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New comment by zeroCalories in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

zeroCalories — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:51:47 +0000

Sometimes you gotta let people know how awesome you are. The real question is if you're misrepresenting yourself(all marketing, no substance).

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:08:20 +0000

What you mean is that you can't have everything you want on minimum wage

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:32:58 +0000

Maybe you need to watch more Clavicular streams

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:33:38 +0000

Huh, I've always got the same vibe from socialists about money that I get from incels about women.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

zeroCalories — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:29:53 +0000

No one really "needs" anything. You can live perfectly well on minimum wage. But really, you could survive perfectly well as a slave. Infact, the world is content for you to die and get nothing. All "need" is "want". All you deserve is what you have leverage for.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Write some software, give it away for free"

zeroCalories — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:39:45 +0000

Do you not trust your teammates? LGTM click merge

New comment by zeroCalories in "Banned by Anthropic"

zeroCalories — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:58:30 +0000

After getting to the point where vibe coded slop is getting pushed to production it's not clear to me if a future where AI can replace me is a worse future than we have now.

New comment by zeroCalories in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

zeroCalories — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:03:53 +0000

Yeah just say horse radish geeze

New comment by zeroCalories in "Ask HN: Are your product managers sending PRs?"

zeroCalories — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:18:33 +0000

I told my PM they can send me PRs if I can send them PRs for review.

New comment by zeroCalories in "Anthropic silently downgraded cache TTL from 1h → 5M on March 6th"

zeroCalories — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:09:45 +0000

Several thoughts went through my head before I realized what's wrong:

1. I guess longer caching means more stale data, which is why it's a downgrade? 2. Maybe this isn't the TTL I thought it was? 3. Maybe this isn't the cache I thought?

Then I clicked on the link and realized I had been mislead my the title.

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

zeroCalories — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:31:37 +0000

If you could find people to do this work below market rate this wouldn't be a problem to begin with.

New comment by zeroCalories in "My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters"

zeroCalories — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:58:12 +0000

I also struggled with exams, but that's because my understanding was often shallow, due to a lack of effort to study and understand the material. I'm very suspicious of people that say they're smart, but can't perform on exams. That said, there's plenty of ways to structure things to avoid this. Have weekly, easy, pass / fail exams that ensure you've read the material at a basic level, or understood some basic concepts. Lab work. Presentations with live grilling from the professor to ensure you understand the topic.

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

zeroCalories — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:43:45 +0000

I have a lot of ability. I'm not gonna flex it for others without pay that gives me significantly higher living standards than the average person. Are you going to force me to work?

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

zeroCalories — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:40:15 +0000

Then as the local government, maybe start by removing that regulation. Or if the regulation is required, you're going to have to pay a premium for people willing and able to put up with it.

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

zeroCalories — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:38:27 +0000

Depends on how much margin there was. Sounds like there's not enough.

New comment by zeroCalories in "My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters"

zeroCalories — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:28:54 +0000

Better than "how to get a passing grade in cs/swe"

New comment by zeroCalories in "My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters"

zeroCalories — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:20:54 +0000

It's pointless. Just an arms race of gimmicks. There's really no option besides making homework all optional, and putting 100% of the grade into in-person exams. I basically don't trust that any new graduate has earned their degree, and won't until schools do what's necessary to crush cheaters.

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

zeroCalories — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:03:15 +0000

If it was easy to do with a lot of margin it would have been done by someone else in the private sector. In fact, they tricked these companies into making investments that weren't worthwhile for them. Sounds like the kind of people the deserve the shitty internet they have.

New comment by zeroCalories in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

zeroCalories — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:06:40 +0000

It's actually easy. Just sell and invest somewhere else.

New comment by zeroCalories in "The Hateful Eight is 85% of S&P 500 Decline"

zeroCalories — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:05:20 +0000

Silly. You should be selling off th ese trash stocks. Don't know why people keep recommending market cap weighted funds when they're being manipulated by scam artists like Elon and Trump into making the world's retirement funds into bag holders.