howaboutnope

6 ms·

1.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
A really, really good podcast I listened to recently: https://changelog.com/news/web-developments-lost-decade-LWao > Amal sits down for a one-on-one with Alex Russell, Microsoft Partner on the Edge team, and former
2.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
And then you can still use SyncThing[0] to share things. Depending on what you're doing of course, and how friendly the applications you use for it are to being used that way.. but if it's all in the browser and email profiles and
3.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
This does not exist in a vacuum. > Other people say, and I think this is a widely used rationalization, that fundamentally the tools we work on are "mere" tools; This means that whether they get use for good or evil depends on
4.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
Yet all living beings in earth are descendants of same cell, as far as we know. So if the above can happen once -- even if only "needs" to happen once, why would it not occur more than once, and lead to different "lines&quo
5.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
> It may or may not be overcome by additional data and compute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso... > Deciding is a computational activity, something that can ultimately be programmed.
6.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
I've seen an example where asking the exact same question word for word lead to the opposite outcome (one was a really racist rap, the other was a really good rap against racism). So, how do you know that posing that problem N times wi
7.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
You think this is the result of how much the average person can be trusted? Trash on the streets or urine in a phone booth are one thing, but this hits a bit different: > equipment vandalized but nothing taken from the sites Bust just ou
8.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
I hate software bloat and thrown away milliseconds, but even then I realize that our visual cortex is really good at noticing movement, but hasn't had any experience in the last millions of years with stuff just popping up out of nowhe
9.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
> It is everyone being complicit in this act that demonstrates to you how worthless you are that destroys you. And that's why any generic, vague rules to supposedly "prevent bullying" or "fix the environment" wil
10.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
What really gets me is that even those few people who are in high enough positions in big enough companies to have material benefits from "capturing" customers and making everything "sticky" and as pushy as possible... a
11.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
> Because we're so out of our minds with desperation, we don't know any better. All we know is fake fodder and buying shit. That's how we speak to each other, how we express ourselves, is buying shit. What, I have a dream
12.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
I think it's not so much about them talking to each other, it's about shutting them off from the outside. > The last time the Islamic Repubic cut off the Internet in Iran, they brutally massacred 1500 people, just 3 years ago.
13.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
This includes not wanting to support or do business with people who look the other way as people get slaughtered. I'm not in Iran, I'm dealing solely with things that enter my ken and therefore become subject to my judgement. I ca
14.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
> Hacktoberfest is an October-long celebration to promote contributions to the free and open-source software communities. In 2020, participants were encouraged to submit four or more pull requests to any public free or open-source (FOS)
15.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
An OS is not a destination, it's a medium if you will. A better comparison would be being blasted with ads no matter where you go.
16.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
I am not "life". Considering something humans do as "bad" is kinda like the cultural equivalent of an immune system. I don't judge a parasite for trying it on with me, because there is no utility in it. Use those re
17.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
> No one's (at an aggregate level) getting Room 101ed from it. Start a political party that has enough success to threaten the status quo. Be Assange. Be Snowden. Talk is cheap.
18.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
> The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they possess a really effective system of mind-manipulation. In the past, free-thinkers
19.
by howaboutnope 4y ago
When I made it with WebGL (with no clue what I was embarking on, I just wanted to try it), I ended up with 8 substeps. Looking at it now it confuses the hell out of me, but IIRC it had to do with with checking each cardinal direction both w
20.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
> Copy and paste this code into your website where you want this animation to appear Sorry to go on a tangent (I think your project is awesome!), but this is why I love the web. So much.
21.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
Telling people to be witheringly ashamed isn't "throwing a tantrum". It's giving them their chance to repent before getting cut off. It's THEIR job to clean their house, not that of critics. https://twitt
22.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
> It happens when I cut something with ctrl + X. Not to me, because in the software I use the thing gets actually deleted once I paste it somewhere else, not before. It's more like tagging the thing(s) for moving to a location to be
23.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
Apple Silicon comes with Apple software. It's worthless to me.
24.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
> correct me if I'm wrong I don't even remotely have the expertise for that, if applicable others would have to do that. But thanks a lot for elaborating!
25.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
I often upvote articles I find interesting enough I want to see a discussion of them on HN. To me it doesn't mean every word of an article is perfect and above criticism, it just means it's IMO interesting and of substance enough
26.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
This discussion instantly garned upvotes, not one substantial argument against the article, and was flagged off the front page. At least this person has a reasoning and stands behind it, that's heads and shoulders above the tactics o
27.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
How do they keep people from talking about something they'd rather not talk about? Why would they need to? Espcially since people tend to just scream "conspiracy theorist!", flag it off HN etc.
28.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
> So, what is the call to action here? Stop researching gain of function entirely? I'd say it's this: > We need to decide whom to believe: the people with a lot to lose and their not-very-parsimonious or plausible-sounding e
29.
Lab Leak 2.0?(bprice.substack.com)
576 points by howaboutnope 5y ago|298 comments
30.
by howaboutnope 5y ago
So in your mind there's either professional endurance sports, or everybody is getting "weak and fat"? And of course, if everybody is a professional athlete, stuff like plumbing, growing food, medicine, all these things will

More ›