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New comment by dcbadacd in "The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI"

dcbadacd — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 00:12:13 +0000

Because it provides a different perspective, figuratively. I think that might also be a reason why HFR movies feel weird for some people, it's very much a comfort zone.

New comment by dcbadacd in "The IPv4 Cleanup Project"

dcbadacd — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:13:00 +0000

Not implementing DHCPv6 is not "inconsistent" it's from the start a thing you should NOT rely on existing.

New comment by dcbadacd in "The IPv4 Cleanup Project"

dcbadacd — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 20:09:55 +0000

I think people that have taken personal offense using IPv6 or when people are suggesting that IPv6 should be used instead, have stymied IPv6 adoption.

It's not the opposing side's fault if your solution is practically infeasible and wasteful.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon"

dcbadacd — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:40:59 +0000

Well one thing is a "pause" in production, another one is total and final cancellation. Has any of the NF titles been resurrected yet?

New comment by dcbadacd in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

dcbadacd — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:30:13 +0000

It very very likely messes up the magnetometer or even breaks it completely (I've managed that myself).

New comment by dcbadacd in "Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon"

dcbadacd — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:25:13 +0000

People looking at data often ignore that every user uses a specific subset of the total subset of features or content.

Just as a simplistic example, user set A wants content `x` and `y`, user set B wants content `y` and `z` - data shows that `y` is popular, but by removing `x` or `z` they make those users very reluctant to continue using the service.

I've seen it multiple times with services I use where only the common set is kept and then people start loathing and leaving the service.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Netflix is creating a problem by cancelling TV shows too soon"

dcbadacd — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:18:01 +0000

If things like Star Trek were canceled season three, it'd never have reached such masses, it was a niche show at start but now there's even actual new generations watching The Next Generation. Long term decisions are hard, but if you take no risks, it's guaranteed nothing will pay off. Accidentally killing a next cult series or movie would be a huge misfortune.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”"

dcbadacd — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 14:00:35 +0000

Actually they do have an answer for this problem:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52393960

New comment by dcbadacd in "The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct to investigate Apple"

dcbadacd — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 23:17:06 +0000

> And guess what? I don’t have to use Comcast.

Pretending everyone has that choice not to.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Show HN: Humans vs AI – A/B testing GPT-3"

dcbadacd — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 11:55:24 +0000

No false negatives, woo!

Estonian Electronic Identity Card: Security Flaws in Key Management

dcbadacd — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity20/presentation/parsovs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23712173

Points: 222

# Comments: 80

New comment by dcbadacd in "Hardcoded secrets, unverified tokens, and other common JWT mistakes"

dcbadacd — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:53:25 +0000

It goes into the same category as criticizing C's memory safety. The errors do say a lot about the tech being prone of misuse, and that's not really a good thing.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify"

dcbadacd — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:50:27 +0000

They're "Spotify premium" ads though.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify"

dcbadacd — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:13:12 +0000

On free version, it also adds somewhat random "recommended songs" to an album playlist.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify"

dcbadacd — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:11:28 +0000

With the music playlists I just really really want a button that would mark certain songs as "I like them, but not so often". Disliking makes certain artists and styles fall totally out of my playlists, not disliking makes it repeat like a broken record.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify"

dcbadacd — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:09:50 +0000

You need to counter-train the algorithm to get useful results out of it basically. Keep ignoring those videos, mark them as boring, refresh the page, etc. do content discovery the old-timey way.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify"

dcbadacd — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 19:08:15 +0000

They do have schizophrenic A/B testing though.

Just recently they started playing the exact same ads but sometimes they have a few syllables messed up. I think I now have first-hand experience in being gaslit, it really makes you doubt your sanity if you heard the "same" ad but "wrong".

New comment by dcbadacd in "Clear backpacks, monitored emails: U.S. students under constant surveillance"

dcbadacd — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:56:14 +0000

I don't think it's the ratios like 1/20 to 1/40 that are the cause, it's children in those classes. There was a HN thread about magnet/gifted schools and how they made a night-and-day difference in terms of quality of education and wellbeing for quite a few kids, just because there weren't disruptive/mean people there. That's what I've personally witnessed as well. I don't think homeschooling has any hope of beating a well-educated teacher in a good learning environment, that's what we should strive for really.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement"

dcbadacd — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 01:24:03 +0000

Somewhat. If the gifted kids can socialize among themselves then that certainly is more beneficial. In theory it'd be nice to only interact with people like oneself but I don't see that happening, learning how to interact with others is definitely not useless but indeed depends on the amount. Not sure I'd measure usefulness with some productivity metrics, that success = productive kid at that point in time, social skills are hard to measure like that.

New comment by dcbadacd in "Separating gifted children hasn't led to better achievement"

dcbadacd — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:24:53 +0000

The sage-on-a-stage also comes with socializing both during and after lessons, that can't be replaced with computers. If anything, I think it'd cause a lot more sadness than the current system.