Hacker News: asojfdowgh

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Mastodon: A Social Media Platform Dominated by Pedophiles and Child Porn"

asojfdowgh — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:29:56 +0000

To explain why the content seemingly evades the law: the article is consistently referring to drawn / computer generated content.

The legality of which can be gleaned from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...

I find that the seemingly intentional foot-noting of the class of content they are talking about, to be really dishonest.

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Ask HN: Does a role-based file manager exist?"

asojfdowgh — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:24:58 +0000

Samba?

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Why is this HN discussion a single word with 1112 points?"

asojfdowgh — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:30:46 +0000

I'm guessing its a poll item

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Deno vs. Bun performance is rigged"

asojfdowgh — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:09:36 +0000

But what does an upstream target do for a Vue developer? a Svelte developer? a Preact developer? etc etc.

Its not so much of a useful thing to just focus so much on what you use to benchmark.

Reminds of:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/28/nvidia_tpc_benchmark/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/futuremark-reverses-nvidia-did...

Like, you wouldn't be impressed if it was react bun vs preact deno, right?

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Deno vs. Bun performance is rigged"

asojfdowgh — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 13:24:20 +0000

And the original benchmarks of bun vs deno had bun using a native-code http server against a deno using a js-code http server, afaik.

And the bun-specific-fork-of-react vs deno + normal react, was suspect too.

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Musk’s SpaceX says it can no longer pay for satellite services in Ukraine"

asojfdowgh — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:21:55 +0000

Sounds more of a case of not realizing that spacex was supposed to negotiate with internet providers instead of taking the first value they offered.

Reminds me of ISPs harassing netflix to pay extra in addition to the prices they charged their consumers

https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/24/5541916/netflix-deal-with...

Assumably something similar is happening to SpaceX's offering

New comment by asojfdowgh in "IKEA’s Crimes Against Cartography"

asojfdowgh — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 08:46:08 +0000

setting showrooms aside as they feel useless,

you start off in the impulse buy areas, and leave through the bleak self-service areas. This doesn't jibe with the "ikea intentionally makes you tired to make you impulse buy" narrative

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)"

asojfdowgh — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 03:03:59 +0000

IMO this is good. Blocking users from RCS, [while obviously no where near as good as signal, is still far better than SMS] has been a flaw in how signal has handled things

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths, according to new lawsuit"

asojfdowgh — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 07:36:13 +0000

Amazon is making suicide trendy? or, Parents looking for a scapegoat for their way-too-late emotions?

> She placed the order within weeks of experiencing suicidal thoughts.

weeks doesn't seem long, unless you consider the mindset of the suicidal person: every day, hour, minute, filled with overwhelming mental burden.

I still remember the few weeks at my lowest as probably the longest memories, longer than all my school memories stuck together.

New comment by asojfdowgh in "[dead]"

asojfdowgh — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 22:19:32 +0000

From that screenshot, I would hope that you'd be blocked, no part of the privacy policy says "we'll disclose private user information to breck"

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Does syntax highlighting help programming novices? (2018)"

asojfdowgh — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:38:16 +0000

I always felt weird about the fact that Scratch et al exist, and that typing things manually exists, but you can't type code and get a visual result that is scratch-like

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To clarify, I don't mean generating a visual version, but to instead highlight structure (e.g. background color for a for-loop and its indent), not keywords

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories"

asojfdowgh — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:12:24 +0000

"breaking the chain of public transactions" sounds remarkably similar to "concealment of the origins of" for some reason.

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories"

asojfdowgh — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:01:00 +0000

Does one really need to teach zero knowledge proofs in the context of money laundering?

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday"

asojfdowgh — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:11:30 +0000

or just cluster over several other providers and make sure to test failover

the main problem with azure/aws/gcp is that their parent companies will track everything you and others do, and then close every related thing because they have enough market share to not give a fuck about you.

There are more than enough blog posts of enterprise customers running into random issues with the big thing, buying "big three, promise edition" isn't much of an assurance.

I'd suspect most of those customers have rapid migration plans written up. For a reason.

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Let's Try Gnome Boxes"

asojfdowgh — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 02:00:20 +0000

I'd like a "Configure in VMM" button in boxes if it detects VMM installed, since they are just different front-ends for the same backend.

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Let's Try Gnome Boxes"

asojfdowgh — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 01:58:05 +0000

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro... same market that microsoft has been targeting since half way through windows 10

New comment by asojfdowgh in "ShaderGlass – Overlay applying retro shaders on top of Windows desktop"

asojfdowgh — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 17:25:59 +0000

released videos were made to be more resistant to interference

recordable VHSes for home use needed to be editable without mastering equipment, so they are more subject to deterioration

New comment by asojfdowgh in "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)"

asojfdowgh — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:16:34 +0000

> Test POSIX scripts with `bash --posix`. Definitely use Shellcheck.

Except that doesn't disable all bashisms so you end up leaving in bashisms as a result, which is what caused all the issues for debian trying to migrate to dash

New comment by asojfdowgh in "“Nothing Is More Impotent Than an Unread Library”"

asojfdowgh — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 03:09:08 +0000

Easy way to tell which side of the topic is the "correct" side:

You want to gift a book, do you gift it to the person who will read it, or to the person who won't?

New comment by asojfdowgh in "The Big Bang didn't happen"

asojfdowgh — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 05:53:41 +0000

https://twitter.com/AkAstronomy/status/1552350497729904640

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02056-5

la it happened, just things after that happened differently than expected

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The Big Bang Hypothesis - which states the universe has been expanding since it began 14 billion years ago in a hot and dense state - is contradicted by the new James Webb Space Telescope images, writes [A person who has been making dosh being contrarian since 1991]

https://www.amazon.com.au/Bang-Never-Happened-Eric-Lerner/dp...