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New comment by ascendantlogic in "Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week"

ascendantlogic — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:34:39 +0000

You can suspect all you want, I'm not here to argue with anyone's strong feelings about crypto either way. Just that there's an established pattern to how this particular market moves.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week"

ascendantlogic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:24:18 +0000

I'm well aware it's not a guarantee of future returns but as I said in my original message, this is a well established pattern. Until there's definitive evidence that it has stopped acting according to that pattern I'm going to disregard the "it's dead for real this time" crowd.

"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes"

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week"

ascendantlogic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:22:03 +0000

I'm not a TA nerd, but there is a very clear pattern that has been established. Crypto moves in cycles. You don't need to draw a ton of triangles and lines all over a chart to see the cycle this has gone through over and over.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Bitcoin Has Longest Losing Streak Since August in Bruising Week"

ascendantlogic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:32:44 +0000

Bitcoin (and crypto at large) goes through these 4 year cycles repeatedly. Each time people claim its dead, "this time is different", etc etc. It peaked at the end of 2024 and now we're in mid 2026...traditionally near the bottom of the cycle. There IS someone in the White House now that seems hellbent on driving the global economy into the ground but until there's definitive evidence that this time really is different, I'm going to assume it's business as usual and people screaming about how its over is just the buy indicator it's been many times in the past.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

ascendantlogic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:58:36 +0000

I forgot that US law applies everywhere.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "GitHub is down again"

ascendantlogic — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:43:07 +0000

So what's the moneyline on all these outages being the result of vibe-coded LLM-as-software-engineer/LLM-as-platform-engineer executive cost cutting mandates?

New comment by ascendantlogic in "GitHub Incident"

ascendantlogic — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:46:42 +0000

This feels more like Copilot-as-platform-engineer to me

New comment by ascendantlogic in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

ascendantlogic — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:08:07 +0000

I couldn't tell if the author was being ironic or just breathtakingly hypocritical.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "2025 was a disaster for Windows 11"

ascendantlogic — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:26:25 +0000

I've used macOS for development for 15+ years now but always built my gaming rigs using Windows. For the first time in my life I'm so annoyed with Windows I'm seriously entertaining the idea of putting SteamOS on my rig and fighting my way through whatever nonsense I have to to make it work. I was able to tolerate a lot of Microsoft's nonsense so I could have a very easy path to just turn my machine on and play some games without having to think too much about it but my patience is finally at an end.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "I know you didn't write this"

ascendantlogic — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:25:01 +0000

Oh I'm well aware. When I was an EM for a bit last year a bunch of colleagues told me they used ChatGPT to write their reviews. It was gross and I always hand crafted, small batch artisanal reviews when I'm in the managers chair.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "I know you didn't write this"

ascendantlogic — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:07:23 +0000

The content of the document matters too. I don't really care if someone was AI-assisted writing a project plan. As long as it's sane and clear I'm not gonna lose sleep over that. However for my performance review I definitely want my manager to put in the effort and actually tell me nuanced thoughts on my performance. I don't want AI output for that part.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

ascendantlogic — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:05:34 +0000

> If they didn't abuse the system

Who is "they" and where is the proof there was widespread "system abuse" that warrants voluntarily abdicating any lead we have in research to other countries?

New comment by ascendantlogic in "GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions"

ascendantlogic — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:29:51 +0000

I really love Gitlab CI. I don't miss managing my own Gitlab server but I definitely prefer their CI product to actions.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Perl's decline was cultural"

ascendantlogic — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:14:00 +0000

Individuals are rarely (not never, but rarely) the full problem. Groups of people are what cause feedback loops and cultural reinforcement like the author describes. Sometimes this is a virtuous reinforcement cycle but more often than not the well gets poisoned over time.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "A million ways to die from a data race in Go"

ascendantlogic — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:11:00 +0000

> "Go is often touted for its ease to write highly concurrent programs. However, it is also mind-boggling how many ways Go happily gives us developers to shoot ourselves in the foot."

In my career I've found that if languages don't allow developers to shoot themselves (and everyone else) in the foot they're labelled toy languages or at the very least "too restrictive". But the moment you're given real power someone pulls the metaphorical trigger, blows their metaphorical foot off and then starts writing blog posts about how dangerous it is.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest"

ascendantlogic — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:39:26 +0000

How is teaching your kids to invest some portion of their money "raising finance due bros and gambling addicts"? Just because modern culture has incentivized these kinds of people doesn't suddenly make investing bad. This is such a wild take.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest"

ascendantlogic — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:36:35 +0000

What's the point of this comment? To discourage investing? Reddit-style shitposting? Not sure what you're going for here.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys"

ascendantlogic — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:49:30 +0000

What about what about what about. Should we be saying it used to happen so its fine now?

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys"

ascendantlogic — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:47:16 +0000

I'm talking about in my lifetime. Your nihilism may comfort you but it doesn't comfort me.

New comment by ascendantlogic in "Anti-aging breakthrough: Stem cells reverse signs of aging in monkeys"

ascendantlogic — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:44:08 +0000

In my lifetime competence has taken a back seat to hatred and cruelty. Save your whataboutism for Reddit.