<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: maxerickson</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxerickson</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:35:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=maxerickson" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxerickson in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder what typical AUR usage looks like. I apparently have 27 packages installed and last updated one in November.</p>
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<p>There are electromagnets in the rotor, it is directly energized.</p>
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<p>They are electronically commutated. The stator field is more or less variable AC.</p>
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<p>It's not that plausible, unless the idea is that differing traffic laws is some obscure concept.</p>
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<p>You could write a tale in response, about how you spent seconds, minutes, hours, days, years...a lifetime identifying that the several hundred words at the link were fictional.</p>
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<p>If you take one step further back, you can make the discussion about what deed restrictions are reasonable rather than about breaking the deed restriction.<p>Like for an example with different dynamics, Menard's will say you can't use the building as a hardware store when they sell to build elsewhere. That's a stupid restriction for society to allow.</p>
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<p>The other post is also just an assertion.<p>Can you link to evidence that countering assertions with assertions kills discussions? (This is sarcasm)</p>
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<p>Of course they are themselves. The question is whether they are a different self.</p>
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<p>Do they even exist?</p>
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<p>The result in the study is a few percentage points difference in the disease rating scale after 5 years, with relatively large variation in the underlying individual results.<p>The potential for there to be a mechanism that accelerates progression is a great thing to publish, but the data looks like it is in the "do you want to enjoy coffee for 5 years or go without to maybe avoid speeding it up a little bit" category.</p>
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<p>Did you mean half a century? Meaningful change in 5 years would be pretty amazing.</p>
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<p>Medical assistants and nurses work with you before the doctor to increase billable events for the doctor. You could describe this as saving money, but it's not the goal.<p>Phone and front desk stuff is just administrative burden, scheduling the appointment and making a paper trail.</p>
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<p>In the US, local governments are often far worse than state and federal governments.<p>In general, it's because it's harder for the larger entities to get away with playing favorites (I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I'm saying that it happens a lot more in smaller units).<p>Paying <i>all</i> your taxes to the corrupt local judge (county official) is in fact not a win.</p>
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<p>The displacement will rather obviously be task by task, not job by job.<p>Okay, edits it is. The displacement will rather obviously be incremental and be task by task, not job by job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:47:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340452</link><dc:creator>maxerickson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48340452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxerickson in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If somebody thinks the computer can make a better PowerPoint, what business is it of yours to stop them from using the computer to make a PowerPoint?<p>There's a big political problem to solve, but it's how to give most people decent material standards of living if computers are doing all the work, not how to freeze things in place so that people can keep doing tasks that (assuming success) the computer is better at.</p>
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<p>Say you own a well and sell the clean water.<p>I learn that boiling the stream water makes it safe and tell people about it.<p>What do I owe you?<p>Uber and AI are certainly more complicated than that, but you are pretty close to arguing that the constructed rights of some people inhibit the rights of other people.</p>
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<p>Right, most people don't want to do that, they want the burden of applying styles to the couple headings or whatever.<p>Unfortunately, most people don't use paragraph styles, but if you do, it's a couple clicks.</p>
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<p>Basic familiarity with the paragraph styles in Word is like a 20 minute task.<p>If you are using markdown, you already understand the conceptual basis for it, so you just need to understand how it's implemented over there.<p>I'm not arguing that it is something you should do, just rolling my eyes at "I would be lost".</p>
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<p>For the short, simple documents that most people make, a versioned, wysiwyg word processor is going to beat everything else.<p>I mean, they don't want to think about building the output, never mind controlling the process.</p>
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<p>Your analysis assumes our current politics where money roughly equates with power. That won't hold if people feel controlled.<p>AI of course also has the potential to concentrate power, but people aren't just going to ask the accountants who should be in charge.</p>
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