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New comment by arpa in "David Lynch has died"

arpa — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:51:55 +0000

"Today, no music"

New comment by arpa in "David Lynch Dead at 78"

arpa — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:51:44 +0000

missed the front page submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42728862

David Lynch Dead at 78

arpa — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:47:43 +0000

Article URL: https://deadline.com/2025/01/david-lynch-dead-twin-peaks-blue-velvet-elephant-man-1236258625/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730698

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by arpa in "NIH cancels ‘Havana syndrome’ research, citing unethical coercion"

arpa — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:37:10 +0000

Alcohol is a duretic, that is no myth. Vasopressin/ADH inhibition is well documented and studied. You are talking out of your ass about hydration by alcohol. Even miniscule amounts of alcohol increase duresis via supression of ADH.

https://x.com/tony_breu/status/1034891346069413888

I too have heard about the theory about how alcohol was safer to drink than water, however, a lot of literature also points to the fact that aclohol was consumed mostly for inebriation.

New comment by arpa in "Three Laws of Software Complexity"

arpa — Wed, 29 May 2024 12:23:32 +0000

At the root of all this is a philosophical problem that encompasses all we do: unsustainable growth. We're culturally obsessed with the concept of "more". More value. More money. More features. More, more, more. This is where it gets us: over the verge of ecological catastrophe. Unsustainable systems prone to breakage. Enshittification of everything. Planned obsolescence and yearly phone upgrades, natural resources be damned!

If we are to survive, we need to slow down and instead of making "more" make "better". Follow Unix philosophy. Embrace "good enough" and learn to stop.

Who am I kidding, we're doomed.

New comment by arpa in "New gel breaks down alcohol in the body"

arpa — Wed, 15 May 2024 08:42:10 +0000

people with autobrewery syndrome come to mind immediately.

New comment by arpa in "SynthID: Identifying AI-Generated Content"

arpa — Wed, 15 May 2024 08:38:04 +0000

... by watermarking the generated content.

New comment by arpa in "Daniel Kahneman has died"

arpa — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:12:49 +0000

it is a positivistic science, i.e. it studies observable phenomena using the scientific method. The days of Freud and Jung where you could just smoke cigars and fart out ideas about collective unconsciousness and anal fixation are long over. Experiments are conducted, confounding variables controlled, and hypotheses (including H0) are tested. Granted, it's not as easy as in physics where you just drop a ball repeatedly and note down the results, buf it doesn't in any way make it a "softer" science. To equate psychology with self-help books is akin to equating LLMs with Markov chains.

New comment by arpa in "Daniel Kahneman has died"

arpa — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 06:21:32 +0000

you have no idea what "psychology" is, do you?

New comment by arpa in "The Layoff"

arpa — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:42:51 +0000

hahaha yes. This kind of a layoff is actually winning the lottery.

New comment by arpa in "Deleting and destroying finished movies"

arpa — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:26:26 +0000

your facts: billionaires not sitting on billions. My facts: homelesness exists.

Also moving money from your left hand to your right is not circulation. It should "trickle down". Wonder where I heard this.

New comment by arpa in "Raising Children on the Eve of AI"

arpa — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 07:12:41 +0000

you know what is really funny? the neoliberal narrative of free markets and trickle-down economies and billionaires being valuable members of thr society. If humans are not needed to get stuff done, what's the use for those humans, mmmm?

New comment by arpa in "Deleting and destroying finished movies"

arpa — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 07:02:04 +0000

It sure don't look this way to me. I guess we'll agree to disagree on most points here.

New comment by arpa in "Raising Children on the Eve of AI"

arpa — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 09:03:52 +0000

AI is tipping the scales not to the favour of the proletariat. "The means of production" is in the hands of the powerful few, and I foresee a very bloody revolution.

New comment by arpa in "Deleting and destroying finished movies"

arpa — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:46:40 +0000

that's true. Therefore billions should return into circulation and/or otherwise return to the public.

New comment by arpa in "No CMS? Writing Our Blog in React (2023)"

arpa — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 08:06:47 +0000

you are not alone

New comment by arpa in "The Isle of Doctor Seaborg (2013)"

arpa — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 07:02:46 +0000

always upvote damninteresting.

New comment by arpa in "Deleting and destroying finished movies"

arpa — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 06:54:11 +0000

money is a public resource.

New comment by arpa in "Deleting and destroying finished movies"

arpa — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 07:51:11 +0000

Maybe at some size corporations _should_ become public entities to avoid dragon disease and only those corporations having the means of production. After all, they did grow enormously big by consuming public resources and labor.

New comment by arpa in "The NSA Furby Documents"

arpa — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:24:34 +0000

POTS didn't have an opus audio codec.