Hacker News: captainpiggies

New comment by captainpiggies in "Oracle's credit default swaps surge as Barclays downgrades its debt rating"

captainpiggies — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:38:48 +0000

Is it too much if I hope for Oracle to bankrupt itself?

New comment by captainpiggies in "Don't guess my language"

captainpiggies — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:36:46 +0000

It's even worse for videos with "official" dubs. I have been jump scared by German and French dubs on certain videos recently, I distinctly remember MrBeast, Mark Rober and Nick DiGiovanni. I have set my language to English and my Region to US (worldwide) I don't know what gave YT the idea to preselect these dubs for me, I have seldomly even watched a video that is not English.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Don't guess my language"

captainpiggies — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:33:46 +0000

On a related note: whatever idiot started using keyboard language instead of system language for emoji autocompletion on certain MacOS and iOS Apps, please go die in hell somewhere... I have had this issue randomly pop up with the Telegram client I am using, and it infuriates me beyond belief. Every single setting on my machine indicates that the language I am using is English, why is the search text of emojis tied to the one setting I cannot reasonably change because it is tied to a physical property of my device and not the 4 settings I can and did change.

New comment by captainpiggies in "More and more German trains are not allowed to enter Switzerland"

captainpiggies — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:17:54 +0000

As someone who used to travel regularly between Zurich and Frankfurt (Zurich - Hamburg line ICE) I can 100% tell you that distance is *NOT* the root cause of DB's reliability problems. Infrastructure decline is. From lack of electrification, badly maintained rolling stock, insufficient tracks you find everything. Swiss railways deal with problems like lack of capacity and geography. Deutsche Bahn deals with a lack of maintenance and investment.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time"

captainpiggies — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:46:11 +0000

Why does seeing moot quoted suddenly make me feel old.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Nancy Pelosi Made $500k from Her Nvidia Bet, Doubling Her Annual Salary"

captainpiggies — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:07:27 +0000

Did you even read the article? She specifically traded a million dollar long position on just Nvidia.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Nancy Pelosi Made $500k from Her Nvidia Bet, Doubling Her Annual Salary"

captainpiggies — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 18:03:48 +0000

I can't believe people in this thread seem to be unironically defending / denying that Pelosi and her husband are front running trades based on her insider information.

Particularly during the pandemic it was just painfully obvious that she was trading based on information that was not available to the public.

Her and particularly her husbands returns are just straight improbable without some explainable edge, and the only logical explanation I have seen is her political position.

New comment by captainpiggies in "The Password Game"

captainpiggies — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:41:47 +0000

I would find it hilarious if someone would come up with a password generator that generates passwords that would pass this game.

New comment by captainpiggies in "The Password Game"

captainpiggies — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:39:28 +0000

I, too, overfed Paul :(

New comment by captainpiggies in "The Password Game"

captainpiggies — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:38:59 +0000

This game is great! Even though I will need to catch up with whatever was happening in my class for the last 2 hours, I thoroughly enjoyed my time and the fact that I have no idea what the professor is talking about is a sign of how engaged I was.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Killing Community"

captainpiggies — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:59:41 +0000

That does not describe the average /g/ thread at all.

Most boards are rather tame.

Also, I think most avid 4chan users have their filters set up in a way to get rid of most garbage simply by excluding posts with certain keywords.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Killing Community"

captainpiggies — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:52:49 +0000

This opinion may be unpopular, "gatekeeping" is good, at least to a certain degree. It essentially forces people to integrate. Now this can, of course, be really toxic, but on the other hand, it can help to preserve quality (and culture). Most "communities" nowadays aren't gate kept, and they actively try to tear down gates and general entry barriers, maybe it should become more acceptable again to put barriers up for self-preservation.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Killing Community"

captainpiggies — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:39:24 +0000

I forgot where I read about it, but there are some limits to certain human social groups we all share (paraphrasing from what I remember):

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Best friends: 2-3

Close Friends: 15-30

Friends / "Friends": 100-200

Acquaintances: 1000-2000

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Something along these lines. With the biggest kind of aha moment for me being that the army (notorious for optimizing everything to the highest degree) has organized itself in similarly sized groups:

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Squad

Section

Company

Brigade

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New comment by captainpiggies in "Don't use custom CSS scrollbars"

captainpiggies — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:14:25 +0000

I just wanted to say thank you. I didn't know about the setting to always show scrollbars on macOS and them being hidden by default was bothering me for a while.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Replying to comments about our web page design"

captainpiggies — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:09:48 +0000

Ok, we get it, your website's design is basically bad on purpose, and it probably generates a lot of free pr exactly because it is bad and because it's novel. However, I can assure you that my eyes are perfectly fine, but your website still makes me nauseous.

New comment by captainpiggies in "When is short tenure a red flag?"

captainpiggies — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:33:26 +0000

I am in the process of writing a paper about retention in relation to employee satisfaction with their leadership. One thing I learned is that for Switzerland which is the country for which I am writing my study the net rotation quota (how many people changed their job in the last 12 months) is around 25% for people under 24 years, and still around 20% for people under 39. I, personally, felt like I was changing jobs a lot, but what my research made me realize is that I am not changing jobs a lot. I am changing at an average rate. Long story short, even if you change jobs yearly or bi-annually, you are not changing jobs at an abnormal rate statistically.

New comment by captainpiggies in "No laughing matter? what the Romans found funny"

captainpiggies — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 14:57:38 +0000

I highly recommend anyone who's interested in funny stories of Roman life to read the Satyricon from Gaius Petronius Arbiter (eBook available on Project Gutenberg)

New comment by captainpiggies in "ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World"

captainpiggies — Tue, 25 May 2021 12:06:14 +0000

This was surprisingly underwhelming. Also I can 100% guarantee you that you will not travel across the alps in the same amount of time in January as you would in July despite this page suggesting you will, so quite frankly I don't see what the season selection even does. For example Penne Locos to Augusta Praetoria leads over the great St Bernard Pass (yes where the dogs come from) has an elevation of about 2400m over sea level and in January an average temperature of -7°C and a couple of meters of snow covering it.

New comment by captainpiggies in "Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers"

captainpiggies — Wed, 05 May 2021 11:03:52 +0000

To be precise Lindt & Sprüngli (LISN) is currently trading for CHF 90’900 roughly USD 99’485. And as a fun fact they have quite a famous natural dividend a suitcase full of chocolate :)

New comment by captainpiggies in "I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it"

captainpiggies — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:44:13 +0000

ToS and Privacy Policy links don't work for me in the App on iOS. Big no no since it's one of these Apps where I don't really want to sign up and reveal my information in the first place. The sign up process kind of ruins the simplicity of the idea for me.