Hacker News: donkeydoug

New comment by donkeydoug in "YouTube has a new design on desktop and everyone is mad about it"

donkeydoug — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:48:19 +0000

yeah, if it were 'just' the comments... go for it. but put the details back under & give a little buffer between the row of icons. it's not like the couldn't make whatever is under the video (comments or thumbnails) independently scrollable...

New comment by donkeydoug in "YouTube has a new design on desktop and everyone is mad about it"

donkeydoug — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:29:45 +0000

I'm among those who hate it... it's worse than change for the sake of change & not being functional, it makes things less functional. The thumbnails under the video are annoying, but now to get more info on the video you need to click a few extra times to minimize your playlist & then click a few different 'more'... then it's squished in the stupid side column. Just frustrating wonky mechanics. The search results now are less useful too in a single column. If I wanted to use an app, I'd be on a phone or a tablet... forcing the app experience on desktop never works. I've reported it via 'send feedback' every day since it rolled out, lol.

New comment by donkeydoug in "Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (2021)"

donkeydoug — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:28:28 +0000

ah okay, thanks :)

New comment by donkeydoug in "Temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer (2021)"

donkeydoug — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:42:50 +0000

Hi, I used to love hoverzoom... was there a malware scare a while back or am I thinking of a similarly named plugin ? At the time I switched to imagus & adjusted to it. Either way, thanks for turning away the monetization attempts :)

New comment by donkeydoug in "Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news"

donkeydoug — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:10:01 +0000

same for Google News... I hate having news customized based on what you assume my interests are and considering a bunch of shitty sources as relevant. Like you figured out I like marvel movies, way to go... hard pass on rumors and theories about plots. Hey I watched some youtube videos about the economy... guess it's time for the news to gaslight me for a few months and show anything that might spark fear of things outside my control.

New comment by donkeydoug in "OpenAI sold its soul for $1B (2021)"

donkeydoug — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:58:29 +0000

idk, 'DarkMoneyAI' has a ring to it :)

New comment by donkeydoug in "Humans Could Go the Way of the Dinosaur"

donkeydoug — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:52:57 +0000

we'd make great pets...

New comment by donkeydoug in "A fake job offer gone wrong"

donkeydoug — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 08:29:25 +0000

I hope you let her know that she shouldn't be ashamed. These people take advantage of the good nature of others. It's also something they work at every day to improve their ability to take advantage of others, fix the mistakes that caused the last con to fail so that the next person will be at an even greater disadvantage. Learn the lesson & move on.

New comment by donkeydoug in "No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to phage scientists"

donkeydoug — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:50:17 +0000

I listened to the audiobook for 'The Perfect Predator' (https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Perfect-Predator-Audiobook/15...) ... was a good story and amazing he survived with so few long term complications. They were certainly well connected, but he also was very resilient being able to recover from (if memory serves) multiple rounds of sepsis & organ failure.

New comment by donkeydoug in "Universal Media Server. A DLNA, UPnP and HTTP(s) Media Server"

donkeydoug — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:57:03 +0000

Jellyfin is great... client apps for roku & ios plus a web interface cover all my devices. Minimal setup, just run it from a docker container. Has been super stable for me for a few years now. https://jellyfin.org/

New comment by donkeydoug in "Acute hepatitis of unknown aetiology – UK"

donkeydoug — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:19:57 +0000

what type of supplement was it ? what type of symptoms did you experience ? always worried about things like that.

New comment by donkeydoug in "Rare genital defects seen in sons of men taking major diabetes drug"

donkeydoug — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:41:51 +0000

can't decide if it's good or bad then that we somehow have universal care... but only for kidneys, lol https://www.npr.org/transcripts/131167638

New comment by donkeydoug in "Test Microwave for Radiation Leakage"

donkeydoug — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 01:32:56 +0000

related question... I have a bluetooth headset (aftershokz aeropex), when my microwave is running the audio from my phone seems to get interrupted. think it also happens if just the phone is near the microwave. should I be concerned ?

New comment by donkeydoug in "Nasal spray could prevent Alzheimer’s disease, brain inflammation"

donkeydoug — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 23:29:54 +0000

.... in mice.

New comment by donkeydoug in "Nvidia Grace CPU"

donkeydoug — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 18:44:47 +0000

soooo... would something like this be a viable option for a non-mac desktop similar to the 'mac studio' ? def seems targeted at the cloud vendors and large labs... but it'd be great to have a box like that which could run linux.

New comment by donkeydoug in "Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods during cooking (2013)"

donkeydoug — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:19:56 +0000

+1 to this and your other diet related comments. think the issue in large part is insulin resistance driven by high carb processed food and replacing fat in things with sugar thanks to the (22 - 15) countries study. fasting & keto can help someone recover... but so much polarization that people don't want to hear that either. so... think _enough_ of the science is out there at this point, but things are going to keep getting worse, more obesity, type 2 diabetes, sicker. you'd think the mortality correlation with covid would have woken more people up. oh well.

New comment by donkeydoug in "Could cancer cells’ iron addiction be their Achilles heel?"

donkeydoug — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 07:31:19 +0000

can't stand those filthy keto casuals /s

New comment by donkeydoug in "Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work"

donkeydoug — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 09:47:09 +0000

I'm sure the 'why' this happened doesn't matter much to you now, but noticed in just searching for channel name "tranresearchtraining" google would auto-correct and search for "trans research training". Maybe that flagged the review algo to be extra sensitive to certain phrases, etc. Also, where you're dealing with multiple nationalities, wouldn't be surprised if it included non-native english speakers and/or words outside the standard english dicts... so their auto speech-to-txt may have taken creative liberties, and a mistranslation triggered other flags. So, basic edge case nightmare. Their automated support is the worst too. Probably worth trying to spread this story on twitter and linkedin as well to increase the chances of it reaching someone who might be able to help or create enough negative PR to get on the radar. good luck.

New comment by donkeydoug in "Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies"

donkeydoug — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 22:28:21 +0000

> we've inadvertently created a paperclip maximizer without even bothering to create an AGI first

that's a perfect way to describe it. thanks. sigh.

New comment by donkeydoug in "When tracking your period lets companies track you"

donkeydoug — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:46:48 +0000

nice! Thanks :)