Hacker News: aporetics

New comment by aporetics in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

aporetics — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:50:27 +0000

That’s not what “ghost in the machine” means.

New comment by aporetics in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

aporetics — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:49:52 +0000

That’s not what “ghost in the machine” means

New comment by aporetics in "Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015)"

aporetics — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:00:27 +0000

You would think that at the very least our military would not tolerate having to build its machinery with parts from abroad. Can anyone speak to this?

Lauded Boeing engineer John Hart-Smith, who raised warnings in 2001, dies at 84

aporetics — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:29:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/superstar-engineer-john-hart-smith-skewered-boeings-strategy-obituary/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42675593

Points: 5

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New comment by aporetics in "I was wrong about the ethics crisis"

aporetics — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:59:59 +0000

I don’t really understand the categories you’ve set up or the traditions you’re referring to, but it seems like consequentialist ethics would be good as a historical exercise, but not much else. Because we mostly don’t know what will happen when we act, at least not with the clarity that that kind of analysis would need. I think the implicit ethical problem here is that there’s not much any individual can do that will have a measurable effect when it comes to entities as large and powerful as big tech (or any other industry). So then how do you think about making ethical decisions?

New comment by aporetics in "Astronauts face unique visual challenges at lunar South Pole"

aporetics — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:49:13 +0000

That moment while driving when the pavement is wet and the sun is at a low angle and suddenly the ground is as bright as the sun and you can’t see anything. But all the time!

It sounds more complicated than just figuring out how to prevent glare. Even if you do that, the terrain will always be illuminated in this strange high contrast scenario. I find myself thinking about how photographers use reflectors to avoid this in their portrait subjects.

New comment by aporetics in "We Can Terraform the American West"

aporetics — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 02:25:48 +0000

Yikes. The sheer, unacknowledged hubris of this is bewildering. Let’s just remake the arid west?

New comment by aporetics in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

aporetics — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:41:22 +0000

Stick with QCT, I’ve been coming back to that essay for 20 years. Given your other recs, you might want to go back to a few of the Dialogues: the Apology, the Laches, maybe the Phaedrus. And if you’re serious about the divine origin stuff, after reading the Apology, read the third chapter of Walden.

New comment by aporetics in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

aporetics — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:32:34 +0000

Now read “Experience” by RWE and your answer will change.

New comment by aporetics in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

aporetics — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:28:17 +0000

This is good advice.

New comment by aporetics in "Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?"

aporetics — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:25:45 +0000

Thanks, I’m marking this to look into

New comment by aporetics in "Go Concurrency vs. RxJS"

aporetics — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 07:55:00 +0000

I thought the point of using observables over promises is that they have cancellation, and presumably an implementation of race would cancel any slower request (i.e., handle the abort controller automatically)? Is that not the case?

New comment by aporetics in "TDK claims solid state battery breakthrough"

aporetics — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 17:11:56 +0000

I’m thinking: minidisc players!

New comment by aporetics in "A Pattern Language"

aporetics — Tue, 14 May 2024 05:52:24 +0000

What a great project, thank you. I appreciate that you can link to specific chapters, for example [0], or the one that I haven't been able to stop thinking about for twenty years [1],--though the latter would really benefit from the illustration.

[0] https://patternlanguage.cc/Patterns/Connection-to-the-Earth-... [1] https://patternlanguage.cc/Patterns/City-Country-Fingers-(3)

New comment by aporetics in "Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017)"

aporetics — Sat, 11 May 2024 06:52:18 +0000

I think “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” may be of more interest, topically, to hacker news readers, because it converges on the use of computing as a means of controlling social unrest.

New comment by aporetics in "The Bloody History of 'Deadline'"

aporetics — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:02:27 +0000

> This concludes your exercise in pretending to not waste time while actually avoiding your deadline. Now: get back to work.

I suppose this could serve as the unspoken signature line in most communiques. Thanks MW

New comment by aporetics in "The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with large cars"

aporetics — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:07:55 +0000

As though marketing never influences what people want.

New comment by aporetics in "Meta Horizon OS"

aporetics — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:07:14 +0000

Nope

New comment by aporetics in "German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice"

aporetics — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 03:10:09 +0000

Google docs has no dark patterns. All sunshine and roses.

New comment by aporetics in "A proposal to add signals to JavaScript"

aporetics — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 02:49:37 +0000

Well said