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New comment by ConsiderCrying in "The Pen Hospital in Kolkata will nurse your broken fountain pen back"

ConsiderCrying — Thu, 30 May 2024 07:59:31 +0000

Ah yes, the logical endpoint of any quirky hobby - becoming so invested in it that your family simply has to smile and nod approvingly while they pray it doesn't spill over into the living room.

That said, if you're that skilled with a lathe, it should probably be considered a useful life skill.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'"

ConsiderCrying — Sun, 26 May 2024 09:01:18 +0000

It's perfectly reasonable to harvest thousands of photos of unknowing people and then accost them based on faulty software that can produce an erroneous match? How so?

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Zebra remains on the loose in Washington state, officials close trailheads"

ConsiderCrying — Sun, 05 May 2024 14:46:33 +0000

They are, sure, but they're really fun and some of them caught on. I think it's the exact kind of funny little thing we should encourage, language doesn't have to be serious.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Zebra remains on the loose in Washington state, officials close trailheads"

ConsiderCrying — Sun, 05 May 2024 14:45:52 +0000

Wow, that is fascinating. I will have to use auto-translation but definitely saving these for an evening read, thank you.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Zebra remains on the loose in Washington state, officials close trailheads"

ConsiderCrying — Sun, 05 May 2024 12:42:15 +0000

This gives me a chance to bring up my favorite collective noun for a group of animals: a bloat of hippopotami. Although a "dazzle" of zebras comes a second close. One of my favorite quirks of English, don't think other languages have our penchant for giving animal groups special names.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "China’s Moon atlas is the most detailed ever made"

ConsiderCrying — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:46:06 +0000

$400, damn. Although, to be fair, that book does look to be the size of a hefty fantasy trilogy. If the printing quality is up to snuff, it should be a gorgeous and very interesting read.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "How to Juggle Priorities (2023)"

ConsiderCrying — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:30:45 +0000

This isn't a bad metaphor altogether and I appreciate that the post advocates for one thing that all too many such ideas ignore: talking to people and asking them what matters to them. You can never know if your kid finds something truly important until you ask them and damaging your relationship with your family is never worth the marginal or even huge successes at work.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus"

ConsiderCrying — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 17:01:13 +0000

There's also the fact that any of those messages can be reported for doxxing or screenshotted to show proof that they're doxxing. Also, Telegram group chats are encrypted, just not E2E, so they've also likely been reported by people who visited them. They are public, after all. (Which seems like a puzzling approach when you're doing something illicit but that's a whole other matter.)

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Show HN: Growing Wine Grapes in My Parents' Basement"

ConsiderCrying — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 17:15:33 +0000

Would you say you're aiming for the high end market or is that too risky of a venture, relying on reaching the appropriate and steep quality level, when the lower end would be easier? It seems like you've put substantial effort into this so I'm presuming you're shooting for the stars.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "The internet needs our love"

ConsiderCrying — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:58:32 +0000

There's also this fun story [0], which was discussed here [1]. Fits nicely with Mozilla saying: "We’re here to prove that you can have an ethical tech business." Start by caring for your workers first, instead of giving pay raises to CEOs, under whose leadership the company's been struggling.

[0]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/20/09/23/1528219/firefox-usa...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24563698&ref=hvper.com

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Six Figures in 6 days"

ConsiderCrying — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:41:56 +0000

It's not just luck because it's talent plus savviness plus the ability to spin your story. Sure, luck factors in but as anyone with a success story will tell you, it's never just luck unless you're talking about the lottery.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials"

ConsiderCrying — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 19:44:34 +0000

Not sure why this got downvoted, it's not like the person is endorsing Russia's decision. I'm highly skeptical a country that refused to go on lockdown and underreported cases would make a safe vaccine faster than the rest of the world.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Could a tree help find a decaying corpse nearby?"

ConsiderCrying — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:14:24 +0000

The article kind of ends up not giving a conclusive answer to the question posed in the headline though, just a pet peeve of mine. It's really more about the possibility of a new technology helping and even that, as you've said, is a murky option.

The best way to use something like this is probably to find the remains if the murderer confesses and says they're buried "somewhere" in a certain forest. But that's such a niche use case.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "I just lost 1,400 BTC"

ConsiderCrying — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 18:42:23 +0000

There's a reason why any site dealing with crypto has a dozen labels begging people to double-check addresses, divulge no information to strangers, don't trust anyone, etc. However, warning labels come on any product and people still manage to misuse them. No matter how many labels you plaster about being more careful with bitcoin, people will keep losing it to things like this.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests"

ConsiderCrying — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:50:44 +0000

> Facebook can't read your WhatsApp messages

Are we sure it can't? Because WhatsApp is closed-source, its GDrive backups are unencrypted and Facebook's whole profit model is based around snooping. Unless they make the app open-source, I'm not trusting them even with a grocery list. People act like E2E is the be-all and end-all but trusting an incredibly shady company on its word is not something I'm comfortable with.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests"

ConsiderCrying — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:05:41 +0000

Nope, hasn't changed and it's one of the things on my "feature wishlist". Really hope they add for at least small chats.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests"

ConsiderCrying — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:00:15 +0000

Can we stop using 6-year-old info for apps that get updated monthly? The problems they have with MTProto have been patched literally 5 years ago, the only other criticism comes from a direct competitor, and they recommend WhatsApp despite the fact that it's closed-source and nobody can verify if its encryption truly works.

Facebook is planning to merge Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram, which makes it even more awful of a choice.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "How many pieces can a puzzle have?"

ConsiderCrying — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:09:08 +0000

The middle part is a bit too heady for me but I'm fascinated by this sentence in the conclusion: "I assume that you wouldn’t actually see a 999-piece puzzle because the lawyers would claim calling that 1000 was false advertising."

My soul wants to hope that nobody would be as crazy as to sue a puzzle company for having 999 pieces instead of an even 1000 but my mind is saying "duh, of course they would".

Wonder what the situation is like for those new types of puzzles that are circular or have irregular shapes. Those are probably easier to make into an even, pretty number but I feel like there would still be exceptions.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "C.I.A. Lacing (2014)"

ConsiderCrying — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 19:26:52 +0000

Especially handy if you don't know the number of the person you need to contact or know their device has been compromised. No need to rely on technology when a simple trick will do the... erm, trick.

New comment by ConsiderCrying in "Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever"

ConsiderCrying — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 21:03:27 +0000

Ah yes, the perfect horror movie scenario. Honestly, if the office was pretty close to my home, I wouldn't mind going there every week on one or two days, just to break the routine of sitting at home. But happy to see the 5-day mandatory "go talk to your coworkers and sit in a cubicle" regime slowly being phased out.