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New comment by verve_rat in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

verve_rat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:47:16 +0000

You know China is busy genociding its Uyghurs population, right?

Their cars are probably better than US ones, but they are not free of the taint of genocide.

Edit: and that's not counting their aggressive territorial expansion in the South China Sea and their threats against Taiwan.

New comment by verve_rat in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

verve_rat — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:42:56 +0000

Retired people have had to deal with this. I assume it is less of a problem in multi-generational homes.

New comment by verve_rat in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

verve_rat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:10:20 +0000

I think you'll find America failed democracy.

New comment by verve_rat in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

verve_rat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:19:58 +0000

Yes, compare Czech Republic-> Czechia. No problem typing that out, no problem updating my mental map of the world.

Frankly I dispute that Türkiye can be the English name given it contains a non-English letter.

New comment by verve_rat in "Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)"

verve_rat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:14:55 +0000

Oh wow, that's a game I haven't thought about in forever. Thanks for reminding me.

New comment by verve_rat in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

verve_rat — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:18:17 +0000

> But in any case you cannot go back to a GUI and not have that problem of GUIs being too restrictive: invariably there shall be a need to chain several simple commands that do one thing and that excel at that one thing and that only become powerful when chained with other commands. GUIs cannot solve that.

But TUIs can't solve that either? The ability to pipe CLI commands together when using a tool non-interactively is orthogonal to what UI is used interactively.

New comment by verve_rat in "The dead economy theory"

verve_rat — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:29:07 +0000

Just because they weren't paid doesn't mean women were not doing economically valued labour. The washing machine is probably the greatest productivity unlock since the steam engine.

New comment by verve_rat in "The dead economy theory"

verve_rat — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:27:37 +0000

Changing the tax system to tax capital rather than labour would probably get you 90% of the way there without great societal upheaval (capital would fight back though).

New comment by verve_rat in "The dead economy theory"

verve_rat — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:23:31 +0000

There is a basic problem with framing though. Why does the labour need to find somewhere to go, but capital doesn't? Why can't the increase in productivity be captured by labour and denied to capital?

New comment by verve_rat in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

verve_rat — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:40:56 +0000

None of those are helpful examples we could mimic to figure out how to use the tools.

This reads like a CV, not trying to help or educate.

New comment by verve_rat in "Cate v1.0 is out: The Infinite canvas workspace for developers"

verve_rat — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:30:32 +0000

Agreed. I'm actually excited to hope for a cambrian explosion of IDE experiments.

LLM powered visual diagramming of the code as you work? The ability to edit the diagrams and have tje LLM apply that back to the code? Visualisation of test coverage over the UI you are working on? Allowing you to attach user submitted videos of bugs directly to tests in the code?

I don't know if any of that is a good idea, but I really hope a bunch of people try.

New comment by verve_rat in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

verve_rat — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:39:17 +0000

They (Stripe) don't have to be a arbitrator of every edge case, just use the information they have that merchants want to give them and surface a risk signal back to merchants, then it can be up to the merchant what level of risk they are happy with for each customer.

It doesn't seem like an unreasonable ask frankly.

New comment by verve_rat in "The Steinwinter Supercargo"

verve_rat — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:27:11 +0000

I was wondering if it had any relationship to the trucks from The Highwayman tv show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwayman_(TV_series)

https://www.motortrend.com/news/peterbilt-semi-truck-the-hig...

New comment by verve_rat in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

verve_rat — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:27:42 +0000

Yes, but as a pedestrian, do you want to bet your life on that?

New comment by verve_rat in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

verve_rat — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:16:37 +0000

Maybe, instead of trying to scare (scar?) children you should just teach them to make eye contact with the driver so you are sure they have seen you before you put yourself in the path of their car?

How much of our "safety" culture around kids is because people don't have basic life skills and aren't passing them on to kids?

New comment by verve_rat in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

verve_rat — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:34:11 +0000

You don't need to look at other engineering jobs, just look at software engineers out side the US. We make decent money compared to the local market, but we've never had the royal treatment that US devs seem to get.

New comment by verve_rat in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

verve_rat — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:48:06 +0000

Yes, that is a hard problem that society in general doesn't like dealing with, but the solution doesn't involve letting kids be abused. That's the point I'm making. Don't let kids get abused. I honestly didn't think that was very controversial.

New comment by verve_rat in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

verve_rat — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:35:59 +0000

What? Your argument is men should be used to violence, so it is ok to hit boys, but women should not be used to violence, so we shouldn't hit girls?

We hit boys, so it is ok to hit boys, but we don't hit girls, so it isn't ok to hit girls?

That's so very, very wrong.

New comment by verve_rat in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

verve_rat — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:24:11 +0000

Collective punishment is a war crime, I don't know why people think it would be effective on children? All it does is breed resistance and resentment, as you say.

New comment by verve_rat in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

verve_rat — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:18:41 +0000

So other kids should just be their victims? How is that better?

We should do whatever we can to help kids with problems, but that doesn't include victimising people. Remove the bullies and deal with them elsewhere.