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New comment by dustinmoris in "Poll: Should you work for yourself or take a full-time job?"

dustinmoris — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:55:39 +0000

Work for yourself if you can make it viable then it will be a lot more rewarding and grow you as a person as opposed to being a voiceless number in some open plan office just counting the days to your next holiday.

New comment by dustinmoris in "Rare whale shark photographed by pilot off Southern California"

dustinmoris — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:52:50 +0000

Whale sharks are majestic creatures. I was lucky enough to swim with them in the wild in the Philippines which has a lot of whale sharks in the Donsol area. What I really like about that place is that the locals don’t feed the whale sharks to attract them and so it’s a gamble to spot them but when you do then you can snorkel/dive with them in complete freedom and observe their natural interaction. It’s an amazing experience and I’d highly recommend that to anyone over the whale shark tourism that you get off Mexico.

New comment by dustinmoris in "Cloudflare Warp"

dustinmoris — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:47:59 +0000

Can’t wait for Warpbleed to happen.

New comment by dustinmoris in "Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It"

dustinmoris — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 20:45:10 +0000

When to use it: never

New comment by dustinmoris in "Long Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates"

dustinmoris — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 21:17:17 +0000

It's definitely a symptom of COVID. I know someone who had COVID and one day they coughed suddenly, dropped their iPhone on the floor and since then even the iPhone's temperature sensor doesn't work anymore. This is how infectious and terrible COVID is, just one cough caused the loss of temperature sensation!

New comment by dustinmoris in "Long Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates"

dustinmoris — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 21:05:45 +0000

It's not just you. I know someone who had Long COVID for 1 month. I also know someone who works with someone who was running marathons every weekend and now they can't walk stairs because of knee pain, all because of COVID. I know someone else who had COVID and then was not doing any sport or social interaction for almost two years, barely left the house and who feels much more tired and depressed now, because of COVID. I know a child, who had COVID, then didn't have proper education for nearly two years and now is really underdeveloped, because of COVID of course.

New comment by dustinmoris in "Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship"

dustinmoris — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 11:03:14 +0000

In China people can’t access objective and free speech media and they know it that they are being manipulated.

In America people can’t access objective and free speech media but their oppressors make them believe that they 100% can and everyone is falling for it.

Personally I find the latter much more scary and a dangerously broken society.

Moderna suing Pfizer over Covid vaccine technology

dustinmoris — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:16:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62691102

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32613382

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dustinmoris in "John Carmack on avoiding distractions"

dustinmoris — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:51:43 +0000

Here is something I discovered for myself:

If I work on something that I truly enjoy, then I am 100% focused on it and can't get distracted at all.

If I work off a backlog full of seemingly boring and meaningless tasks which some PO came up with and which I don't find remotely interesting or impactful then it's near impossible for me to not get distracted.

Long story short: If you struggle to stay focused, then maybe your work or your role in the company sucks (e.g. being overqualified for the tasks assigned to you, not challenged enough intellectually, etc.).

The lockdown files: Rishi Sunak on what we weren’t told

dustinmoris — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:26:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-lockdown-files-rishi-sunak-on-what-we-werent-told

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32591458

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dustinmoris in "Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week"

dustinmoris — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:15:22 +0000

People can’t be sent home because English people don’t give a shit about their family members. Brits think that the government should provide everything for them, even something simple as looking after an elderly person who is otherwise fine. What happened to family bonds and a bit of responsibility? Every winter around Christmas young family members (40-50 year olds) refuse to take their parents home because “they don’t want them at home over Christmas as it’s inconvenient for them” so they literally demand from the hospital staff to keep them in hospital for 1 or 2 weeks longer. Unfortunately the NHS is not allowed to dump these patients on the street. The problem is brazen entitlement. The NHS needs reform. Zero tolerance for those parasites, charge people for not showing up to appointments, charge people for simple medicines, charge people for choosing to be obese through an obesity tax.

New comment by dustinmoris in "An odd discovery on Spotify"

dustinmoris — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 20:40:46 +0000

Who launders pocket money? Anything less than hundreds of thousands of dollars is just not worth laundering. Nobody is going to ask you where you got a few 10k from.

New comment by dustinmoris in "An odd discovery on Spotify"

dustinmoris — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:30:58 +0000

How is this money laundering? If you use dirty money to sign up to Spotify and listen to specific songs so that you get some of the money “clean” back wouldn’t that in case of Spotify be the dumbest and most inefficient way of laundering in the history of money laundering? I mean doesn’t Spotify keep the majority so you’re essentially donating dirty money into the stock price of Spotify for the most part, no?

New comment by dustinmoris in "Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday"

dustinmoris — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:06:19 +0000

Yes, if you'd compare all horror stories of people having huge downtimes because their on-prem system collapsed vs. people having an issue with their cloud provider then we'd very quickly realise again why the cloud has taken us by storm.

New comment by dustinmoris in "Ask HN: What problem did Slack solve?"

dustinmoris — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 11:22:51 +0000

(and how easily you can fudge numbers of active users if you force install Teams on every Windows 11 machine and force it to run in the background, same as ignoring browser or search engine preferences and always force Internet Explorer Edge and Bing down people's throat until they suffocate in it)

New comment by dustinmoris in "A list of developer questions to ask prospective employers"

dustinmoris — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:41:14 +0000

If you’ve been in the field long enough you can gauge a company simply by the tools they use and roles they hire for. They have vacancies for DevOps folks? Ok I know that the devs are not owning the full software development lifecycle and have no ownership of their products in production. Do they use Teamns and Azure DevOps? Ok it’s going to be a boring corp that dictates the tools which dev teams have to use from top down, because someone at the C level got a good deal for an entire Microsoft suite and now everyone is stuck with it. Do they only have devs working in a single programming language? Ok so they don’t really explore tech as curiously as they claim and don’t look for the best tool for the job. They make their work for their skills, rather than make their skills for the work they want to do.

There are many cues which you get from a company before you speak to an single person. I judge hard, because those cues never lied to me.

New comment by dustinmoris in "Browser password managers – flawed security, by design"

dustinmoris — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:09:19 +0000

A hijacked session is bad, but nowadays not nearly as bad as a leaked password:

- Sessions can be linked to a user's location and/or browser finger print

- Sessions are short(er) lived

- Sessions can easily get invalidated (e.g. device wide logout)

- Almost all critical actions are behind additional security (e.g. can't change password without 2FA or change billing information without confirming password and/or 2FA in order to apply changes, etc.)

- Sessions are not shared across properties, whereas many users share their password across multiple internet sites/properties

New comment by dustinmoris in "Subreply"

dustinmoris — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 07:44:47 +0000

Exactly this. It's "a user". For the same reason it would be "an honest mistake" and not "a honest mistake".

New comment by dustinmoris in "Subreply"

dustinmoris — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 07:41:40 +0000

What is this and is there a version of it that doesn't try to assault my eyes?

New comment by dustinmoris in "mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCHA system"

dustinmoris — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 11:32:21 +0000

This looks like a rate limiting API rather than a Captcha. Captcha is a tool to distinguish automated bots from real users. Let’s not confuse the term like we already did with “crypto” please.