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patrickmcnamara

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About patrickmcnamara

Software engineer.

https://patrickmcnamara.io/ hello@patrickmcnamara.io

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49072831

    I don't think the name is that bad. iDeal sounds very dated to me as a native English speaker.

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    Comment #49066749

    They could also just have their maps and others show in the results as normal.

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    Comment #48905665

    Codex CLI not having a rewind makes it useless to me.

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    Comment #48806902

    Nothing should be improved unless it solves world hunger.

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    Comment #48587388

    https://www.ft.com/content/d419bd2d-a6ba-44a5-a93a-1276f3e5d... This is the article I was thinking of. I don't think we can pretend that pensions are not a problem, and not a massi…

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    Comment #48585272

    I don't know why everyone is being so dismissive. Pensions in Europe nowadays are just transfers from young and poor to older and wealthier. The average French pensioner (not worki…

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    Comment #48466048

    True hacker spirit here.

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    Comment #48391216

    45 billion / 1500 $ is 30 million workers. How did we arrive at 30 million?

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    Comment #48219830

    Nobody ever said other models were bastions of objectivity. They only implied they weren't corrupted by Musk. Which is true, and which is good.

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    Comment #48121917

    Trump 2 is worse than Trump 1 by far from EU perspective. And it also proved that it wasn't a once-off that Americans will vote in someone who threatens to dismantle NATO, invade G…

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    Comment #47849351

    It's not a marathon, or any race. There is no a finish line. It doesn't matter that much that someone is a minute ahead.

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    Comment #47840786

    Which system are you talking about?

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    Comment #47791468

    Hyperbole.

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    Comment #47781814

    I never understand these positions. How do authors make money selling books if someone can legally copy it and give it out for free?

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    Comment #47661329

    The big difference is that the assets are given back when they stop invading other another country.

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    Comment #47659529

    > given Europe seized a ton of Russian assets Those assets are frozen, not seized.

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    Comment #47593084

    The majority could have voted for a different government if they didn't want this one. I could understand this argument somewhere else, but the US has fair elections and voted for …

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    Comment #47591536

    Americans should stop voting in governments like this then.

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    Comment #47517478

    Who issued this fine?

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    Comment #47495696

    Ryanair are the biggest airline in Europe and they exclusively fly Boeing 737s.

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    Comment #47446302

    What is the HN way to say "touch grass"?

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    Comment #47310419

    I saw nobody making those arguments. Most people were thinking that Ireland doesn't burn coal anymore. People who think or care about this stuff know that interconnects exist.

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    Comment #47285643

    I'd love to see proper WebSocket support, and JWTs.

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    Comment #47077556

    Truly we entering the era of AGI.

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    Comment #47030219

    People on HN never been wise to any law. For some reason they think that law operates like a set of instructions that a CPU operates.