Hacker News: drilldrive

New comment by drilldrive in "The Stacks Project, a new model for organizing and visualizing mathematics"

drilldrive — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 01:04:50 +0000

My professor is an author in it, feels cool.

New comment by drilldrive in "The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever"

drilldrive — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:36:54 +0000

Authoritarian abuse is second to war in being the most bipartisan issue.

New comment by drilldrive in "The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam"

drilldrive — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 06:17:07 +0000

I used to have an automatic google search-domain blocker. It was just front-end though so if a page would have website domains that were useless, it would only have 1 or 2 results on it unfortunately. Something a little better integrated would be nicer.

New comment by drilldrive in "France is Getting a New Keyboard (2019)"

drilldrive — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 23:12:32 +0000

I don't speak French at all yet, but looking at this keyboard, I like most all the design choices over the standard QWERTY keyboard and especially over the old AZERTY French keyboard. For English use it is quite nice except I do like the ' and " keys close to the center, and as a general rule I think switching the 6 bracket keys ()[]{} over two keys to the right would be nicer for programming use to avoid needing to over-extend the pointer-finger (Put ù and Ù on the 5 key anyways, to match with the other accented vowels). I really like the extra basic maths keys as well, since too often there is no LaTeX or Markdown widget in websites.

New comment by drilldrive in "France is Getting a New Keyboard (2019)"

drilldrive — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:53:14 +0000

If you want to try out this keyboard yourself, check out this pilot layout[0] as well as the government website on the new keyboard[1].

[0] https://github.com/springcomp/optimized-azerty-win

[1] https://norme-azerty.fr/

France is Getting a New Keyboard (2019)

drilldrive — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:25:00 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/france-is-getting-a-new-algorithmically-designed-keybo-1833806064

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25259174

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by drilldrive in "The Great Reset"

drilldrive — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:19:42 +0000

>> To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative.

Holy cow this reads straight out of a dystopian novel. Been hearing crazies talking about "The Great Reset" for over 10 years now, never thought it would come to the fore.

New comment by drilldrive in "Git is too hard"

drilldrive — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:21:54 +0000

As a user who knows absolutely zero Git, I often fumble around for a good 20 minutes at times trying to figure out how to just install someone's project for consumer use.

New comment by drilldrive in "Vitamin D improves survival in Covid-19 elderly patients"

drilldrive — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:19:02 +0000

I wouldn't trust anything a dentist has to offer, they only had their first empirical dentistry journal in the last decade.

New comment by drilldrive in "YouTube-dl's repository has been restored"

drilldrive — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:40:39 +0000

What is RMS?

New comment by drilldrive in "YouTube-dl's repository has been restored"

drilldrive — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:28:16 +0000

Having reddit crack down on hate speech makes it a corporate shill-chamber/chicomm focal point, along with an anti-1A and against American-rights. The evil is always there with these companies brother.

New comment by drilldrive in "YouTube-dl's repository has been restored"

drilldrive — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:19:54 +0000

I feel like the problem is already fully-realised in this case, so you can't "nip it at the bud" but have to stop the full-form yes? That goes along with "cutting it off at the head" moreso in my opinion.

New comment by drilldrive in "Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter"

drilldrive — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 17:28:27 +0000

Well all the major internet firms are based in the United States, if they want to hold to foreign markets they would need to hold separate divisions in separate countries, or in coalition dealings. There is a reason USA law Section 203 debates (which doesn't address the core problem) are so contentious regarding Social Media.

New comment by drilldrive in "Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter"

drilldrive — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:35:07 +0000

This is exactly why I believe a dutiful representation of the 1st amendment in the Internet includes anti-botting measures, since bots flood the town-hall with un-measured broadcasting, shuttering out any and all active speech. But beyond anti-botting and one or two other very minor holds, a public forum should have no other restrictions of moderation. There is an exact restriction needed for the moderation to itself not be speech-impacting either by too much or too little of it.

New comment by drilldrive in "There is little chance CRISPR will ever be widely used to directly treat disease"

drilldrive — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 04:25:10 +0000

Eugenics literally means "well-bred" so any attempts to re-encode ourselves has a direct involvement of Eugenics, so I am not performing analogy here but invoking the principle of a fortiori. Particularly I am not claiming ethics of gene-editing or Eugenics in general, but that the public has no appetite for this as seen with the strong ethical claims against Eugenics.

By a "non-binding eugenics guideline" I mean something akin to "ex-convicts should not produce" or something, I mean there is absolutely zero state or national guideline that I know of that invokes arguments of eugenics, if you know of one then I am mistaken.

New comment by drilldrive in "There is little chance CRISPR will ever be widely used to directly treat disease"

drilldrive — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 04:14:21 +0000

Perhaps, but as time progresses such methods meet more resistance/grey areas. For instance there are gene sequences that have strong correlation with intelligence, and taking the same schema to avoid having a (nearly assured) kid of low intelligence would be more controversial obviously, or well similar cases 100 years ago of rapists and scum of the earth looking to have kids yes? Look not debating eugenics here, just pointing to any mass involvement of Crispr on child-rearing will meet to the same fate I am sure.

New comment by drilldrive in "Privacy app that goes beyond data protection/deletion"

drilldrive — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 04:07:16 +0000

First an app for just broadcasting transparency is fine, but there is no control here. Well any app within the walled garden of the OS is powerless to remove the embedded trackers of the advertising companies owning them, so moreso an app isn't the solution here but a complete switchoff onto a more secure OS would fit, and once there you can have a privacy app (though in insecure hands a "privacy app" will just be another heavy invasive tracker).

New comment by drilldrive in "There is little chance CRISPR will ever be widely used to directly treat disease"

drilldrive — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 03:56:06 +0000

A "non-binding eugenics guideline" has been considered highly unethical regardless, so no a non-compulsory solution here fails as well.

New comment by drilldrive in "Should we stop keeping pets? Why more and more ethicists say yes"

drilldrive — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:13:28 +0000

>> After he had become a vegan... he considered his pet cockatiel. “I remember; he looked up wistfully. He said he got the bird, took it outside, let it loose and it flew up,” Herzog recalls. “He said: ‘I knew she wouldn’t survive, that she probably starved. I guess I was doing it more for myself than for her.’”

Feels like a sticking point, what should people do with their current pets? It is deeper than an individual choice to refuse taking ownership of a pet, since they are a societal domestic cluster, these animals have lost their inner personality and relegated that prowess to their owners.

New comment by drilldrive in "There is little chance CRISPR will ever be widely used to directly treat disease"

drilldrive — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:02:40 +0000

I am genuinely curious why anybody would think Crispr has any potential in mass-usage. We as a society already determined the highly-less invasive tactics of mass-Eugenics to be highly unethical, why would a clinical/basal attempt at the same idea resolve differently?