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New comment by yeetaccount in "The Surreal Horror of Pam"

yeetaccount — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:44:44 +0000

You make HN interesting. Reminds me of slashdot 20 years ago.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Opening this article voids warranty"

yeetaccount — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 01:46:32 +0000

Simpsons did it first. Homer had an illegal bar set up in the tree house and when it started burning he told the patrons “By leaving the premises you agree not to sue!”

New comment by yeetaccount in "Compass Pathways' Phase IIb psilocybin trial shows reduced depression symptoms"

yeetaccount — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 01:40:01 +0000

> IIRC, the famous "Good Friday" psilocybin experiment had some people from the control group believe they were not in the control group.

I can find a few people right now that believe that Lord of the Rings is a historical account of medieval Europe.

New comment by yeetaccount in "All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan"

yeetaccount — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:04:21 +0000

> Part of it is due to monetary incentives of businesses that now own the media outlets. Part of it is due to what the general public has interest in and will pay for.

This should be an entire discussion thread. Even scrupulous journalistic outlets have to stay competitive on the business side. And people don’t want facts, they want a story; something to spawn feeling instead of thought.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Truths about video game stories"

yeetaccount — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 14:29:39 +0000

Books sales are sales of anything with an ISBN. This includes adult colouring books, which I’ve heard is responsible for possibly all the sales increases in the past few years.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Firefox on Unix is moving away from X11-based remote control"

yeetaccount — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:16:21 +0000

Well you don’t have to listen to me, the X maintainers have said Wayland is the way forward and they’ve stopped developing X as of several years ago. It’s silly this is still an issue.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Firefox on Unix is moving away from X11-based remote control"

yeetaccount — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:26:38 +0000

The problem is that X was created over decades for very different eras of computers and it doesn’t really make sense to keep modifying it — there are design limitations to it, and the accumulated complexity has made it unmaintainable. X maintainers have abandoned it and told people to migrate to Wayland. Sometimes you just need a clean slate.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Firefox on Unix is moving away from X11-based remote control"

yeetaccount — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:35:00 +0000

X is like trying to fly modern rockets with Apollo-era computers. The computers will work, until they don’t. In which case the only people able to fix them are retired and you have to salvage parts from aerospace museums. Over the years the cruft of replacement parts has accumulated and no one person can really understand the whole thing anymore, and entire sections are not understood and nobody remembers why they’re there or really what they do (but if you get too close to it the lights go off in certain important corner cases).

Wayland is the shiny new SpaceX module that brings a lot of improvements but needs to have its toilet fixed.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Starship is still not understood"

yeetaccount — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 13:34:46 +0000

Yeah but watching Bezos turn into a household joke is worth it.

The Dozenal Society of America

yeetaccount — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 01:47:27 +0000

Article URL: http://dozenal.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29021380

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by yeetaccount in "Where have all the insects gone?"

yeetaccount — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:11:28 +0000

We’re seeing a comparable decline in birds that depend on them for food, so probably not.

That said, it’s fun to imagine that we just selected against insects that hang out by the highway.

New comment by yeetaccount in "A patent troll backs off"

yeetaccount — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:50:21 +0000

If you can find a link to that Captain Planet story I’d like to read it. It sounds totally plausible.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Nim receives $100k in Bitcoin donations"

yeetaccount — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:07:22 +0000

I once donated a few Bitcoin to a free software project. At the time 1BTC cost about one tank of gas. I sold the remainder when I doubled my investment and thought I walked away lucky. Now 1BTC costs more than the car I’m putting the gas in. Oh well.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Across Kazakhstan by rail"

yeetaccount — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:56:11 +0000

> x-raying people

mmWave or X-ray?

New comment by yeetaccount in "Let’s Put an End to Prosecutorial Immunity (2018)"

yeetaccount — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 23:33:29 +0000

If the police unions don’t like your laws they don’t enforce them. If they really don’t like you, they don’t show up at your house when there’s an intruder. If they really really don’t like you, they are the intruder.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart"

yeetaccount — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 23:26:31 +0000

They let the homeopathy shit fly, not sure why they’d get involved in this. Nuke it all from orbit IMHO.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux"

yeetaccount — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 16:50:57 +0000

For someone to find the wiki, read it and then attempt to solve their problem in a rudimentary fashion gets you towards the tail end of the bell curve. They might even follow up with you if you have questions.

New comment by yeetaccount in "RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601"

yeetaccount — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 16:13:20 +0000

All this just makes it clear to me that we need a time standard which addresses all the problems and of ISO8601. It’ll be painful until it’s universally adopted, but once it is we’ll be in timekeeping heaven.

New comment by yeetaccount in "RFC 3339 vs. ISO 8601"

yeetaccount — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 16:08:21 +0000

It doesn’t take long to get used to the basic format. 20211024T090755, etc.

New comment by yeetaccount in "Original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick"

yeetaccount — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:39:49 +0000

More effort was put into expressing meaning when people weren’t constantly stimulated. There’s still meaning today, but I can’t help but feel it’s shallow and unappreciated by reader and writer alike.