Hacker News: diogenes_of_ak

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Multiple sclerosis has a common viral culprit, opening doors to new approaches"

diogenes_of_ak — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 07:18:44 +0000

I have to switch of Tysabri soon… how’s O?

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Ask HN: What unexpectedly good book have you read?"

diogenes_of_ak — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:38:42 +0000

I had low expectations for Becky Chamber’s books but so far I have liked every one of them.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Honestly: Does Glorifying Sickness Deter Healing?"

diogenes_of_ak — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 06:22:33 +0000

I am somewhat “disabled” now (the hell with that moniker), there’s nothing chic about it.

I’ll get better or die trying, but there’s a lot of confusion as to what all this means by both those well meaning and those who are assholes.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "I got fired for sharing my salary on TikTok"

diogenes_of_ak — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:58:16 +0000

A company can’t tell you to not share your salary - it’s protected behavior. Whether you do that over a megaphone in the park or over TikTok they broke the law by firing her.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 14:27:23 +0000

I think this is a stretch here, you’re saying “entropy is real, thus the universe is zero sum.”

Hell, we don’t even know if the energy budget for the universe is a constant - we just haven’t observed the opposite yet.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:33:41 +0000

What remains constant when I give my son a hug? Or I say, “thank you?”

The zero-sum game is life stuff is nonsense.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 12:16:27 +0000

I come from a different industry before moving into this one, but there’s a chaotic and abysmal lack of teamwork between departments in this industry that I’ve seen this far.

Have those two teams work together.

Also, foster a culture of continuous self-improvement. I’ve now seen a bunch of “it’s good enough to ship, go for it” and now whatever work arounds and bandaids are permanent. Don’t be so fast, don’t try to iterate so quickly, and focus on quality over quick ROI.

Imagine if Boeing behaved like a SaaS operator. The first version of 737 would be glued together, and in turbulence the wings would snap off “oh, I guess we should use more glue in the next version - alright guys, iterate!”

Slow down, do a good job, and the product will come.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:59:09 +0000

Sorry if other languages aren’t permissible. I can delete it if I need to.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:44:37 +0000

This is a weird thought. Nearly none of my wife is zero sum.

Who loses out if I buy you a beer? Or if my wife and I love each other? Or if people are nice to others?

Like seriously - if I treat someone else with respect and dignity am I required to shit on someone else? Of course not.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:41:44 +0000

Perhaps it would be better if nobody was the hegemon eh?

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 11:40:34 +0000

Всё будет хорошо скоро - мир меняется быстро, и есть возможность работать в любом месте ты хочешь.

Счастливо тебе, и если тебе надо помочь, послай мне dm, не знаю что могу делать, но могу стараться помогать.

Прости за мой плохой русский, меня научали мальчики когда я жил в Украине на обмене в средней школе.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Fields Medal was never meant for ‘the greatest mathematical genius' (2018)"

diogenes_of_ak — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 09:49:48 +0000

Side note, is your screen name a reference to the Beaver?

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Fields Medal was never meant for ‘the greatest mathematical genius' (2018)"

diogenes_of_ak — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 05:14:32 +0000

Math (and I’m a math major) has a hard-on for youth. So does comp sci.

Everyone wants to pretend they’re Abel or Galois in Math.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Covid learning loss has been a global disaster"

diogenes_of_ak — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 23:46:23 +0000

Man… I wish I lived where you live… wherever that is. That would be extremely hard to do here.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Full-office tech jobs pay 1.9x less than full-remote"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:37:00 +0000

It’s a weird title…

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "How are images compressed? An explanation of JPEG [video]"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:59:59 +0000

Debating it - my GitHub account is basically my name… so yah… debating the subsequent loss of anonymity

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "How are images compressed? An explanation of JPEG [video]"

diogenes_of_ak — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 01:03:30 +0000

Oh! Hey!

I just did something like this! I was messing around and used SVD to write a compressor. Do I dare share my feeble GitHub here lol

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Voyager spacecraft begin to power down"

diogenes_of_ak — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 19:17:04 +0000

People inexplicably hate Carter - not only was he a fantastic president… albeit unlucky but good, but also a genuinely amazing human.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "36% of high earners are living paycheck to paycheck"

diogenes_of_ak — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:35:17 +0000

This is extremely common.

New comment by diogenes_of_ak in "Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across the US"

diogenes_of_ak — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:16:10 +0000

Amazon isn’t a company, it’s a paper clip maximizer that’s goal is to “acquire money” and it’s doing so exponentially