Hacker News: quickthrower2

New comment by quickthrower2 in "The Best Essay"

quickthrower2 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 22:32:05 +0000

Good essay! Shame he doesn’t talk about taboo. Taboo subjects could make for great essays but it takes a lot of guts to write about them. Anything from collapse of your life, work, prison or death threats may ensue. Breaking taboos move society forward though. Keep an eye on “exceptions to free speech”.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "My Clients, the Liars"

quickthrower2 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:24:35 +0000

You must mean clear cut cases too then. Not self defence etc.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "U.S. is said to open criminal inquiry into Boeing"

quickthrower2 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:24:53 +0000

A blameless culture needs to take into account bad actors. You might add more processes for part sovereignty for example. This is what you rely on for safety.

In addition yeah also prosecute criminals. But that doesn’t stop crime. See “war on drugs” for example.

New comment by quickthrower2 in ""I Miss My Liver." Nonmedical Sources in the History of Hepatocentrism (2018)"

quickthrower2 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:15:10 +0000

Yeah the Brit drinking culture is quite insane. Aussie has a bit of that but it is much less.

I used to drink a lot more, but now I find it hard to stand. No buzz just the stupification.

And of course drink is very toxic and will set back all your other goals from good sex, to muscles, weight loss and cognitive function.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "My Clients, the Liars"

quickthrower2 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:46:22 +0000

Effective defence would allow the guilty to go free. (although “guilty” is a jury verdict so that is impossible but I presume you mean would be found guilty had more evidence prevailed). You can’t have an advocate that draws arbitrary lines at which they are not on your side advocating for you, what would those be?

Say someone says to their lawyer they shot the person but really they are covering for their wife even to mthe lawyer. The lawyer then hears them say in court they didn’t shoot (the truth) but the lawyer just knows they are saying something different now to what they said before. It could be that.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "My Clients, the Liars"

quickthrower2 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 11:32:45 +0000

Not indignity but inconvenience. It would be like a boss lying to a software engineer about the requirements as they are scared it will cost too much then the wrong thing is built.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "S3 is files, but not a filesystem"

quickthrower2 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 10:53:40 +0000

Yeah hacker used to not mean someone hacking into a computer and breaking a password, then it did then now it means both that and a tech tinkerer.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "What Monks Know about Focus"

quickthrower2 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:28:36 +0000

Exercise too.

The question is how long. Doing intense stuff needs breaks.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

quickthrower2 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 21:10:37 +0000

I did the same switch. Then went to the Chrome extension YARC https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/yet-another-rest-c... which I like for the simplicity. It does remember past queries.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "Ask HN: What new laptop would you get?"

quickthrower2 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 11:14:16 +0000

Good answer. A refurb Dell desktop tower or smaller form will get ya 10-20 years service vs. the 5 tops of the laptop (excluding battery and screen for generous comparison because they may fail sooner). Also laptops just seem to do sucky stuff like keyboard randomly stops working. Laptops suck.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "Why Rust is good for working with Strings"

quickthrower2 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 11:09:55 +0000

The top answer is a very nice explanation. I don’t know Rust but I understand it.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab"

quickthrower2 — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:33:09 +0000

Those are a thing but probably not as bad. You may gain seniority. The second is unavoidable. The last can be dealt with and there are levels of ethics around that.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "Self-control signals and affords power"

quickthrower2 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:27:01 +0000

The folly is the same as the rock star amplifier that “goes to 11” or how gig economy reviews are 5 star = acceptable or better, anything else means dreadful.’It is just a linear transform people have to do in their heads.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "Ask HN: How did you stop your friends talking about Bitcoin?"

quickthrower2 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:02:50 +0000

Buy ear plugs and wait 6 months

New comment by quickthrower2 in "How do computers calculate sine?"

quickthrower2 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:13:35 +0000

So you can use sin(x) for various x to tell what you are running on. Maybe even in the browser?

New comment by quickthrower2 in "Leadership is a hell of a drug"

quickthrower2 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:10:33 +0000

I would take it at a FAANG that actually compensates you for it but out here in the sticks of the rest of the world it just ain’t worth the stress and red tape crunches (like being forced to do scrum or forced to do unrealistic planning in a week for 13 weeks work)

New comment by quickthrower2 in "The Dumber Side of Smart People"

quickthrower2 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:22:16 +0000

Quite the strawman! If you can’t say “that is too complex”, “I don’t know” or give nuanced answers then… you probably aren’t smart. That said I am moving the goalposts.

I would like to see evidence that people getting hard degrees are like this. Plenty of un book smart people think they know it all too, see Reddit comments for plenty of examples.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "The end of Airplane.dev"

quickthrower2 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:32:16 +0000

That is true it gives you time to migrate.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "NTSB says Boeing is withholding key details about door plug on Alaska 737 MAX 9"

quickthrower2 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:51:32 +0000

Surely being able to gather information is a key point in identifying process problems. NTSB wont blame them but they might want to speak to them.

New comment by quickthrower2 in "Ask HN: What would make you say "I want to hire this devloper?""

quickthrower2 — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:13:22 +0000

A really good blog post might do it. The bar is quite high there as of course lots of people are blogging to establish themselves as the expert in X. So nothing that gives me positioning vibes. Those curiousity driven posts are better.

But also any developer who has clearly done X and we need X at work right now.