Hacker News: lacerrr

New comment by lacerrr in "TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale"

lacerrr — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:05:37 +0000

I don't know why exactly, but I don't get almost any "watch part 2" content on YouTube shorts. That's actually the only reason I started using it instead of TikTok - those really enraged me.

New comment by lacerrr in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

lacerrr — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:24:41 +0000

Do you pay taxes on money you spend?

New comment by lacerrr in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

lacerrr — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:36:58 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_St...

> Due to its history the United States can be described as an immigration country.

Being a nation of immigrants does not mean the majority of the population are migrants at any given point in time. You need to consider how many waves of migration have arrived in the USA one after another, not all at once.

New comment by lacerrr in ".INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications"

lacerrr — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:44:32 +0000

Made up problem, that approach is fine.

New comment by lacerrr in "Infinite Craft"

lacerrr — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:36:32 +0000

whale sushi? also fire and sushi don't seem very related to me.

New comment by lacerrr in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

lacerrr — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:51:30 +0000

Nope

New comment by lacerrr in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

lacerrr — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:45:35 +0000

they have to do that anyway, or did you forget all the non-iOS mobile users?

New comment by lacerrr in "Things engineers believe about Web development"

lacerrr — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:18:08 +0000

Because in most web apps you still need to have client-side logic anyways, like form validation and such, so familiarizing yourself with a SPA framework is simpler than learning to implement this in addition to the MPA framework you'll probably end up using anyway.

New comment by lacerrr in "Things engineers believe about Web development"

lacerrr — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:12:55 +0000

Lol, this is written in very game-like language where you often need to prioritize certain aspects (to max something) above others. This is often because you get a limited number of "ability points" when you level up, so "maxing" strength means you prioritize using those points to gain strength.

New comment by lacerrr in "Things engineers believe about Web development"

lacerrr — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 14:07:36 +0000

I tend to dislike this approach for the simple reason that it's an extra "compatibility layer" where you give up control. If you're developing for the web you may every now and then want to do things a specific way or use a specific feature and be unable to do so because the transpiler doesn't support it or is programmed not to.

New comment by lacerrr in "Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating"

lacerrr — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:40:36 +0000

it's just artificial growth, though. You're not generating any more engagement than if they'd just show you the content as a guest. Unless you also started using the app as a result of creating an account.

New comment by lacerrr in "Reflecting on 18 Years at Google"

lacerrr — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 08:21:16 +0000

Starting a business is a lot of work and risk. Having those removed makes the path so much easier to experiment and removes all the friction.

New comment by lacerrr in "Ask vs. Guess Culture"

lacerrr — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 16:37:08 +0000

What is being called "guess" culture here is I think very helpful when assessing people's social awareness and emotional intelligence. Of course, it doesn't work very well in heterogeneous groups of people, but it definitely does very well when people share a culture and have been brought up with common values.

New comment by lacerrr in "TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'"

lacerrr — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 16:08:43 +0000

instanceof only works with JavaScript classes. Not on regular objects that just structurally conform to a type or interface.

New comment by lacerrr in "The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on"

lacerrr — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 20:49:54 +0000

Honestly, though, it's not that bad of an idea. Provides just enough convenience for people to use unique, randomly generated passwords for each login. Much worse for a website to leak the credentials you use for a bunch of other accounts. Using a pw manager and 2fa is imperfect but still the sweet spot in my opinion.

New comment by lacerrr in "Absurd Trolley Problems"

lacerrr — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 22:08:36 +0000

Because of empathy I guess? I can go on living perfectly fine without my savings ("fortune"), without losing any quality of life really. So if I can make the lives of five people's families and loved ones better, why wouldn't I?

New comment by lacerrr in "Ask HN: Why would anyone choose Haskell to develop applications?"

lacerrr — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:44:33 +0000

Can you give an example of what kind of boilerplate you mean? Because I feel like modern Java and Kotlin have improved a lot in this area.

New comment by lacerrr in "Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online"

lacerrr — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:31:55 +0000

It's certainly going to be, and is already, an extinction event for many other species. While it's true that humans probably won't go extinct as easily, billions of lives may be lost to collapsing ecosystems. We can't feed ourselves at large scale without an ecosystem to support us. At this point, that risk is looking much, much worse than the risk carried by nuclear waste in the long term.

New comment by lacerrr in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)"

lacerrr — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:03:46 +0000

Hi, I'm looking for a remote senior software engineer position. I'm based in Germany with 6 years of experience. Does Tulip have full-remote positions? And if you wouldn't mind sharing, in what range can I expect the compensation to lie?

New comment by lacerrr in "Netflix stops charging customers who never watch"

lacerrr — Sat, 23 May 2020 11:25:18 +0000

They will be keeping the account data, so you don't need to start from scratch if you sign up again. It's more of an account freeze/deactivation than a deletion.