Hacker News: LesZedCB

New comment by LesZedCB in "Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)"

LesZedCB — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:29:32 +0000

terrasite is a phenomenal nomination for AotY 2023.

New comment by LesZedCB in "Should error messages apologize? (2013)"

LesZedCB — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:52:41 +0000

> gerund: a form that is derived from a verb but that functions as a noun, in English ending in -ing, e.g., asking in do you mind my asking you?.

New comment by LesZedCB in "Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks"

LesZedCB — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 20:35:36 +0000

you could believe you're inhaling purified air but, lo! you are breathing impure air, muahahaha!

New comment by LesZedCB in "Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming"

LesZedCB — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:25:24 +0000

deniers do believe climate acceptance is dogmatic, that our modern epistemology is a deviation and largely a political ideology.

New comment by LesZedCB in "First-gen social media users have nowhere to go"

LesZedCB — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 07:01:28 +0000

there are dozens of us!

New comment by LesZedCB in "Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro launch"

LesZedCB — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:15:14 +0000

increasing wealth inequality and unaccountable mega corporations. more of the same, basically.

I don't "believe" there is a solution until enough people get really hungry.

New comment by LesZedCB in "Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro launch"

LesZedCB — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 18:51:30 +0000

not allow private companies to accumulate so much capital by breaking them up and taxing them fairly. then use the budget for things like single payer healthcare and affordable housing

New comment by LesZedCB in "Tips for Remote Workers"

LesZedCB — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:34:47 +0000

convenient for you, less so for the partner, eh?

New comment by LesZedCB in "Tips for Remote Workers"

LesZedCB — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:33:44 +0000

seriously these other people are missing out on the joys of working from home

New comment by LesZedCB in "Removing React is just weakness leaving your codebase"

LesZedCB — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 01:19:55 +0000

oh my god when will js devs learn this cycle has been going on so much longer than 7 years? I mean it's almost funny if it wasn't so depressing that JavaScript is eating up all the web dev jobs.

New comment by LesZedCB in "Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says"

LesZedCB — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:09:34 +0000

yep reddit is now either bots or people so banal they may as well be bots

New comment by LesZedCB in "My daily driver is older than I thought; it's positively vintage"

LesZedCB — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 08:15:13 +0000

my current dd laptop is also an early 2013 MBP, which I had installed Linux on a few years ago. however recently I picked up music again and preferred to use Mac for certain software. oh man was the reinstallation process a nightmare. the recovery install didn't have a browser that would render the Firefox download page. the Mac app store didn't have downloads for the highest version of macOS I could install on Intel architecture. it was problem after problem but now in finally running the last version I'll be able to run: 11.17. funny how much can change or become obsolete in only a decade :D

New comment by LesZedCB in "Operating on infinite lists"

LesZedCB — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 07:58:54 +0000

summoning a lisp from the aether never gets old

New comment by LesZedCB in "Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)"

LesZedCB — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 03:26:09 +0000

but wasn't that the point of pdf? we consumers of PDFs are the downstream users, not the target demographic. PDF solved a problem for publishers and magazines, not for consumers needing to read properly typeset digital documents. we just got the bread crumbs and then they became standard

epub I believe are essentially what we as programmers would come up with, xml, html, and style sheets

disclaimer: this is only partially informed speculation

New comment by LesZedCB in "Inner Speech"

LesZedCB — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 09:54:52 +0000

> doesn't that slow down your thought process?

probably yes.

also, when being asked questions I rehearse and rephrase the answer in my head often stumbling or pausing uncomfortably long to actually get it out for fear of it sounding weird or wrong or dumb.

New comment by LesZedCB in "Minimum Wage Clock"

LesZedCB — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:11:07 +0000

norway is highly unionized and particular sectors do implement minimum wages.

singapore is uh... ranked 149 out of 157 in the oxfam inequality index.......

New comment by LesZedCB in "Minimum Wage Clock"

LesZedCB — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:50:45 +0000

printing money obviously can't be the "root" cause because it's not an independent variable - it's the product of a social institution implementing policy which was decided on.

so, who decided? why? to benefit whom? i suppose therein lies the root cause.

New comment by LesZedCB in "Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study"

LesZedCB — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:33:25 +0000

hacker news is social media

New comment by LesZedCB in "The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines [video]"

LesZedCB — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:43:41 +0000

there's another one in Munroe (east side) http://www.letsplaycafe.com/

New comment by LesZedCB in "The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines [video]"

LesZedCB — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:39:08 +0000

me three! it was the first video of his I watched, so good and one of the YouTube classics that make YouTube so extremely special to me