Hacker News: lenzm

New comment by lenzm in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

lenzm — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:06:08 +0000

If it doesn't have any effect, why bother protesting?

New comment by lenzm in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

lenzm — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:22:00 +0000

They are like PDFs in that they do not render the same with different software or on different devices.

New comment by lenzm in "Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)"

lenzm — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:46:15 +0000

Yes, that's exactly what I want. Everything shifts with dst - business processes, people's working hours, ach windows, ...

New comment by lenzm in "Goldman Sachs says AI still not showing up in companies' bottom lines"

lenzm — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:05:19 +0000

It has been years, when will it not be too early?

New comment by lenzm in "Formatting code should be unnecessary"

lenzm — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:12:19 +0000

Yes, it gets a trailing comma if it's on it's own line. That way when you add/remove arguments in a multi-line call it's only a one-line diff. This doesn't apply when the diff is only one line anyway.

Who's to say you don't add a new argument to the function in the future, like

    my_print(
        "This string has two parameters, `a` which is equal to {a} and `b` which is equal to {b}",
        a=1,
        b=2,
        color_negative_red=True,
    )

New comment by lenzm in "FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable"

lenzm — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:20:21 +0000

The infrastructure has to be maintained year round, not just the summer months when lake houses are full. I don't think it's reasonable to expect affordable month-to-month pricing.

New comment by lenzm in "Vanishing home field advantage in English football"

lenzm — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:15:09 +0000

A tall wall is nothing, there used to be a stadium with a hill in play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikin_Park#Tal's_Hill

New comment by lenzm in "Uv: Running a script with dependencies"

lenzm — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:05:16 +0000

Shebang lines are semantic comments too

New comment by lenzm in "Why English doesn't use accents"

lenzm — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:45:39 +0000

> the hollywood propaganda machine - and it owes about 90% of it's success to that

Who's being glib now? Most people learn English because it's means making more money - in technology, finance, tourism, ...

New comment by lenzm in "Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration"

lenzm — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:01:33 +0000

> If for some reason your mail server is flagged by Gmail's systems, then it only won't reach Gmail users.

This is a deal breaker for most people and organizations. Not being able to send email to the largest email provider is orders of magnitude more important than upholding some values about decentralization and independence.

New comment by lenzm in "The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”"

lenzm — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:34:07 +0000

> I'm very confused how that has to do with anything?

Presumably people in the country are more easily able to grow vegetables. If they aren't doing it, then it implies that growing vegetables isn't worth the time.

I think there are other confounding factors like income and education.

New comment by lenzm in "Betting on the Pope was the original prediction market"

lenzm — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:50:43 +0000

All sorts of works of fiction have been sources of knowledge for much longer than film has been around. Aesop's fables and parables in the Bible are intentful examples. I don't find this horrifying.

New comment by lenzm in "A Few of the Birds I Love"

lenzm — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:12:52 +0000

> to get back home to Canada

Many now return to the area near Necedah Wildlife Refuge in Juneau County, WI - adjacent to Leopold's Sand (Sauk) County.

New comment by lenzm in "Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)"

lenzm — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:10:06 +0000

If you have to start with apologies then you know, just stop and don't post.

New comment by lenzm in "Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort"

lenzm — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:13:17 +0000

As if the main benefit of being certified malaria free is the certification instead of actually being malaria free?

New comment by lenzm in "Life course patterns of prescription drug use in the United States"

lenzm — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 18:09:55 +0000

Dunno where you are, but it requires a prescription in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/health/otc-birth-control-...

New comment by lenzm in "Lidl Product Recall [pdf]"

lenzm — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:33:58 +0000

Paw Patrol was created by a toy company to sell products. They design the new products with each new season which includes new vehicles/accessories/etc.

New comment by lenzm in "Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the music industry waged war on the cassette"

lenzm — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:49:59 +0000

I don't like the results of the loudness war either but it isn't objectively worse. Lots of people are listening to music on cheap speakers over the sound of road noise while driving or with generic earbuds on a train or any number of situations not conducive to high dynamic ranges. To these people in these situations, the highly compressed music sounds better.

New comment by lenzm in "A glitch in the SEO matrix"

lenzm — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:37:16 +0000

What's the alternative? Manually curated directories lost to search. Anything completely manual isn't going to be "web-scale". Anything algorithmic is ranked and optimizable.

New comment by lenzm in "Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm"

lenzm — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 20:54:37 +0000

Or Elon was the addition, the other 3 are in alpha order.