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New comment by ohrus in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

ohrus — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:58:06 +0000

I've seen that sentiment shared a couple of times in the past day and little else before. Just something I've noticed...

I find the self loathing is usually well qualified and not at all a performative act. Performative for who exactly?

New comment by ohrus in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

ohrus — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:00:06 +0000

Thinking any one person is a 'thought leader' is, generally, a dumb thing to think.

You grew up.

New comment by ohrus in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

ohrus — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:23:41 +0000

Even if not an explicit gift, isn't all OSS implicitly a gift? I'm having trouble understanding the practical difference.

New comment by ohrus in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

ohrus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:39:05 +0000

Cultivating is a great word choice. It would fit in nicely in a Brave New World.

New comment by ohrus in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

ohrus — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:56:35 +0000

Worryingly revisionist to compare 1980s media advertising budgets to what's going on now (even if they were 'high' for the time).

New comment by ohrus in "Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety"

ohrus — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:06:36 +0000

I skimmed the important parts of the paper. This is akin to finding that cigarettes reduce stress. Any smoker/former smoker will tell you this is true (in the immediate sense).

Does that give any weight to the stance that smoking is good for you and society at large? No.

We are right to panic about social media.

New comment by ohrus in "The web just gets better with Interop 2024"

ohrus — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:32:39 +0000

Consistency of style in the general sense is what designers wish to avoid. Consistency of browser behaviour and default style, on the other hand, is the grail from which creativity can flourish unbounded on the web.

New comment by ohrus in "Canadian cannabis market struggles five years after legalisation"

ohrus — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:19:31 +0000

That's the stench of continuous public cannabis use, which even as a cannabis user, I don't like. Unless you are smoking in your house, the stench does not last.

New comment by ohrus in "Canadian cannabis market struggles five years after legalisation"

ohrus — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:08:52 +0000

It's a new market. Out of the gate companies over-promised and overspent (Tweed stores, as mentioned in the article, were way over the top). The market, from my mere consumer perspective, is just fine.

I am incredibly curious but short for time to investigate further. Is the George Smitherman mentioned in this article the very same one listed in all of these interesting stories? Big financial ties to the industry. My conspiracy radar suggests this piece has a motive.

https://torontolife.com/tag/george-smitherman/

New comment by ohrus in "Zero to Emacs and Org-roam: a step-by-step guide on Windows 10"

ohrus — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 03:34:38 +0000

That makes sense in some cases, but if you have been an emacs user for 15 years (!) then it is hard to imagine all of your text editiing needs being satisfied moreso by vscode on release. It's a great editor - I use it for webdev mostly, but nothing I have ever used will has come close to org... at least for my brain.

New comment by ohrus in "Relearn CSS layout"

ohrus — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:58:03 +0000

Sure, you're right in that sense, thought I do not agree with the comparison to writing assembly.

The phrase "shifting away" from CSS is what I was addressing my initial comment towards, and I don't believe that using a paradigm on top of CSS would constitute a shift away from CSS... you're still using plenty of CSS rules whether you use styled-components, modules, SCSS, etc.

New comment by ohrus in "Relearn CSS layout"

ohrus — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:00:54 +0000

CSS is not a paradigm. Whatever workflow you have for styling your pages and apps, it's all CSS in the end.

New comment by ohrus in "“Write Drunk, Edit Sober” Is Bad Advice"

ohrus — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:26:39 +0000

"Post drunk, delete sober" - said no one ever ever ever.

New comment by ohrus in "“Write Drunk, Edit Sober” Is Bad Advice"

ohrus — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:21:42 +0000

What kind of source of a man's life is a granddaughter?

I am in my mid-thirties with 3 kids. Perhaps someday I'll have a granddaughter. It is unlikely that she will have a full picture of how I conducted my life at any stage. What a strange way to support the debunking of a quote. Also, I think his take is mostly wrong.

Writing and editing are two different worlds. The comparison with drunk/sober works. Write with abandon, let the spirits, daemons, or whatever out onto the page. Then go back, with clear, focused attention and sort that garbage out.

Not to say a glass of the hard stuff won't help the process along.

New comment by ohrus in "Remind HN: Vote"

ohrus — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:00:48 +0000

Sure, I'll admit it was not a well thought out analogy. Regardless, we have the right to complain either way.

Consent or not, we are all governed. There's no opting out of that.

New comment by ohrus in "Remind HN: Vote"

ohrus — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:54:56 +0000

I love George Carlin, I think he's one of the greatest comedians to have ever lived. You can't seriously believe take this as truth though, can you? If you vote you caused the problem? That you cannot argue/complain that who you vote for turns out to be just another politician looking out for number one? By that 'logic' I have no right to complain if I hire someone who turns out to be completely incompetent?

If you are governed by fools or charlatans everyone has the right to speak out, to bitch, whine, complain - voter or not. That's the right we have, and we're fortunate to have it. (Yes, we need better - but apathy changes nothing).

New comment by ohrus in "This white powder will kill me one day"

ohrus — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 01:59:37 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful comment. It really encapsulates my thoughts on the matter but I have been unable to express it so elegantly - even to myself.

Drugs truly are unnecessary. People do themselves a great disservice to believe that through drugs they gain valuable, worthy insight. It's there! You, who took that drug, had that insight inside you. Drugs are not a key to some hidden wealth of wisdom and knowledge.

(I occasionally drink and smoke marijuana, so I am by no means antagonizing against those who do.)

New comment by ohrus in "The First Lecture"

ohrus — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 20:21:54 +0000

Listen to this wise being. Never try to motivate others into learning something you yourself are passionate about without the use of a good spell checker. Even then, you best make sure the words you use are the right ones!