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New comment by aasasd in "Typing the technical interview (2017)"

aasasd — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:47:06 +0000

Turns out the gym and leather photos are simply not there on Aphyr's twitter anymore—there were a lot of them a while ago, but apparently run-ins with Twitter moderation didn't work out in their favor, and all that's left are infrequent text posts on LGBTQ.

So yeah, quite a blunder.

By the way, it feels like the ‘fault vs responsibility’ theory might help with the moderatorial musings—but I'm having trouble finding a serious source, since Will Smith happened to say something on it. Not even sure if those are the words used for it in academy.

New comment by aasasd in "Typing the technical interview (2017)"

aasasd — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 21:00:25 +0000

Ah! Somehow I completely missed that they're supposed to be fashion designers. Thanks.

> top performing drag artists

Well I guess then that to understand the appeal of ‘Drag Race’ I'll have to finally watch ‘Drag Race’.

New comment by aasasd in "Typing the technical interview (2017)"

aasasd — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:51:04 +0000

Okay... thanks for the effort, at least. I've been meaning to get somewhat into early-ish burlesque, Brecht, that kind of thing. Maybe then I'll be able to watch drag shows with vague understanding.

New comment by aasasd in "Typing the technical interview (2017)"

aasasd — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:11:05 +0000

Well apparently I need an AI to tell me what's ‘trolling’ on HN, because gym and leather don't mean ‘dumb flamewar’ to me. If mentions of gym and leather trigger HN's crowd, I don't see how that's my fault.

New comment by aasasd in "An AI generated, never-ending discussion between Werner Herzog and Slavoj ŽIžek"

aasasd — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:43:54 +0000

ŽIžek is a walking meme farm. I don't think you need an AI until you exhausted what the actual man says.

“Slavoj Zizek Coca-Cola commercial (2014)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTy5-RC1-4

“Slavoj Zizek on the horror of tulips” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yoqjABeBM

New comment by aasasd in "As last module docks, China completes its space station"

aasasd — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:44:17 +0000

There's this clip showing some experiments for the benefit of schoolchildren: https://reddit.com/comments/y2kjmi

I'm guessing this is an ongoing thing, and since the clip popped up on Reddit it seems at least ‘social media’ pick up on such output.

New comment by aasasd in "Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares"

aasasd — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 12:06:02 +0000

Yep, I could see myself using PM just as a replacement for Gmail, since they have a semblance of a brand and reputation in this space—plus at least somewhat privacy-oriented attitude, which is more than many others got.

New comment by aasasd in "Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares"

aasasd — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:53:52 +0000

I'm pretty sure Proton didn't invent IMAP, and from the protocol log it seems like IMAP insists on the incrementing ids. Probably thanks to it having been designed in the late eighties and early nineties.

New comment by aasasd in "Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?"

aasasd — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 11:28:43 +0000

Presumably with a version using two languages.

New comment by aasasd in "Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move"

aasasd — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:42:53 +0000

Seems to be almost exactly what happened in one race, except the dude behind actually rode the wall: https://racingnews.co/2021/09/06/kyle-larson-attempts-nascar... (from another comment in this thread).

New comment by aasasd in "Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move"

aasasd — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 09:01:25 +0000

Wall riders are a perpetual bane in multiplayer races. Perhaps Forza and GT finally added measures against that, but among e.g. videos on the ‘Super GT’ simmer channel, you can see plenty of riders, especially in Forza Horizon.

New comment by aasasd in "Solarized"

aasasd — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 07:50:34 +0000

A comment elsewhere in the thread explains the mechanism of why light background results in better eye focus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33403128

Probably relevant with astigmatism, since tighter focus should at least somewhat alleviate the shifty out-of-place edges (hopefully).

New comment by aasasd in "Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move"

aasasd — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 07:43:44 +0000

This site has a weird cookie consent dialog:

> Match and combine offline data sources: always active

> Link different devices: always active

New comment by aasasd in "Solarized"

aasasd — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:41:59 +0000

I heard that astigmatism is the reason some people find reading white-on-black intolerable: the edges shift from their proper places, look doubled, this kind of stuff. Idk if astigmatism-correcting glasses fix the problem, as I'm not that diligent with my prescriptions.

Personally, somehow I'm ok with looking at code and some notes in light-gray-on-black, but reading paragraphs of text is immediately off-putting. The proliferation of ‘dark theme’ sites is not working out for me.

New comment by aasasd in "Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet"

aasasd — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:43:02 +0000

That's what I'm saying, in part. Mr. Moolenaar's reports on his own on-the-grounds activities are quite clear (from what I remember now, a bunch of years later), and the goal of ‘build some schools’ doesn't make me wonder ‘what exactly does that mean’.

Moreover, the encouragement to donate to that charity is written into the license of Vim, and still I never went ‘ugh, why does he pollute the software with politics’ or anything like that.

New comment by aasasd in "Wikipedians question Wikimedia fundraising ethics after “somewhat-viral” tweet"

aasasd — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 11:00:34 +0000

Gotta say, when I read about how Bram Moolenaar, the author and maintainer of Vim, works sometimes to build schools in remote areas of Uganda and encourages users to donate to that cause—not once did I question how that is helpful or what he's doing with people's money.

New comment by aasasd in "Adobe Steals Your Color"

aasasd — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:28:18 +0000

I don't think that after seventy years Pantone needs any help with being the standard in the industry.

New comment by aasasd in "An Apple II Tale"

aasasd — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:49:29 +0000

I nearly fainted reading about how the dude whacked the disk to make the head unstick and then jiggled the head over the platter. One thing I learned in my tech initiation years is that head on the platter = death and woe.

Also, judging from how pallets with containers of old stuff were dropped right beside the guys, and how they were going through the hardware by throwing it up in the air, it sounds like the environment was the opposite of clean.

New comment by aasasd in "An Apple II Tale"

aasasd — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:32:29 +0000

> It wouldn't even be legal to own or distribute anymore in the post-DMCA world.

Meanwhile it would be explicitly legal in some European states, where people are allowed to make backup copies of software they buy, against anything that the vendor says—and/or to make the software work on their machine.

New comment by aasasd in "I help seniors with technology issues"

aasasd — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 21:07:20 +0000

By the way: I semi-randomly landed again on the dontkillmyapp site, and it notes that killing background apps works differently on different phones—presumably first of all between various manufacturers, since they tend to modify Android somewhat deeply: https://dontkillmyapp.com/google

More to the point, the site reminded me that you might want to verify if Blokada is exempted from ‘battery optimizations’ (works via app info —> ‘Battery’ —> ‘Battery optimization’ for me). I checked NetGuard on my phone, and sure enough I have the ‘optimization’ disabled for the app.

(Let me know if you see this comment, or I'm gonna notify you manually.)