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New comment by grimjeer in "Om Malik has died"

grimjeer — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:04:23 +0000

Black bar?

My experience of Om was only through his written word, but a new article or post by him was a thing of joy. Not to agree with, but simply to hear a good, honest voice.

As soon as I read this, I thought, "Wait a sec, hasn't it been a little while?" My sincere condolences to his family and colleagues.

New comment by grimjeer in "Marak's GitHub account suspended after he erased his faker project"

grimjeer — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:03:03 +0000

Just a quick note to say I learned more about the backstory of this post from 4 comments on HN than trying to run down the rabbit holes of that Twitter thread. Thanks for that.

Summary from what I can tell: Faker.js is a JavaScript tool for generating realistic test data. Marak is the developer of said tool. He hosts a public version of it on a personal, public GitHub account repository. For some reason he updated the README of this repo to include links to some conspiracy threads on Reddit. Microsoft, owner of GitHub, has suspended his GitHub account. No one seems to know why and whether or how it relates to this action. Various people have opinions and suggestions about this.

New comment by grimjeer in "Car crash deaths have surged during Covid-19 pandemic"

grimjeer — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 03:06:47 +0000

Anecdotally I see higher risk driving every time I commute these days. I am used to people driving 10, 15, 20 MPH over the limit. You’ve always had to do that to avoid being run over. I am not used to people passing me in a turn-only lane on city streets, regularly driving on inside and outer shoulders on the interstate to do so, or violently swerving in traffic to slalom through traffic, all considerably faster than the prevailing speed of traffic. There are no rules anymore. I have no idea what to expect.