Hacker News: zelos

New comment by zelos in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

zelos — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:52:18 +0000

I was forced to work out a 3 month notice period at my previous company in the UK. I don’t see the point of keeping an already-checked out employee around so long when you have basically no way of getting anything but the bare minimum out of them.

New comment by zelos in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

zelos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:37:12 +0000

Not to open a can of worms, but there are probably people who still consider Northern Ireland a colony.

New comment by zelos in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

zelos — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:31:48 +0000

Argentina only had 6 Exocets. I think the parent is referring to the failure of the fuses in the bombs the Argentinian pilots dropped on British ships.

New comment by zelos in "The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail"

zelos — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:47:52 +0000

> Whenever a CI run fails, we can re-run it. If it passes the second time, we are sure it was flaky.

Or you have a concurrency issue in your production code?

New comment by zelos in "Triumph of the toons: how animation came to rule the box office"

zelos — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:16:03 +0000

Film franchises tap into nostalgia, too. “Toy Story 5” will be watched by more than a few adults

I always thought the reason Toy Story works for adults and children is that the toys are the 'parents': caring for their child, but with the awareness that their job is to render themselves unnecessary.

New comment by zelos in "Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)"

zelos — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:16:16 +0000

It's been many years since I read 1984, but this seems wrong:

"To Orwell, it must have seemed that neither time nor fortune could budge Stalin, but that he would live on forever with ever increasing strength. - And that was how Orwell pictured Big Brother."

Wasn't the point in 1984 that Big Brother isn't real? So there was no central dictator, just the system.

New comment by zelos in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

zelos — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:48:55 +0000

It was head and shoulders above many of the alternatives for mobile app development back then like Carbide or Codewarrior, though.

New comment by zelos in "Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI""

zelos — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:23:32 +0000

LLM output is quickly rendering google search unusable, so it's kind of creating its own speedup multiplier.

New comment by zelos in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

zelos — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:03:11 +0000

Regaining the weight quickly after stopping taking the drugs seems reasonably well substantiated? https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj-2025-085304

New comment by zelos in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

zelos — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:27:52 +0000

It's not just a US thing. Obesity rates in the UK and Germany are similar and I know plenty of people on GLP-1 drugs in the UK.

New comment by zelos in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

zelos — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:04:42 +0000

Exactly. I disabled internet access on my LG C1 after an update reenabled the setting that pops up adverts over the top of what you're watching.

New comment by zelos in "Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers"

zelos — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:44:36 +0000

There's always Gradle Toolchains as well, which allows you to put the JDK configuration in the branch next to the source code.

New comment by zelos in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

zelos — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:15:38 +0000

The iPhone app has weird bugs too. Currently (for me, at least) the brand text that appears in the overlay box on adverts is black text on a black background and virtually illegible. If they're not even worried about bugs in the revenue-generating ad part of the app, what hope is there for the rest?

New comment by zelos in "Using street lamps as EV chargers"

zelos — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:26:18 +0000

Pricing always seems to be ignored. Sure, my local council installed chargers in the village car park for people without off street parking, but that’s 50p/kWh compared to 8p for me charging at home.

New comment by zelos in "It's the “hardware”, stupid"

zelos — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:56:19 +0000

Maybe, but plenty of people are prepared to poke their fingers in their eyes every morning in order to avoid wearing glasses, so it can't be all that popular a form factor.

New comment by zelos in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

zelos — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:50:29 +0000

Yeah, but apart from all that, what have the Romans ever done for us?

New comment by zelos in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

zelos — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:32:47 +0000

> for every old person we should have more than one working young person.

I never understood this thinking. Doesn't it assume infinite population is possible?

New comment by zelos in "Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole"

zelos — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:16:22 +0000

This suggests ejecting a secondary mirror in front of the craft to reflect light to brake the original craft: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.01356:

"...or by ejecting a reflector that is then used as a braking system (similar to thrust reversal on jets) but this only works if the payload is still within illumination range of the primary laser system"

New comment by zelos in "Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]"

zelos — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:51:25 +0000

> Real-time military object telemetry with precise geolocation, identifiers, and live telemetry

Oops

New comment by zelos in "A PhD in Snapshots"

zelos — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:27:39 +0000

> is where your advisor would come in and tell you what you need to work on.

Yes, that would have been nice :(