Hacker News: mousepilot

New comment by mousepilot in "Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)"

mousepilot — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:36:24 +0000

ok well if its the entire point of sharepoint I can conclude that tags suck and go read something else because, well, sharepoint.

New comment by mousepilot in "The Bongcloud Attack"

mousepilot — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:09:25 +0000

hah someone did this to me, developed their rooks while I took over the center and dismissed the guy, I got destroyed. obviously I still live in blunderville but man I learned a lesson that game.

New comment by mousepilot in "For whom do the Covid “fact checkers” work?"

mousepilot — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 00:03:59 +0000

Unfortunately at this stage of the pandemic, most peoples minds are made up about everything. There's enough refusenics that the virus will find a reservoir to do its mutating thing, so I think no matter what sensible people say its just a moot point.

New comment by mousepilot in "Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro"

mousepilot — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 22:03:51 +0000

can some mod do something about this user "dang"? he seems to crapflood every discussion I try to read with these stupid judgemental comments and never contributes to the discussions, doesn't hacker news employ moderators of any sort? I know I'm a new user and don't have enough "karma" or whatever to downvote but this guy is one of the most irritating and useless commenters I've ever seen, and that comes from someone who has used reddit and slashdot for quite a bit.

New comment by mousepilot in "A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life"

mousepilot — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:03:16 +0000

haha yeah, I'm not going to "reach out" to a serial killer unless I have 50 layers of anonymous proxies to "reach out" through.

New comment by mousepilot in "Ask HN: Why are you not outraged at the capital gains tax proposal?"

mousepilot — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:09:16 +0000

I don't disagree. I will add that the "system level" is itself legislated by elected officials. Its an interesting thing, like a series of games where the winner gets to redefine rules for the next match in the series. At some point the game can become rigged.

New comment by mousepilot in "Ask HN: Why are you not outraged at the capital gains tax proposal?"

mousepilot — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:51:15 +0000

In the USA we're just predisposed to elect bad people, a significant segment of the voting public think electing a game show host is a good move, this sort of voting population will have effects at all levels.

New comment by mousepilot in "Ask HN: Why are you not outraged at the capital gains tax proposal?"

mousepilot — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:21:23 +0000

I think there can absolutely be incompetent governments, like say an idiot country that puts a game show host in office.

New comment by mousepilot in "Chilling Effects"

mousepilot — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 22:06:55 +0000

I think its ok, I'd start with hypotheses and when I can, I would test them, and in the absense of a spare planet and mammalian species as your test tube, the only thing I can think of as a proxy for the proverbial test tube would be what statistics we can find.

I thought it was well worth the read and he left no uncertainty about the uncertainty of his test results.

New comment by mousepilot in "Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon"

mousepilot — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:24:19 +0000

I don't doubt Vice is covering this accurately.

I feel sorry for trump and I hope he at least has some fun with this project, I mean its not every day that you get the chance for a term or two in the highest office of the USA and then to be ridiculed for the dumpster fires that resulted has to grate on the guy. Think of it, he's not getting any younger and it has to be pretty clear even to him that he's generally considered to be a failure, especially given his embarrassing behavior post election.

I hope enough folks join up that it becomes a positive experience for him, with his last attempt it was obvious even to him nobody was interested.

Really, the story of trump is just all around sad and I'm not so mean I can't feel sorry for the guy.

New comment by mousepilot in "Web3 architecture and how it compares to traditional web apps"

mousepilot — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:13:30 +0000

there are plenty of resources available to read up on smart contracts that can be had, you don't have to help anybody really.

New comment by mousepilot in "Less risk to unvaccinated child of serious Covid than vaccinated 70 yr old"

mousepilot — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:40:11 +0000

I've had plenty of flu shots and never got a VAERS handout but I got a handout for the covid shot, I'm betting VAERS saw lots of use with the covid shot that wasn't common with other vaccines, so that has to influence the numbers.

From a gov't website:

"A report to VAERS generally does not prove that the identified vaccine(s) caused the adverse event described. It only confirms that the reported event occurred sometime after vaccine was given."

I guess if you see more coverups than the average person does then you'll probably form different opinions than the average person.

Also, the "freedom marches" include many Q types I'm sure, and if folks think the Q types are reasonable people, well you know...

New comment by mousepilot in "Ask HN: Practically accepting cryptocurrency for businesses without middlemen?"

mousepilot — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 22:18:40 +0000

Glad it was still dark enough to read, I had no idea some lumps of bitcoin are worth less because of a wallet they touched. Thats an incredible flaw, and really a big downside of bitcoin.

New comment by mousepilot in "And this AMA is officially closed. (Aurora self-driving)"

mousepilot — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 17:12:42 +0000

I lol'ed

This was obviously not the sort of AMA the company was hoping for.

New comment by mousepilot in "How to Make Writing a Lot Easier"

mousepilot — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:24:12 +0000

thank you, stuck with a large doc project and was hoping to read this!

New comment by mousepilot in "Understanding Awk"

mousepilot — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:27:03 +0000

chiming in, I had a feeling that the article and the comments here would contain some jewels and both have exceeded expectations.

New comment by mousepilot in "A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow"

mousepilot — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:44:36 +0000

I love stackoverflow, use it all the time often from generic goggle searches, and I don't even have an account, its just that useful of a site. I suspect I would probably not answer very many questions due to others simply having better answers than me.

New comment by mousepilot in "Facebook Sunglasses – No Thanks"

mousepilot — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 12:26:09 +0000

so there's an LED that lights when its recording, I wonder how soon folks are going to tape over it or something so they can just go trolling for meme worthy footage without their subjects knowing. I wonder if there is some legal problems with disabling the LED?

New comment by mousepilot in "SystemE – A lightweight systemd replacement written in Emacs Lisp"

mousepilot — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:55:06 +0000

Has anybody written an emacs clone in emacs yet?

New comment by mousepilot in "Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors"

mousepilot — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:44:24 +0000

I remember building one program that was pretty big and was surprised that no warnings were issued, I seem to think it was postgresql but I'm not sure. I'll have to try another build sometime.

In my rinkydink c programs I try to understand the warnings and fix them, I do recall that they used to build clean but new gcc versions would note new issues that had not been flagged before.