Hacker News: philtar

New comment by philtar in "Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?"

philtar — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 13:36:22 +0000

I can't imagine why anyone would do this other than to escape their role in society.

New comment by philtar in "List of games that Buddha would not play"

philtar — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 18:14:08 +0000

I don't think the world Self-Important means what you think it means. While I'm not religious, these are thinkers whose works are probably the longest surviving works of thought. This is just being facetious.

New comment by philtar in "The Futurama Theorem"

philtar — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:33:40 +0000

It does in the music world.

New comment by philtar in "The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes"

philtar — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 03:58:53 +0000

Now to explain this to my mother.

New comment by philtar in "Google's payments team is seeing an exodus of executives and employees"

philtar — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 08:36:10 +0000

It's definitely going to get thrown out eventually. 100%. It can't hold a candle to Apple Pay and some exec is gonna convince the higher ups that they need to rebuild it from scratch.

I wouldn't put anything past the company that risked everything on Google+ and then basically abandoned it a few months later when they didn't see the mass exodus they were so delusional in expecting.

New comment by philtar in "Philippine ethnic group has most Denisovan DNA"

philtar — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 06:23:45 +0000

Disappointing that cancel culture has actually stopped you from educating us on a topic I would be interested about. I knew this was bound to affect me personally some day but I didn't know how to tackle it.

New comment by philtar in "Platform teaches nonexperts to use machine learning"

philtar — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 07:46:50 +0000

What's wrong with 3D printing?

New comment by philtar in "Playdate pre-orders begin in July"

philtar — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 04:14:37 +0000

> literally unpolished aesthetic

They are seemingly, or apparently unpolished. Not literally. You can bet that they spent a huge amount of time making sure it looks unpolished but still good.

New comment by philtar in "Grafana 8.0"

philtar — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 04:08:36 +0000

Changelog is for developers. Terms and Conditions is for lawyers.

New comment by philtar in "How to Start a Novel"

philtar — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 10:44:41 +0000

"Ignore this sentence and your child will die."

New comment by philtar in "What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages"

philtar — Thu, 13 May 2021 13:17:49 +0000

If this was a dark pattern then almost all of sales is a dark pattern.

New comment by philtar in "WhatsApp will progressively kill features until users accept new privacy policy"

philtar — Sat, 08 May 2021 11:29:15 +0000

Yes (or an Android VM before anyone tries to get pedantic)

New comment by philtar in "Yamauchi No.10 Family Office"

philtar — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:52:25 +0000

This is easily one of my top 10 favorite HN posts.

Interesting, informative, and polite. (Last one is super important)

New comment by philtar in "Israel may have achieved herd immunity against Covid-19"

philtar — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:05:38 +0000

Yes. Israel's Trump is single handedly responsible for this success.

New comment by philtar in "Writing tools I learned from The Economist"

philtar — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 16:54:02 +0000

So we can't get rid of the senior editors after all?

New comment by philtar in "New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed"

philtar — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:04:31 +0000

Funny enough, you did, and he did not.

New comment by philtar in "Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves"

philtar — Sat, 27 Feb 2021 07:00:58 +0000

OpenAI: Don't use GPT in medical settings.

Internet uses GPT in medical settings and gets bad results

Internet: insert image of shocked pikachu

New comment by philtar in "Hacker increased chemical level at Oldsmar's city water system, sheriff says"

philtar — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 07:49:22 +0000

You must be a pentester, because the commenter above you wasn't talking about pentesting at all.

His comment says that small rural town water treatment plants don't have to run for 24/7. Not sure what you thought he was saying.

New comment by philtar in "Show HN: Epub.to – ePub to pdf, mobi, Kindle, and an API"

philtar — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 03:51:55 +0000

Calibre has a plugin the allows the converter to work with DRM

New comment by philtar in "Pip has dropped support for Python 2"

philtar — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:57:35 +0000

Or, you know, upgrade in the 12 years you had to upgrade since Python announced it was moving Python 3.