Hacker News: calahad

New comment by calahad in "Kiwi Farms response to CloudFlare"

calahad — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 12:21:05 +0000

The kiwi response states emphatically that they were deleted

New comment by calahad in "The Preprocessor Iceberg Meme"

calahad — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 19:24:54 +0000

https://bruceblinn.com/linuxinfo/DoWhile.html

New comment by calahad in "Ask HN: Have you noticed an increase of spam evading Gmail's filters recently?"

calahad — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:28:22 +0000

"On June 21, Google parent Alphabet Inc. floated a plan to fix a problem it had identified in its spam filters. The solution was specifically aimed at political spam, the kind likely to pour in during an especially noisy midterm election season. Unfortunately for all of us, Google seems to have decided the problem is that it filters too much spam—and the solution is to let politicians run wild with polling updates, merch solicitations, and frantic fundraising pleas."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-05/gmail-spa...

New comment by calahad in "It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak"

calahad — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 16:08:48 +0000

The app works great for getting you to an intermediate level, which is all it claims to do.

New comment by calahad in "How to make decisions like a poker player"

calahad — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 21:26:03 +0000

"The payout is exactly the same"

Again I ask, is it really?

New comment by calahad in "How to make decisions like a poker player"

calahad — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 13:36:54 +0000

"Expected Value is complicated because a 50% chance for $100 is the same as a 10% chance at $1000"

Is it though?

New comment by calahad in "The Sucker Complex"

calahad — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 07:49:10 +0000

Hard to take anything the guy says seriously when he calls this tweet "objectively amazing" a couple of paragraphs in: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1470899663087747072

New comment by calahad in "The origins of ‘horn ok please,’ India’s most ubiquitous phrase (2016)"

calahad — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 13:53:37 +0000

Flashing the high-beams to warn of police is a thing in the US also, although you can get ticketed for it.

(Apparently this has been successfully challenged in court as free speech though lol https://www.myimprov.com/flashing-headlights-in-florida-prot... )

New comment by calahad in "I Really Blew It (2020)"

calahad — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:27:13 +0000

I'd just throw in for context that BoP absolutely had more significance at the time than its sales numbers would show.

New comment by calahad in "I Really Blew It (2020)"

calahad — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 14:45:37 +0000

I feel for this guy, I get that the post comes off as narcissistic and myopic but it seems that he genuinely put a lot of effort into something with good intentions and came away disappointed. Something just leaves me profoundly sad after reading it, and I'm actually going to seek out a copy of the 'balance of power' book.

New comment by calahad in "Code of Conduct Complaints Against Linus Torvalds"

calahad — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:31:23 +0000

i hope it has fewer troglodytes hiding behind a misguided concept of freedom of speech

New comment by calahad in "Code of Conduct Complaints Against Linus Torvalds"

calahad — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:30:46 +0000

maga bullshit

New comment by calahad in "The Rapier Physics Engine"

calahad — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 23:21:26 +0000

I'm a native English speaker and I didn't get what their problem with it was either. I've never heard anyone voice such an objection to using the word outside of this thread. Bizarre reasoning imo.

New comment by calahad in "Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project"

calahad — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:25:08 +0000

"Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project" --- seems like a pretty accurate summary to me

New comment by calahad in "Ask HN: What are you reading to make sense of the economy?"

calahad — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:22:00 +0000

Capital and Ideology - Piketty

very approachable for an intimidatingly huge book

New comment by calahad in "Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?"

calahad — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 11:42:14 +0000

trying to think of a lazier, more harmful analysis than this both-sides bullshit but I've got nothing

New comment by calahad in "Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study"

calahad — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:57:28 +0000

Excellent, something I definitely don't have to worry about.

New comment by calahad in "Dead Reckoning"

calahad — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:41:04 +0000

sublime use of "Ear regardless"

New comment by calahad in "Ask HN: Are you ok?"

calahad — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:47:02 +0000

yep, 2nd-ing, 3rd-ing, 4th-ing, ...nth-ing

New comment by calahad in "Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models"

calahad — Sun, 23 Jun 2019 13:30:31 +0000

Quoting "Art of the Deal" and extolling Trump's virtues as a dealmaker didn't really sway me. Regretting this purchase.