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New comment by galleywest200 in "US House rejects FISA Section 702 extension, warrantless surveillance expires"

galleywest200 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:13:59 +0000

SCOTUS has no enforcement mechanism.

New comment by galleywest200 in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

galleywest200 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:43:53 +0000

Kids were playing a ton of online games before Minecraft.

New comment by galleywest200 in "Doing nothing at work"

galleywest200 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:53:45 +0000

When customers that pay you a lot of money demand resolution to issues from your higher ups, you sort of have to. Especially true if their product is not working.

New comment by galleywest200 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

galleywest200 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:46:56 +0000

You would be surprised how many supposedly "smart" people ignore public comments about changes.

New comment by galleywest200 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

galleywest200 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:52:56 +0000

Once I was trying to find a scene from a TV show at work for a joke with colleagues, and the quote I used ended up triggering a very NSFW search. Did not get fired, not even talked to. Thank goodness!

New comment by galleywest200 in "Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia"

galleywest200 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:01:27 +0000

I also would like if they gave you a toggle option to display the output below the code boxes instead of above, but I still like Pluto.

New comment by galleywest200 in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

galleywest200 — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:14:32 +0000

I prefer the double dash "--", but Microsoft products will convert this to a proper em-dash if you press space afterwards, I think...

New comment by galleywest200 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

galleywest200 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:40:26 +0000

Replace the C-suite with the chatbots first.

New comment by galleywest200 in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

galleywest200 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:24:47 +0000

This is so odd to learn about, thank you. I live in Washington State, USA, and almost all of our beaches are public access. We have a bunch of "public terraces" in Seattle and other cities. hopefully London can move beyond this idea of privatizing access to water features of viewing platforms.

New comment by galleywest200 in "You can just say it"

galleywest200 — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:16:19 +0000

How can I trust that the sender actually understands the words they want me to read if it is all just AI output?

New comment by galleywest200 in "Spotify CEO defends AI music, wants you to stop calling it 'slop'"

galleywest200 — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:25:28 +0000

I think it is less that the music is "listenable" and more that people want to listen to music made by humans.

I do not want to pay for AI generated music from a place like Spotify. If I wanted AI generated music I would just go to the AI music generator and pay them directly.

New comment by galleywest200 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

galleywest200 — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:39:51 +0000

I loathe how Meta websites grey-out my back button. That should not be allowed. Stop hijacking my buttons.

New comment by galleywest200 in "Scientists solve 200-year-old puzzle of how tobacco plants make nicotine"

galleywest200 — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:09:39 +0000

A curious question. Those same people also bred brassica oleraceae into so many different crops so they had to have SOME idea of how plants worked. Maybe they did not attribute it to molecules but growing conditions or locations, or something.

Either way somebody somewhere wondered about this before 1820.

New comment by galleywest200 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

galleywest200 — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:55:59 +0000

The average American, at least in my state (Washington), does not hate Mexicans. The people running the federal government seem to, however.

New comment by galleywest200 in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

galleywest200 — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:11:07 +0000

> Of course then you've gotta setup a whole stack to store it

No you do not. Just use an external drive and an MP3 player like some kind of caveman. There are plenty of high quality models out there. Additionally smart phones will let you store music on them to listen to using the player app of your choice (VLC or something).

New comment by galleywest200 in "Flipper One – we need your help"

galleywest200 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:00:44 +0000

I used em-dashes before Gen AI was a thing and I refuse to stop using them. Doing so is admitting the AI companies won. I am not going to change the way I write just to appease some terminally online folks who lack the ability to understand that LLMs learned to write from our writings.

New comment by galleywest200 in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

galleywest200 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:18:45 +0000

At least pizza boxes can go in the yard waste bin to be taken to the industrial composter. My yard waste bin came with a sticker that actively encourages putting food soiled paper in it.

Harvard Caps A's as Selective Colleges Attack Grade Inflation

galleywest200 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:42:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/harvard-grade-inflation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210478

Points: 1

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New comment by galleywest200 in "Google changes its search box"

galleywest200 — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:27:04 +0000

Scrolling down this article presented me with pop-up dialogues twice. Annoying.

New comment by galleywest200 in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

galleywest200 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:02:29 +0000

Taxing second homes would halt construction? Plenty of people out there wish to own a first home, myself included.