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New comment by yawgmoth in "Map of Metal"

yawgmoth — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:52:54 +0000

It's interesting because some of these bands are older than these terms. Alcest wasn't considered blackgaze until albums inspired by their own sound became popular, for example.

Metal also has history where a genre is aesthetically defined as well as sonically, which complicates things.

New comment by yawgmoth in "ICE knocks on ad tech's data door to see what it knows about you"

yawgmoth — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:48:32 +0000

Would you ever blog/talk about it? Sounds interesting.

New comment by yawgmoth in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

yawgmoth — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:34:52 +0000

When you have days like this, 2-10 billion and you want to search it, what are the cheapest options? Reindexing could be slow, be search should be reasonably quick. It would be really expensive to do this all in, say, Elastic, right? Especially if you had a bunch of columns?

New comment by yawgmoth in "The Case Against 30-Year Mortgages"

yawgmoth — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:11:37 +0000

Isn't the alternative less home ownership and less growth in quality of life? Didn't all of those programs increase demand which made people homeowners?

There are a number of reasons why homes are expensive today and it's not just "social programs bad".

New comment by yawgmoth in "Ask HN: Do you read your own PR?"

yawgmoth — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:03:10 +0000

Always, and sometimes I'll add authors notes as comments on the PR. This is actually one reason I dislike "all threads resolved" as a criterion for approving PRs (or specifically GitLab PRs).

New comment by yawgmoth in "Researchers discover evidence in the mystery of America's 'Lost Colony'"

yawgmoth — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:05:46 +0000

Adjust the height to the highest setting.

Put gas in it. If there's a soft rubber thing near the gas, hit it twice to provide some fuel but no more as you risk "flooding" the engine.

Hold down any handle at the top of the mower, often the thing will require you to manually hold it down during start and all operations.

Look for the starter pull. It's often on the right, on the motor or mower handles. It's a piece of plastic attached to a cable. Give it a yank with a full follow through. It doesn't have to be maximum effort but too gentle won't work either.

New comment by yawgmoth in "When Abandoned Mines Collapse"

yawgmoth — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:30:00 +0000

Oldest city in America is in Florida

New comment by yawgmoth in "Getting things “done” in large tech companies"

yawgmoth — Tue, 06 May 2025 12:47:47 +0000

> you can plausibly make up the rest about what you actually did there.

I would never do this, and if you would do this I wouldn't want to work with you. Maybe I'm a sucker, but I sleep alright.

New comment by yawgmoth in "Uber raises in-office requirement to 3 days, claws back remote workers"

yawgmoth — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:18:57 +0000

I don't mind the end of remote work, as long as the "cool office" actually comes back. Here in Ann Arbor it feels like the tech scene died with remote work and all the jobs are remote.

From my perspective, wages have increased faster elsewhere, and there are far more remote jobs than local ones. The whole reason I moved to Ann Arbor for work was because UMich had created a little startup scene that I could aspire to. I expected the scene to grow, not fade. It really seemed like the beers on tap, foosball table tech job fantasy for a few years there.

New comment by yawgmoth in "Has the decline of knowledge work begun?"

yawgmoth — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:41:48 +0000

That's true. But, to the point of eliminating labor -- there's still a human in the loop here.

In fact I would argue that while people were still making capital decisions, the idea of optimizing them is only practical WITH some kind of software / calculator / computer. The tooling I write has added jobs, not eliminated them.

New comment by yawgmoth in "Has the decline of knowledge work begun?"

yawgmoth — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:49:51 +0000

> Look, the only purpose of software is automation and the only purpose of automation is labor elimination

I use software to design algorithms to make capital decisions, where distribution centers and warehouses are built. I am not automating a human job.

New comment by yawgmoth in "3dfx, So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023)"

yawgmoth — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:56:46 +0000

Subspace/Continuum also used lag in its gameplay, with players warping to recently exploded spaceships so they could continue to invade. It was an established technique and had to be defended against.

Edit: typo

Shout out to any EG players!

New comment by yawgmoth in "San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time"

yawgmoth — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:52:36 +0000

In America, there are plenty of housed drug addicts. Your question is too simple to represent reality.

New comment by yawgmoth in "Detroit’s revival takes shape after decades of decay"

yawgmoth — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:45:02 +0000

Isn't everyone concerned with cost of living? Isn't there a whole game of life where we all find some comfortable CoL and salary balance?

That's why salary via CoL never made any sense to me. It should be based on how hard people want to work.

These "it's cheaper in Michigan" ideas -- yeah you can come up with a boring lifestyle that is dirt cheap. I'm just in Michigan already. It's hard to leave. I'm a global dude. I travel domestically. I invest. These things don't have Michigan prices.

New comment by yawgmoth in "Detroit’s revival takes shape after decades of decay"

yawgmoth — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:46:05 +0000

In my experience, companies based in Michigan pay 20-50k lower and do not have staff/principal roles available. You have to find a remote role to stay competitive wage wise. Some companies are not willing to pay as much for Michigan workers as they are NY/SF/elsewhere workers, too.

I think the reality is Columbus and Chicago are growing quicker than Detroit. The relative increase here might be "buzzing" but in absolute terms, it's desolate.

New comment by yawgmoth in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

yawgmoth — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 13:15:25 +0000

STOP works thanks to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), which offers consumers spam protections and senders a framework on how to behave.

(Edit: It's relevant that STOP didn't come from the TCPA itself, but definitely has teeth due to it)

https://www.infobip.com/blog/a-guide-to-global-sms-complianc...

New comment by yawgmoth in "Ask HN: I'm a dev who never wants to be on call again. What are my best options?"

yawgmoth — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 12:12:41 +0000

A company that has internal customers that go to bed every day. Bankers, underwriters, etc

New comment by yawgmoth in "What's New in F# 9"

yawgmoth — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:18:56 +0000

Npgsql is the popular C# driver, and has an F# wrapper. I'd start there.

New comment by yawgmoth in "H2tunnel – ngrok alternative for Node.js in 600 LOC and no dependencies"

yawgmoth — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 09:15:26 +0000

Because punching holes in the network that makes data exfiltration simple is a generally considered a bad thing

New comment by yawgmoth in "A symbol for the Fediverse"

yawgmoth — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 12:06:07 +0000

Arguably @ is a Fedi symbol already. Adding the domain is generally all it takes.