Hacker News: mitjak

New comment by mitjak in "If software engineering is in demand, why is it so hard to get a job?"

mitjak — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:27:55 +0000

this needs to be one of the highest rated comments squarely due to how much luck (or gruelling prep) is involved in effectively memorizing answers, i.e. the issue with technical interviews to begin with.

New comment by mitjak in "Publication of Hiroshima in the New Yorker (1997)"

mitjak — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:02:57 +0000

why did you get downvoted? it seems a plausible theory that's at least worth discussing / is a reasonable contribution to this thread.

New comment by mitjak in "Affinity 1.10"

mitjak — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:39:22 +0000

Affinity Photo has already been my go to for performance reasons (how is it so usable and snappy on an old iPad???). exciting to see it get faster yet.

inappropriate feature request: "divide" layer blending mode.

New comment by mitjak in "Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission"

mitjak — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:22:05 +0000

nothing conclusive. we should lock down harder, could be one of the conclusions.

New comment by mitjak in "Building a vision of life without work (2015)"

mitjak — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 15:59:09 +0000

i think "evolution" is not some purely natural process that plays out separately from how we think. e.g. forming societies where we support and elevate each other instead of competing is also a potential evolutionary future. societies where whatever means are necessary _results_ in an evolutionary advantage will "win", not those who necessarily work harder. capitalism-driven competition is just gamification of exploitation and doesn't inherently lead to an evolutionary advantage. it's just one of many ways to get there.

New comment by mitjak in "Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission"

mitjak — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:57:41 +0000

right, i'm not making a new claim. i'm saying, that's one of the few conclusions we can draw from this data. it doesn't say anything about e.g. catching covid at the hospital, whether existing data on health consequences and mortality is less relevant, or that "covid is mild / just a flu" as some people seem to be concluding.

New comment by mitjak in "Over half of Covid hospitalisations tested positive after admission"

mitjak — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:47:45 +0000

this seems to suggest there's a lot more undiagnosed cases walking around in the wild than we know about.

New comment by mitjak in "Building a vision of life without work (2015)"

mitjak — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:12:54 +0000

> sitting in the back seat, with nothing to do but continually recalculating if / how long your nest egg will last

this problem doesn't exist if you correctly math out your existence to guarantee survival. having the ability to choose how to spend your time is the definition of agency.

New comment by mitjak in "Building a vision of life without work (2015)"

mitjak — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 18:09:07 +0000

why should we compete? what does "victory" amount to? i'd gladly give up winning in favour of some form of survival guarantee and freedom to choose work rather than require it for survival.

New comment by mitjak in "No More Movies"

mitjak — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:57:27 +0000

Criterion is available in Canada...

New comment by mitjak in "No More Movies"

mitjak — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 15:55:03 +0000

agreed. shortage of comedies like Hangover and Borat is to me progress on a societal level.

New comment by mitjak in "GitHub Copilot"

mitjak — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 21:31:04 +0000

i'd argue the danger is even greater with tests bc the entire point of tests is to provide certainty. wrong tests are a false sense of safety that's unquantifiable without understanding every single line.

New comment by mitjak in "GitHub Copilot"

mitjak — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 20:13:52 +0000

the main argument against Copilot for me. it takes longer to grok existing code than just write it from ground up.

New comment by mitjak in "John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US"

mitjak — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:06:53 +0000

or did he take drugs bc his life was shit? why did you decide to establish this direction of causality?

New comment by mitjak in "FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web"

mitjak — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 18:49:21 +0000

ignorant q: does Messenger still hold much of market share? over the last few years almost all of my contacts transitioned to WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal. Messenger is just way too bloated.

New comment by mitjak in "The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music"

mitjak — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:55:40 +0000

jesus, seriously. a prolific human.

New comment by mitjak in "Yahoo Answers to shut down May 4, 2021"

mitjak — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 20:25:15 +0000

how is babby formed

New comment by mitjak in "On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)"

mitjak — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:16:43 +0000

im providing a counter-example to the OP's point, and saying that people choosing not to remain farmers is not a sufficient explanation for decline in the number of small farms. the author clearly proposes many other reasons. see other responses to the message.

New comment by mitjak in "On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)"

mitjak — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 18:03:31 +0000

apologies if i'm coming across condescending or am missing your point but i'm having difficulty comprehending how the author staying on the farm would've fixed anything about the trend towards monopolization fuelled by corporate subsidies and other forms of preferential treatment coupled with those larger actors facing limited responsibility for any of the consequences to surrounding communities and environment?

New comment by mitjak in "On the death of my family's dairy farm (2019)"

mitjak — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:46:12 +0000

that conclusion doesn't necessarily follow though. the proposed thesis by the article author is difficulty of having enough cattle to break even. you need to make enough to grow your operation, which is difficult given that you rely on external factors like creameries. the only reason you only have your family's labour to rely on could also be the difficulty of scaling up.