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The Ownership Class and the Working Class

sova — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:34:31 +0000

Article URL: https://satisologie.substack.com/p/the-ownership-class-and-working-class

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939728

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

Einstein Was a Determinist (and He Was Wrong About That)

sova — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:53:06 +0000

Article URL: https://satisologie.substack.com/p/einstein-was-a-determinist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45910416

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by sova in "1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor"

sova — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:14:54 +0000

Zendesk pay the man. He disclosed only after you waved it off as a nonthreat. Pay. The. Man.

New comment by sova in "Show HN: HTML for People"

sova — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 01:48:57 +0000

IF it is not a challenge to invent new glyphs and manufacture new keys, then perhaps we can rethink the markup as well. It is a rather open-ended question and I appreciate your asking. I have some thoughts, mainly inspired by the original inspiration to things like cascading styles, which was an inheritance of concepts and a jumble loosely associated with how magazines are structured and arranged / composed on a series of pages that flip together and have images and text. It seems that there are, by now, largely, conventions that are stuck to in the online realm, so maybe there is an amazing shorthand we could develop to get the same point across, now. What we are discussing is becoming closer and closer a reality because the amount of code pressing TAB will output (autocomplete) is increasing, and evening time and sunset time on actual "coding" might happen in our lifetimes. Perhaps not for microprocessors on solo devices requiring direct register access and pointer circuiting, but the trend is that less or fewer keystrokes can produce just as rich content. The markup language makes it "hypertext," right?

꜐expandꜘourꜛglyph꜅workꜝ Wikipedia has something closer to what I envision as what the dudes who done did CSS done thought. Someothing closer to arranging your magazine on the page for others to surf, and also link it with other pages. The soothing letters of English and their stradivarian font-signatures so carefully plucked and delicately labored on in the ethers of Apple headquarters, are bruised and battered by slashing and elbowing />

New comment by sova in "Show HN: HTML for People"

sova — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:54:51 +0000

All I'm saying is that if you were to make a semantic markup of English today, would you really want to use keyboard-convenient glyphs just because it's hardware-convenient?

What would be the best way to add markup to English? It seems like an unexplored question. And if we were to explore it, we would find many alternatives, ranking much higher on the "for people" scale than HTML.

New comment by sova in "Show HN: HTML for People"

sova — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:24:11 +0000

You think something that starts with "less than exclamation point" is made for people? "less than exclamation point minus minus" ah yes it just rolls off the tongue. HTML was clearly designed to add "semantic web" to the existing text data of the internet, no matter the cost to human readability. If it's "made for people" it's only in the roundabout fashion that eventually it gets hidden away by the interface to change the font color, etc.

New comment by sova in "Show HN: HTML for People"

sova — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 03:06:57 +0000

HTML is not for people

New comment by sova in "The mystery of why left-handers are so much rarer (2016)"

sova — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:18:33 +0000

You can write "down" with your left because immediately above your hand on the page there's no hand to "drag behind." I had to think about your sentence for a while. (It might just mean I'm not very bright.)

Magic Sentence: A Japanese Sentence That Changes the Scene Automatically

sova — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 20:31:28 +0000

Article URL: https://japanesecomplete.com/magic-sentence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41792303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sova in "Ask HN: How do you organize work as a solo developer?"

sova — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 18:37:07 +0000

On Scoping Work

Scoping work is just as vital as work itself. If you are going apple picking you must go to the correct orchard. You cannot go to a forest bereft of apples and start picking what is not there. Nor can you pick all the apples in one day, or maybe if you do you will be so fatigued that you cannot work any more days that week. Scoping work is the ability to "bite off exactly as much as you can chew" and add "buffer time" so that you can successfully complete that delicious morsel. Indeed, the only way to success is to celebrate small victories, and you must now regulate what those are on your own. That means biting off not too much to chew, and overcelebrating what goes right. And finding the most essential meaningful path to your goal via junctures where you work on just enough of the project to accomplish either the: knowledge gain required, the app upgrade required, or the app creation required. Bit of a free-flow ramble for ya, but hope it helps.

New comment by sova in "Ask HN: How do you organize work as a solo developer?"

sova — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 18:33:42 +0000

Kanban is good once you have multiple brains looking for idle work. Until then, my recommendation as a driven, solo-starter who has created 3 ~huge projects more-or-less solo, is to rely on a `notes-todo` file where you religiously and often and frequently log the date and time and then write some notes. Append to the TOP of the file so you can see the latest words at the top, and then you scroll down and it's like a historical feed. You can put what you accomplished in the log to start. Eventually you will have design questions, debates, breakthroughs, and even just long treatise on what you want to accomplish. All this is amazing. You need a written record that helps you sort out where you are in the process. Remember, when working it's microscopic zoom mode surgeon style, and when reflecting it's telescope mode from the space station. You need to be kind to yourself moving between the two, and the answer is NOTES

New comment by sova in "Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows"

sova — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 18:29:47 +0000

Poppy's here!

New comment by sova in "Newest social network does not suck"

sova — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 06:59:58 +0000

I read the thread on metafilter, apparently its sponsored by the John Muir whatever and is for people who enjoy sketching nature and sharing their sketches, I think.

New comment by sova in "Tesla drivers say new FSD update is repeatedly running red lights"

sova — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:28:26 +0000

What do you mean "No" ? I am asking if it's traversing red lights while they are otherwise safe to traverse (no lateral traffic). What's with this amazing pessimism infecting this forum lately.

New comment by sova in "Tesla drivers say new FSD update is repeatedly running red lights"

sova — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:23:13 +0000

...running them safely tho?

New comment by sova in "NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture"

sova — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 02:33:57 +0000

>Be looking at the information flow. Will have to contemplate and ruminate on this one, thanks Grace.

New comment by sova in "Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned"

sova — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 01:18:42 +0000

Great question. Who decides currently?

New comment by sova in "Julius: Open-source reimplementation of Caesar III"

sova — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 16:09:34 +0000

The aesthetics of Caesar III are some of the best, love this game, didn't know there were sequel projects to check out until this thread!

New comment by sova in "Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned"

sova — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:31:07 +0000

Get paid to answer important questions instead of getting paid to provide sought-after results. I think that's the end-point, the "how we get there" is now the question!

Learn Kanji via an English Context

sova — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:13:07 +0000

Article URL: https://miso.beehiiv.com/p/kiec7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41339225

Points: 1

# Comments: 0