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New comment by broof in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

broof — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:37:27 +0000

When I got laid off I got 0. The company I currently work for generally gives 0 severance as well. 5 months is extremely generous

New comment by broof in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

broof — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:09:25 +0000

Seriously the anti user algorithm auto play slop is insane. Even Spotify now has endless scroll autoplay videos on their podcast section.

New comment by broof in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

broof — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:40:00 +0000

My attention span is greatly reduced for example. I have a much harder time reading physical books than I did as a kid. It should be the opposite as you age

New comment by broof in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

broof — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:44:13 +0000

Yeah I agree that there are big negative externalities and this is one. I’m more talking about is someone with insider knowledge but not the ability to influence - is that a bad thing specifically for these type of markets?

New comment by broof in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

broof — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:41:42 +0000

Unironically yes. Someone bet a mid sized amount and now we all share in that potential insider knowledge. A small scale example is my spouse said that the election odds from her home country were not realistic because all the westerners were betting a candidate would win but weren’t accounting for corruption that she felt was guaranteed to happen. Turns out she was right.

New comment by broof in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

broof — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:13:20 +0000

Isn’t one of the points of betting markets is to incentivize this? Now me, as someone who doesn’t have access to insider knowledge, can know that there’s a noticeably increased chance of what’s going to happen. I do think maybe there should be some sort of feature to prevent last minute bets that utilizes insider knowledge, and I do admit there are considerable negative externalities to this system but it’s not clear to me that this is for sure bad.

New comment by broof in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

broof — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:02:05 +0000

For iPhone I use an extension called shorts blocker that does the same thing.

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broof — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:26:31 +0000

I started reading it and within a few paragraphs thought the same thing. Constant em dashes, bullet point lists, “not x, but y” type phrases.

New comment by broof in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

broof — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:47:23 +0000

I’m a user of omarchy and I like it a lot. I wanted a Linux experience that I didn’t have to set up myself, and this one was designed specifically for devs who are used to a macOS environment. It took about 6 minutes to set up and everything just works. I don’t really know that much about dhh or his politics, like some sibling comment mentioned. I just think it matches my sweet spot of ease to set up and provided good UX

New comment by broof in "Exercise can be nearly as effective as therapy for depression"

broof — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:32:44 +0000

Also the bad times can be a great time to build good habits. I’ve tried and failed to develop an exercise routine many times, but it wasn’t until I was laid off for 6 months that it finally stuck. I had a friend who went to the gym every day in the middle of the day so I didn’t really have a reason not to go. 6 months was long enough for the habit to stick and fast forward years later and I still have the habit. It’s been so good that I regularly think about how good it was that I had the opportunity to be laid off.

New comment by broof in "Eat Real Food"

broof — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:28:57 +0000

I’m pretty sure there was a shot of curry in the video

New comment by broof in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

broof — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:31:43 +0000

Oh okay, I see. It is wild to see how much things change because amongst my generation your analogy makes sense, but at the time prop 8 was passed by a majority of Californians.

New comment by broof in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

broof — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:49:55 +0000

Are you referring to his donation to prop 8? Im a younger dev and a bit out of the loop but how would that be anti-miscegenation? Wasn’t that more related to gay marriage?

New comment by broof in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

broof — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:10:07 +0000

I don’t know the finances, but I wouldn’t be surprised if their margins are low enough that their profit comes from advertising and data gathering post sale. So all this bloatware and advertising is subsidizing a high quality product and if you can strip out the unwanted stuff you’re probably getting a good deal at the expense of the company

New comment by broof in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

broof — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:32:40 +0000

Yes that’s correct. We didn’t cover things such as Locke or Hume, Adam smith, etc…

Also we didn’t directly cover Marxism or atheist philosophy, my point was that the selected philosophies were the ones that just happened to all be related to that side of the aisle. Again, very good class, just using it as an example of hidden bias that I didn’t see until later

New comment by broof in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

broof — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:44:42 +0000

One example is in high school I had an excellent literature class that also covered a lot of philosophy. It wasn’t until later that I realized that the various philosophies we studied were the philosophies that are often foundational for Marxism, atheism, and general left of center academia. Probably the best class I had in high school but I wish it had also covered things on both sides, or been more transparent that it was in fact biased.

New comment by broof in "Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare"

broof — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:02:47 +0000

I hate that when I see this many em dashes, as well as statements like “it’s not x, it’s y” multiple times, I have to assume it was written or at least heavily edited by AI.

New comment by broof in "Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week"

broof — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:21:27 +0000

This makes me incredibly concerned for the great salt lake

New comment by broof in "Springs and bounces in native CSS"

broof — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 04:44:06 +0000

His stuff is so incredibly high quality. Really stands out in an AI slop filled internet

New comment by broof in "Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug"

broof — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:59:06 +0000

When I got laid off from my first job, I used the extra time to start going to the gym. Years later the habit has still stuck, and I actually think I was so incredibly lucky to get laid off. Working out has been such a massive improvement in all areas of life. Health problems went away, mental health got better, sleep quality got better, it truly is a miracle drug. It’s a shame that the habit is hard to form.