<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: no_butterscotch</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=no_butterscotch</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:32:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=no_butterscotch" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by no_butterscotch in "$700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techies Are Renting Them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This doesn't seem like a safe setup.<p>How long before tweakers and others start lighting fires in their pods?</p>
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<p>Honest Q:<p>What kind of therapy do you look for for things like this? As someone deeply inverted, prone to "creatively interpreting" things in a negative light, who dwells on imagined sleights, etc. I've thought maybe I need some professional help. But I'm kind of afraid of talking to people about my issues in general so I don't know what kind of therapist would work for me.</p>
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<p>> I'm terrified of seeking help for mental illness because certain diagnosis can have legal impacts. It is a sad truth, no one has a real response for it except "get over it", and it is very, very difficult to get support for political reforms to protect the mentally ill.<p>What are some of the impacts?<p>I remember the show "Homeland" the main character had a sister who was a doc who would prescribe her meds for bipolar, that way she could continue working for the government/Pentagon as a spy.</p>
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<p>Do you think GraphQL has contributed to more microservice driven development?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 05:59:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37477344</link><dc:creator>no_butterscotch</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37477344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37477344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by no_butterscotch in "Germany Will Force 80% of Gas Stations to Install EV Charging, Too"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The idea of adding hours to such a trip, or turning it into an overnight trip, makes it a non-starter for me.
> If people are using EVs on freeways, wouldn't they be more inclined to exit the freeway into a city and charge at a motel or a shopping centre while they stop overnight or at least a few hours?<p>Yes you're right on the money.<p>I bought an EV to drive around my home area in CA. Instead I've just used it for road-tripping back East to see family.<p>Each road-trip has convinced me how bad these cars are for long-range driving. Aside from "range anxiety" (going only from one supercharger location to another, and not venturing away) - the charging times are brutal for cross-country trips.<p>You will spend hours per day, hours, sitting in back of Holiday Inn Expresses in the middle of nowhere Kansas, or in back of a shady truck stop in the middle of Texas.<p>Safety as well: I've thought about if I were a female for example at some of these locations it wouldn't be safe to be alone, with nobody around, sitting in your car. You're unable to start it and drive away if it's plugged in, not without getting out to unplug it which you have to do manually (there's no emergency eject charger cable button). So if there is a Texas Chainsaw Killer outside your window you're screwed.<p>Having said all that. It is a perfect car for just driving around my neighborhood IF that's what I intended to. In practice, I never do it.</p>
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<p>This exists in many Java based languages, an annotation above a method: @VisibleForTesting or some such.</p>
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<p>I feel like you read more into this and maybe added in your own biases.<p>I don't think these archaeologists are interested in worshipping society's elites. Maybe hundreds of years ago when you had to be an elite to be an archaeologist.</p>
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<p>I use Brave.<p>All the same Chrome extensions and other functionality work.<p>But I'd wager someone on here could find a problem with them too :(</p>
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<p>> What is "reasonable," what is "fair." These words signify a death spiral in wage discussions.<p>Another commenter commented on a burger-joint giving a share to "climate" causes. What a share entails in this case, whether it comes from profit, or whether they pass the cost of this cause to the customer is unknown.<p>Additionally I live in a place where there are reparations discussions and where unions agreed that teachers of a certain ethnicity would be eliminated first in the name of equity if it came down to staff cuts.<p>How does this play into the scenario if these types of events happen more often, even discussing these things is difficult and people could veer away from. I heard that Amazon inserted "woke" discussions into union talks in Georgia in an effort to de-rail them, not to engender unity.</p>
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<p>I have no idea why you're downvoted, this is the truth<p>> If the middle-class people move out, this is "white flight" and is evil. Later on, if other middle-class people move in, this is "gentrification" and is also evil.<p>Yes this is in every city and state.</p>
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<p>I subscribe to the YouTube channel and this is exactly how I feel. I can't understand how upset people are getting at this guy lol.</p>
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<p>I have an Oculus/Meta Quest, I don't use it much though but I used the app mentioned "Supernatural", which right off the bat sounds better than the app the journalist used (protecting a crystal).<p>Supernatural at least has a few different types of workouts, locations, instructors, etc.<p>But even that aside, having a Quest headset means so many other fitness games like Thrill of the Fight.<p>This just doesn't seem like the right application of VR. Having to go in physically is almost a spit-take for a VR gym. I wish them the best though.</p>
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<p>Neat! Can you make the examples open in the editor?</p>
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<p>> when the simplest answer is that he's mentally ill and can't stop himself from engaging in compulsive behaviors<p>This is the new favorite reason to let people off the hook. Classifying themselves as ill to distance their own behavior. "It was Jekyll not Hyde".</p>
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<p>So much he said she said is the UK better than us with healthcare or not?!</p>
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<p>"[I] am from the rationalist community"<p>The most rational thing we can all do is lower our standards.</p>
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<p>I agree with you.<p>I've been in web dev for the past 10 years and none of the companies I've worked at in San Fran use this tech.<p>I'm familiar with the space: Gatsby, GraphQL, etc. I took a Jamstack course on frontendmasters, but I chose to skip using it for personal projects.</p>
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<p>Any major issues?<p>I'm considering RN right now. Wondering whether to start from scratch or not. People refer to issues "ejecting" from Expo but those issues are vague and go back years.<p>Any concerns or experiences on your end that make it a good or bad option?</p>
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<p>Yes, journalists used to speak truth to power.<p>Now they work on behalf of the power.<p>And they don't just work on behalf of power, they are power themselves, and it isn't the people's power despite their claim to being "the voice of the people".</p>
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<p>Yes this. Additionally (1) has no "higher caste" mentality. Whereas (2) often believe themselves to be the anointed truth-sayers of a secular world. Generally speaking they don't live up to that promise.</p>
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