Hacker News: roddds

New comment by roddds in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

roddds — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:30:50 +0000

So what are we calling "using bad AI to kill innocent people"? An oopsy daisy?

New comment by roddds in "IRS to begin trial of its own free tax-filing system"

roddds — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 04:24:29 +0000

I'm sorry if this is stupid - I'm not American and this is entire conversation about taxes here is nuts, but:

>Is the free-filing system designed to maximize your return?

Why does it need to? I mean, why do you need a tax return, if your taxes would be lower if you just got charged the right amount in the first place? And then isn't the role of society to audit their own taxes, and at the same time support candidates that vow to simplify the tax code?

New comment by roddds in "Universal Paperclips"

roddds — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:43:18 +0000

Not only that (and I can't tell if that's what you meant originally), but Factorio had blueprints _before Dyson Space Program came out_.

New comment by roddds in "ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha"

roddds — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 20:32:30 +0000

Google Wave?

New comment by roddds in "Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists"

roddds — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 05:50:21 +0000

Does AOC own a private jet?

New comment by roddds in "Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun"

roddds — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:43:21 +0000

Yes.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/04/twitter-faces-a-class-acti...

New comment by roddds in "Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B"

roddds — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:27:11 +0000

Or you could use the myriad of free and/or open source software including but not limited to GIMP, ImageMagick, and photopea.com.

New comment by roddds in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

roddds — Wed, 25 May 2022 22:08:45 +0000

Another non-video game would hit you with a C&D:

https://dnd.wizards.com/ddal_general

New comment by roddds in "Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster"

roddds — Mon, 03 May 2021 01:01:40 +0000

I thought the "static" part of "static file hoster" was clear enough.

New comment by roddds in "Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to make scroll bars invisible"

roddds — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 02:37:08 +0000

Technically that's not twitter's fault. The OP link points to the fourth tweet in the thread, so twitter loads the page with that tweet centered.

This is the actual start of the thread: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1369705219110498304

New comment by roddds in "Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing"

roddds — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:04:09 +0000

And it just happened again, in this same thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26260064

New comment by roddds in "Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit"

roddds — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:02:14 +0000

As a user of Blokada myself I'd like to ask, is there any system-wide ad blocker for Android you would recommend?

New comment by roddds in "Launch HN: Artifact (YC S20) – Personal podcasts with the people in your life"

roddds — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 06:02:16 +0000

Chiming in for Brazilian Portuguese

New comment by roddds in "That company whose name used to contain HTML script tags Ltd"

roddds — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 20:23:17 +0000

𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭.

𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁.

𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡.

𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵.

𝑼𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒐𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕.

𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙚𝙭𝙩.

(Don't do this: it's _terrible_ for accessibility, as screen readers can't parse these as regular text)

New comment by roddds in "Show HN: Dendron – A Hierarchical Tool for Thought"

roddds — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:44:06 +0000

How is Dendron different from Foam[1]? At first glance, both projects are very similar.

New comment by roddds in "IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax"

roddds — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:23:57 +0000

It's called hyperbole.

New comment by roddds in "Django 3"

roddds — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:36:31 +0000

In my experience it doesn't sound like you have a lot of experience anywhere near CRUD websites with Django or otherwise.

New comment by roddds in "New pathfinding algorithm"

roddds — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 09:00:44 +0000

Since it's currently[1] the 8th best-rated game on Steam of all time, I'd say really well.

-[1]: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Reviews_DESC

New comment by roddds in "Show HN: Ledonardo, my light painting hardware project"

roddds — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 22:23:39 +0000

Since there's very little light hitting the person at any given point during the taking of the picture, they're usually visible as a very faint blur, or just not at all.

New comment by roddds in "Leaked documents show Brazil’s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest"

roddds — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:04:55 +0000

Are you not conflating being anti Bolsonaro with being pro PT? Because that's what your link says.