Hacker News: teterphiel

New comment by teterphiel in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

teterphiel — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:37:44 +0000

not enough people are emotionally prepared for if it’s not going wrong even in the slightest

New comment by teterphiel in "Liberty’s Discontents: The contested history of freedom"

teterphiel — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:14:40 +0000

> But it is just insufficiently sophisticated people that would conclude from that [getting shot for the crime of border crossing] they were lacking freedom.

Translation: East germans getting shot at the border were just too dumb to realise that they were free...

> Surely it is just to shoot somebody for such an egregious violation of other people's freedom

Translation: Refusing to have their labor wasted on a defunct system, thereby depriving others of its non-existent fruits, soundly earned one's capital punishment, to be carried out on the spot. It was "Notwendig".

> They did have freedom, but just had a different definition for it.

And surly they did have less radiation poisoning due to a different definition of what it means to be "poisoned".

EDIT: How could I miss this misanthropic gem:

> some stupid redneck

Translation: I know only cliches about the discarded working class trapped in the American rust belt, but treating them with contempt seems fun and acceptable, so I'll join.

New comment by teterphiel in "The Endless Life Cycle of Japanese City Pop"

teterphiel — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 02:51:01 +0000

The problem is that journalism doesn't pay much anymore and confers less status and prospect than a coal miner. To make up the difference, they pick up arms against imgainary foes (secret, undetectable yet very dangerous orientalism) to give their lives a meaning it wouldn't otherwise have. Young woke liberals roughly go through the same as the members of UFO cults in the 70s: Unable to accept being discarded by society, they place themselves at the center of a galactic conspiracy.

New comment by teterphiel in "The world will only get weirder"

teterphiel — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 03:20:44 +0000

The ancients took it for granted that civilisations would rise, reach a peak, and then gradually decline, similar to other living things. It's a distinctly western/modern idea that there could be unceasing progress.

While both these views are essentially myths, my money is on the ancients being more in-line with reality. At the very least I don't need to look at decline and call it "weird". Permanent progress on the other hand is a political poison that will turn people against one another as they try to find the culprits.

New comment by teterphiel in "Crypto and NFTs are a absolute disaster for so many more reasons than ecological"

teterphiel — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:39:45 +0000

and these applications give people a fuzzy warm feeling that lasts for about a month before it recedes and attention shifts elsewhere.

I have it on good authority that owning bitcoin gives people a very similar kind of feeling and there is nothing wrong with that. humans doing human things.

of course now there's plenty of arbiters of what constitutes proper warm fuzziness, and apparently a new BMW made from aluminium and steel is AAA+, but buying 0.1 of a bitcoin is not.

New comment by teterphiel in "Crypto and NFTs are a absolute disaster for so many more reasons than ecological"

teterphiel — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:25:09 +0000

The environmental issues with crypto need no more solving than the environmental issues associated mining gold (much worse), producing aluminum, and in a wider sense humans doing things on earth need solving --- which is not to say that they don't, but to single out bitcoin is disingenuous, uninformed, or just plain neophobic.

New comment by teterphiel in "Europeans get ‘right to repair’ for some electrical goods"

teterphiel — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:17:42 +0000

I'd rather have a Europe-wide application of the French approach of forcing manufacturers to disclose repairability scores at the point of sale (and let consumers decide who important repairability is to them) rather than bureaucrats getting involved with engineering and microeconomics.

New comment by teterphiel in "The American-Dream-as-a-Service"

teterphiel — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 02:32:29 +0000

Except that software developers mostly create problems for future developers to solve, increasing -- not decreasing -- demand. The barrier of entry has always been low, yet salaries have only gone up.

New comment by teterphiel in "M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time"

teterphiel — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 09:17:39 +0000

I don't have any as far as I can tell, but some 3rd party tool that interacts with Finder in some way could be the culprit..

New comment by teterphiel in "M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time"

teterphiel — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:47:08 +0000

Haven't seen this mentioned: I wake up to a double digit GB Finder process every other day. I leave it plugged in during the night. Wear is 3% or 48TB of writes.

New comment by teterphiel in "An experiment in giving cash to recently homeless people [video]"

teterphiel — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 05:19:13 +0000

i‘ve been watching interviews with homeless people on the Invisible People youtube channel (highly recommend), and one thing that struck me is how skin deep most support networks are. having friends and family vanish the second they could come up with a reasonable excuse seems to be the hardest part for many of them.

New comment by teterphiel in "YouTube website now blocks iOS 14’s picture-in-picture mode for free users"

teterphiel — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 03:12:59 +0000

If they in turn add it to their app for payed users, that would be much apprecited