Hacker News: devdas

New comment by devdas in "Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years"

devdas — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 02:27:45 +0000

There are a lot more people who upvote zero effort memes though.

New comment by devdas in "People with ADHD claim Adderall is ‘different’ now"

devdas — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 02:02:42 +0000

That's normal. Fibre slows down the absorption of everything.

New comment by devdas in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

devdas — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:33:33 +0000

And then you get the managerial types who demand your presence for morning meetings.

New comment by devdas in "The Unseen Side of “Cancel Culture”"

devdas — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:30:52 +0000

"Cancel culture" is better known as "actions have consequences".

New comment by devdas in "Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?"

devdas — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:47:39 +0000

Software development isn't a production problem, it's a design problem.

Software manufacturing is the bit after you compile the code.

New comment by devdas in "Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab"

devdas — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 21:41:52 +0000

An actual debate on population control would be looking at reducing the number of children in the developed world even more, and discouraging suburban housing.

New comment by devdas in "The latest campus cancellation is different"

devdas — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 17:47:02 +0000

Ah yes, I misread the parent as desiring to cancel the people demanding cancellation of the intolerant.

New comment by devdas in "The latest campus cancellation is different"

devdas — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 12:59:30 +0000

Ah yes, cancel those who want to cancel the intolerant.

It does help to think of tolerance as a peace treaty.

New comment by devdas in "Apple and Disney among companies backing groups against US climate bill"

devdas — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 08:19:03 +0000

So the developed world could also enable cheap, clean energy production in the third world.

New comment by devdas in "Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods"

devdas — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 21:37:27 +0000

There are apartments, but construction in the desirable areas is limited.

New comment by devdas in "Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods"

devdas — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 20:39:47 +0000

Nothing that a wealth tax on the current value of land won't fix. Make property taxes to the value of the number of people that land should support in a highrise configuration, and let the current owners pay it.

New comment by devdas in "Sweden is being shot up"

devdas — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 23:37:42 +0000

The groups participating in organised crime generally aren't the immigrants though.

A major cultural shift needed in Europe is acceptance, not tolerance.

New comment by devdas in "The Swiss reject key climate change measures"

devdas — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 21:33:28 +0000

That was about two decades ago. Anything worse is going to be pushing humanity towards extinction.

New comment by devdas in "Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors"

devdas — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 10:11:26 +0000

Rockets were publicly funded research. A lot of airplane research was publicly funded.

New comment by devdas in "G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals"

devdas — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 14:08:39 +0000

The major economies are also large sources of these loopholes.

New comment by devdas in "Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing"

devdas — Sat, 22 May 2021 14:02:48 +0000

There's a context implied, but not explicitly stated here.

Being "blind to race" means that the context in which the other person exists is being ignored. Seeing things like race and gender mean that you are keeping context in mind when interacting with people.

Systemic racism isn't necessarily about your personal intent, but it is about the results of your actions. Being blind to race effectively results in supporting the racist status quo. Being blind to sexism effectively results in supporting the sexist status quo.

The current default for American society is white. PoC have a different lived experience, and white people don't often know what it is like to have that lived experience. Similarly, richer people lack an understanding of what poverty implies about the lack of choices.

https://www.salon.com/2021/05/18/rich-people-actually-do-hav...

There are a number of axes where discrimination exists, and being blind to those axes means that you support the discriminatory position in practice.

New comment by devdas in "Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt"

devdas — Sun, 09 May 2021 23:46:10 +0000

Or a compromised system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

New comment by devdas in "The Case of the 50ms request"

devdas — Thu, 06 May 2021 09:06:25 +0000

Her pronouns are she/her.

New comment by devdas in "Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19"

devdas — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:07:02 +0000

Heh, I find it uncomfortable under 25C.

New comment by devdas in "Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’"

devdas — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:10:18 +0000

This is not a linear system.