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New comment by mh2266 in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

mh2266 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:17:15 +0000

Why? What situations do you need a doctor to use a synchronous, interrupting, unscheduled communication medium for, where the situation is not serious enough for you to already be in the hospital?

My doctors can communicate asynchronously through the MyChart app/website (the app is fairly terrible, I would rather them just use email, but oh well) where I can read and respond when it makes sense for me. Any test that they are running where the results could be bad is already asynchronous (or I am in the hospital) so delaying a few hours in reading it doesn't seem like a big deal even if it is something bad.

New comment by mh2266 in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

mh2266 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:07:08 +0000

In the US, the local politicians are often the ones doing the spamming at this point. They've even specifically exempted themselves from the do not call laws, it's absurd.

They can also legally bypass "no soliciting" signs at people's homes.

New comment by mh2266 in "50k Boat Names"

mh2266 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:58:15 +0000

Bust Out Another Thousand

New comment by mh2266 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

mh2266 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:51:30 +0000

June 10 2015

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/10/reddit-ba...

> The move frustrated some commenters on the initial post. “Why is /r/fatpeoplehate banned, but /r/coontown get to exist?” asked redditor CrackheadControl. “That’s bullshit.” “Because the admins are fat, not black,” replied The_Wizard_of_Wang.

New comment by mh2266 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

mh2266 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:20:32 +0000

iirc they removed “fat people hate”, a variety of subreddits named after racial slurs (including literally /r/s) and a subreddit for “well it’s not technically porn” of children

new Reddit remains awful both design and implementation wise but the content they cleaned up wasn’t a big loss, and there’s still plenty of “non-desirable” content (so many porn subreddits, to start) on there

New comment by mh2266 in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

mh2266 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:21:33 +0000

> suggesting that the people who run FAANG don't understand the dangers of bad metrics is... interesting.

from my time in FAANG... that seems about correct. Probably the people at the absolute top don't want to just pointlessly burn tokens, but pass that down the chain and eventually the rumor mill turns that into "tokens are an input for your performance review" and people start running Wiggum loops to fix minor typos or linters or something—especially if you do it at a time when every company seems to be doing layoffs.

New comment by mh2266 in "The cost YAGNI was never about"

mh2266 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:18:52 +0000

I fed it into Pangram and it came back as "70% AI generated".

I do feel it's better than some of the pure slop out there, but it still feels pretty sloppy. And I know that this author can write, so if this really was partially done with AI, it's disappointing.

New comment by mh2266 in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

mh2266 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:25:40 +0000

I'd much rather be an "engineer" than a "Googler" (I don't work at Google) or any other corporate cutesy name. No thanks...

New comment by mh2266 in "Rent collections are down in New York"

mh2266 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:16:51 +0000

Does this "first tenant" rule not incentivize people to apply immediately, sight unseen, and then they just eat the credit check fee on the apartments that they end up not choosing? Or maybe they can even bail before the credit check is done, if they can see all of their candidate apartments in that time, or at least do see the one they applied for and decide they don't want it?

New comment by mh2266 in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

mh2266 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:16:35 +0000

I have two extra hours per day to exercise, and… I can do it in the middle of the day when the gym and bike paths are mostly empty.

¯\(ツ)/¯ works for me!

New comment by mh2266 in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

mh2266 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:30:07 +0000

the article is strongly triggering my LLM writing detector, which makes me question if any of it is accurate or genuine

New comment by mh2266 in "A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]"

mh2266 — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:01:29 +0000

not to be excessively flippant or dismissive, but: just stop? if open-source is a hobby rather than a paid job (e.g. you do not work on the React team at Meta or other equivalent), and you are not enjoying it, then why are you doing it? choose a different hobby!

if you feel like the quotations in this article, e.g. this one:

> I don’t feel like working on [it] anymore. It went from being one of the most fun experiences in my life to making me feel terrible everyday.

why are you doing it? stop! go outside, go for a hike, get a bike, train for a marathon, play video games... anything but writing code you're not paid to write that is making you miserable.

New comment by mh2266 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

mh2266 — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:25:39 +0000

you can easily pull up contemporary indie bands with 5000 listeners on spotify, you can also easily pull up non-modern music too. if you want something definitely non-corporate, they have Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

New comment by mh2266 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

mh2266 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:52:28 +0000

yeah I never use their recommendation playlists, other than the automatic ongoing playlist once an album ends. that generally plays one song by the same artist and then some similar artists which are all real people (annoyingly it tends to choose the same most popular songs for an artist it chooses every single time)

I just find music on sites like p4k, opening bands at shows, or the "similar artists" feature on Spotify which always suggests real people for me, they have convincing photos and often upcoming shows listed so probably not an AI bot

New comment by mh2266 in "The end of "Just ask Sarah""

mh2266 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:27:51 +0000

I am Sarah, and it has been incredibly profitable for me: good ratings, promotions up to director-level IC, extra retention RSU grants.

If you have golden handcuffs and multiple promotions out of being Sarah, what is it costing you?

New comment by mh2266 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

mh2266 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:24:59 +0000

how are people getting this AI music on Spotify? where are you finding it? for example the home recommendations for me today are The Beths, Big Thief, Geese, and Sleater-Kinney. and it is all albums I have already have listened to, but fine, whatever, that's just bad recommendations, not AI.

generally I use either the search box, which is always going to return the Geese album and not AI slop if I type "Getting Killed", or the library view on the left side, I don't think I've never seen an AI album on Spotify, where are you getting them?

New comment by mh2266 in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

mh2266 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:29:36 +0000

a bit nitty, but "never get punctures" is just an attribute of the tires, not the bike. if you stick Gatorskins on a Tarmac SL8, you'll also never get punctures. but that's like putting tractor tires on a sports car, and you'll be slower and have a less comfortable ride than you would with GP5Ks.

New comment by mh2266 in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

mh2266 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:19:20 +0000

maybe I'm missing something, but just put a smaller chainring on? or do you need something like MTB cassette amount of range?

given the tiny wheels, a chainring that would be "normal" on a 700c 1x gravel bike should be very easy for climbing on a folding bike.

New comment by mh2266 in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

mh2266 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:16:24 +0000

NYC subway allows bikes 24/7, only MNR and LIRR have time restrictions

New comment by mh2266 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

mh2266 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:18:27 +0000

The money comes from the past few years of the stock going from 180 to 500-700, not from the severance.

E5s making $900k, $E6s making 1.5m… quite common.