Hacker News: always4getpass

New comment by always4getpass in "Atlassian ditches ‘brilliant jerks’ in performance review overhaul"

always4getpass — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 10:06:33 +0000

I think the truth is somewhere in between.

I'd much rather work on a company that has a pleasant atmosphere but not insane growth than on a shitty environment grinding my ass off.

But ignoring performance completely, that is nuts. Because output and success also bring joy and enhance the atmosphere of teams.

New comment by always4getpass in "Foreign purchases of American homes plunge as Chinese buyers flee the market"

always4getpass — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 07:14:48 +0000

Real estate and primary residences should not be a market and an investment opportunity imo.

A company buying thousands of homes and then milking workers through rent for decades seems unethical.

While I do not have a solution, I think this is an issue we should work on

New comment by always4getpass in "How I got my username on nearly every site"

always4getpass — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:18:13 +0000

Oh so I guess the fact that there are whole organizations[1] devoted to reading the absurdly enormous TOS means nothing, and studies[2] that suggest a major percentage isn't reading them are false.

I will not believe you if you state that you read the TOS for every site you register on, every program you install.

[1] https://tosdr.org/

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2757465

New comment by always4getpass in "How I got my username on nearly every site"

always4getpass — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 13:17:29 +0000

So you're suggesting that everybody should read the miles long terms for each website they subscribe to, otherwise they do not have a right to keep their username.

And I'm not sure that abusing an unethical system waives you from the morality of your actions.

The only lesson you're giving here is about you. But hey, any publicity is good publicity right? You're enforcing your 'brand' after all. \s

New comment by always4getpass in "The PGP Problem"

always4getpass — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:37:38 +0000

What about its 'crypt' encryption backend?

Afaik it uses scrypt which was designed for tarsnap

New comment by always4getpass in "The PGP Problem"

always4getpass — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 08:24:33 +0000

Any opinions about rclone?

It seems to be fine for my mediocre backup needs

New comment by always4getpass in "The Trans History of the Wild West"

always4getpass — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 10:16:56 +0000

I always get so confused when 'they' is used for a single person. Is there any alternative? Everything seems to sound silly

New comment by always4getpass in "Eve Online is in chaos after an unprecedented alien invasion"

always4getpass — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:34:41 +0000

You can easily find the new 3D models, but the updated AI code?

I think that is unlikely

New comment by always4getpass in "A Gas Heist Gone Wrong"

always4getpass — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:29:18 +0000

Greed breeds corruption, corruption breeds poverty, poverty breeds lack of education, lack of education breeds stupidity.

It is the same if you replace the lack of education with despair..

New comment by always4getpass in "I Grew Up Gifted, but My Life Didn’t Turn Out the Way I Expected"

always4getpass — Fri, 31 May 2019 11:52:44 +0000

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Isaac Newton

New comment by always4getpass in "Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow"

always4getpass — Fri, 24 May 2019 15:24:35 +0000

*humanity

New comment by always4getpass in "GitHub Sponsors"

always4getpass — Thu, 23 May 2019 09:18:25 +0000

While seemingly good news and will definitely have positive side effects to open source projects, I cannot stop myself from questioning if this is just good old Microsoft using one of its edges over Gitlab (money) to come on top.

After all, this is the embrace, extend, and extinguish company.

Anyhow, I'm looking forward to see a similar feature implemented by Gitlab, even without the matching donations.

New comment by always4getpass in "Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)"

always4getpass — Wed, 22 May 2019 07:40:02 +0000

That's different. The original link aims at mechanical contraptions while yours at mechanical computation. Still equally impressive and interesting

New comment by always4getpass in "Ask HN: Anyone making 200k as a software engineer outside the US?"

always4getpass — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:05:54 +0000

Yes but if you're out of the ultra capitalist private US healthcare business that we're trapped in, you pay way less through taxes.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...

New comment by always4getpass in "I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs"

always4getpass — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:16:39 +0000

Killing a fly with an RPG is all the rage these days.. You can achieve that with simple computer vision techniques that have been here for decades

New comment by always4getpass in "I found two identical packs of Skittles among 468 packs"

always4getpass — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:14:45 +0000

Zero because QA :)

New comment by always4getpass in "Baby T rex goes on sale on eBay, sparking paleontologists' outcry"

always4getpass — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:33:48 +0000

Is my opinion that this should not belong to anybody but to everybody unpopular?

New comment by always4getpass in "VPN – Very Precarious Narrative"

always4getpass — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 07:37:40 +0000

You got downvoted, but if you go to github this is exactly what it means lol

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

New comment by always4getpass in "India’s destruction of satellite threatens ISS, says Nasa"

always4getpass — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:51:28 +0000

It is in a Sun-centered orbit. It never had the fuel/capacity to do a retrograde burn in order to be captured by the Martian gravitational field.

New comment by always4getpass in "Chinese Rocket company successfully demonstrates 'landing' of rocket"

always4getpass — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 07:36:49 +0000

An awesome achievement.

Nevertheless, am I the only one that is afraid of China and skeptical of each technological advancement the achieve?

Always what I think of is how this cool new tech will be used for Orwellian inner control and to satisfy their imperialistic needs.

I hope I'm wrong, but if I'm not? It already has been bad enough with the US as the leading superpower, I cannot imagine with China.

What do you think?