Hacker News: lotsofcows

New comment by lotsofcows in "Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?"

lotsofcows — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:50:42 +0000

The settlers were greeted by English speaking native Americans who had been working the shipping trade.

New comment by lotsofcows in "Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)"

lotsofcows — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 09:36:26 +0000

"makes it easier to socialize ... even though alcohol is bad in many ways"

Isn't this justification you bring your activities into harmony with conscience?

New comment by lotsofcows in "Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?"

lotsofcows — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:38:40 +0000

Don't give up on the GCHQ idea. As a large public (in the business sense) organisation they will be hot on "reasonable adjustment" and possibly interested in the diversity of thought/opinions resulting from your horrible attack.

New comment by lotsofcows in "The Overlords Finally Showed Up"

lotsofcows — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:29:00 +0000

Love the western bias here.

The Dark Ages was a time when the christian west consciously stopped learning. Fortunately the muslim world carried the banner for intellect for a century or two.

Will the new dark age posited be western only? Or wealthy middle-class only? And will some other group develop as we stagnate on a feed of AI generated listicles?

New comment by lotsofcows in "I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal"

lotsofcows — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:34:31 +0000

2FA, NHS, gov.uk reminders, a large %age of my social group...

WhatsApp is a closed protocol owned by Facebook. It has its uses but relying on it is a mistake.

New comment by lotsofcows in "I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)"

lotsofcows — Mon, 09 May 2022 15:04:58 +0000

Gosh, never look at C. You'd break ribs.

New comment by lotsofcows in "Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?"

lotsofcows — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 10:22:34 +0000

...then you didn't read it. Try again, it's a brilliant reflection of human nature and really digs into the dystopia / utopia thing.

New comment by lotsofcows in "My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)"

lotsofcows — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:35:04 +0000

An app? You just need DropBox and a text editor. Both are pretty ubiquitous.

I used to find myself moving between random terminals so used curl webdav instead of DropBox.

New comment by lotsofcows in "Lumber crash leads to 'blowout' sales as prices crater"

lotsofcows — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 09:54:05 +0000

That's for England. London is more like >GBP500k.

https://lginform.local.gov.uk/reports/lgastandard?mod-metric...

New comment by lotsofcows in "IMF working paper suggests using browsing history in credit score calculations"

lotsofcows — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:38:11 +0000

"Tommy Robinson is not allowed to open a bank account"? What? After multiple frauds and also declaring himself bankrupt he might have difficulty finding a bank willing to take him as a customer but I'm unaware of anyway of anyone banning him from opening one.

New comment by lotsofcows in "112 Gripes About the French"

lotsofcows — Sat, 17 Jul 2021 12:19:20 +0000

Other way around. This text seems very similiar to: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instructions-British-Servicemen-Fra... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Instructions-American-Servicemen-Br...

New comment by lotsofcows in "JavaScript Is Weird"

lotsofcows — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 12:33:38 +0000

I keep having this argument with my boss but he refuses to let me write machine code.

New comment by lotsofcows in "Munin Website Redesigned"

lotsofcows — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:43:51 +0000

It's lightweight, it's flexible, it's hackable and it's very orchestrate-able. I've had dashboards showing summary stats for IoT devices, the VMs they're talking to and the hypervisors the VMs are running on with very little effort.

New comment by lotsofcows in "Pro1 X: A Linux smartphone with slideout keyboard"

lotsofcows — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:13:49 +0000

IMO the Nokia E7 was the perfect phone in all dimensions. Modern phones are impractically large. Man, I'd love to see some innovation in phone design. How did we go so far backwards?

New comment by lotsofcows in "I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)"

lotsofcows — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:55:02 +0000

Dan Simmons Shrike books have the same epic scale of Ian M Banks' scifi with the slightly more prosodic style of Ian Banks' standard fiction.

New comment by lotsofcows in "What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy of happiness"

lotsofcows — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:03:26 +0000

Seem's a little disrespectful of others' belief systems. How can you possibly know that the God's sacrifices were a "mistake"?

New comment by lotsofcows in "Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app"

lotsofcows — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:25:04 +0000

No, of course not; my upbringing, the people surrounding me, the cards life dealt me have no impact on me in way whatsoever.

Poster should call him out. Say you find it unpleasant. If the online echo chamber extends into real life as well he's got no hope.

New comment by lotsofcows in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

lotsofcows — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 19:52:17 +0000

"stupid sysadmin reasons" Yeah, who needs stability and consistency? It far more important to be able to jump upon the latest whizz, bang, wheeeeee!

New comment by lotsofcows in "Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career"

lotsofcows — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 08:24:50 +0000

Everyone on here is a 1%er.

New comment by lotsofcows in "The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple"

lotsofcows — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 11:08:25 +0000

Ha. This looks more like good old capitalism rather than any state sponsored spying.

"Nobody's making you buy from China"