Hacker News: DNied

New comment by DNied in "Downranking won't stop Google's deepfake porn problem, victims say"

DNied — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:07:51 +0000

As usual with tech giants, the burden of playing whack-a-mole with the perpetrators is left to the victims, while the company profits.

New comment by DNied in "Formalising a new proof that the square root of two is irrational"

DNied — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:48:22 +0000

You forget that √x always has 2 solutions: 1 positive and 1 negative.

New comment by DNied in "Roll or Don’t"

DNied — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:54:27 +0000

I wonder how it would work before Javascript.

New comment by DNied in "Low Bandwidth CNN"

DNied — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:26:33 +0000

Nice, but I wish they opted for an RSS feed instead.

New comment by DNied in "Ask HN: Is it black holes all the way up?"

DNied — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 03:54:04 +0000

Yeah. It's basically a God hypothesis for geeks.

New comment by DNied in "macOS is background scanning and following downloaded QR codes?"

DNied — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:17:22 +0000

If this forum were to live up to its name, you would be laughed out of here after that comment.

New comment by DNied in "We Hate Lisp"

DNied — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:32:48 +0000

Yeah, it needs Javascript to display text. No thanks, bye.

New comment by DNied in "World of Text is an infinite grid of text editable by any visitor"

DNied — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:32:12 +0000

Just like who knows how many bits of false information. Which then get copied, pasted and repeated across the web and the world.

I've randomly found several, and I'm just one person.

New comment by DNied in "The WWW is 30 years old today"

DNied — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 06:57:59 +0000

At this point, I can't help thinking it created more problems than it solved.

New comment by DNied in "Audacity may collect “Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation” and more"

DNied — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 14:58:26 +0000

> 2. Bad people steal good thing.

2. Good people sell good thing to bad people.

New comment by DNied in "Getting to know logical clocks by implementing them"

DNied — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 22:09:47 +0000

At point #3, I think you meant "then a→c".

New comment by DNied in "Not Lisp again (2009)"

DNied — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 01:14:29 +0000

The syntax of those defines sure looks weird. In what dialect does the name of the function being defined appear as the CAR of a list, followed by the parameters?

New comment by DNied in "Phel: A language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP"

DNied — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 14:48:06 +0000

Very interesting! Maybe preprocessors really are the way to go for PHP, even if it were just for ironing out its inconsistencies (not to mention implementing a whole new language on top of it, as in this case).

But why those square brackets for argument lists? That seems unnecessary.

New comment by DNied in "Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online"

DNied — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 04:01:42 +0000

My solution: only read negative reviews. They're much more telling. As a bonus, they'll often kill impulse purchases, saving me money.

New comment by DNied in "The Alien-Haunted World"

DNied — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 03:40:28 +0000

>an atheist insists there must not be.

Wrong... Only so-called "strong atheism" is active belief in gods' non-existence. Regular (unqualified) atheism is lack of belief in gods' existence.

New comment by DNied in "Microbial ecosystems in the mouth and gut are linked to many ills"

DNied — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:49:58 +0000

PAYWALLED

New comment by DNied in "Intel mocks Apple in new campaign highlighting things users can’t do on a M1 Mac"

DNied — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:54:15 +0000

To be fair, Apple started it in the late '90s with their Pentium-snail ads.

New comment by DNied in "The Crypto-Chernobyl"

DNied — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 01:12:21 +0000

A comparison with cash would be completely arbitrary: bitcoin doesn't replace cash, so it only adds to the problem.

New comment by DNied in "Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)"

DNied — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:18:51 +0000

A god wouldn't have needed all that complexity to make organisms pop into life. Frankly, God is just the most unintelligent hypothesis.

New comment by DNied in "State of Common Lisp Survey 2020"

DNied — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:37:47 +0000

With the decline in Usenet traffic, that's much less of a problem nowadays. I haven't seen any spam in comp.lang.lisp for the last 2 years at least. It's pretty much all signal, and mostly high quality too.