Hacker News: DarylZero

New comment by DarylZero in "Sunsetting Atom"

DarylZero — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 17:49:45 +0000

>I once talked with a Firefox engineer who felt like an initial urge for openness left them with a lot of API surface area that locked them into a lot of design choices.

LOL, as if Firefox provided a stable API to extensions

New comment by DarylZero in "A cancer trial’s unexpected result: Remission in every patient"

DarylZero — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 20:58:25 +0000

We talking tumors in the state of metastatic solid?

New comment by DarylZero in "In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (2019)"

DarylZero — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 15:10:58 +0000

Despots make sure the people who care are killed off (or at least marginalized, say in prison), leaving only people who don't.

New comment by DarylZero in "Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs"

DarylZero — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 14:04:28 +0000

It's not much like a shovel, as it's fundamentally a means of deception.

Deception only has legitimate purposes insofar as "the ends justify the means," and they never do in this instance.

New comment by DarylZero in "In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (2019)"

DarylZero — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:02:24 +0000

They're both cyclical.

New comment by DarylZero in "Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?"

DarylZero — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 12:56:57 +0000

> a world where there are no products and everything is an advertising platform

Maybe the advertised products will all be opportunities to make money. Occasionally job listings, mostly crypto coins.

New comment by DarylZero in "Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?"

DarylZero — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 12:52:36 +0000

When you have 20 consecutive listings that all have the same first 80 characters, you don't even read those 80 characters.

But the listing only shows the part you don't read!

New comment by DarylZero in "Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down"

DarylZero — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 12:05:29 +0000

Sounds like you're talking about a one-time thing then rather than a sustainable practice. I think if you loiter in front of a gas station you will be rousted by police in much less than a week.

New comment by DarylZero in "Uber loses appeal as top Swiss court rules company is an employer"

DarylZero — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 20:48:33 +0000

For Uber, it's the drivers who provide the capital!

New comment by DarylZero in "Don't send to Gmail over IPv6"

DarylZero — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 20:14:11 +0000

I guess they're not allowed on Google Drive either.

New comment by DarylZero in "Don't send to Gmail over IPv6"

DarylZero — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 20:13:43 +0000

Domains aren't free, they're limited.

New comment by DarylZero in "Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down"

DarylZero — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 20:06:13 +0000

>Why would a person make $14.50/hour when they could make $15/hour applying directly to places?

Yeah, the generally wouldn't, which is why you have to conclude that they don't have the option.

> maybe that negotiated difference leads to the profit slice

Of course.

New comment by DarylZero in "Dangerous Gift"

DarylZero — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:46:16 +0000

DUI example is strange. There are blood alcohol tests, can't really avoid conviction if you fail the test. What's the explanation supposed to be for all the acquittals?

The way you say it, it's like you think that more and more acquittals is evidence of guilt, but that doesn't make any sense to me.

Repeated arrests would be no accident of chance, but those repeated acquittals would even call into question a conviction in the future. Something is going on to generate false accusations.

New comment by DarylZero in "Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down"

DarylZero — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 05:09:07 +0000

Prison populations skew toward violent crimes because the sentences for them are longer. They aren't representative of the number of convicts.

New comment by DarylZero in "Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down"

DarylZero — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 04:42:56 +0000

At least, the staffing agency can negotiate a better deal than you could find and secure for yourself.

New comment by DarylZero in "Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down"

DarylZero — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 04:23:58 +0000

Most people don't have the location. It's expensive to live where that kind of opportunity exists.

New comment by DarylZero in "I grew up gifted, but my life didn’t turn out the way I expected (2019)"

DarylZero — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 11:54:17 +0000

That's the standard line. Don't let it be a thought-terminating cliche though. There's no solution to the problem there.

Maybe question the idea of strict social segregation of children by age, social segregation of children by academic status, etc.

New comment by DarylZero in "I grew up gifted, but my life didn’t turn out the way I expected (2019)"

DarylZero — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:21:04 +0000

> ensure that they get better advantages/opportunities than others

Gifted kids don't even need "better advantages" -- just either give them appropriate level material, or at least don't force them to do inappropriate material.

They used to let kids skip grades. Nothing "better" than anyone else, just the exact same thing earlier. Recognizing their actual abilities rather than declaring that their abilities are determined by age.

New comment by DarylZero in "After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’"

DarylZero — Tue, 31 May 2022 22:56:36 +0000

>You can't run a harvesting tractor through a greenhouse.

Sure you can. Just needs to be big enough.

New comment by DarylZero in "Electroglottography based real-time voice-to-MIDI controller"

DarylZero — Tue, 31 May 2022 16:46:44 +0000

So you have to put electrodes on your neck for this?