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New comment by hateful in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

hateful — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:12:41 +0000

The only thing I liked when I did use Facebook was the "wall". To be able to post on a friend's wall semi- publically where their friends can see it. Most other Facebook clones have had the idea of tagging, but it wasn't the same. (E.g. Google+)

New comment by hateful in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

hateful — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:36:27 +0000

This may be pure conjecture, but my first thought is always that it might be a marketing ploy by the AI companies to make their products seem more advanced than they really are.

New comment by hateful in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

hateful — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:05:43 +0000

I would imagine, in this example, that the fact that you put in the numbers yourself gives you a mental map of where the numbers are and how they relate to each other, that having AI do it for you doesn't give you.

You could stare at a large sheet of numbers for a long time, and perhaps never get the kind of context you gained by entering them.

Additionally, if there was a mistake, it may not be as noticeable.

New comment by hateful in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

hateful — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:22:51 +0000

It felt the same way when AOL bought Time Warner.

New comment by hateful in "People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads"

hateful — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:50:56 +0000

I don't have a reliable source, but I've heard that the original script had the machines use us for our processing power, not our energy, but that the studio thought it sounded too complicated and had them change it. Of course, changing it makes it make ZERO sense.

Some not so reliable sources I found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/q2i0by/is_it_true_t...

https://www.reddit.com/r/plotholes/comments/11khig/comment/c...

New comment by hateful in "XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites"

hateful — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:26:31 +0000

I used to use XSLT all the time, but I had forgotten all about and haven't used it in years. It was perfect to do a quick SQL query with "for xml auto" and then add an XSLT stylesheet to it. Instant report.

New comment by hateful in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

hateful — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:15:57 +0000

I also do the text file thing. I use EditPad Pro. The only additional thing I've done is create syntax coloring in any file named 'tasks-*.txt'.

I added simple things like: - Color anything ending in a ? green, so when looking at a list of notes, so I know where the questions were. - Any line beginning with an all caps word is highlighted (e.g. TODO: ) - Any line ending in a : is highlighted light blue (e.g. title) - Any Line Containing "Error" is red

I do suppose I could be using Markdown, but I've had this going for 20 years now.

New comment by hateful in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

hateful — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:33:42 +0000

I've always had this idea that perhaps the whole universe had already collapsed into many black holes and perhaps each galaxy was actually formed via hawking radiation. Then our galaxy came out of Sagittarius A*.

New comment by hateful in "I just want to code (2023)"

hateful — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:37:02 +0000

> I watched an Amazon Prime knockoff of Silicon Valley called Betas

Not sure you can call it a knockoff if it came out a year earlier!

New comment by hateful in "MS Paint IDE"

hateful — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:24:40 +0000

But - hear me out - if all of your servers did have wifi - and it was usually disabled - but you could enable it, move the server, then disable it - that might be something?

I know having a redundant server is better - but there's something to it.

Also, this reminds me of a post I read a while ago about them moving a server from one building to another without unplugging it or something.

[Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24059243]

New comment by hateful in "Trolls Aren't Like the Rest of Us"

hateful — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 02:09:17 +0000

This is the same thing the media did with "hacker".

New comment by hateful in "Farewell to the car CD player, source of weirdly deep musical fandoms"

hateful — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:04:54 +0000

My phone NEVER connects properly and if I want to use it for streaming, I have to spend 2-3 minutes connecting it every time. This has always been the case. Past 3 cards, past 6 phones.

Now-a-days I load up a small flash drive for the car with a small sampling of what I want to listen to. I have another one at home and "Swap" them from time to time with new things. That way it's not overloaded, doesn't take 2 minutes to load up. So it's very much like a mix CD or the mp3 CDs I would burn a couple of decades ago.

New comment by hateful in "In the beginning, there was computation"

hateful — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:41:44 +0000

I don't think the author was referring to thinking or consciousness itself, but things like the processes within cells and the replication of DNA.

New comment by hateful in "When something that was working, suddenly doesn't work when demoing to others"

hateful — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:10:27 +0000

A related thing that happens a lot is when the demo is way slower than it was when you were testing it. But at least this one can be explained by screen sharing applications adding latency to your refresh rate. It really is slower when you share your screen!

New comment by hateful in "The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community"

hateful — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:44:12 +0000

It should be noted that this wasn't free - as you said, you had to sit through a 30 minute ad before participating.

New comment by hateful in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

hateful — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:01:05 +0000

Something happens when you tune your business only to the things you can measure.

I still (or at least try to still) have this naive opinion that if you make a good product, the money will come.

We sometimes spend too much time counting the beans and not enough time growing them. Not saying you don't need to count the beans, you do, but when your whole team is counting, they may forget to water them.

Also - to be on topic - don't forget to protect the beans!

New comment by hateful in "MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec"

hateful — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:57:28 +0000

It's not only about the end that's receiving, it's also the end that's transmitting 10kbps * thousands of users.

New comment by hateful in "You'll regret using natural keys"

hateful — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:59:29 +0000

After reading many threads here, I think the final ruling may be: - If your record represents a physical being or object: Use a surrogate key.

People change.

Unrelated - if you have a list of emails or SSNs or license plates or VINs - we can think of these as foreign keys to a database we don't control.

New comment by hateful in "Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time"

hateful — Wed, 29 May 2024 23:39:12 +0000

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40508705

New comment by hateful in "Frozen human brain tissue was successfully revived for the first time"

hateful — Sat, 18 May 2024 20:06:04 +0000

Or one entire actual brain - if it can be done once by natural selection, it can be done more efficiently again by a designer.

Time exists because the universe doesn't do calculations - the only way to see the outcome is to do the thing. See: The Three Body Problem