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New comment by tbossanova in "Little magazines are back"

tbossanova — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:47:46 +0000

The only reason I ever read HHGTTG as a kid is because it was on a bookshelf at home and I eventually got bored enough to pick it up. I don’t currently have an ebook equivalent of that for my kids

New comment by tbossanova in "Men who stare at walls"

tbossanova — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:51:26 +0000

I’ll often use a quick brain break like this to do a tiny bit of exercise, e.g. walk on the spot, plank. This means staring at a wall (or the floor) anyway plus you get the blood flowing. Most appropriate would probably be wall sit while staring at the opposite wall!

New comment by tbossanova in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

tbossanova — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:19:04 +0000

Money can’t buy happiness, but being broke will certainly make you unhappy

New comment by tbossanova in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

tbossanova — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:11:59 +0000

Some of it is really good, yes. But of course music taste is extremely subjective

New comment by tbossanova in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

tbossanova — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:46:26 +0000

“But $parent, none of the other kids have it on! I’m missing out on everything! Are you trying to ruin my life? I hate you!”

Rinse and repeat until you break

New comment by tbossanova in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

tbossanova — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:32:37 +0000

As a “customer”, I consider github down if I can’t push, but not down if I can’t update my profile photo (literally did this today, sending out my github to potential employers for the first time in a long time). This stuff is notoriously hard to define

New comment by tbossanova in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

tbossanova — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:48:03 +0000

Main is also an easier name for beginners. I’m old school and always got the comparison of master branch to master tapes and such things, but people new to this stuff wouldn’t necessarily have the same intuition about the name. Main is just clearer (for now). Similar to blacklist/whitelist. I had no context for either of those and it took me soooooo long to remember what they meant. Allowlist/denylist is just so much clearer. Any reduction in harm, however tiny, is a nice bonus to just making things clearer for more people

New comment by tbossanova in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

tbossanova — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:59:23 +0000

“I got divorced based on advice from complete strangers on the internet, AITA?”

New comment by tbossanova in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

tbossanova — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:30:11 +0000

Sounds great, let’s have more of that!

New comment by tbossanova in "Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm"

tbossanova — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:29:04 +0000

Raised planters can help too

New comment by tbossanova in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

tbossanova — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:18:38 +0000

How are they terrible musicians? They played their specific type of music extremely well. Like, technically better than most people will ever be at music. People loved seeing them play. I still enjoy their records. So, what is terrible?

New comment by tbossanova in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

tbossanova — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:13:49 +0000

How delightfully cynical. Instead of thinking taste in music “must” spring from your cynical take on what authenticity us (which I agree is impossible to define and almost a useless term at this point), maybe people just… like the music, and it somehow speaks to them. Musical taste is famously subjective and entirely down to what music you heard before etc

New comment by tbossanova in "Iran War Live Updates: U.S. and Iran Send Conflicting Signals on Peace Prospects"

tbossanova — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:42:53 +0000

Literally every information source has biases. We are human after all. Well, most of us. If you reject Wikipedia on this you basically have to reject everything anyone says, ever

New comment by tbossanova in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

tbossanova — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:18:03 +0000

True, and also when you actually go to apply for a job it often kicks you out to another website, that will use who knows how many mbs? And you have to fill in your details again and again. Each one a different flavour. Sometimes saying the same thing multiple times for the same job ad.

New comment by tbossanova in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

tbossanova — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:14:06 +0000

Money

New comment by tbossanova in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

tbossanova — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:26:27 +0000

Sounds like terrible people. I’ve worked with plenty of people who didn’t start with English and if you give them time they usually excel

New comment by tbossanova in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

tbossanova — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:02:01 +0000

That’s it, you’re on my naughty list! —Santa

New comment by tbossanova in "Agents that run while I sleep"

tbossanova — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:40:14 +0000

Nothing; but PHP, in experienced hands, will be waaay more productive for small-to-medium things. One issue is that experienced hands are increasingly hard to come by. Truly big, complicated things, built by large teams or numbers of teams, teams with a lot of average brains or AIs trained on average brains, will be better off in something like Typescript/React. And everyone wants to work on the big complicated stuff. So the "modern frameworks" will continue to dominate while smaller, more niche shops will wonder why they waste their time.

New comment by tbossanova in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

tbossanova — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:28:19 +0000

Ah, so another way they’re like humans haha

New comment by tbossanova in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

tbossanova — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:37:59 +0000

Same, been using it for over 20 years and probably only a handful of crashes in that time. But I mostly look at dead simple web stuff (like hn) and run aggressive ad blocking so I might not be representative of the average user