<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dstola</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dstola</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:38:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dstola" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "Tell HN: DuckDuckGo's privacy extension is adding an inline popup to web forms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you use Alternate Player for Twitch DDG privacy extension was preventing it from connecting with twitch servers and lose quite a bit functionality as you would always stay logged out. Not sure why it was doing that, but just a PSA regarding same extension</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2023 23:39:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918429</link><dc:creator>dstola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34918429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Twitter is not new though. It had sway in 2016 and 2012 elections with prominent personalities doing public relation on the platform. Saying its new to political space is pretty disingenuous<p>> You're getting flagged for naked partisanship<p>So you're allowed to support democrat agenda "nakedly", but not any other. Got it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:57:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473634</link><dc:creator>dstola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "White House deletes tweet after Twitter adds 'context' note"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you ever seen White House getting fact-checked with democrats in power before the acquisition? If there is any bias going on its from people that have a bone to pick with Elon and his choices<p>The fact that my comment got flagged for some odd reason highlights the fact that people (including on HN) dont want to hear that Elon is making twitter better and less biased</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473140</link><dc:creator>dstola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the issue with these massive scale apps is that people want better and fresher features which are not always well defined and get lost in the maze of product development of a huge company. They have to make decisions, do we go with web3 stuff or do we improve current NLP system etc etc. Making decisions is much easier for a small startup than a behemoth of twitters size. And yes, it takes many people. 1000 engineers? Maybe not, bloat has set in at that point, but a few hundred for sure.</p>
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<p>"optimization gremlin" = dark-pattern to take as much money away from you as possile</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 20:28:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32556780</link><dc:creator>dstola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32556780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32556780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "The Toxic Grind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> multigenerational prosperity<p>With a lot of young people opting out of having kids and trying to find their own way in life, it would make sense that the anti-work and anti-hustler culture is much more prevalent in younger people (millenials being first). Its a generational shift first of all driven by oncoming climate disaster due to over population and will be felt through wars and hungers. Why should young people contribute to such a society and create more suffering in the process.<p>I am not an anti-natalist, but if we start talking multi-generational that's what it comes down to</p>
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<p>Not a fan since proposal would do an implicit join on foreign keys rather than explicit join on the columns. If you know the schemas its great, but would add an extra step to check FKs on the tables otherwise<p>In general explicit > implicit, IMO</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/early-stratospheric-warming-polar-vortex-forecast-cold-season-fa/">https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/early-stratospheric-warming-polar-vortex-forecast-cold-season-fa/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826007">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826007</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2021 08:16:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/early-stratospheric-warming-polar-vortex-forecast-cold-season-fa/</link><dc:creator>dstola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28826007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> rewriting a repository to use a ORM, jOOQ in this particular case with Java8<p>> spend two weeks on this, write extremely meticulous tests, I am a junior/mid level engineer at this point in my career and this is a game changing ticket<p>> day of the switch approaches, sweating bullets<p>> switch happens, so far so good<p>> This was for a food delivery company so the volume of orders changes throughout the day (lunch, dinner, evening etc)<p>> at lunch time orders suddenly start disappearing, but eventually over time things go back to normal<p>> goes on like this for hours, at least a few<p>> tech team is confused ... why are these orders disappearing into nowhere<p>> senior engineer is suspicious and reviews my PR from the night before<p>> I forgot to remove `LIMIT 100` on the GET /order query when I was testing<p>Still makes me chuckle to this day</p>
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<p>And then accuse China of stealing their patents and business secrets</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2021 03:05:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27298893</link><dc:creator>dstola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27298893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27298893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hopefully they completely ignored this and other issues in GTA5 online because they have been working on GTA6 all these years /end sarcasm<p>But honestly, on a large enough team with a large enough backlog much worse things slip through the cracks. Doesn't excuse this at all though.<p>Also kudos on the write up! Enjoyed reading it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 04:28:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26299757</link><dc:creator>dstola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26299757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26299757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "Researchers propose that humidity from masks may lessen severity of Covid-19"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You would be surprised how much bacteria can grow on fabric after an 8 hour workday assuming you have a customer facing job and need to wear a mask all day</p>
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<p>Humidity also encourages bacterial growth and I doubt inhaling that constantly is healthy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2021 18:48:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26134941</link><dc:creator>dstola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26134941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26134941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dstola in "Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Anything over that can just be taxed.<p>Except the politicians will take that extra tax money and use it to bail out banks and wall street and spend it on shit that no one needs and impose policies that no one cares about and continue the corruption cycle, only now with a lot more money than they had before. We should trust the government a lot less, not more, with our hard earned dollars.<p>Greed is part of the human nature, and people in the government are no exception.</p>
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<p>Interesting how the whole thing devolves into 4chan-esque cesspool the moment anonymity is introduced. Humans are interesting creatures.</p>
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<p>A sack in this case would be different because in the end it was still controlled by Christiandom, as opposed to the Fall when it switched to being controlled by the Ottomans. I think these small details do matter in this case, but maybe its just me.</p>
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<p>Interesting, thank you. I had no idea. Especially since it was done by the Christian crusaders themselves.<p>I guess the article makes no distinction between a Sacking and a Fall.</p>
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<p>> After the fall of Constantinople in 1204 CE<p>Fall of Constantinople was in the mid 15th century [1] (1453 to be exact), not 1204. Its unfortunate when overall informative articles make basic mistakes which could be easily verified/researched<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople</a></p>
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<p>> Maybe you could open source your bank account data, and all your movements to show that you couldn't have opened any secret accounts? That's a ridiculous ask.<p>Actually, maybe not open source, but otherwise that is <i>exactly</i> what would happen should I be suspect of being a thief. No reason why dominion cannot show their source code to professional investigators to get their name cleared right? If they are so vocal about being innocent, why not do it?</p>
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<p>My point is that unvetted IP/code shouldn't be used in democratically critical processes such as elections in the fist place, doing so increases the surface area of bad actors to act maliciously.</p>
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