<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: craftinator</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=craftinator</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:45:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=craftinator" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by craftinator in "The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yes, Florida, Land of Innovation, Crocodiles, and of course, Florida Man!</p>
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<p>> If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness<p>What if they'd been invented hundreds of years ago to stop the spread of disease, and prevented millions of deaths since then? Curious that you use a weak and hyperbolic analogy when the reality is so readily available.</p>
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<p>For the sake of discussion of sensitive topics, I recommend you ditch the hyperbole and stick to facts if you want to maintain credibility with reasonable people.<p>I don't believe anyone has tried to literally force any restrictions down your throat, nor do I believe that the feds are killing people who don't conform to restrictions. I wouldn't associate your writing with disbelief or skepticism if it didn't contain this type of hyperbole.</p>
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<p>> Virtually all of the clinical trials and robust research studies psilocybin in conjunction with 10 or more non-psychedelic therapy sessions.<p>Tangential, but I've noticed that all the psilocybin trials I've read about are combined with therapy as well; my knee jerk assumption is that there are legal/moral/funding powers at play causing that. Not sure a study would get funded if it consisted of "we're going to get a bunch of depressed people to take shrooms and see what happens!".<p>The more scientific approach would be to separate the therapy group from the shroom group.</p>
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<p>You have failed to comprehend the parent comment. Please read again.</p>
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<p>It's a rough time when the 2nd Amendment gun nuts start to look prescient.</p>
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<p>> You don't have to joyride in a car to show the owner that they dropped their keys.<p>This is the most accurate analogy I've seen in months, thank you for sharing it!</p>
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<p>I've used it before in a military capacity (actually during test deployments of the system). Interface-wise it's basically google earth, complete with ability to turn on layers and filter temporal ranges. The real magic was how data was induced into the system, and how it could be parsed. Basically geographically aware SQL, with a bunch of tools for correlation and inference of different data types. At the time, our head of intelligence was smitten with it, thought it would end our current conflict.</p>
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<p>> This seems very naive. Media companies are not working for the public, which pays pennies to the dollar compared to advertising.<p>I agree that the advertising is where the money comes from for most media... But that supports the parent comment, in that it incentivises the media companies to tell their audiences exactly what they want to hear (or, more correctly, exactly what will keep them coming back and watching more advertisements).</p>
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<p>> and for what benefit? Some smoother graphics? I am on Linux, that is the least important thing.<p>This really sums up this side of the argument for me (though it doesn't address the security features of Wayland). If I want to watch an ultra high definition movie, or play a game, rebooting to windows is a miniscule price. Almost all of my work is done on Linux, and I value it because everything can be made to work, usually with little effort. Wayland adds some severe overhead to that work.</p>
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<p>I think you may have put yourself at a social disadvantage by using the phrase "high impact product", which is a trigger phrase for several developers I know. It's a trigger phrase because they work at places where hearing that during a meeting means "we are about to throw away a lot of work you've done, because we didn't bother to do any market research before we did the first 6 months of sprint cycles". To them, it just sounds like a lot of low-level manager speak that results in massive technical debt, rushed redesigns, working overtime, and the expectation that "changing software is easy".<p>I found what you said really interesting, and am sharing it with my SO who is a marketing and business contractor. Thank you for sharing!</p>
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<p>I have one, and have found it quite excellent. Easy to play around with, pretty good documentation, and the eink is really nice. There's something like 30 watch faces already designed, so you can just fork off one you like.<p>Highly recommend the anodized aluminum case. The plastic one is sturdy enough, but with the thickness of the material, makes the watch feel bulky. Also, the aluminum one has such a good fit (they are precision CNCed) that it can handle water splashes with no problem, and a few gaskets can get it to IP64 or 65</p>
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<p>If you're on Linux, xpra might be an option here. Just stream the rendered window from your sensitive access computer to wherever you need to show it.</p>
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<p>> One such people screwed my career development for 7 years because at one internal interview he asked me out of nothing about the „half sync half async pattern”, that solves a problem that he wasn't able to describe to me. And since I failed, I was forever on their s*t list.<p>This is a sign, that in order to solve the problem, you must move on to a job that isn't the problem.</p>
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<p>> the known declining efficacy of the vaccines<p>I just want to point out that the main cause of breakthrough cases is having too many people be unvaccinated. They are breeding grounds for mutations, and the reason the word 'variant' is now in vogue.</p>
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<p>I had to install windows to get access to some CAD programs, but comments like this really reinforce my decision to not use it as my main OS. There are so many things that are anti-user, and extremely difficult to modify. What are some of reasons to use windows, other than for niche applications that don't work under wine?</p>
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<p>This describes what I've seen happen with Excel over and over again. I'm curious if the use of collaborative Google sheets could be a fix for this? Something where a portion of the sheet could be shared globally, but the rest of the document would be local to the instance working on it.</p>
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<p>I remember the stress of worrying about rent pretty clearly, especially given my room was basically a sleeping and hygiene chamber that I hardly spent time in, but still had to have for those two critical functions.<p>> They are forced to live in these conditions<p>I agree that the choice between crippling rent rates and having no access to windows is not a good one, but it seems a function of where we are economically. Base rents everywhere I've ever lived are much higher compared to minimum wage than they've been for past generations.</p>
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<p>They possibly meant "plenty of tools need to move chips".<p>A common problem that causes chatter and poor tool life is not taking a large enough chip. Large chips stabilize the tool (the rotation of the tool pulls it into the part) as well as allowing for a more continuous, uninterrupted cut (whereas too small of chips cause the flutes to have to re-engage the cut over and over, and the number of engagements and tool life have an inverse relationship).</p>
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<p>> The greatest confusion here is found in comments like yours, which imply that the vaccines provide sterilizing immunity and stop transmission of the virus, which they do not.<p>My comment does not imply that. It implies that a vaccinated person is less likely to spread it than an unvaccinated person, which is obviously true, given that the vaccine significantly lessens the chances of having it (if you don't have it, you won't spread it), and even for those who do get sick, it lessens the severity of the symptoms (a person coughing mucus and spit everywhere is more likely to spread it than someone who just has a fever).</p>
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