FearNotDaniel (u/FearNotDaniel)

FearNotDaniel commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

malfist · 12 days ago

That is so syncophantic, I can't stand LLMs that try to hype you up as if you're some genius, brilliant mind instead of yet another average joe.

FearNotDaniel · 12 days ago

You’re absolutely right! It shows true wisdom and insight that you would recognise this common shortfall in LLM response tone of voice! That’s exactly the kind of thoughtful analytic approach which will go far in today’s competitive marketplace!

FearNotDaniel commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap

trhway · 24 days ago

The world makes full circle. A 4-toilet (2 facing the other 2 for lively conversation) bathroom per floor, no walls whatsoever between the toilets, "open layout" so to speak, in our dormitory in high school (regional school for advanced science studies) in USSR in 80-ies come to mind. Looks like we were living the boutiquey avant-garde way of the future :)

FearNotDaniel · 24 days ago

> 80-ies

eighty...ies? eightieies? why not just "80s"?

FearNotDaniel commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

plorkyeran · a month ago

The price for each of those at my local supermarket when buying the low quality option in bulk:

English Muffin: 70¢

Slice of cheese: 40¢

Egg: 40¢

Slice of Ham: 50¢

Hash browns: 40¢

Coffee: $1?

In total $3.40. £5.09 for that in hot, prepared form ready to eat sounds cheap to me, not expensive.

FearNotDaniel · a month ago

Dude you’re not even trying, why buy muffins and eggs when you could grow wheat, grind flour, raise chickens and get eggs for free, slaughter your own pigs and cure the bacon yourself… because labour costs nothing and convenience has no value amirite?

FearNotDaniel commented on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers latimes.com/business/stor... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

Freedom2 · a month ago

In some ways the rest of the world's McDonald's are simply plummeting to the low quality of those in the US.

FearNotDaniel · a month ago

Austria resident checking in - since I moved here I noticed the quality of McD’s is way, way better than in the UK. And apart from the regular menu being a whole different experience, you’ve got great quality coffee and cakes. It’s a whole world of difference.

FearNotDaniel commented on You can't cURL a Border drobinin.com/posts/you-ca... · Posted by u/valzevul

FearNotDaniel · 2 months ago

> buy a sausage roll at Greggs

If that's the first thing he thinks of while transiting through a UK airport, he deserves a citizenship, no questions.

FearNotDaniel commented on The Port 6000 Mystery docs.eventsourcingdb.io/b... · Posted by u/goloroden

FearNotDaniel · 2 months ago

Hey ChatGPT, please summarize this ChatGPT generated blogpost to quickly reveal the one piece of actionable knowledge without burying it in layers of fake narrative, manufactured drama and internally-inconsistent pretence at self reflection. Thank you. Good bot.

FearNotDaniel commented on The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (2020) missing.csail.mit.edu/... · Posted by u/vismit2000

jbs789 · 2 months ago

I understand that you're goal is getting home. It might be helpful for other viewers to share 1) a bit more about your story and 2) how them using the service helps.

Maybe people can help in other ways you don't anticipate.

FearNotDaniel · 2 months ago

The author previously posted this to HN, where he tells a little of the backstory from his POV. Make of that what you will:

https://medium.com/@rviragh/tech-whistleblowers-handbook-d40...

FearNotDaniel commented on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout theregister.com/2025/10/2... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111

travisgriggs · 2 months ago

Interesting. That was not my perception of Sun at all. “The network is the computer” was a marketing campaign. Java was a language developed for IoT/toasters, and then hard pivoted to a write once run anywhere weblet language (ultimately to be replaced by a guy who threw together an integerless programming language that sounded like a skin condition, renamed to ride the crest of energy sun marketing money threw at things).

Sure, Solaris was rock solid, but it was also pretty conservative in its march forward as a Unix, being ultimately trumped by Linux.

Sun had an amazing team of people that worked on Self project led by David Ungar and others (Lars Bak who helped give us V8). They let the whole team go, who then went off and did sime cool things with dynamic optimization, which Sun ultimately ended up hiring/buying back to create the HotSpot VM.

Any NIH and other dysfunctionality went far beyond the engineers at Sun.

FearNotDaniel · 2 months ago

It's a small side point, but the skin-disease name came later:

Mocha -> LiveScript -> JavaScript -> EczemaScript or whatever

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript

FearNotDaniel commented on The Rise and Fall of the Powdered Wig (2020) battlefields.org/learn/he... · Posted by u/andsoitis

ljlolel · 2 months ago

Interestingly, this doesn't mention that, like the tomato and the potato, Syphilis was from The New World. It’s a disease that caused this hair loss, unlike European diseases which killed a lot of Native Americans. Syphilis caused these issues but didn't cause death. However, it's interesting to note why this trend happened after the year 1492.

FearNotDaniel · 2 months ago

> Syphilis caused these issues but didn't cause death

According to Wikipedia it caused 100k deaths in 2015. So either the introduction of penicillin made the disease more fatal than before, or there is something fundamentally incorrect in the statement above.