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New comment by quiet35 in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

quiet35 — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:52:00 +0000

I see at least 2 issues with the physical punishment:

- it will only make the bullies taking their revenge on vulnerable ones with even more cruelty. And they will plan it carefully to be hard/impossible to prove. It will lead to the escalation, not to the resolution

- the power will be abused, it's inevitable. I would be so scared to be in a class where "teacher" has the power to harm me physically! (to clarify: I am very much out of the school age, but just thinking about this perspective is making me feel uneasy)

So what is the possible solution then? Protect those who are vulnerable. And work with bullies to resolve/ease their life issues. I suspect most of them do what they do because of tough situation in family. In severe cases, I can think of suspension or exclusion from school or another kind of isolation. Probably way better than showing ALL kids that violence is a fine casual way to solve issues.

Applying violence to kids is not the way to make them stop applying violence to others.

New comment by quiet35 in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

quiet35 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:45:55 +0000

I like the idea and even considered contributing to the list, but this stopped me:

> NAQ (Never Asked Questions)

> My website is on your list!

> Cry about it.

That's quite a suspicious attitude. Clearly the maintainer believes he is infallible. I understand the emotions behind this, but this is not how a public blacklist should be maintained.

New comment by quiet35 in "65 Lines of Markdown, a Claude Code Sensation"

quiet35 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:56:33 +0000

Funny. The author is not sure if his (and original) extension improves Claude output, but since the original project has 4k+ start on Github, "surely, 4,000 developers can’t be wrong". So, "Please try for yourself! Install the extension, don’t forget to star my repository and see the results". No matter if it's good, just star my repo.

New comment by quiet35 in "The HTML Element"

quiet35 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:22:12 +0000

The main intent behind this seems to be constantly reminding users that enabling geolocation is an option, and that it is an ordinary thing to do. Dear user, why don't you still use it, everyone does it. Just click the button!

New comment by quiet35 in "Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New"

quiet35 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:51:56 +0000

First, let me clarify that by no means I am defending Maestro Technology here, scammers should receive much more than just some bad publicity. But the quote from the article looks a little overdramatizing: "This is particularly disturbing because the intended duty cycle of these parts is intensive and we'd probably burn through the remaining writes on these SSDs in _less than two years._"

Let's calculate: DWPD for the D3-S4510 is 2, giving TBW = 2.84*2(DWPD)*365(days)*5(years) = 10366 TB, or around 10^10 MiB (9885787963 exactly). SMART attribute NAND writes tells 3068104*32 MiB written, which is around 10^8 MiB (98179328 exactly). So, there is 99% of the drive's resource still left, if we are talking about flash wear.

The second drive's NAND writes attribute is 356474, which is 11% of that of the first drive. And it's D3-S4610, which DWPD is 3, so the writes barely scratched the surface.

Again, I am not liking scammers who sell used drives a single bit, the overall situation is getting worse, it's way harder now to buy new genuine disk drives (and electronics in general). But let's just be honest, this particular case is not bad, rsync.net got lucky.

New comment by quiet35 in "Show HN: Self-Funded Game with Homemade Engine – Play Online, Steam Coming"

quiet35 — Sat, 17 May 2025 14:03:56 +0000

It's a very, _very_ loud music, and thus should not have started immediately, that's my point.

New comment by quiet35 in "Show HN: Self-Funded Game with Homemade Engine – Play Online, Steam Coming"

quiet35 — Sat, 17 May 2025 01:11:54 +0000

I opened your link in a background tab, and switched to it after some time, I even forgot what the tab contains. The music started playing IMMEDIATELY with MAX VOLUME. It's 5 AM here. Nice joke. Negative interest in the game followed.

New comment by quiet35 in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

quiet35 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:58:57 +0000

A couple of years ago I've made a Python program for generating all possible solutions of this Crosswordle game: https://crosswordle.vercel.app The app shows the overall number of solutions and some stats, like how many solutions contain certain word at certain position. It was not completely useless: it was a big motivation factor for learning Python, because me and my friends were obsessed by the game. It took around a year and 3 algorithm redesigns till the program could find all solutions of a 6-word Crosswordle in a somewhat reasonable time - 2-3 hours.