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New comment by zaneyard in "Magnifica Humanitas"

zaneyard — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:04:42 +0000

What is the point of this comment? Do you mean to say we should cease the pursuit of DEI because we've "come so far"? Of course that's engaging with you with the assumption that you're not intentionally ignoring the weaponization of the movement in the US to further the goals of the current administration.

New comment by zaneyard in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

zaneyard — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:06:42 +0000

I think the reason discord got so popular is because of the ease of use. Being able to join a server with a link (and not even having to download a client if you don't want), being able to see who's in voice without "connecting" to the server like mumble or teamspeak, persistent chat. This is what is unique about discord; all those other things came later. This is the user experience the alternatives need to replicate. Custom emojis are not a deal breaker, the hangout experience is.

New comment by zaneyard in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

zaneyard — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:29:39 +0000

We have masked men grabbing people off the streets with no accountability. Perhaps you should be asking for evidence of lack of human rights abuse.

New comment by zaneyard in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

zaneyard — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:23:16 +0000

I thought I recognized that name: Nylund also wrote some books for the Halo series which I enjoyed, although I was already a fan of the games.

New comment by zaneyard in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

zaneyard — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:18:04 +0000

I enjoyed Braid and this revelation doesn't change that, but there's a lot of entertainment and it's easy to not support someone who has views (or at least doesn't express them publicly) that conflict with my own personal values.

New comment by zaneyard in "Nvidia won, we all lost"

zaneyard — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 14:06:20 +0000

If you don't care about competitive balance or the "identity" of magic it probably didn't.

Long answer: the introduction of non-magic sets like SpongeBob SquarePants, Deadpool, or Assassin's Creed are seen as tasteless money grabs that dilute the quality and theme of magic even further, but fans of those things will scoop them up.

The competitive scene has been pretty rough, but I haven't played constructed formats in a while so I'm not as keyed into this. I just know that there have been lots of cards released recently that have had to be banned for how powerful they were.

Personally, I love the game, but I hate the business model. It's ripe for abuse and people treat cards like stocks to invest in.

New comment by zaneyard in "Try Switching to Kagi"

zaneyard — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:39:35 +0000

Firefox (and probably others) allows you to set up custom search engines (like Wikipedia). So when I know I am trying to get to Wikipedia or npm or whatever I just do an @wikipedia and type my search.

New comment by zaneyard in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

zaneyard — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:02:20 +0000

I disagree with this thought. I think it's really easy for people to react to things being done for other people (who may have it better or worse off than you) with a sense of abandonment. The reality of the situation is that some people do need more help than others, and a lack of empathy prevents us from seeing that. The idea that receiving help means that person has "given up" their responsibility to society is harmful to society itself in my opinion.

New comment by zaneyard in "How to play board games online with your friends"

zaneyard — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 05:34:14 +0000

Awesome thank you! I'm up near the twin cities; the saint paul board game meetup goes to a lot of breweries and I prefer that vibe too. I like the game aspect but I think the social part is important too. I'm hoping to move this year, but a lot of that depends on how long the pandemic lasts unfortunately. I'm happy to hear there's some good groups. I don't mind traveling a little bit to meet up, but I'll check out the north side a bit more if it's nerdier.

New comment by zaneyard in "How to play board games online with your friends"

zaneyard — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:05:03 +0000

I've been looking at moving to Austin and love board games. Unfortunately with everything canceled I can't currently use Meetup to check out the scene. Would you mind talking a little bit about what the board game scene is normally like in the area?

New comment by zaneyard in "Ask HN: How do you know a career in software is not for you?"

zaneyard — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:42:44 +0000

Thanks! I'm really excited; everyone I've talked to that has been there hypes it up a lot. I will definitely not be thinking about work haha.

New comment by zaneyard in "Ask HN: How do you know a career in software is not for you?"

zaneyard — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:46:41 +0000

I find that I reach that half-life at a company too. After I sweep up the things that are in my control I start noticing all the other problems that are hard for me to affect and then I get complacent. I think I probably need a change of scenery. I have a 2 week vacation to Japan coming up so I think that will be a good time to clear my head and really get a chance to digest what is going on. Thanks for sharing your perspective with me, it helps a lot.

New comment by zaneyard in "Ask HN: How do you know a career in software is not for you?"

zaneyard — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:43:42 +0000

Part of me wonders if I need to rewire how I think about this. Like I realize that there are things outside of my control but deep down I don't accept it, or something like that. Maybe it would help to get out and have conversations like these more often with peers. I'll look around on meetup to see if I can connect with people; I don't really have any friends in tech that I can talk to other than my co-workers.

New comment by zaneyard in "Ask HN: How do you know a career in software is not for you?"

zaneyard — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 21:13:19 +0000

I have definitely internalized the idea that it's all just tradeoffs. I think I value delivering quality software and it's hard to feel like I'm doing that when I see so many production outages and most of my interaction with co-workers is people telling me something is broken. I get that stuff happens sometimes, but we can't seem to keep a test environment stable. Managers are definitely aware of the issue, but I feel like it keeps getting worse. I can't hold back a tidal wave alone.

Thank you for sharing your perspective.

New comment by zaneyard in "Ask HN: How do you know a career in software is not for you?"

zaneyard — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:54:40 +0000

I have definitely been thinking about this a lot, however, it's difficult to know what to do when this is the only long term job I've ever had, and the first time I've really had a career.

I don't think the company is looking to sell; it feels like the top is just not concerned with reliability and most of our funding goes into new feature development, which in turn makes things less stable.

Identifying what's wrong is probably the most difficult part for me. It feels like a systematic failure that I can't affect.

New comment by zaneyard in "Ask HN: How do you know a career in software is not for you?"

zaneyard — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:17:28 +0000

Thank you. I wasn't trying to make it sound like I am applying my experiences to the entire industry, I'm just trying to reason about what issues are about me, what issues are about my company, and what issues are about my career path.

Ask HN: How do you know a career in software is not for you?

zaneyard — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 19:57:10 +0000

I've been working for the same place for about 2.5 years and also have another ~year at an internship in another place.

I enjoy the problem solving aspect of working on software, but I'm finding that I'm barely utilizing my abilities and time here. This is certainly an issue that I'm trying to resolve.

However, I think what I'm having the most issue with is that I don't really feel like I'm serving anyone. I really like working with people to help solve issues, but I don't get that feeling here at all. The only problems I get to solve are the problems I feel like we make for ourselves (environment instability, lack of funding for maintenence, people not testing their changes, etc). I just feel like my job is to clean up a pile of trash that the business wants to put minimal time into. It feels so overwhelming to be paving a new sidewalk on a bridge that has supports falling apart.

I'm also considering the impact that the lack of social and physical activity has on my happiness. I spend time with people and exercise outside of work, but I don't want every day to just be excited to leave work.

How do I manage this? Am I just in the wrong company? Or the wrong career path?

Can anyone else relate and share how you've dealt with this? I'm not really sure where else to discuss this sort of thing.

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New comment by zaneyard in "Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen"

zaneyard — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:47:08 +0000

How are they supposed to know you use one?

New comment by zaneyard in "Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands"

zaneyard — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 18:02:08 +0000

Yeah, but the risk from contact lenses comes over time as it's a risk every time you put your lenses in where with laser correction the risk pretty much only exists while you are healing. You really only have to avoid getting stuff in your eye while the bandage lens is in.

Everything I've read about comparing the risk notes this factor.

I'm sure that if you wear contacts perfectly all the time the risk is very low, but as we all know people do stupid things.

That said, the decision to get surgery was more about not having to deal with glasses or contacts every day and less about the risk.

New comment by zaneyard in "Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands"

zaneyard — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 16:01:06 +0000

I had dry eyes (although I never noticed it) going into the procedure, and while I'm healing I put artificial tears in at night and a couple times during the day. It's well worth it to be able to not have to mess with glasses to put my motorcycle helmet on. If one had really bad dry eyes after correction one could get tear wells put in. If one had too dry of eyes before the doctor would recommend against the procedure.