The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.

New comment by verve_rat in "British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim"

verve_rat — Mon, 20 May 2024 11:10:22 +0000

Maybe just the people that can move $25 million should be in the same room, the rest of us can keep the 12 second commute down the hallway.

New comment by verve_rat in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

verve_rat — Sat, 18 May 2024 04:03:48 +0000

Right, but the employee would be able to refuse the consideration, and thus the contract, and the state of affairs wouldn't change. They would be free to say whatever they wanted.

New comment by verve_rat in "Brazil's catastrophic weather spawns spate of conspiracy theories"

verve_rat — Sun, 12 May 2024 23:52:30 +0000

> There's never been a peace settlement that ended up killing more people than war

Versailles.

New comment by verve_rat in "EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak"

verve_rat — Sat, 11 May 2024 10:20:14 +0000

The classifieds in the back of newspapers are a type of ad that helped normal people buy/sell their stuff and paid for actual journalism.

Some ads are ok. Advertising as a concept is very broad.

New comment by verve_rat in "No Country Should Be Making Speech Rules for the World"

verve_rat — Fri, 10 May 2024 00:39:04 +0000

And the US applies its tax laws to all US citizens worldwide and coerces foreign financial institutions into compliance.

New comment by verve_rat in "A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed"

verve_rat — Thu, 09 May 2024 22:13:38 +0000

I've replied to a few comments here pointing out why NZ and Canada would be considered both on the same footing as part of the Empire but also not at the same time.

Unlike, say the US, independence for the former Dominions isn't something you can pin point to one event. It is mostly a slow evolution of the legal environment and cultural separation over the course of more than a century. (In NZ's case you could argue that it took 163 years, or is not done yet because reasons.)

The actual difference between the Canadian "expedition" and the one that included Hillary is that the Canadian one was just some dude. One guy that wanted to try his luck, whereas the British one was organised (and I believe paid for) in Britain. It just happened to have a Kiwi on it.