Hacker News: thsowers

New comment by thsowers in "Is Rust Ready for the Web Yet? (2020)"

thsowers — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:48:26 +0000

New comment by thsowers in "Piano Practice Software Progress"

thsowers — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:04:25 +0000

Fellow pianist here who also feels like sometimes too much emphasis is placed on score reading!

One interesting counterpoint that was brought up to me by my teacher in uni was that for certain pieces, mainly old old ones (think way before recording), is that sometimes the score is the _only_ thing that we have left from the composer to base our interpretation on!

I hadn't really considered this before, and it did make me appreciate score reading more (altho I still mostly improvise these days :D)

New comment by thsowers in "Signal is having technical difficulties"

thsowers — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:50:08 +0000

This sounds good on first pass, but consider the implication of allowing donations (and thus, payment method information) to be tied to a Signal users account. I specifically _wouldn't_ want this.

New comment by thsowers in "Greenland Sharks"

thsowers — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 01:42:38 +0000

If I may ask, where did you get the chance to try this, and how was it prepared?

I just read this on wikipedia:

> If the meat is eaten without pretreatment, the ingested TMAO is metabolized into trimethylamine, which can produce effects similar to extreme drunkenness

Might be crazy to think, but the thought crossed my mind if the meat was ever ingested, untreated, for recreational purposes.

New comment by thsowers in "South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'"

thsowers — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:56:09 +0000

> but wow do we sure know that they're dumb hicks who deserve to die

I didn't see that sentiment expressed in the article, or by the majority of comments here.

New comment by thsowers in "South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'"

thsowers — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:53:14 +0000

Here is a similar story from a news source: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/12/934266487/icu-nurse-on-dealin...

New comment by thsowers in "Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed"

thsowers — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:57:14 +0000

I can't find it anywhere. Can you provide a link to a source or not? Particularly the "all of one candidate" claim.

Also worth noting claims like this have already been debunked: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/nov/04/viral-imag...

New comment by thsowers in "Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed"

thsowers — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:49:16 +0000

> One of those mail-in ballot batches had 130,000+ votes, all of one candidate.

This is not true. Please provide a source, or stop spreading disinformation.

New comment by thsowers in "Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed"

thsowers — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:38:21 +0000

Politics is generally considered off-topic on HN unless it's "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by thsowers in "Twitter has applied warning labels to 37% of Trump's tweets since polls closed"

thsowers — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:37:07 +0000

I don't see a disclaimer?

New comment by thsowers in "Google disabled my husband's account"

thsowers — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 20:35:52 +0000

Then you are realistically fine

Even in a case similar to mine, visiting takeout.google.com before doing anything with billing is always a great idea :)

New comment by thsowers in "Google disabled my husband's account"

thsowers — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 18:22:55 +0000

Do you pay them or any of their subsidiaries for anything?

I have cell service on Google Fi. Long, painful (still-ongoing) story short, they shipped me a Pixel 4a that had no cell service. I went back and forth with support for ten days. Then they shipped me a replacement phone. I confirmed my current address. They sent me a shipping notification for my current address. FedEx ended up delivering the package, no signature required, to a town I used to live in five years ago. I double checked and my current address is the only one on the account.

Going back and forth with support has been useless. I paid for a phone that doesn't work, and I'm being charged for service that I can't use. My last recourse is to refute the payments with my CC company....but that also seems like the quickest way to get my entire Google/YT/Google Fi account locked up because it's all tied together.

New comment by thsowers in "Trump offered to pardon Assange if he provided source for DNC emails – lawyer"

thsowers — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:55:49 +0000

Politics is generally considered off-topic unless it's "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by thsowers in "Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux"

thsowers — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:09:05 +0000

I think it is uncharitable to assert that a company that is 45 years old has a strategy that is "never-changing". There is no denying that Microsoft has been hostile to Linux and open source efforts before, but it doesn't mean that this would never change. Last I checked, Microsoft was the largest contributor to open source projects, and Satya Nadella seems to embrace FOSS

New comment by thsowers in "Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN"

thsowers — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 22:30:55 +0000

Looks like this search engine searches the _articles_ and links that have been shared, whereas hn.algolia.com only searches title, author, and the text of a post if it is a text post.

New comment by thsowers in "Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response"

thsowers — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:15:00 +0000

Is a million doses "major relief"?

New comment by thsowers in "Resignation Letter"

thsowers — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 18:48:19 +0000

> Bari is bad, only wants speech she likes to matter.

I am not at all familiar with the author of the letter, but could you elaborate on this? I didn't get that impression reading the letter, or what I assume is quotes from the author in your comment.

New comment by thsowers in "Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public"

thsowers — Sat, 23 May 2020 17:19:30 +0000

When it comes to moderation of a YC startup on HN, "The first rule of HN moderation is to moderate less, not more" says dang on previous threads concerning YC startups and he has expressed the same sentiment here in this thread

New comment by thsowers in "Things I hate about Rust"

thsowers — Wed, 20 May 2020 15:54:57 +0000

You mention cognitive load, however this post[0] about Go made me think that the "simplicity" of Go might come with it's own issues that lead to more cognitive load in the long run

[0]: https://fasterthanli.me/blog/2020/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild...

New comment by thsowers in "Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government"

thsowers — Wed, 13 May 2020 17:49:08 +0000

Previous discussion on "The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427626