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New comment by dafty4 in "Sc-im: Spreadsheets in your terminal"

dafty4 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:55:17 +0000

Cool which newer TUI frameworks do you prefer?

New comment by dafty4 in "Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving for drug-trafficking"

dafty4 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:15:18 +0000

@pg, can you ask @thiel if he is in favor of this pardon?

New comment by dafty4 in "[dead]"

dafty4 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:37:55 +0000

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@dang, why was this related post flagged (neither posted nor flagged by me, but of interest since RSS feeds are delayed in posting "live" news updates (e.g., BBC RSS is a delayed version of BBC-Live)):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824487

New comment by dafty4 in "US envoy visits Gaza food distribution site as UN says 1,373 killed waiting for"

dafty4 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:36:11 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44824487

New comment by dafty4 in "Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web"

dafty4 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:03:28 +0000

The above marginalia.nu just surfaced the following very nice article for me, which neither Google nor Kagi returned in their top 10 search results for the same terms ('thaad aegis hwasong'):

https://nautilus.org/napsnet/napsnet-special-reports/the-rol...

(duckduckgo.com returned it as the 5th returned result (not bad)),

Thanks!

New comment by dafty4 in "The Suicide PhD Candidate Huixiang Chen (2019)"

dafty4 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:53:50 +0000

The professor has resigned after being placed on leave, FWIW:

https://www.wuft.org/education/2021-04-23/university-of-flor...

New comment by dafty4 in "Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk"

dafty4 — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:21:38 +0000

But, for the Less-Wrong'ers, is it as scary as (gasp) Roko's Basilisk?!?

New comment by dafty4 in "Over 50% of CEOs say they’re considering cutting jobs over the next 6 months"

dafty4 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 05:43:08 +0000

So, are you thinking more about laying people off recently? :)

New comment by dafty4 in "Meta and Google are cutting staff"

dafty4 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:43:37 +0000

The stock price dive at Meta is pretty clearly due to the $10B hit from Apple’s Do Not Track Feature.

Meta should make a free Android phone that allows tracking.

New comment by dafty4 in "Stanley Druckenmiller warns the stock market will be ‘flat’ for an entire decade"

dafty4 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 04:07:48 +0000

These headlines are such BS. The Russia-Ukraine war and energy crisis won’t be resolved in the next ten years? Give me a break.

New comment by dafty4 in "Death by hockey sticks"

dafty4 — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 03:03:39 +0000

Don’t plot the amount of wild mammalian biomass, plot the amount of totally mammalian biomass.

Doubt you’ll see a downward hockey stick in that case.

What makes a wild mammal more special than a domestic one?

New comment by dafty4 in "No More “Insight Porn”"

dafty4 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 04:12:50 +0000

TLDR; any mention of Tim Ferriss?

New comment by dafty4 in "Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant"

dafty4 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:15:12 +0000

But "to any person", e.g., a CIA asset in the field might be exposed by a gmail user, thus threatening her/his life, thus pre-emptively disclose the gmailer's info to law enforcement?

Or imagine an idle threat is made off-hand in a private gmail, so pre-emptively disclose that threat to law enforcement?

In the sci-fi Minority Report scenario, Google could use AI language models on all gmail to make a judgment call on "emergent danger of serious physical injury". If I plan to go bunjee jumping with an unreliable provider, Google scans my gmail and tells law enforcement?!?

New comment by dafty4 in "Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant"

dafty4 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 16:08:35 +0000

Self-hosted VPN for at least a narrower risk surface, in theory?

New comment by dafty4 in "FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns"

dafty4 — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:12:07 +0000

And a commissioner appointed by Trump, no less.

New comment by dafty4 in "FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns"

dafty4 — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:01:47 +0000

Ever heard of Japanese toy franchises? Sometimes foreign stuff sells better than domestic.

New comment by dafty4 in "Let's build a decentralized social network together with Logseq"

dafty4 — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 18:13:29 +0000

Cool! Can I easily post self-hosted photos? :)

New comment by dafty4 in "Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain"

dafty4 — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 23:30:11 +0000

Looking to economic growth only without any regard for unemployment is myopic.

New comment by dafty4 in "Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work"

dafty4 — Sun, 08 May 2022 05:19:55 +0000

Thanks for posting the heads-up re: Meta and Netflix; in the latter case I’m not surprised (or maybe they could just reduce the obscenely high salaries they overpay so they can feel superior to other members of FAANG, which doesn’t really fool anyone about their engineering prowess (they’re a content company, not an engineering/product/big-cloud company like the others, and everyone knows it). That would also allow them to get rid of this let-a-person-go-after-a-few-months-but-don’t-worry-there’s-warmth-and-respect BS.

Regarding your 2nd statement: “Other companies are cutting staff”; you mean in big tech already? Who?

New comment by dafty4 in "Why Kreya isn't open source"

dafty4 — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 04:47:25 +0000

TLDR: Money