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New comment by legacynl in "I Learned to Read Again"

legacynl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:23:21 +0000

That reading gives the capacity to gain a better understanding, doesn't mean that all readers use it that way. The act of reading itself doesn't make the people more willing to be more understanding. Someone who cannot read could have the same desire for understanding and might choose to engage that desire by talking to people in person. The fact that the latter doesn't read, doesn't make him less morally superior.

The only correlation that reading and intelligence have is that intelligent people find it easier to read, and therefore enjoy reading more, and therefore read more. It's not the other way around.

New comment by legacynl in "I Learned to Read Again"

legacynl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:19:25 +0000

I hate these discussions on HN. Unless we first agree on what 'good' and 'bad' are, this question is basically nonsense. In any case, what you choose to do on your own in your free time has basically no moral or ethical impact whatsoever.

New comment by legacynl in "I Learned to Read Again"

legacynl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:14:46 +0000

I think you can compare it to watching a movie. You won't recall at the end what color jacket the character was wearing, or what the name of the victim was, but you still get the movie. Even though the jacket-color might be significant in someway (like being the same color like the monster the character would become or something). It's normal and expected that a single viewing/reading will not give you all the insights.

Just like a movie, if I really like it, I could decide to read it again, and discover things I didn't get the first time around. But there is no requirement to spot every detail the first time.

New comment by legacynl in "I Learned to Read Again"

legacynl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:55:03 +0000

I think constantly checking if you can recall the last paragraph is a bad habit. It not only requires mental effort, it also breaks your flow.

I have ADHD myself, and I advise you to always keep reading. Don't stop and think about what things meant, don't recall the important events at the end of a paragraph or chapter, none of that. Just keep reading.

If you really feel like you didn't 'get it', go back 3 chapters. But reread it without stopping.

New comment by legacynl in "I Learned to Read Again"

legacynl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:31:35 +0000

I feel for this author. Not because of his attention span, but rather that his whole life has been lived trying to conform to someone else's ideals. Can't read in middle or high school because of what peers would think. Couldn't read in college for what his dad said that he should be doing. Can't read in your professional life because it's 'childish'. Now he feels 'obligated' to read because it's part of Bourdieauian ideals?

I think the author should take a long hard look at himself, and decide for himself what his ideals are that he wants to live by. Reading even though you don't like it isn't evidence of sophisitication, it is evidence of stupidity.

New comment by legacynl in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

legacynl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:36:33 +0000

But isn't that user error? If you want to run a program that can read your current directory's contents and possibly upload that to the cloud, would you run that in a directory with your private keys?

New comment by legacynl in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

legacynl — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:25:18 +0000

Is it really?

Statistically I would assume that if you select a bunch of people on a certain criterium, you're going to see similarities related to that criterium among that group.

New comment by legacynl in "Free the Icons"

legacynl — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:42:11 +0000

I don't know if it's a real screenshot at the bottom of OP (the blue on black icons), but that' hilarious if it is.

New comment by legacynl in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

legacynl — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:26:22 +0000

I'm a little bit less cynical about it; most police still live with the assumption that all of our allies are trustworthy. If the US says there is a credible threat, they rather exercise caution, and remove the threat.

It's just that the US cannot be trusted anymore, and this will probably be the moment that Belgian police will stop taking US intel as fact.

New comment by legacynl in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

legacynl — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:28:29 +0000

> It's common-sense, not an OPINION to deport illegal immigrants

It's not though. More immigrants mean more people buying products, paying taxes on them, supporting local business, more people contributing to the economy in general. Another important factor is that most european populations are aging, meaning that the ratio of working people versus older people who stopped working, is reaching unsustainable levels. Without migrants, our economies will be seriously hampered.

New comment by legacynl in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

legacynl — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:16:42 +0000

Hopefully you understand that there's an obvious selection bias you encounter when talking to folks from NL or DE in California. Ofc the people that moved will think there's a good reason for them moving. But people who live here have good reasons for staying here.

New comment by legacynl in "Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)"

legacynl — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:30:21 +0000

You're false. Research has shown that if people like sound A, they will like it even better when you play sound A louder.

The change in mixing and mastering can be largely explained by people changing the way they consume it. Eg. people watch more movies on netflix than in a cinema. People used to sit in a room with a record player, now they listen in their car or headphones while doing other stuff.

New comment by legacynl in "Surprise, pay $1000"

legacynl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:57:09 +0000

Perhaps I'm playing advocate of the devil here:

But does the fact that you have preconceived expectations about 'try for free' necessarily mean that a business offering 'try for free' has to meet all those expectations?

Technically 'try for free' can mean anything, and I'm pretty sure that they have declared it somewhere (perhaps in the terms & conditions that people just agree to). Isn't it up to the business to do their due dilligence about the services they get from vendors?

Personally I think they've exploited the expectations everybody have about 'try for free', and they're morally wrong for that. But I'm pretty sure that morals never come into play when it comes to (US) business, so I wonder if we can really fault a company for doing whatever is legally allowed?

New comment by legacynl in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

legacynl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:07:17 +0000

Did you ever click 'report broken website' button? It's there specifically for those cases.

New comment by legacynl in "Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video]"

legacynl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:30:55 +0000

ah yes the browser that uses your pc to mine crypto is the answer.

New comment by legacynl in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

legacynl — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:26:17 +0000

True. The body is perfectly capable of telling you when it needs water, it's called being thirsty. If you're thirsty, drink, otherwise don't.

New comment by legacynl in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

legacynl — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:45:58 +0000

> those sanctions failed to target Stark’s remaining connection to the Internet — an Internet service provider based in the Netherlands called MIRhosting.

The fuck, i walk past the office of mirhosting every day

New comment by legacynl in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

legacynl — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:19:52 +0000

"hey, i have this add on that changes how websites are displayed, and I just wanted to let you know that my changes to your website break the site! Thanks"

New comment by legacynl in "Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence"

legacynl — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:15:44 +0000

It basically functions the same way as gambling machines. There's a hook that gets people to play, and then the game itself uses psychological techniques to keep people playing, like increasing the time between payouts (or level ups).

New comment by legacynl in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

legacynl — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:23:22 +0000

ah my bad. You're right, the author specifically states 'OPEN CTFs'. I think that keyword slipped my mind by the time I was at the end of the article.

So my question then becomes, what will realistically be lost if CTFs move to a form that requires teams and individuals to sign up?