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New comment by davidt84 in "I'm a neuroscientist. Here's the surprising truth about TikTok 'brain rot'"

davidt84 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:00:47 +0000

Thank you for your insightful comment that adds great depth to the debate.

New comment by davidt84 in "I'm a neuroscientist. Here's the surprising truth about TikTok 'brain rot'"

davidt84 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:02:40 +0000

Did you actually read the article?

New comment by davidt84 in "Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'"

davidt84 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:09:42 +0000

Doesn't matter what you're working on, burnout doesn't help anyone.

New comment by davidt84 in "Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365"

davidt84 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 01:28:20 +0000

It still is. Complaining on the Microsoft "support" site for an MVP saying you should just stick to outlook classic and new outlook was only for home users.

They didn't respond when I pointed out the official notification that classic outlook was intended to be deprecated (and apparently now is)

New comment by davidt84 in "Algorithms are breaking how we think [video]"

davidt84 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:47:11 +0000

Combining the user input with the model weights to produce the output is still an algorithm.

If you're going to engage in pedantry, at least be technically correct.

New comment by davidt84 in "Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars?"

davidt84 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:22:10 +0000

I know nothing about how Cursor is implemented, so this may be wildly off base, but...

Perhaps it is written using some kind of JavaScript framework that doesn't allow access to the process environment by default, but this lets them work around that to access the environment like a native app?

One reason you'd want an IDE to have access to your environment is to enable any tools/compilers/whatever you launch from the IDE to inherit the environment (say, to access SSH_AGENT_SOCK, or whatever).

New comment by davidt84 in "Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars?"

davidt84 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:51:07 +0000

I'm very confused here, the argument is just JavaScript code... What is passing that argument?

Assuming that JavaScript is evaluated but the launched process, that will serialise the entire environment -- which is passed to every process anyway.

New comment by davidt84 in "The GSA is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them 'not mission critical'"

davidt84 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:14:43 +0000

Bad news for Tesla?

The GSA is shutting down its EV chargers, calling them 'not mission critical'

davidt84 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:14:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/617235/the-gsa-is-shutting-down-its-ev-chargers-calling-them-not-mission-critical

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43131643

Points: 2

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New comment by davidt84 in "Why is there a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer"? (2016)"

davidt84 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:45:16 +0000

The user needed no encouragement to switch it off.

They'd spent the last 10 minutes swearing at windows for taking forever to shutdown and were about 10 seconds from saying screw it, and turning it off anyway.

New comment by davidt84 in "CFPB 404: Page not found"

davidt84 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:58:55 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/cfpb-vought-s...

New comment by davidt84 in "DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack"

davidt84 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:18:00 +0000

They're all subject to FOIA...

New comment by davidt84 in "Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB"

davidt84 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:45:22 +0000

What am I supposed to say in response to a comment conveying the message "be a good customer" with no further elaboration and the source "believe me"?

New comment by davidt84 in "Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB"

davidt84 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:40:28 +0000

Perhaps you could say something concrete, rather than vague waffle and assertions?

New comment by davidt84 in "Backblaze seemingly does not support files greater than 1 TB"

davidt84 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:38:31 +0000

I read "no file size restrictions" and assume I can create a file as large as the storage space I can afford.

What else would I assume?

If there's a 1TB limit I would expect that to be described as "create files up to 1TB in size".

New comment by davidt84 in "FCC demands CBS provide unedited transcript and video of Kamala Harris interview"

davidt84 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:30:26 +0000

No, this is fascism.

New comment by davidt84 in "Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3B in Income"

davidt84 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 23:16:10 +0000

According to the article, you are wrong.

New comment by davidt84 in "USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites"

davidt84 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:37:19 +0000

Start anew with what?

What would replace the orgs you are shutting down?

New comment by davidt84 in "Cc Hot Wife: Gmail exposes contact names"

davidt84 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:09:36 +0000

> Issue a warning or otherwise make it clear before sending when a contact name differs from the email's official sender name.

An email [address] does not have an "official sender name", so it is impossible for anyone to do what the author is suggesting Google should do.

The behaviour is potentially unintuitive, but also an almost inevitable result of how email has always worked.

New comment by davidt84 in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

davidt84 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:03:57 +0000

If you're not trying to pass them off as authentic, I think they're just called replicas, not fakes.