Hacker News: DiggyJohnson

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

DiggyJohnson — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:54:25 +0000

Seems minimal though in the grand scheme of things

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "More on Version Control"

DiggyJohnson — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:34:28 +0000

That is an issue of ignorance, not laziness. It’s not obvious at all to an average developer that only uses `add/commit/merge/fetch/push/pull/rebase/restore/reset` that they can manipulate their change history.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

DiggyJohnson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:51:10 +0000

Isn’t that essentially a stuffed pudding? Or do some use pie dough

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

DiggyJohnson — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:07:15 +0000

Individuals and small groups make decisions in their own interest. The same is not true of society. That’s the issue that the GP is asking you to respond to

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:34:28 +0000

Well said. Do you know of any recent reports or if anyone has actually gone through the funding calculations regarding the funding model you described (let’s call it “FF-direct”) versus Mozilla’s status quo funding model?

Primary questions are: How much does FF cost to sustain? How much is spent on new performance, functionality and feature development? What number does Firefox need to compete directly with Chrome? If you asked an experienced FF project contributor what is the delta between the previous two questions?

- a 20+ year Firefox power user very familiar with the FF project, web browsers, and how they compete

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:23:34 +0000

You can work your day job and make $20-500k/yr or pursue drug dealing and make $5-5000k/yr. I don’t think that’s actually a compelling argument for the latter even if the opportunity cost is better.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:09:57 +0000

Thanks for writing this out. I don’t agree at all but that’s fine.

What is your opinion of one of the most concerning counterpoint (in my opinion): that we are normalizing prescription stimulants and accommodations for individuals that otherwise don’t need them / could succeed without them.

Know that I don’t really care too too much from a fairness standpoint, especially in the professional workplace. I’m most concerned with subjecting a generation of people to a reliance of stimulants and secondly concerned about the affects on the ability for HS and university educators to assess and evaluate their students.

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Edit: Third and less seriously, a hypothetical: if I learned that >40% of our elite students or young professionals were on Xanax, cocaine, ketamine, or encapsulated meth or required an assistant to take notes and record lectures I would be appalled. How would you interpret this?

My thought is that it is a clear signal of a social or cultural malady if our best and brightest - as a population - are strongly overrepresented in their reliance on disability accommodations or prescription drugs.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "The Perils of ISBN"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:04:20 +0000

That is amazing. For odd reasons I had to get real familiar with ISBN as well. What did that sql command look like if you don’t mind me asking?

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:58:09 +0000

What is your solution? Follow the guidelines and interpret the comment you’re replying to charitably

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:56:12 +0000

I mean giving others answers in an exam is literally just as bad or worse from an academic ethics standard than your peers asking you if you would

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:42:40 +0000

I think there is a fallacy to look at endowments like they are checking accounts. Or to assume elite universities generally have unused land or can rebuild a large amount of their dorms for less than hundreds of millions of dollars and significant disruption to campus life

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:26:54 +0000

Are you being serious? Because it’s cost prohibitive to the university and undermines the ability for educators to evaluate student performance.

Imagine being the TA that has to proctor an examination that takes an indefinite amount of time.

I understand your sentiment but it seems like you’re avoiding the harsh reality of things. And these things are not that “harsh” in the grand scheme of things.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:21:31 +0000

That’s not actually feasible. It’s cost prohibitive to refactor all the shared dorms and/or tear down and rebuild a significant fraction of on campus spaces.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:17:21 +0000

Well said - thanks for the reply.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:18:29 +0000

You could have easily made the same point and just not included the last sentence. Guidelines an all that

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

DiggyJohnson — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:13:07 +0000

Greaber’s best book is his ethnography “Lost People” and it’s one of his least read works. Bullshit Jobs was never intended to be read as seriously as it is criticized.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

DiggyJohnson — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:10:13 +0000

It’s much more grey than that. It’s a mixture of fraud, access to diagnosis, deference to experts, and ambition even at the individual level.

I don’t think many individuals in the population implicated by this article are acting will purely fraudulent and selfish intent. It’s more subtle.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Claims of disability are highest at elite universities"

DiggyJohnson — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:06:04 +0000

Need to preface that I’m not innocent of this at all, my primary source is my own experience: but I genuinely believe our approach to attention disorders - especially stimulant prescriptions and academic accommodations - will be widely ridiculed within the next 50 years. In a similar manner to how we think about smoking on airplanes in 80s.

Not trying to be dismissive or reductive, but when 15-50% of honors students at elite universities are a part of this it deserves way more scrutiny that it gets. Same is true in a lot of elite private sector spaces.

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible"

DiggyJohnson — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:56:48 +0000

Is there a term for this approach? I don’t think it’s ludicrous enough to be flagged and buried at least…

New comment by DiggyJohnson in "Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible"

DiggyJohnson — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:55:18 +0000

Really well executed one page executive summary at the top of the article for anyone interested. Despite the oddity of being a gdrive link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wzGqzWHDQA4m8DIo174yqx-eYDk...