Hacker News: dwhit

New comment by dwhit in "I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen"

dwhit — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:10:22 +0000

for a less misanthropic take on the same idea, I recommend Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”

New comment by dwhit in "What will enter the public domain in 2024?"

dwhit — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:59:33 +0000

I do think it’s bad that almost everyone will die before any work that influenced them enters the public domain

New comment by dwhit in "EP–133"

dwhit — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:56:02 +0000

> I have a few qualms with this app: > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. > 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue. > 3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

New comment by dwhit in "Study claims Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft work to derail data rules"

dwhit — Mon, 30 May 2022 15:41:52 +0000

Should you get a ticket for accidentally driving over the speed limit because your speedometer was broken? Should the company who made the speedometer get the ticket? What if the speedometer was broken due to a bug software the speedometer company bought? Should that company get the ticket?

New comment by dwhit in "Motorists have been stranded on a major interstate in Virginia since last night"

dwhit — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 10:07:11 +0000

They voted to become a state in 2020 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Puerto_Rican_status_ref...

New comment by dwhit in "The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”"

dwhit — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 17:51:59 +0000

Ironically, if enough people gave them a penny they wouldn’t have to run those quack informercials.

New comment by dwhit in "A theory that “elite overproduction” leads to political instability (2020)"

dwhit — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:08:03 +0000

Pol Pot did want to teach history, after all.

New comment by dwhit in "Toxoplasmosis – A Global Threat (2014)"

dwhit — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 02:21:55 +0000

Because the toxo doesn’t want us to sound the alarm

New comment by dwhit in "California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate"

dwhit — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 18:42:13 +0000

Taking degenerates makes you a psychedelic?

New comment by dwhit in "I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled"

dwhit — Tue, 25 May 2021 05:20:37 +0000

It’s just Hacker News confirmation bias. San Francisco has roughly the same level of property crime per capita as Toronto, Canada.

New comment by dwhit in "'Zoom towns' are exploding in the West"

dwhit — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 03:03:07 +0000

I don’t want to starve

New comment by dwhit in "Facebook account banned after linking Oculus account"

dwhit — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 17:02:13 +0000

I would think the margin comes from their cut of software sales. Seems to work well for Apple.

New comment by dwhit in "Programmable Search Engine"

dwhit — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 01:55:02 +0000

https://lmgtfy.app/?q=tf+idf

New comment by dwhit in "The Post Office Is Deactivating Mail Sorting Machines Ahead of the Election"

dwhit — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 18:18:30 +0000

Do not ever allow an election for who gets to control the nukes be decided by an e-vote. I don’t want Boaty McBoatface to be the president.

New comment by dwhit in "[dead]"

dwhit — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 19:16:42 +0000

Wow what a fair and balanced headline.

New comment by dwhit in "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone"

dwhit — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 03:23:08 +0000

Baltimore police are not exactly inactive, they are more like an organized gang (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b...).

New comment by dwhit in "Shopify Goes Digital by Default"

dwhit — Thu, 21 May 2020 16:45:03 +0000

If you don’t need to be near Manhattan you don’t need to live there. Or maybe your loud neighbors won’t need to live there. Ceteris paribus working from home kinda sucks, but if you think about how many systems will change, I think it’s gonna get better.

New comment by dwhit in "Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing"

dwhit — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 00:11:48 +0000

Current non-foldable phones have gorilla glass on top of their display.

New comment by dwhit in "I Now Have a Cardiologist"

dwhit — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:42:06 +0000

A toilet that monitored urine and stool samples would be a major lifesaver.