Hacker News: cassandratt

New comment by cassandratt in "Shortsightedness has become an epidemic"

cassandratt — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 14:26:41 +0000

Does it? This isn’t a scientific journal, nor is this a hard science forum. So the expectations that a layman conform to the standards of a field to have a conversation about a fairly esoteric subject is asinine.

I can’t know the top science in every field, so that bars me from discussion, lest I be slammed for having a thought.

This isn’t just anti-science, it’s ignorant of social interactions, and the conversations that lead to greater understanding. You aren’t nearly as smart as you think you are.

New comment by cassandratt in "New Human Interface Guidelines"

cassandratt — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:46:55 +0000

Is that only for the App Store? I'm not seeing that traffic.

I live in a rural area, city under 40k. We don't have amazing internet.

New comment by cassandratt in "New Human Interface Guidelines"

cassandratt — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:04:48 +0000

This isn't my experience at all. I'm feeling fortunate that we don't use the same stack. ;)

New comment by cassandratt in "New Human Interface Guidelines"

cassandratt — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 23:46:55 +0000

My M1 Mac blows away my 3 year old desktop outside or raw graphics output due to the desktop having a 1080. It's such a massive power leap, it's difficult for me to believe that you bought a M1 Mac. I suspect you have hardware, or PEBKAK issues.

New comment by cassandratt in "Running Intel Binaries in Linux VMs with Rosetta"

cassandratt — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 22:13:17 +0000

I mean, you can do that now. So, yes, but not because of this.

New comment by cassandratt in "VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code"

cassandratt — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:22:53 +0000

It's hard to call it immoral when it's free and it's easily compilable. I'm a commie, so very critical of corporations. But, of all the immoral actions in Silicon Valley, this isn't one of them.

New comment by cassandratt in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

cassandratt — Mon, 30 May 2022 15:29:44 +0000

Choose the appropriate tools for the job. I hate these idiotic posts that examine a sliver of a domain and think they have the answers to all of programming. It’s just naïveté on display, and this site eats it up.

New comment by cassandratt in "InSight's Final Selfie"

cassandratt — Thu, 26 May 2022 01:29:52 +0000

Apply a negative charge to the panels?

New comment by cassandratt in "Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)"

cassandratt — Wed, 11 May 2022 13:46:52 +0000

I do on my laptop Dev environments, but I do understand your point, it’s not a use case any but resource constrained devs do.

New comment by cassandratt in "Mygov is a ‘huge disappointment,’ key architect despairs"

cassandratt — Fri, 06 May 2022 03:58:47 +0000

Could be worse. I’m the whole team in my provincial government for the dev work for most of the forms for our government. Be careful what you wish for.

New comment by cassandratt in "I Accidentally Deleted 7TB of Videos Before Going to Production"

cassandratt — Thu, 05 May 2022 16:00:07 +0000

Yea, I’ve wiped out an entire government’s form library once. Backups are a career saver.

New comment by cassandratt in "A tiny Docker image to serve static websites"

cassandratt — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:47:47 +0000

"Battle tested" typically means that the code has been running for a long time, bugs found, bugs squashed, and a stability has been attained for a long time. It's usage predates the "information wars", back when we really didn't think about security that much because nothing was connected to anything else that went outside the companies, so there were no hackers or security battles back then. So I suspect this is the authors frame of reference.

New comment by cassandratt in "I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it"

cassandratt — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:40:34 +0000

We understand. What are we supposed to do, sell our houses and move to a condo downtown? Whose going to buy them, and where the fuck are we going to get the resources to house that many people without a massive energy/resource exploitation. So "no cars" is childish and naive.

Awareness isn't the issue, but awareness of an issue we have no control over does nothing of value to anyone other than add anxiety.

New comment by cassandratt in "I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it"

cassandratt — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:28:03 +0000

This is even worse thought out, and really demonstrates a real lack of understanding of how the world works. Oh how humans work. You're one of us, and equally complicit as any human live today. So, maybe, rather than being this unearned smugness, you come up with an answer. Any idiot can identify the challenges, and shit on something.

Las Vegas exists, as do many other desert cities. So, this point makes no sense. Humans, harness the physics of the world around us, to shape our futures.

The problem isn't cars, it's capitalism.

New comment by cassandratt in "I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it"

cassandratt — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:44:34 +0000

This isn't very well thought out, where do you live?

New comment by cassandratt in "An Open Letter from the CEO of Puppet: Puppet and Perforce"

cassandratt — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:37:51 +0000

Unless they changed something significant since I used it last, the puppet language is Ruby. They didn't get rid of loops, they used functional iteration (recursion) so you don't have side effects; it's declarative. Ansible uses YAML to do the same, and it's really the only way I'm aware to get idempotent results.

Your last sentence is true only for the most trivial of deployments, at which point, why are you using deployment automation in the first place, because it's a huge tech cost to invest in. If your deployments are that simple, why ass complexity by using a deployment automation and not just do a bin dump?

New comment by cassandratt in "Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories"

cassandratt — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 06:00:53 +0000

While I don't experience any euphoria, I agree that intermittent fasting doesn't affect my mood negatively. After the first few weeks, you don't even think about it anymore. And being able to go out, eat a normal meal at a restaurant without worrying about math, or 'cheating on a diet', is pretty positive mentally when you can still fit into a size 6 dress.

New comment by cassandratt in "Ten Years of ThinkPadding"

cassandratt — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:58:36 +0000

Pick up some Vim skills, your future self will thank you. Vim bindings are available in every editor worth using. You’ll never touch your arrows again.

New comment by cassandratt in "The clock does not measure time; it produces it"

cassandratt — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 14:33:02 +0000

Definitely, I eat a single meal at night, and I don't get hungry until about an hour before super. No hunger pangs or anything, it only takes a few weeks to condition the body.

New comment by cassandratt in "The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification"

cassandratt — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:22:32 +0000

I mean, Windows ran on DOS for a decade, so I'm not really seeing this one.