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What's unproven? The site is there for everyone to read, cmon. But yes, let's block the other stuff too, 100% agree.

Copenjinon A self-trained Italian blacksmith built himself an amusement park

Better pictures here: https://www.aipioppi.com/it/parco-giochi/

It's just a mask, and since we have data that shows that they work, you should just put one on without anyone asking you.

Just do this small irrelevant thing and move on with you life, caring a bit about others doesn't really take much effort. I reserve my desire to rebel for actual tyranny.

Copenjinon Hacker Lab Is Closing

Be better.

Copenjinon Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017)

It's obvious to builders, being a huge fan of these characters is a huge red flag for me. I've asked the same question many times.

Copenjinon The PocketReform is a made-in-Berlin Linux handheld

I've followed on and off what Lukas has done over the years since the Amiga expansion board he did a few years ago, lot of fun projects, we should all do more of this kind of stuff.

Copenjinon Ask HN: Is it still conceivable to remain an anonymous developer nowadays?

I've read your post on anonymity, considering that there are successful developers from Russia or some other fake-democracy countries for example, I don't really see why you should have any problems. And which kind of problems? Less revenues?

Opening a small company could probably be ok to preserve some sort of basic anonymity (meaning, it takes a variable but not negligible amount of effort to understand who the owner is).

Copenjinon LaMDA is not sentient

> about how hard it is to get through many rounds of difficult interviews at Google

I've been wondering for a while if they are unnecessarily hard only for one dimension and non-existing for others. I would suggest filtering out people with high probability of damaging the company's image, they have enough examples to build an heuristic.

Copenjinon Connect: A Better gRPC

The main problem I have with grpc is how the connection is handled, I don't really like how minimal the api is in regard to handling disconnections or connectivity issues (the famous GOAWAY). Sometimes it's not enough if the library just autonomously reestablish the session, I want to be notified of any issue and being able to act in a custom way.

Copenjinon Ask HN: Will creative people have jobs in 10 years?

The creative part of programming is not writing code, is defining and simplifying the business logic of what you need to do and troubleshooting issues, both things require real reasoning, huge domain knowledge, gut feelings, an investigative approach, etc...

Creative jobs will be the only ones that will remain one day, but the meaning of "creative" could be redefined or expanded in the coming decades.

Copenjinon DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with Microsoft

That's exactly the kind of "censorship" you want. I understand the sentiment, but you couldn't have chosen a worst example, I hope it's not this specific instance of censorship that really troubles you. Removing what is objectively, yes, spam is ok.

Copenjinon Tell HN: My early access eBook over iOS made $120k in 1 year

I've scrolled through the site wondering who the author was, I have completely abandoned the iOS/Swift world now, and wondering how you could still make money with iOS books/tutorials considering the huge number of options (where popularity usually inversely correlate with quality) you have.

Then I saw "jordanmorgan10" :). For those who don't know, Jordan has been very active in this space for years, I remember him from the early days of Swift, it has not been an overnight success.

Copenjinon Terraform should have remained stateless

The disclaimer on top is completely unnecessary.

Copenjinon Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

Considering the quality of the content that I've seen in the last decade, I expect that your need for space will steeply decrease over time. What has been worth storing/saving the last 3-4 years? I mean really store, because you'll want to watch/play it again some day.

The only things worth keeping are those hard to find with other means, some rare movies for example that are not available in any other form other than some avi found somewhere from an old vhs/dvd, but the rest...

Copenjinon Ask HN: Cloudflare broke my domain's DNSSEC making it unreachable since 4 days

If free implies "if it breaks don't ask us anything, hope it works" they should state so when you signup. Pretty sure it's not the case.

Copenjinon The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics

I can't say that I've never used the first three to spot people with absolutely no useful output, sadly they are pretty good metrics for that.

Copenjinon Notes on Virtual Threads and Clojure

For those wondering about the "tail call" part that would be more interesting for Clojure than fibers:

  As adding the ability to manipulate call stacks to the JVM will undoubtedly be required, it is also the goal of this project to add an even lighter-weight construct that will allow unwinding the stack to some point and then invoke a  method with given arguments (basically, a generalization of efficient tail-calls). We will call that feature unwind-and-invoke, or UAI.

  It is not the goal of this project to add an automatic tail-call optimization to the JVM.

[1] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.ht...

Copenjinon Earn $200K by fuzzing for a weekend: Part 1

Isn't that true for every job?

Copenjinon Long-Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acids Improve Brain Function, Structure in Older Adults (2014)

I've always a lot of doubts on the quality of fish oil supplements being sold (not only for the amount of omega 3 but also for the content of less desirable chemicals derived from farmed fish), and also there has been a lot of research downplaying various omega3 supposed benefits over the years.

Copenjinon When I made another Monkey Island

This is one of the few cases where I'll just buy it, I don't even care what good decisions he is making.

I've played Thimbleweed Park and loved it, brought back a lot of memories.

Copenjinon How to professionally say

Most of these are just passive aggressive versions of the original, maybe more blunt, comment. The effect on me would be the opposite of what the author expects.

Totally unprofessional, remember that you are usually among adults, not kids. Don't be blunt but don't even use this alternative style. Both will get you fired eventually.

My simple suggestion, when something is wrong, make it about us, don't target the individual and try to propose a plan to fix the issue/situation. That's the way to handle conflict, we work together, let's fix issues.

Copenjinon Swedbank customers positive balance turned into negative due to an update

At some point they stop being entertaining and you just want to forget :)

Copenjinon Swedbank customers positive balance turned into negative due to an update

Sadly, we'll never get a post-mortem analysis. Good luck to all those affected and I hope for them that the bank follows standard practices when handling transactions bookkeeping. The balance should be easy to recalculate.

Copenjinon Swedbank customers positive balance turned into negative due to an update

Looks like a simple UI issue, no biggie. They are used to way worse, and barely recoverable, issues created by people without a clue. Horrible sector to work in.

Copenjinon I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books

Hi Greg, did you ever consider selling longer books with a higher price outside of Amazon? Maybe using the 9.99 ones to drive traffic to your pricier book/s.

Copenjinon I earned $160k in passive income from writing non-fiction books

You can always use the $9.99 books you sell on amazon to upsell the pricier books you sell on your site, problem solved.

Copenjinon Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year

It's the same in Europe, but I don't know if they are extremely underpaid in the same way. Money could fix part of the problem.

Copenjinon Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

No it's not, it's a very popular account with a lot of followers, but I don't know how many would follow somewhere else if Elon had to leave for example.