Hacker News: RandomInteger4

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "The US military is using online gaming to recruit teens"

RandomInteger4 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 01:21:52 +0000

This isn't a bad thing.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?"

RandomInteger4 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 19:17:29 +0000

This scenario seems like something that's more common in freelance work where the client has access to the code for whatever reason.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?"

RandomInteger4 — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 19:04:04 +0000

Because I procrastinated due to the overwhelming complexity overloading my mind with the myriad scenarios resulting from those two necessary lines and my lack of experience with this scenario depriving me of the intuition necessary to prune the aforementioned tree of mental complexity in an efficient manner.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously"

RandomInteger4 — Sun, 10 May 2020 19:17:07 +0000

Can you provide citations to which countries exactly you're referring to by the phrase "most countries?"

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Why SARS-CoV-2 Bluetooth contact tracing apps are a tremendously stupid idea"

RandomInteger4 — Sat, 02 May 2020 19:26:09 +0000

Contact tracing apps sounds like a totalitarian wet dream.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Iran lawmaker says 50 dead from coronavirus in city of Qom"

RandomInteger4 — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:02:34 +0000

Fucking hell, these politicians are as much a virus as the virus itself. 100% that number was pulled straight from their hindquarters.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015)"

RandomInteger4 — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 03:59:50 +0000

You're confusing the object for the verb. The sex habit is "jerking off" not "to internet porn", and all it takes is a simple youtube search for "bonobos jerking off" to see that you're wrong.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "No Rational System Would Value Tesla at $100B"

RandomInteger4 — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:31:25 +0000

No rational thinker would give any credence to words written in a "full communist" magazine about how a system of economics should be run.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulation"

RandomInteger4 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 02:27:05 +0000

It's called "Regulatory capture". They're trying to slow down / hinder competition, while at the same time benefiting from loopholes sewn into the legislation their lobbyists helped to create.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Judge rules that student loan debt is dischargeable in bankruptcy"

RandomInteger4 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 22:00:07 +0000

That would be a good thing, not a bad thing. It would force colleges to conform to the rules of capitalism, making the market for education sane again.

Student loans should not be handed out as easily as they currently are.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Demoted and Placed on Probation"

RandomInteger4 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:34:56 +0000

> "entitled white boys"

Wow, racist much?

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Demoted and Placed on Probation"

RandomInteger4 — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:31:10 +0000

"Guy" and "guys" are not the same, at all. The s appended to the end, along with the context, drastically changes the semantic meaning of the word. This is how language works. Even an unchanged word can have totally different meanings depending on the context. You argument here is a strawman that ignores context to the point of pedantic absurdity.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down from Allowing Lies in Political Ads"

RandomInteger4 — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:10:03 +0000

Having a ministry of truth totally sounds like an idea that can't backfire. /s

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "[dead]"

RandomInteger4 — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 03:08:58 +0000

This is great news.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Windows 10 is getting an easier way to update and install drivers"

RandomInteger4 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 17:48:50 +0000

I built a new computer and for the first time in over a decade I wanted to try Windows, but apparently I was missing drivers for something. It never told me what I needed drivers for, and even with all the drivers for all the parts I could find on a separate USB drive, it couldn't find the drivers that I supposedly needed, so I gave up and chose to install Ubuntu instead.

Ubuntu apparently knew all the drivers I needed, fetched them from beyond the great ether, and all was in harmony.

Why is this so easy for Canonical, but not Microsoft?

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Grumpy Website – a blog about everything wrong with modern web & tech"

RandomInteger4 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 14:17:45 +0000

I like the copyright pun at the bottom.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Dietary Supplement Use During Chemotherapy and Survival Outcomes of Patients"

RandomInteger4 — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 18:05:43 +0000

While all that may or may not be true, that is irrelevant to this study.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Dietary Supplement Use During Chemotherapy and Survival Outcomes of Patients"

RandomInteger4 — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:36:27 +0000

This study mentions antioxidants rather than glucose.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "Ramen restaurant prevalence is associated with stroke mortality in Japan"

RandomInteger4 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 15:30:28 +0000

Why the hell would you want your diet to be salt free? Sodium is essential to proper bodily functions. You're going to hurt yourself by over-limiting sodium and using potassium chloride.

New comment by RandomInteger4 in "What Happened to Software Development?"

RandomInteger4 — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 11:52:43 +0000

My eyes don't work this early apparently. I completely misread the comment I responded to.