Hacker News: schlipity

New comment by schlipity in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

schlipity — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:47:03 +0000

You should take it and then switch seats with your wife. Happy wife, happy life.

New comment by schlipity in "Dispelling misconceptions about RLHF"

schlipity — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 13:52:03 +0000

The site is designed poorly and is stopping me from reading the article. I use NoScript, and it immediately redirects me to a "Hey you don't have javascript enabled, please enable it to read" page that is on a different domain from the website the article is on. I tried to visit notion.site to try and whitelist it temporarily, but it redirects back to notion.so and notion.com.

Rather than jump through more hoops, I'm just going to give up on reading this one.

New comment by schlipity in "Updates to Windows for the Digital Markets Act"

schlipity — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:51:51 +0000

I have a great deal of respect for the legislation that the EU have passed/enforce. They are ensuring that they get the best version of Windows and are forcing Apple products to interoperate better.

As an American, my next OS will not be Windows.

New comment by schlipity in "Examining problematic speech and behavior in World of Warcraft (2022)"

schlipity — Thu, 08 May 2025 01:30:43 +0000

> Raid leaders are symptomatic of broken game design.

In just about every sport, the teams have coaches. So no, having leaders do not indicate broken game design.

New comment by schlipity in "Waymo achieves 92% reduction in bodily injury claims compared to human drivers"

schlipity — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:10:59 +0000

Since you are completely removing at least 1 human from potential bodily injury claims, wouldn't you need a greater than 100% reduction in bodily injury claims in order for this to be better?

I mean when you are literally removing 1 person from possible injury, you literally can't have the same number of bodily injury claims. It can only be less.

New comment by schlipity in "12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux"

schlipity — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:05:18 +0000

For gamers, Apple isn't an option.

New comment by schlipity in "Student finds scorpion crawling inside Shein parcel"

schlipity — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 20:17:29 +0000

I don't think its sting was removed. The line was:

  Fortunately there was no sting in the tail of this tale, and Ms Alonso-Mossinger said it now felt "like it is a funny story... but it was pretty scary at the time".

They sacrificed clarity for word play, but to me this means that no one in the story was stung.

New comment by schlipity in "Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public"

schlipity — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:04:28 +0000

Are these patent trolls doing anything that normal companies with patents that try to monetize them don't do?

New comment by schlipity in "Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"

schlipity — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 16:57:19 +0000

I think the only real problem with that is at some point (if they aren't already) they will embed cellular modems and just exfiltrate the data that way. They do this now in cars, why not TVs too?

New comment by schlipity in "Patagonia gave its staff 3 days to decide to relocate or quit"

schlipity — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:51:58 +0000

>Workers were offered $4,000 toward relocation costs and extra paid time off. Those willing to relocate were told to do so by September 30.

It looks like just saying yes buys you an extra 3 months and paid time off to interview to find a new job.

New comment by schlipity in "Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial"

schlipity — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:31:35 +0000

This is a great way of looking at it, thank you for that.

New comment by schlipity in "Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial"

schlipity — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:21:54 +0000

I'm going to assume a bit and for that I'll apologize in advance. I'm assuming you're in a high risk group for HIV. Why not just use condoms? Is it because they aren't 100% effective?

New comment by schlipity in "AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson"

schlipity — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:29:06 +0000

I don't run javascript by default using NoScript, and something amusing happened on this website because of it.

The link for the site points to a notion.site address, but attempting to go to this address without javascript enabled (for that domain) forces a redirect to a notion.so domain. Attempting to visit just the basic notion.site address also does this same redirection.

What this ends up causing is that I don't have an easy way to use NoScript to temporarily turn on javascript for the notion.site domain, because it never loads. So much for reading this article.

New comment by schlipity in "Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients"

schlipity — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 14:13:52 +0000

Imagine if Microsoft had to sign off on every single program you write for your own windows box in the name of privacy and safety. It certainly does feel like we're moving in that direction, really.

New comment by schlipity in "So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)"

schlipity — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 23:13:20 +0000

Aren't you also volunteering your data? Don't browsers just talk to your webserver and say "Hey, what do you have?" and your site responds in kind.

New comment by schlipity in "California inventor working on a bicycle pulled sweeper (2022)"

schlipity — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:02:01 +0000

I can't help but see this as "Man builds microplastic generator to clean streets."

New comment by schlipity in "Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown"

schlipity — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 22:50:52 +0000

Don't forget about Life. The show that ended too early.

New comment by schlipity in "Three lessons from negative trends in vertical farming"

schlipity — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 18:27:06 +0000

The first thing that comes to mind for me is that cities are usually pretty far from the farms. This leaves farmers and those wishing to buy from them with long supply chains. In my experience, people that live in cities have never really had fresh vegetables before unless they've personally grown them.

With this in mind, I can see a large former factory building being converted into vertical farming and then selling fresh produce, year round, to select clients at a premium.

Being able to farm and produce year round is also quite a nice bonus. You can largely ignore the weather, except where it impacts your supply chain.

All that said I think it's a fine idea and a great use for previously used industrial spaces.

New comment by schlipity in "Local License Key Verification"

schlipity — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 05:00:54 +0000

Hopelessly immoral? I've used plenty of cracked software in my younger days and not once did I consider it immoral in the least. Some people just draw a line in the sand in a different place for software.

I just don't care at all about someone's "lost potential revenue". I consider it to be the same as skipping commercials with watching TV, or adblocking the web today.

New comment by schlipity in "Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy"

schlipity — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 22:33:03 +0000

It has been my experience for a very long time that most warranties aren't worth the paper they're printed on. They either take too long to replace the item so that you end up buying a new one, or simply do nothing at all. The warranty service that Amazon tries to add on to every "device" purchase is famous for this.