Hacker News: anothername12

New comment by anothername12 in "DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack"

anothername12 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:22:29 +0000

The article outlines some reporting changes (from OMB to White House chief of staff??) to get around that apparently

New comment by anothername12 in "An update on Dart macros and data serialization"

anothername12 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:30:41 +0000

Why is it that Lisp family macros are easy to implement and use, but not so in other languages?

New comment by anothername12 in "You vs. a Billionaire: An Interactive Perspective on Wealth"

anothername12 — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:01:54 +0000

I don't think billionaires should even be a thing.

New comment by anothername12 in "TikTok could bypass US blockade by making a PWA"

anothername12 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:00:37 +0000

They took my porn in Texas an now this wtf

New comment by anothername12 in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

anothername12 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:30:50 +0000

Unfortunately, I spent more than a trivial amount of time wondering what an Einstein of Adtech looks like.

New comment by anothername12 in "Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'"

anothername12 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:34:10 +0000

You're not getting fired now, you're getting "moved out" or "exited"

New comment by anothername12 in "Zuckerberg Approved AI Training on Pirated Books, Filings Say"

anothername12 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:01:07 +0000

You’ll be fine. It’s like laundering money.

New comment by anothername12 in "Show HN: A playable game of Tetris inside a PDF"

anothername12 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:37:43 +0000

Does not even seem to be a valid PDF according to Preview.app

New comment by anothername12 in "Perplexity got ads"

anothername12 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 19:07:46 +0000

I would like to use Kagi if it had some kind of anonymous searching

New comment by anothername12 in "C++ is an absolute blast"

anothername12 — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:46:38 +0000

I think I will take another look. I recently helped my grandson with his university C++ assignment. It was a lot better than I remember C++ in the 90s.

Fun wise though, I get the most fun with dynamic languages that are highly interactive like Forth, Common Lisp and Smalltalk. I don’t have to drop out of the zone to kick the compiler all the time.

New comment by anothername12 in "IRATA.ONLINE: A Community for Retro-Computing Enthusiasts"

anothername12 — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 05:01:27 +0000

Well now I know what I’m sinking time into this Christmas break!

New comment by anothername12 in "Antimatter production, storage, control, annihilation applications in propulsion"

anothername12 — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 02:46:29 +0000

You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

New comment by anothername12 in "Starlark Programming Language"

anothername12 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:31:22 +0000

> Deterministic evaluation - Executing the same code twice will give the same results.

What’s this all about? Don’t most languages?

New comment by anothername12 in "UnitedHealth's Effort to Deny Coverage for a Patient's Care (2023)"

anothername12 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:16:24 +0000

Is it possible for my/my employer’s insurer to convince my employer to fire me if my or my dependent’s health needs are “too expensive”?

Could they eg. Give my employer a lower rate as an incentive to do that?

New comment by anothername12 in "Biggest shell programs"

anothername12 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 05:40:00 +0000

I would add Bash Forth to that. String-threaded concatenative programming!

New comment by anothername12 in "California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite"

anothername12 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 05:56:01 +0000

I've been through the rabies protocol after a bite from random homeless dog I tried to help.

In the US with insurance it's about $5K out of pocket, and 3 or 4 (can't remember exactly) visits to the ER. the first visit they inject some gelatinous stuff all over the site of the bite site plus the vaccine. And no, they don't inject in your abdominal area anymore. The case will be referred to the city and if possible, the animal will be tested for it. I'm not sure if they have to kill the animal to test. They'll let you know if it was positive though.

It's extremely rare to get rabies, but also it's extremely lethal.

New comment by anothername12 in "PR process killing morale and productivity"

anothername12 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 06:17:53 +0000

I have quit places because of their PR process.

New comment by anothername12 in "Spotify has shut down several API endpoints"

anothername12 — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 22:55:07 +0000

And classical music gets proper special treatment!

People have been begging for that for ages on Spotify’s forum…

New comment by anothername12 in "Warp terminal – no more login required"

anothername12 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 18:08:11 +0000

I would like to know what folks are doing that requires a high performance terminal.

I don't think I'm much more productive at Terminal.app in 2024 than I was in 386 Linux console-connected to other computer via 14400 dial-up in 1999.

New comment by anothername12 in "The shrimp welfare project"

anothername12 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:40:07 +0000

It’s the trolley problem https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/