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New comment by xboxnolifes in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

xboxnolifes — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:49:51 +0000

Sure, but that's an incredible level of incompetence, that I can only see would be expose otherwise outside of AI use. The entire list of what vaccines to give to what age group could fit on a single piece of paper.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:11:10 +0000

It's a widely documented anti-pattern, while also not giving a convenient alternative.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

xboxnolifes — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:44:35 +0000

Thats not democracy.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "People love to work hard"

xboxnolifes — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:11:53 +0000

League of Legends players are very familiar with type 3 activities.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

xboxnolifes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:20:08 +0000

Maybe i misinterpreted the original comment, but having the government step in to pressure a company is not usually what i find people mean when they talk about competitive markets. Let alone when the pressure is through a side channel.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

xboxnolifes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:35:20 +0000

The argument loses even more weight if you look to China's infrastructure over their massive country.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:18:42 +0000

> ...one day, one of the municipal counselors just called up a friend who worked for a fiber laying company and asked them for a favor: put out a press release saying that they were “investigating” laying an undersea fiber to power a municipal fiber network on the little island.

They called in a favor that put pressure on the company from public expectations.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

xboxnolifes — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:34:57 +0000

You see, humans are emotional beings, not rational beings. Surely you've seen examples of that basically everywhere there is human interactions.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying"

xboxnolifes — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:44:18 +0000

Those are no longer mutually exclusive options.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

xboxnolifes — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:18:30 +0000

Information itself cannot be trustworthy. It can be right, it can be wrong, or it can be somewhere in between. Only a source can have trustworthiness, as it's a mixed measure of reputation and provable accuracy.

You filter out known untrustworthy sources to not waste your time verifying false information 100x more than you need to. I know The Onion is a satire publication. I do not need to verify its claims. It's an intentionally untrustworthy source. I know that LLMs can hallucinate information, so I verify with a more trustworthy source. I cross-reference things random people say on the internet, because random people on the internet are not, individually, trustworthy sources of information.

If a rocket engineer explains to me why Rocket A isn't flight ready, I'm more inclined to believe them than if a random commenter on the internet explains it to me. Because the one source is more trustworthy than another, and if I wanted to verify the claim myself I'd have to spend a lot of time studying rocket science.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs"

xboxnolifes — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:35:52 +0000

Because the employment is full, sorry, no more jobs available /s.

(Im in the same boat, but much longer than 6 months)

New comment by xboxnolifes in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:44:44 +0000

The first one is hardly a small extension. It's millions of lines of code, which is multiple times more than the version of Minecraft it extends.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:43:51 +0000

My point is that there's almost nothing to teach about it. You just need to use a keyboard enough to build experience.

What could you possibly teach about touch typing besides just telling people to do typing tests or write papers over and over again?

People aren't bad typers because they weren't taught. They're bad typer because they dont type.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:18:08 +0000

You dont need to learn to touch type to avoid searching out each key individually. You just need experience.

I was taught touch typing as a kid. None of it took. I dont use the home row. I developed into the gamer home row hand positioning for typing.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:11:35 +0000

They aren't anything particularly special, most projects I interact with have at least 1 dev who uses LLMs in some capacity.

The two I was thinking of when I posted are the Minecraft modpack GregTech: New Horizons, and an Old School Runescape plugin.

https://github.com/gtnewhorizons

https://github.com/osrs-reldo/tasks-tracker-plugin

New comment by xboxnolifes in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:03:59 +0000

The crazier part is that its an official government position, and we (people at large / the government) aren't immediately slapping down the actions of these companies.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:13:28 +0000

What do you consider "serious", as that seems to be the main differentiator here. I know plenty of serious (multiple years of development and users, and began prior to LLMs) projects that have devs using LLMs for development.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:36:47 +0000

/r/horsecarriages banning discussion of cars makes sense though. It's not a horse carriage. If you want to discuss cars, go to /r/cars.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

xboxnolifes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:09:57 +0000

  Location: New Jersey, United States
  Remote: Preferred, but open to in-office
  Willing to relocate: Yes, anywhere in the continental USA
  Technologies: JS/TS, Python, C#, Java, SQL, Docker, Claude Code
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13G_ETTrtQ3PVWKVSw-uck3x8ntuiAdOX/view?usp=sharing
  Email: michaeldoylecs@gmail.com

Heads up, I have a 3 year gap since my last employment, so if that scares you move along.

I'm a full-stack engineer whose professional experience is primarily writing web-based software with C#, Typescript, React, and SQL databases. I consider myself a generalist, and I move between different programming languages and technologies both as the need arises and as my desire pleases. Most recently, I've been contributing to some Java-based Minecraft mods and started development on a video game with a friend using the Godot engine. Ideally, I'm looking to work with a smart team, on a product that isn't just trying to shoehorn AI into a domain that'll only make it worse for everyone involved.

I use Claude code often while programming, if AI usage is important to you.

New comment by xboxnolifes in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

xboxnolifes — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:22:12 +0000

You give yourself an arbitrary number of years you feel is too long to hold onto something without using it, and you stick to it.