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New comment by dahdum in "Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History"

dahdum — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:47:15 +0000

I’d prefer that psychiatrist professional opinions stay out of politics, as they will certainly be weaponized, turned partisan, and tarnish the field. There are numerous reports from people that have actually met him in private describing his public persona as a theatrical showman.

> The President was not examined face to face, and he is not a patient of any member of our group. Rendering a formal diagnosis in this case is not our role. We have closely followed his behavior and his statements over the past year.

> It is our professional opinion that the behaviors of Donald Trump, tragically, are neither momentary lapses nor political theater. It is our professional opinion that they reflect a rapidly worsening, reality-untethered, increasingly dangerous decline.

https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/04/30/172/76/CREC-202...

> However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule

New comment by dahdum in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

dahdum — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:34:05 +0000

This is a great way to sidestep the political process to fund popular projects. The political constraints will ensure returns are middling, so unless they subsidize with tax breaks on dividend income I think it would be a poor commercial investment.

Whether its perfect or not, it almost has to be better than the current status quo.

New comment by dahdum in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

dahdum — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:21:16 +0000

They use machine id, shouldn’t need the key to reactivate on reinstall.

New comment by dahdum in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

dahdum — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:03:54 +0000

You’ve always been able to install and use without an account (oobe\bypassnro). As long as power users and businesses can avoid it, they have no real incentive to change.

New comment by dahdum in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

dahdum — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:57:33 +0000

The peak was right before they launched marketplace in my opinion (2013?). After that they had no incentive to improve Jira/Confluence, easier to take the marketplace cut. I could never understand why they couldn’t solve the speed issues though. It just got worse and worse.

New comment by dahdum in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

dahdum — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:30:26 +0000

Insane that NYT is driving this privacy nightmare.

New comment by dahdum in "Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results"

dahdum — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:04:47 +0000

Important to note their findings only apply to a smaller subset of people, and do not include those with the most need.

> The findings of the pilot project will be generalizable not to the entire German population, but to 21- to 40-year-old individuals in single-person households with middle incomes.

The reason:

> We were thus faced with the decision of selecting 122 people who represented the entire country but did not provide scientifically reliable data on the effects of a basic income, or selecting 122 people from a more limited group from whom we could draw definitive conclusions. In the end, we chose the latter.

https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en/blog/how-the-p...

New comment by dahdum in "BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English"

dahdum — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:21:02 +0000

It reads as a mistake to me as an American too, and I expect most of us. It’s an artistic choice.

New comment by dahdum in "Paxlovid: You'd have expected more"

dahdum — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:51:54 +0000

It was dramatic and started just a few hours after the first dose. I was worsening all morning and by mid afternoon a reversal, coinciding with the Paxlovid side effects. It wasn’t an overnight thing where rest was a factor, I was awake and bedridden. So I’m pretty convinced, enough to drop $1,500 retail if need be in the future for it.

New comment by dahdum in "Paxlovid: You'd have expected more"

dahdum — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 02:56:27 +0000

That metallic taste still gives me shudders when I think about it, but I’m very grateful for Paxlovid.

New comment by dahdum in "Paxlovid: You'd have expected more"

dahdum — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 02:54:29 +0000

It worked extremely fast for me, I took it within 16 hours of symptoms that were increasing rapidly. Within 6-8 hours I started feeling much better, instead just dealing with the Paxlovid side effects. I don’t think my body fought off Covid that fast. Anecdotal of course, but I’d take it again in a heartbeat. I did get a rebound infection the next week but I couldn’t feel it, just tested positive for a couple days.

New comment by dahdum in "BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English"

dahdum — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:33:17 +0000

It’s the same in both, it was deliberate. Wikipedia lists a potential reason.

> The title “Wolfs”, a grammatically incorrect plural of Wolf, is an apparent reference to the character of Winston Wolfe (aka “Mr Wolf”) - an iconic “fixer” in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfs_(film)

New comment by dahdum in "We are the builders"

dahdum — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:43:35 +0000

Could be interesting once they have content but so far there is nothing there. The “Contact Us” page is a 404.

New comment by dahdum in "Police arrest apparent leader of 'Zizian' group"

dahdum — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:59:56 +0000

> Have either of you ever met a five year old?

I expect you are simply trolling, but for those that are not aware ELI5 has been defined in popular culture for well over a decade.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/

New comment by dahdum in "USPS has suspended inbound parcel service from China and Hong Kong"

dahdum — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 03:55:32 +0000

UPs refers to it as “Lunar New Year holidays” on the website I linked, probably because it’s more than just China. You’re right though, I should have been more clear.

New comment by dahdum in "Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong"

dahdum — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:48:25 +0000

Wouldn’t this be due to the Lunar New Year, a massive holiday that shuts down wide swaths of the country? UPS has a bunch of Asia delays right now too.

https://www.ups.com/cn/en/service-alerts.page

New comment by dahdum in "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance"

dahdum — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:05:27 +0000

It took the use of poison gas to get countries on board, and some will still use it. Just more carefully.

Would China, Russia, or Iran agree to such a preemptive AI weapons ban? Doubtful, it’s their chance to close the gap. I’m onboard if so, but I don’t see anything happening on that front until well after they start dominating the landscape.

New comment by dahdum in "Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year"

dahdum — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:20:43 +0000

It would help solve bots absolutely, but there are other ways to approach fraudulent activity. I don’t see a huge downside personally, but I’m not in the industry. Given it’s a large, competitive market and this change appears revenue neutral, I think there must be underlying reasons neither of us are aware of.

If the majority of artists and labels wanted this system I don’t see why they couldn’t lobby and negotiate for it?

New comment by dahdum in "Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year"

dahdum — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 16:43:38 +0000

So each listen would have a variable payout depending on how much else you listened to that month? If you only listened to 1 song, the rights holder would receive all of your monthly payment (sans Spotify’s cut)?

That seems overly complex and more volatile. My guess is that there is no pressure from the artists or rights holders to do this. It’s revenue neutral for Spotify after all. Tidal is the most “artist-friendly” service and they don’t work like that.

New comment by dahdum in "Show HN: TypeScript/React/Vue Window Layout Manager (Tabs, Floating, Popouts)"

dahdum — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:24:13 +0000

Kept getting this error when navigating: This page crashed Try again Right side of assignment cannot be destructured

The video looks awesome, but I couldn’t get the demo to work using an iPad, so I assume mobile isn’t supported fully? I’d use it for my personal dashboard and for organizing llama.cpp chats if I could.