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dpkirchner

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just some rando
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dpkirchner··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
I'm the first and only one of my friend group on my IRC server. It's an elite claim, I know.
dpkirchner··on Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies
Are you sure you're not thinking of billing alerts? AFAIK there is still no way to set spending limits at GCP.
dpkirchner··on Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon
I agree that there's no way the market has been cut in half, however I am curious to see if aggregate cash (or at least non-stock) spending on engineers has been affected. Are we seeing a decline in average or median wages?
dpkirchner··on Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles
It seems like a bad idea to talk about how much gold you have, even with friends.
dpkirchner··on Self Driving Car Insurance
This exists in a way -- I'd wager every city has a commercial service that will shuttle you to, say, the airport. They're not cheap, however.
dpkirchner··on Tesla ending Models S and X production
How should we calculate the enormous subsidy they received through high tariffs against their competitors?
dpkirchner··on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores
Also, Uber drivers tend to show up. It was always a crapshoot with regular cab drivers. I don't have experience with other car services, maybe they were better pre-Uber.
dpkirchner··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
They already continue to support him after proposing (twice!) taking people's guns without due process.
dpkirchner··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
> The danger Trump represented was not obvious until well after he took office

I don't get it, was there anything surprising about him after his inauguration? He sure sounded dangerous on the campaign trail.

dpkirchner··on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
It's like NIH syndrome but instead "not invented here today". Also a very human thing.
dpkirchner··on Judge order bars feds from altering or destroying evidence in Pretti shooting
What punishment will they actually receive when they defy this order?
dpkirchner··on Tech CEOs attend Amazon-funded "Melania" screening at White House
Somehow I doubt Tim Cook would have trouble surviving if he did not choose to bend the knee.
dpkirchner··on Why Does Destroying Resources via TF Suck?
Hell, let's talk about why ^c'ing the plan phase sucks.
dpkirchner··on Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
Ok, let's talk about identity politics. It started with people bringing their religion in to their lawmaking. Let's ditch that first and see what else we need to do.
dpkirchner··on Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
A very high profile mainstream Republican proposed the most severe anti-gun policy I think anyone at his level ever has: taking guns without due process. And they still voted to reelect him twice. The idea that the GOP is not anti-gun is a fantasy.
dpkirchner··on I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21
I think this is where the "may" applies.
dpkirchner··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
I agree but I'd go further: Cash should be required by law, we shouldn't require people to have a bank account just to buy electricity.
dpkirchner··on Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results
Amazon has gotten "good" at it. If I search for, say, AirPods, I get ads from Apple followed by the regular listings that look identical sans gray "sponsored" text. It helps that in this rare case the ads are actually relevant.
dpkirchner··on Dead Internet Theory
It's impossible, so I figure we may as well accept it when browsing rando's content (or just don't read any of it) and reject it when interacting with friends and family. What else can you really do?
dpkirchner··on Dead Internet Theory
I'm hopeful that one day engineers at Meta will crack the chronological sort code. It's a tough algorithm but I bet Llama can help 'em out.

Better back button handling and fixing the location bugs in event creation may well be entirely beyond Llama, sadly.

dpkirchner··on 2025 was the third hottest year on record
They can speak for themselves, you and I don't really know what they want, or what they think counts as "raw" data.
dpkirchner··on ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
Are you talking about this sort of thing? https://clickhouse.com/blog/tracing-openai-agents-clickstack
dpkirchner··on STFU
There are a lot of people who are loud about not wanting to follow social norms (which is expected when we're talking about people rudely being loud, I guess). It seems to be a point of pride. I don't get it but I've definitely seen it.
dpkirchner··on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
> Reminds me of one of my managers who said, “Sometimes, you have to let people fail.”

Yup -- I've learned a lot from my failures. Far be it for me to deny others that experience. Assuming their failures won't result in the company imploding or other serious harm, of course.

dpkirchner··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
It still fails with all of my extensions disabled (wipr, privacy redirect). I just get a download dialog. I don't know what the HTTP status code is, however.

I found a flagged HN submission about it and it has just about the same result for me and for others. My first tap failed in a weird way (showed some text then redirected quickly to its git repo) and all subsequent taps trigger a download.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538010

dpkirchner··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
Nor Safari on iOS.
dpkirchner··on Scott Adams has died
I wonder if any of his then-peers who were also white men got promoted? I'm betting it was non-zero.
dpkirchner··on Indifference is a power (2015)
Depends on what you mean by polite company, I think. I'm sure there are a lot of conversations among men, who are polite to each other, talking about women being on their periods or hysterical or whatever. Is that no longer the norm? My friend group doesn't do it but given the rhetoric we've seen on HN and elsewhere "locker room talk" is still a thing.
dpkirchner··on Indifference is a power (2015)
The world does not lack terms to describe any feminine behavior, toxic or otherwise, so I don't think this is a real problem.
dpkirchner··on AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention
In parts of the US, even low-crime areas, a significant amount of the items at grocery stores are locked up in glass cases. If you want them you have to track down an employee and beg for access (and in some stores they won't let you carry the items to the register). That part of the store might as well be closed to visitors, replaced by vending machines.
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