Hacker News: zetsurin

New comment by zetsurin in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

zetsurin — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:36:34 +0000

You should listen to your mother.

edit: lol, i assumed you were the OP. ignore me

New comment by zetsurin in "US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care"

zetsurin — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:15:03 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/israel-weapo...

Yeah! No USA involvement there... take a second and imagine it was you and your family getting bombed and starved. stop being such a horrible person.

New comment by zetsurin in "Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market"

zetsurin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:27:05 +0000

George Carlin also said: "'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it" (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason...).

I think there's a power dynamic that it seems like you are ignoring, that big companies take advantage of. Amazon gets cheap goods to your doorstep, and removes all competition while doing it. You think those goods are going to stay cheap,i don't. This is a playbook that wallmarts followed for years. Amazon also gets sellers, by selling amazon versions of their products. Google makes billions by showing you ads, they got you there with free services, but now they enshittify.

>There's an air of let's go back to the good old days when we were hunter gatherers to the whole thing

I think my concern is not going back to the bad old gilded age days, where wealth inequality lead to most humans having a terrible life while a few had a great life.

New comment by zetsurin in "Let me pay for Firefox"

zetsurin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:25:12 +0000

This is a weird strawman and it has almost nothing to do the parent's claim. The guilded age is 1870-1890's.

New comment by zetsurin in "Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration"

zetsurin — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:17:47 +0000

>privacy/security fragmentation

giant big tech data leak:https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-billion-passwords-apple-facebo... yesterday?

New comment by zetsurin in "New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship"

zetsurin — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:20:14 +0000

It is insane what they survived. For me "The Worst Journey in the World" was a better read.

New comment by zetsurin in "Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)"

zetsurin — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:33:57 +0000

I'm a huge roger waters fan, in particular the album named after this book (not to mention huxley). I was excited to finally get to read what had inspired him. I found it dated (obviously I'd read it nearly 40 years after it was published), commentary on the evils of tv.

New comment by zetsurin in "Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board"

zetsurin — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:59:52 +0000

Maybe too far fetched? Company sells/loses data, insurance companies use data to deny coverage, or deem claims as pre-existing.

New comment by zetsurin in "China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal"

zetsurin — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:15:18 +0000

In the west there have been environmental commitments since the at least 1990s. The governments just seem to mostly ignore those commitments. So it's pretty easy for westerners to not believe commitments made by other governments.

New comment by zetsurin in "Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age"

zetsurin — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 23:00:53 +0000

>I would also like the ability to start from a bar of my choice and maybe even evaluate a one or two bar section at a time rather than having to play the whole piece

^ IMO this should be among your top priority.

New comment by zetsurin in "Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age"

zetsurin — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:59:12 +0000

Anecdotal, but maybe it'll help

I had a goal of introducing my kids to piano, and also wanted to pick it back up myself (I'd been forced to as a kid and hated it, never progressed beyond beginner).

I got myself a casio privia (it's a costco special 88 weighted keys, was the reddit recommendation for beginners at the time). Then paid for lessons with a teacher for my family which by far outweighed the cost of the keyboard.

About 10 years later: rest of family have given up piano, they didn't progress far, and i didn't do any forcing; but it was nice to hear them play when they did. I've kept it up although progress is very slow.

I think my feelings are: - I could have spent more on the piano (my dad got a significantly more expensive piano, and it is more pleasurable to play): quieter keys, better action on the keys. - I feel pretty good about how far my the rest of my family progressed, and am happy that i didn't push - I feel like a teacher somewhat forces you to keep practising even when you don't want, and maintains some progress, I don't think I'd get this from an app.

New comment by zetsurin in "Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)"

zetsurin — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:21:49 +0000

Presume it's the text below, and maybe you have to have the font installed?

>Take heed! This only works if your browser supports ligatures

New comment by zetsurin in "The language you speak changes your perception of time"

zetsurin — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:19:44 +0000

I was attempting to use it as "denies" (even though in reply i said "prove").

You seem to me to be taking the meanings of words so seriously that you've lost the value those words provide.

New comment by zetsurin in "The language you speak changes your perception of time"

zetsurin — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 14:57:21 +0000

You are saying he doesn't prove it false?

New comment by zetsurin in "The language you speak changes your perception of time"

zetsurin — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 00:05:09 +0000

First thought was of John McWhorter's book [The Language Hoax](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18579574), where he refutes Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I think in that book he talks about this phenomenon too.

New comment by zetsurin in "The language you speak changes your perception of time"

zetsurin — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 23:48:25 +0000

Great movie, based on one of Ted Chaing's short stories -- highly recommended.

New comment by zetsurin in "Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork"

zetsurin — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:59:18 +0000

we went in the opposite direction, not because haproxy was bad, just because nginx had a simpler config, and i think we were paying for haproxy but don't pay for nginx.

all that said, neither drops existing connections on reload

New comment by zetsurin in "We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is"

zetsurin — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:02:07 +0000

You have: you've got clearly labelled workloads you can decide which ones are important and not, and easily turn down the ones that aren't important.

New comment by zetsurin in "Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day"

zetsurin — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:26:38 +0000

Based on 2160p movies i've seen around the very largest max out at around 100, and 40 is more common, so this seems wrong.

New comment by zetsurin in "Too much serendipity"

zetsurin — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 04:35:09 +0000

Oh cool, I find cilantro to taste bad! Stevia less so, but I don't like it. Is Aspartame the same (I also find it to have an aftertaste)?