Hacker News: MartinCron

New comment by MartinCron in "The ascent of "guy" (1999)"

MartinCron — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:37:23 +0000

Someone who is upset enough about being being called out for using gendered language that they post a complaint about the interaction, on hacker news, I would bet real money that the OP is a straight male.

I would also bet that the straight male would say "no" to the question "do you fuck guys?"

New comment by MartinCron in "Elizabeth Holmes 'gave me gobbledygook answers' back in 2014"

MartinCron — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:05:38 +0000

Holmes made one single promise on which she couldn't (possibly) deliver while Musk makes dozens of promises and delivers well enough on enough of them that he'll never be fully discredited.

The whole "stepping on a single nail vs. sleeping on a bed of nails" metaphor.

New comment by MartinCron in "TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch"

MartinCron — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:58:24 +0000

I always thought that the benefit of the physical device was that it was decoupled from the main device. If someone steals my laptop, for example, they won't be able to access my MFA secured accounts unless they ALSO steal my phone (and are unable to lock it).

New comment by MartinCron in "It is time to legalise cocaine: The costs of prohibition outweigh the benefits"

MartinCron — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 21:37:12 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Seems painful.

I've seen similar things where people seem to just lose their moral compass along with reasonable inhibitions and I've also attributed that to substance abuse, though not cocaine specifically.

New comment by MartinCron in "It is time to legalise cocaine: The costs of prohibition outweigh the benefits"

MartinCron — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:24:29 +0000

This is a side effect that I'm not aware of. Can you share more, please?

New comment by MartinCron in "It is time to legalise cocaine: The costs of prohibition outweigh the benefits"

MartinCron — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 19:17:16 +0000

So, it's nowhere near every street corner or playground, but I encounter a surprising amount of second hand smoke here in (legal) Seattle. Although it's not really much more than it was pre-legalization.

New comment by MartinCron in "How to distort Scrum until it no longer works"

MartinCron — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:27:58 +0000

I'm probably doing standups wrong...

And then you describe some of the healthiest standup culture I've seen...

New comment by MartinCron in "Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic"

MartinCron — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 17:18:12 +0000

It was when Ryan Davis died that I realized just how intimate the podcasting medium could be. While I also loved the rest of the crew, I couldn't listen to Giant Bomb without him. It was just too sad.

New comment by MartinCron in "Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022"

MartinCron — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:46:43 +0000

The "uhhhh, this is a private venue, they don't owe you a soapbox" rhetoric rings increasingly hollow when we just went through a multiyear period when society collectively forced millions of people to work or go to school over the internet, often through big tech platforms.

That feels like a non-sequitur. People can both use mainstream platforms for work/school and create/find their own platforms for other parts of their life.

New comment by MartinCron in "TLDR explains what a piece of code does"

MartinCron — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:35:49 +0000

It's something run repeatedly, so small chances will occur. Amoung it's failure states are being very, very wrong in ways that are hard for a skilled human to detect without more work that writing from scratch.

Also makes for a great plot summary for the original Jurassic Park

New comment by MartinCron in "Stop measuring community engagement"

MartinCron — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:20:30 +0000

Lynch mobs are strong and engaged communities, after all.

New comment by MartinCron in "AirPods Pro (2nd Generation)"

MartinCron — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:24:09 +0000

I like to make the distinction between companies that treat software as a necessary evil vs. a competitive advantage.

New comment by MartinCron in "Final thoughts on Ubiquiti"

MartinCron — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 16:30:23 +0000

I'm using the TP-Link Omada access points and router along with the software controller and it's pretty great.

New comment by MartinCron in "How DALL-E 2 Works"

MartinCron — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:50:55 +0000

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I wouldn't believe a masterfully crafted video of vaccines actually being implanted with microchips unless the video were authenticated by at least one reputable news source. Provenance matters, and just like we don't believe extraordinary things based on single out-of-context photograph, we shouldn't believe extraordinary things based on a single out-of-context video.

New comment by MartinCron in "How DALL-E 2 Works"

MartinCron — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:03:35 +0000

The cynic in me is wondering if that will make any difference. It's not like people need deep fakes or even the possibility of deep fakes to believe that the world is flat or that Obama was born in Kenya or that lizard people are running sex trafficking rings out the basements of pizza parlors with no basements.

People look at the objective reality, provided by the sources that should have the most credibility, and just shrug it off.

New comment by MartinCron in "Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value"

MartinCron — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:29:22 +0000

There's something subversive about that... a display of things that other people are pretending they have ownership over.

New comment by MartinCron in "Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value"

MartinCron — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:08:50 +0000

Nope, nope, nope, and nope.

He bought the bragging rights to say "that URL of that image of that tweet, if you look at this particular public ledger, you'll see that the ledger says that I own it!"

New comment by MartinCron in "Jack Dorsey’s $2.9M NFT dropped 99% in value"

MartinCron — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:02:49 +0000

> How does one view list(s) of NFTs?

A better question is "why" anyone would want to look at lists of URLs pointing to things that someone is pretending that they own by having an entry of their ownership in some arbitrary public ledger.

New comment by MartinCron in "We don’t use a staging environment"

MartinCron — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 03:02:13 +0000

I like hearing about different heterodox approaches.

New comment by MartinCron in "Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize"

MartinCron — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 18:16:09 +0000

I guess that's good if you only care about you?