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New comment by designerarvid in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

designerarvid — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:05:18 +0000

I think that the analogy of recorded music best captures your feeling. Not the exact technological and economic transformation that is happening, but the feeling.

Some 120 years ago recordings music was a living phenomena produced in the moment. Musicians worked at restaurants and coffee shops everywhere, being useful without being super stars.

Music didn’t disappear with recordings, but the works is certainly different.

New comment by designerarvid in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

designerarvid — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:31:40 +0000

When the canned sentence structures of LLMs are frequent and unaltered throughout an article like this, I always wonder whether the thinking also has been done mainly by the machine.

New comment by designerarvid in "Seeing like a spreadsheet"

designerarvid — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:30:44 +0000

Maybe you’re talking to the wrong people? Management consultants spontaneously express their love for excel without being prompted. I’ve even seen it at parties.

New comment by designerarvid in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

designerarvid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:23:05 +0000

That is a question about which copyrights are enforced. Different question.

New comment by designerarvid in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

designerarvid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:03:25 +0000

GenZ?

New comment by designerarvid in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

designerarvid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:09:19 +0000

Reproducing someone’s intellectual property and publishing it is exactly what constitutes a copyright violation.

You can retype someone’s book with your keyboard, it’s still not yours.

New comment by designerarvid in "Honda is killing its EVs"

designerarvid — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:40:27 +0000

And lots of bad conscious from all the oil.

New comment by designerarvid in "Harold and George Destroy the World"

designerarvid — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:39:11 +0000

People have predicted the end of the world for literally thousands of years. Should’ve happened by now, right?

New comment by designerarvid in "A Theory of the World as run by large adult children"

designerarvid — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:37:52 +0000

Plato, and Heraclitus before him, both thought that society would eventually collapse. They sounded smart but would’ve been quite surprised to see what we’ve done with the world.

New comment by designerarvid in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

designerarvid — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:28:44 +0000

All email conversations in Swedish public institutions are basically a public act and any citizen can request an extract of them.

New comment by designerarvid in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

designerarvid — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:55:48 +0000

Easily explained by the fact that writing some types of software and seeing people using it is fun. Some people take photos for free also.

Doesn’t apply everywhere though.

New comment by designerarvid in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

designerarvid — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:39:37 +0000

There’s actually research to support the claim you’re making here (Elaboration Likelihood Model).

When forming attitudes in an area where one doesn’t care, one tends to rely more on who is saying it than what is being said. The opposite is true, if you care about [climate change], you listen to the arguments regardless of who is presenting it.

New comment by designerarvid in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

designerarvid — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:38:50 +0000

Not small, essential

New comment by designerarvid in "Stop Using Grey Text (2025)"

designerarvid — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:20:49 +0000

Maybe the author is not that informed?

Maximum readability for humans is black text on light grey. Contrast is not the only thing that matters.

New comment by designerarvid in "Stop using grey text (2025)"

designerarvid — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:14:55 +0000

Stupid rule. In that case, why ever change a color?

Just stick to ensuring WCAG 2 AA rating. If your awesome design isn’t AA there better be a good reason. If it is, everything’s fine.

New comment by designerarvid in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

designerarvid — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:35:09 +0000

In Sweden, kids have stopped showering after PE class due to this concern.

The world is not deterministic, and we can shape norms of how we interact with each other. We don't have to accept being constantly recorded just because the technology makes it possible.

New comment by designerarvid in "Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state"

designerarvid — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:00:44 +0000

Not to get into politics too much, but surely that is a bit different. EU right wing populism and conservative raise had been slowly happening for some 15-20 years. US for 14 months.

New comment by designerarvid in "The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers"

designerarvid — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:58:21 +0000

During the 90’s economic crisis all drafters drawing building blueprints by hand disappeared from the Swedish construction industry. Engineers started using CAD instead

Just one example of how this has happened again and again.

New comment by designerarvid in "Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state"

designerarvid — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:54:08 +0000

What countries apart from the US are experiencing this shift?

New comment by designerarvid in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

designerarvid — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:19:34 +0000

Maybe people believe that the US is better off not having a government that coerces private companies? This is a way of showing that.

/non-US and just guessing