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New comment by doktrin in "US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees"

doktrin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:49:41 +0000

> I think they just want families with young children to pay to sit together, like everyone else has to

Oh great so now I have to sit next to someone’s unattended child in the name of fairness? Am I gonna get the option to subsidise the family’s seat grouping instead of being saddled with that noise? Talk about creating problems for no good reason.

New comment by doktrin in "Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests"

doktrin — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 08:29:03 +0000

> a condition you presumably don’t have… extrapolating your theories…

You presume incorrectly, and they’re not “my” theories, but they do track with my personal observations and experience.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/38511

New comment by doktrin in "Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests"

doktrin — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:06:47 +0000

Sounds like you don’t even dispute his point, so how could you have refuted it?

To your point about relevance : nobody here has claimed this competitive advantage is wildly useful in a “first world” context, something the GP actually framed explicitly.

Personally I don’t think one needs to invoke post apocalyptic scenarios, as there are plenty of “first world” professions or scenarios that benefit from the same skill sets - military, emergency medicine, firefighting, just to name a few. The first world isn’t all spreadsheets and jira tasks.

New comment by doktrin in "Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests"

doktrin — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:57:06 +0000

You reject his premise but you did not refute it. Reiterating the adaptive struggles you and other ADHD sufferers face does not invalidate the idea that it is a competitive advantage under certain circumstances.

New comment by doktrin in "Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests"

doktrin — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:17:31 +0000

Could not disagree more. Nothing is “interesting” in perpetuity. Hence why so many with ADHD engage with various topics in an intense but sporadic manner.

In the overwhelming majority of cases this scattershot approach is deeply frustrating for the individual, and orders of magnitude less productive - in terms of meaningful creation and innovation - than persevering on a focused set of tasks.

New comment by doktrin in "What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse"

doktrin — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 21:07:58 +0000

Well, that or earwax.

New comment by doktrin in "Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting"

doktrin — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:20:01 +0000

You tell me. Did he make meaningful technical contributions to OAI?

New comment by doktrin in "Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers"

doktrin — Wed, 29 May 2024 10:26:29 +0000

This is going to vary based on geography and circumstance, but some home office expenses are eligible for tax deductions.

New comment by doktrin in "Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting"

doktrin — Wed, 29 May 2024 10:11:40 +0000

> He might not be a super technical software engineer, but is he "non-technical" in that he can't even write some simple python or something equivalent?

1. that's a very low bar, almost to the point of making any distinction meaningless

2. imho, "technical" and "non-technical" are context dependent, and not intrinsic human qualities. Speaking for myself : I'm a technical individual contributor on my current team, but there are plenty of domains (bleeding edge AI research likely being one of them) where my technical acumen would fall short of expectations for an IC, and hence where my most logical role would be non-technical in nature.

New comment by doktrin in "NSA Ghidra open-source reverse engineering framework"

doktrin — Wed, 29 May 2024 08:55:21 +0000

Purely out of ignorance - what's the context here? I'm not in this space, but afaik Ghidra was released years ago so I'm guessing this post was triggered by a recent development, but it's not clear what that might be.

New comment by doktrin in "AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them"

doktrin — Wed, 29 May 2024 08:29:15 +0000

It probably should. The amount of ancillary and contextual information required to correctly distinguish between legal and illegal settings and application is invasively high.

New comment by doktrin in "The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls"

doktrin — Sat, 25 May 2024 17:58:13 +0000

Your observation is neither novel nor helpful. People suffering are often not suffering due to a lack of information, or because they’ve never taken middle school history.

New comment by doktrin in "The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls"

doktrin — Sat, 25 May 2024 17:44:10 +0000

Possibly due to social stigma. I don’t know that what I’m describing can be attributed to the safety net itself, but many countries with excellent social safety programs also have a low social tolerance for failure. This is not limited to using social benefits - e.g fail in business and you’re a business failure who will struggle to get any financing ever again.

New comment by doktrin in "ICQ will stop working from June 26"

doktrin — Fri, 24 May 2024 17:10:20 +0000

I wonder how many others instantly recalled the ICQ notification sound on reading the headline.

New comment by doktrin in "The curious case of the missing period"

doktrin — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:03:48 +0000

Not every opinion is equally valid

New comment by doktrin in "Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?"

doktrin — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:30:29 +0000

I can’t pretend to know the man’s mind but I always got the vibe he didn’t really feel at home in the cultural landscape of the late 60s and onwards

Personally I think his contributions would be welcome in any era, and either way “this is the year that was” is a certified banger

New comment by doktrin in "The curious case of the missing period"

doktrin — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:17:37 +0000

Every language has turns of phrase that are not necessarily intuitive to non-native speakers.

New comment by doktrin in "The curious case of the missing period"

doktrin — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:09:54 +0000

If praise is the intent, it would be phrased as "... cannot recommend X highly enough"

New comment by doktrin in "OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show"

doktrin — Thu, 23 May 2024 08:57:38 +0000

> I'm not buying that people here are "fine" with this. This is one of those things people might be fine with, until they find themselves in that exact spot.

I'm gonna suggest that people who are blase about this issue are comfortable in the knowledge that it will never affect them. HN contributors might have 99+ problems, but being lusted over by the internet at large isn't one of them.

New comment by doktrin in "The curious case of the missing period"

doktrin — Wed, 22 May 2024 14:37:17 +0000

> I cannot recommend X too highly

This isn't a veiled statement. It's outright dunking on the applicant.