Hacker News: top_post

New comment by top_post in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

top_post — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:22:51 +0000

I learned this one about a year ago and every time I try and do the push stroke I pretty successfully slip and cut myself. So I get you can do both but I'll be damned if the pull stroke isn't the only one I'm still doing.

New comment by top_post in "Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative"

top_post — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 03:55:48 +0000

Mozilla to explore healthy cigarette smoking..

New comment by top_post in "Spotifyd"

top_post — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 20:41:18 +0000

I was in the same boat - I can't remember the exact issue now - but I had to both compile locally and revert back to an older version for it to work. There were issues on Github relating to my exact problem but I can't find them now. Currently running 0.3.3 as my daily driver, no issues.

New comment by top_post in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

top_post — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:40:47 +0000

The best thing to come out of all of this is people questioning their continued use of social media. Switching to Mastodon, it being different, not liking it and just dropping it all entirely. It's the BEST outcome. Social media is a fucking cancer on society and it's fantastic to see it being questioned. It's like soda and candy - empty calories that does absolutely nothing for you.

New comment by top_post in "9M Australians affected by Optus data breach"

top_post — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 06:10:36 +0000

"Payment detail and account passwords have not been compromised."

No, just your identity is. If you're Australian, you or someone you know will be in this. What a total fuck up.

New comment by top_post in "Meta and Google are cutting staff"

top_post — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:25:21 +0000

This is still lapping up the bullshit of what it actually is. It's a redundancy plain and simple, your job is being terminated, it should be reported as such.

New comment by top_post in "New Zealand's plan to prepare for inevitable climate change impacts"

top_post — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 05:41:40 +0000

This, unfortunately, is right on the money.

New comment by top_post in "Sun's magnetic arches may be just a projection artifact, research suggests"

top_post — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 01:36:02 +0000

Exactly what I was thinking. If the optical illusion looks the same from multiple different viewing angles, is it not then exactly what you see and not an illusion? Versus other illusions, once the perspective changes, the illusion is revealed. This shit is getting way meta.

New comment by top_post in "Australia ranked 61/63 countries for entrepreneurship"

top_post — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:13:02 +0000

Literally all of the above.

New comment by top_post in "In defense of cryptocurrency"

top_post — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 04:24:52 +0000

> "and I’m currently working on a startup that is trying to add regulatory compliance capabilities to public blockchains."

(big sigh)

New comment by top_post in "Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective"

top_post — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 01:01:17 +0000

I can't for the life of me understand why your last statement isn't what the world is driving for at the moment. mRNA vaccines are easily(-ish) updated, so punch out an Omicron specific dose and get on with the regular single/dual (if needed) regime.

It seems strange we'd opt for 3-4-5 shots given the benefit of mRNA was its ease of creation and modification.

New comment by top_post in "S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of Covid cases"

top_post — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:32:06 +0000

16+ is not the whole ACT population and was my point. Undoubtedly 99% are great numbers for 16+… but an entire cohort is excluded from vaccination statistics of which are vulnerable to infection.

New comment by top_post in "S.Africa says vaccines, prior infection help mildness of Covid cases"

top_post — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:57:03 +0000

We don't have 90-95% vaccinated in Australia or any state of Australia. It's of the eligible population and it's excluding the under 12 year olds. The whole covid is mild in children argument aside, the fact is the population simply is not 90+ vaccinated.

New comment by top_post in "AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet"

top_post — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:59:37 +0000

This right here.

New comment by top_post in "Meat and mental health: Meat eaters suffer less depression, anxiety"

top_post — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 02:12:17 +0000

And there you go.

New comment by top_post in "COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure"

top_post — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 21:21:15 +0000

The thing about Australia is we love to walk eyes wide open into failure. We watch policies being implemented in other countries with real world data to learn from, and will then just unabashedly ignore it and do it all ourselves to achieve the exact same outcomes.

This is across technology, politics, climate, business, the works. It's ingrained culturally and will never change.

New comment by top_post in "Windows 11: Just say no"

top_post — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:43:02 +0000

Where is Satya lately? The last few years his face was everywhere, doing some very common sense things that got MS back to being a leading player. What the fuck is with Windows 11? Some common sense judgement could be used here.

New comment by top_post in "Reducing CO2 emissions by targeting the world’s hyper-polluting power plants"

top_post — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 05:10:21 +0000

If a cohort of countries pooled resources (like COVAX, WHO, NATO, etc) and focused on fucking off these plants, would that not be a big step towards the global goals?

Edit: COVAX was a bad example to use, my bad.

New comment by top_post in "A privacy war is raging inside the W3C"

top_post — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 04:34:25 +0000

As someone who just bought their first iPad last week, I wonder the exact same thing. A nice cuddle from Apple telling me how they're protecting me from evil, but you hold all the same shit about me. So now I just trust a _different_ for profit company? Until when? At one stage Google wasn't evil, now it's evil as fuck.

New comment by top_post in "Carbon dioxide peaks near 420 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory"

top_post — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 22:03:10 +0000

Right, which is the problem.