<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: __david__</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=__david__</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:48:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=__david__" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __david__ in "Squillions: How money laundering won"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s only fairly recently at my Costco. For years and years it was only American Express and debit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:03:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382875</link><dc:creator>__david__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __david__ in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No one is saying to pretend you memorized everything. They’re saying they’d rather have an “I don’t know” than a half-assed ai response (or stack overflow cut and paste).<p>Or, if you get nerd-sniped by the question and spend some time figuring it out, that’s fine too.<p>But if you want to be helpful but don’t want to take the time to figure it out yourself, don’t just forward the question to AI or send me a link to the first result in Google because I could have done that myself(and may have done it already). Just say you don’t know, which is a paradoxically more useful response.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 15:52:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296117</link><dc:creator>__david__</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by __david__ in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From his 2006 speech/routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, speaking to then president George Bush:<p>> Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32 percent approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias...<p>His whole thing was phenomenal: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a2KeyCAY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a2KeyCAY</a></p>
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<p>On the plus side, it's a chemical that was discovered more than a century ago so scientists have accumulated a lot of knowledge about it. So far no studies were able to link it to cancer. It also doesn't significantly build up in the body over time (like heavy metals do). It's 3x heavier than air so it shouldn't spread too far away. The main issue is they want to try to keep it from getting into storm drains or into the ground water.<p>I've heard from others that it's readily absorbed by water. That's bad in the ground water case, but it seems it might be a positive when trying to clean up a (contained) spill.<p>It appears to me to have a relatively high lethal dosage (my back of the napkin calculations are saying a 200 pound human would have to orally ingest almost a liter of it to reach the LD50 dosage--but again don't quote me on that number because I am not an expert and could have very easily messed up the math or the concept of a lethal dose).<p>So, while I agree there might be unknown long term issues, it does appear to be a relatively low probability of that since it seems to be on the less pernicious side.</p>
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<p>> What a disaster and complete failure on the local government in the way they handled this situation.<p>Can you expand on that? It seems like there wasn't a lot they could do once the tank started leaking.</p>
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<p>I understand what you’re saying but in this case notice they don’t even mention terminal or command lines. You have to already understand enough context to know what they mean and at that point you should be able to interpret the command itself.</p>
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<p>In addition to possible ignition through the sparks, it's apparently stored under high pressure, so you can't make a hole without completely compromising the structural integrity which is pretty much guaranteed to kill the driller.</p>
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<p>is not bad for that. Not precise, but in the ballpark.</p>
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<p>That’s also not great if you’re trying to make a 10 gigabyte file.  In that case, use bs=1M and count=SizeInMB.</p>
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<p>I discovered long ago that psytrance/goa was perfect for me. It works almost as well as caffeine and I can work for hours and hours as long as it’s blaring.</p>
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<p>> But from a UX standpoint its a nonstarter<p>Disagree. The UX would be pretty similar. Click a mailto link which opens the email client with to, subject and body precomposed. Click send. Server receives mail and the web page continues/finishes the sign up process. No need for an email reply.
It’s different, but it’s not crazy.</p>
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<p>> how do you "be careful" with spoofed email?<p>You actually verify DKIM and SPF—you know, that “dmarc stuff”. That’s enough to tell you the mail is not spoofed.</p>
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<p>Isn’t that just the way old school Perl/ruby/php web apps from 20 years ago did things but with a fancy name?</p>
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<p>My cats actually love their cat tree. I’ve had to replace it because they clawed through the scratching post legs (<i>all</i> the way through the cardboard underneath the sisal rope).<p>Knowing that they love rectangles explains a lot too. They love every Amazon box that arrives, the folded hand towel in the bathroom, the top of my pc mini tower (rectangular <i>and</i> warm). Though they get off the tower when I’m playing a game since the gpu heats up so much and the exhaust fans blow out the top—it just gets too hot for them. I made a “cat catcher for my bed—a single hand towel folded in half lying on the otherwise featureless comforter. There’s almost always a cat there when I wake up in the morning.<p>This desk might actually work for me since one of my cats loves to sleep right under my office chair, dangerously close to the wheels. He’s got real long hair and I find tufts of fur around the chair and feel absolutely horrible. Crazily I almost never notice when it happens, he doesn’t yelp! I finally ended up buying a small scratching post with a bed on top and set it under my desk. He instantly took to it, so no more running over the poor cat. As a bonus he’s now in petting reach so I can get my cat fix whenever I need (petting is a two way street).</p>
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<p>Yes, but if the server you’re logging into only accepts keys then leaking its password isn’t nearly as bad. Though I guess if your local ssh client is compromised then your local private keys are also compromised so you’d be screwed anyway (unless you are using a yubikey type of thing—I should get me one of those).</p>
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<p>Similarly, one of your nephews has a friend with parents that don’t lock their liquor cabinet, which means despite all the laws not allowing sales of alcohol to minors, they still have access to it.<p>I think what your sisters are doing is fine—they’re sending a signal to their kids that this stuff isn’t “good” and though they’ll undoubtedly encounter it in the world, they’re now going to be inherently biased a certain way. And that’s kinda the best you can hope for.</p>
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<p>Correct. Just ask the Silk Road guy…</p>
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<p>Sometimes when you’re close to something it’s very hard to describe it because you’ve been looking at it from all angles for so long that when someone else approaches it from a different direction it’s hard to see what blind spots they might have. It’s not crazy to ask people for input and it’s not crazy to say “we’re open to patches if you just want to do it yourself”.<p>For me personally I was (and still am a bit) unclear on what being “based on git” means. Can I just rebase with abandon? Is there a concept of force push? Can I safely use lazy-git, tig, commit-patch, and other git utilities? Or is it more integrated and i have to use the rad cli to avoid corrupting the git repo? What about the issues? If I write some software and publish it with radicle, is there a way for plain git client to clone the repo without installing radicle (and without keeping a plain git mirror somewhere)?</p>
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<p>Interesting, that kind of reminds me of Things In Rings [1]. I haven’t played it yet but it looks pretty good.<p>[1] <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408547/things-in-rings" rel="nofollow">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408547/things-in-rings</a></p>
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<p>Oh yeah, Unreal was so nice looking. For me, though, that moment was in the Quake prerelease demo (“q1test”). It was clearly polygonal and you could look up and down with the mouse at a very nice high frame rate, which was pretty amazing in its own right, but then I walked up to a hole in the floor and looked down into a completely different but equally well rendered room. Suddenly the possibilities of verticality hit me and I just sat there mesmerized…</p>
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