Hacker News: dun44

New comment by dun44 in "Devastation of northern Gaza already comparable to WWII Dresden and Cologne"

dun44 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 08:58:58 +0000

It is unflagged, because at this point it doesn’t matter - thanks to scoring very few people will see it here.

New comment by dun44 in "[dead]"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:37:45 +0000

Boycotting doesn’t work. And realistically we can’t do anything about the regime because they are USA’s strategic ally.

New comment by dun44 in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:29:02 +0000

Calling it an Israeli-Hamas war is a manipulation. Israel isn’t fighting against Hamas, it’s fighting against civilian population (https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1210831466/death-toll-gaza-is...) which happens to include some Hamas members.

Hamas wouldn’t exist if not for continued Israeli occupation and genocide.

New comment by dun44 in "US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:23:17 +0000

>Israel [..] is a country which upholds Western values.

Such as genocide? Like, actually murdering 15 thousand civilians, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-ham...? How many did the “terrorists” kill?

New comment by dun44 in "The Storm Brewing Inside Elon Musk's Mind Gets Out"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 08:44:45 +0000

Even NPR is giving roughly similar numbers, https://www.npr.org/2023/11/06/1210831466/death-toll-gaza-is...

New comment by dun44 in "How are startups shaped by macro conditions at birth?"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 08:31:20 +0000

20 year old load-bearing m4 tends to be less of a technical debt than 20 year old load-bearing Java - because it keeps working and doesn’t need constant maintenance.

New comment by dun44 in "A case for moving away from the cloud and embracing local storage solutions"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 08:21:40 +0000

Security: with cloud nobody cares, things leak all the time w/o much consequences

Reliability: unless you’re multi-bilion customer nobody cares, Google can simply ban your account and they won’t assign a human intern to perhaps reconsider dropping all your data because the effort would never pay

With local storage there is at least one person who cares about those problems. With cloud there is none.

New comment by dun44 in "[dead]"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 01:26:45 +0000

He was attacked for no reason. Sure, it would be more convenient if he just let himself be killed.

New comment by dun44 in "[dead]"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 01:26:04 +0000

Police officers protect people, not harass them.

New comment by dun44 in "Cancer Warning over Soy Sauces"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 01:12:33 +0000

So, is it actually dangerous, or based on fake science again, like with the MSG ban?

Download Valley

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 01:10:29 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Valley

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38512577

Points: 23

# Comments: 0

New comment by dun44 in "Lobsters"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 01:08:48 +0000

Except in this case you still don’t have any accountability, so the site (eg HN) can still shape the narrative by slightly altering the scoring.

New comment by dun44 in "[dead]"

dun44 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:53:11 +0000

It’s hard not to notice all articles that oppose Israeli propaganda quickly get flagged. Not that I’m surprised.

New comment by dun44 in "Technical Debt Is Not Debt; It's Not Even Technical"

dun44 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:17:56 +0000

This site is trying hard to pretend it’s not about selling some snake oil courses.

New comment by dun44 in "Gulf of Tonkin Incident"

dun44 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:12:32 +0000

Apart from that he was a warmonger and presumably a shit person overall.

“In his book, Body of Secrets, James Bamford, who spent three years in the United States Navy as an intelligence analyst, writes that the primary purpose of the Maddox "was to act as a seagoing provocateur”

New comment by dun44 in "Massachusetts workforce shortages here to stay as Baby Boomers retire"

dun44 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 23:01:41 +0000

There is no such thing as workforce shortage. What is there is a salary shortage.

New comment by dun44 in "Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java"

dun44 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:52:21 +0000

You could do it with a trivial C macro instead.

New comment by dun44 in "Simple Mobile Tools suite to be acquired by Israeli adware company"

dun44 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:40:49 +0000

Oh, sure you can develop it - same as with every other open license, including public domain. But it prevents you from replicating the original business model.

New comment by dun44 in "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish"

dun44 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:34:18 +0000

Yup. You can’t effectively fight an enemy by his rules.

Instead of writing new browsers - and getting them easily broken by Google again - we need to focus on stuff like providing an open YouTube mirror, or helping users jam AdSense with fictional data, or flooding YouTube with autogenerated videos… Lots of possibilities really.

New comment by dun44 in "Tesla: Security Vulnerabilities"

dun44 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 22:26:43 +0000

Perhaps you shouldn’t put so much trust in marketing videos.

https://www.quora.com/How-thick-of-a-hardened-steel-plate-do...