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New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Apple interoperability efforts under EU law falls short, advocacy groups argue"

xyzzy4747 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:21:41 +0000

If the customers prefer the walled garden then what’s the big deal? There are a number of other phones people can buy.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Ask HN: Teams using AI – how do you prevent it from breaking your codebase?"

xyzzy4747 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:05:29 +0000

In my experience so far with AI, it's primarily good for creating boilerplate pages and APIs and for helping with auto-complete suggestions.

I think eventually AI agents will really take off but not sure if anything works well there yet.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "In the belly of the MrBeast"

xyzzy4747 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:16:16 +0000

It probably depends if the audience is intelligent and open-minded, but I agree, it will always be biased towards their preconceptions.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Tesla Sales Are Tanking in Europe"

xyzzy4747 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:01:54 +0000

Tesla has too much competition and their CEO is part-time. Boggles my mind that the stock is priced so high relative to their financial metrics.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "In the belly of the MrBeast"

xyzzy4747 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:48:10 +0000

It also reminds me how the most upvoted comments on Reddit often reflect the consensus opinion but not necessarily the truth.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "In the belly of the MrBeast"

xyzzy4747 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:45:28 +0000

There's not much you're missing. His videos try to appeal to the lowest common denominator and are relatively vapid. Sort of like the junk food of YouTube.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "I deleted my social media accounts"

xyzzy4747 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:34:37 +0000

My point though is that if a person renders themselves unable to have offspring, especially before they have any, then from a purely biological perspective it's a form of illness. The same view would apply to all animals. If every member of a group acted the same way then the group would also die out. The functional impairment you mention includes the inability to attract a mate and reproduce. Hormones and sex reassignment surgery also severely hamper fertility.

Also trans people tend to have many other correlated mental issues and for example have high suicide attempt rates.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "I deleted my social media accounts"

xyzzy4747 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:03:58 +0000

>accuse people of being mentally ill based on their sexuality or gender identity

But the question is, are trans people actually mentally ill objectively? It certainly doesn't help them reproduce (a form of survival) from a biological perspective, for example.

This Johns Hopkins professor thinks it's mental illness:

https://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/scpsva/Board.nsf/files/B8UR4X...

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "I deleted my social media accounts"

xyzzy4747 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:11:29 +0000

Yea it’s odd how so many people have become pro-censorship.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

xyzzy4747 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:02:44 +0000

I've used it before, but Next.js with TypeScript is much superior in many different ways.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

xyzzy4747 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:56:26 +0000

Well actually, if they had used Next.js deployed via Vercel or something similar, it would have been statically cached on a CDN and prevents issues like this. But because they want to use older technology that's more difficult to cache and proxy, this happens.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

xyzzy4747 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:54:46 +0000

If they had used Next.js with a typical deployment this wouldn't happen since it uses a static CDN cache for all pages.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

xyzzy4747 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:53:27 +0000

Why use a 3rd party add-on solution instead of using something better in the first place?

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

xyzzy4747 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 16:39:08 +0000

I don't know why anyone would want to code with a language that isn't statically type safe at compile time in this day and age.

Finally Caught by Employer – Microsoft Authenticator / Citrix

xyzzy4747 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 01:21:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/s/XYnFtUuNF5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42640530

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Who killed the rave? Late-night dancing falls into global decline"

xyzzy4747 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:28:29 +0000

Also the people who go to raves aren’t helping with this, as most of them aren’t family focused. They have to get outsiders to join their subculture.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "Google is building its own 'world modeling' AI team for games and robot training"

xyzzy4747 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:21:24 +0000

Maybe the observable universe is already a model inside of some computer.

Fluoride once again scrutinized for possible effect on children's brains

xyzzy4747 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:24:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fluoride-water-research-possible-children-brains-rcna185788

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42616043

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "What Is miniKanren?"

xyzzy4747 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:59:21 +0000

If you use HTTP you can have middlemen hijacking your content or inserting malicious things and nobody would know. There's all kinds of weird actors out there.

New comment by xyzzy4747 in "What Is miniKanren?"

xyzzy4747 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:26:38 +0000

Imagine it being 2024 and you don't know how to make your website HTTPS.