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New comment by cnasc in "If you're remote, ramble"

cnasc — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:35:09 +0000

Better off Ted was sadly canceled way too early. Part of me wishes a streaming service would pick it up for a revival, but I know the monkey's paw there would be that it would be subverted by precisely the sort of corporation it set out to lampoon.

New comment by cnasc in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

cnasc — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:10:18 +0000

> “but then you are doing react wrong”

My objection is not that they are doing React wrong, it’s that their complaint is incoherent because there is literally nothing about React that could make this task take an hour. React isn’t a form library. You write the markup for an html input element, if it’s a controlled input you have a trivial one-line change event handler, and you have a submit event handler. Any additional complexity here isn’t coming from React, and managing to overcomplicate such a basic thing and misidentify the source of the complexity absolutely speaks to a skill issue.

This is especially funny in a thread where posters hold up Rails as a paragon of quality and efficiency.

New comment by cnasc in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

cnasc — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 15:52:40 +0000

> We don't have any hyper-fancy interactive components that would require heavy JS libraries. And yet... we develop in React.

Is React really a "heavy" library? https://bundlephobia.com/package/react@19.1.0

> The React view took me 52 minutes, plus I later found out that I'd forgotten a damn type on some interface that's a shallow copy of our model.

This sounds like bad architecture, nothing about React would necessitate this. And if your typechecker isn't catching missing types, then it sounds like your types aren't adding much value.

New comment by cnasc in "A brief history of hardware epidemics"

cnasc — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:52:09 +0000

> I understand the toxicity of lead, but I wonder if the hand could've been more targeted. Does lead in bearings really show up in the environment?

Part of the issue is in manufacturing. It might be hard to prevent exposure of employees to lead dust if they’re machining parts containing lead even if the final product isn’t too risky.

New comment by cnasc in "Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep"

cnasc — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:40:06 +0000

If someone said "having taken many doses of basically just water in my life, I can tell you that homeopathy is not 'bunk'" would you find that to be a convincing argument?

New comment by cnasc in "What happens when clergy take psilocybin"

cnasc — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:58:19 +0000

From Brainiac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9At-dgp0rQ

New comment by cnasc in "Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?"

cnasc — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:55:55 +0000

Which Bell Labs? Are you still in the area? I’m minutes away from Murray Hill and a lot of what you’re saying resonates with me (~10 years into my career and starting to lean into what I previously thought was weird).

New comment by cnasc in "Why LLMs still have problems with OCR"

cnasc — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:08:58 +0000

I’m quite late here, but if you want a diagram you can ask the LLM to output Mermaid syntax and then paste that into Excalidraw or something else that can render based on Mermaid.

New comment by cnasc in "Anything threatening to be a subculture is commodified before it can walk (2014)"

cnasc — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:35:04 +0000

Memories of YTMND come flooding back

New comment by cnasc in "The AI Fad Just Burned to the Waterline"

cnasc — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:22:18 +0000

ML is used extensively in business and I don’t see any indication that it’s fading. I don’t think I saw any real effort to put VR into business processes. Hype around AR has popped up and fizzled quickly a few times, but still no real push.

New comment by cnasc in "The 'no. 8 wire' tradition in New Zealand"

cnasc — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:46:29 +0000

“Baling” wire. Used to bind bales of hay.

New comment by cnasc in "After 2 years, Coca-Cola's promise to scale up reusable packaging is dead"

cnasc — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:58:21 +0000

> Coca-Cola Zero (US translation: diet coke)

Diet Coke and Zero are distinct products, both of which are sold in the US

New comment by cnasc in "North Korea Responsible for Theft of $308M USD from Bitcoin.DMM.com"

cnasc — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:18:51 +0000

> If the FBI is going to police crypto, we need to tax it.

Crypto is taxed like any other income or capital gains in the US.

New comment by cnasc in "Chimpanzees' performance on computer tasks changes when people watching them"

cnasc — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:41:59 +0000

Those states won’t themselves prosecute you for consuming cat (or cannabis), but that doesn’t mean the act of consumption is legal.

New comment by cnasc in "Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial"

cnasc — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:24:02 +0000

Probably typed “caries” and got autocorrected

New comment by cnasc in "CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon"

cnasc — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 19:16:38 +0000

I agree. They show up, cop to it, and collect a memento mori that will hopefully help motivate improvement in the future. They have a lot of work to do to repair their reputation, and I don’t think they’re foolish enough to think that this is anything more than a small step on a long path.

New comment by cnasc in "Our Founder – Momofuku Ando"

cnasc — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 23:28:20 +0000

I’d like to strongly recommend “Project X: Cup Noodle,” a business manga (who knew! Wish more of these were translated) covering the story of the creation of Cup Noodle. Maybe read it while enjoying the titular product.

New comment by cnasc in "Susan Wojcicki has died"

cnasc — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 15:16:08 +0000

Not looking at an advertisement is not “being a leech.”

I glance away from billboards, I refill my drink during commercial breaks, I show up when the movie starts instead of when the preview starts. These are normal behaviors, not leech behaviors. The ads are not very sophisticated, so I don’t need sophisticated measures to avoid them. On the web, the ads have ratcheted up the intensity (tracking, targeting) with technology and in response I have augmented my ability to ignore with technology. That’s fair.

You have framed this as a contrast between leeches and normal people, but this is actually a contrast between normal people and bootlickers. It is perfectly fine if you want to guzzle Kiwi Black, but understand not everyone wants to do that.

New comment by cnasc in "Windows NT for Power Macintosh"

cnasc — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:10:46 +0000

IIRC from reading Showstopper, NT was intended to afford that sort of different frontend swapping. It just happened that Windows became the primary focus in the end.

New comment by cnasc in "Bouba/kiki effect"

cnasc — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:08:14 +0000

Yeah, this bus is clearly intended to be a school bus but it’s missing too much detail. If the absence of the door is a valid clue, then so is the absence of the big red stop sign that is on the non-door-side.