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MacroChipon Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks

You think Reddit is surprised? For all we know, this is going better than they expected.

MacroChipon The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs

Got a specific location I can check out on Google maps?

MacroChipon AT&T Wireless traffic shaping apparently making some websites unusable

Did they wait to sue until after you had your data ready? Or were they gonna sue regardless?

MacroChipon Push notifications are now supported cross-browser

In my experience, web push notifications on Android do not show immediately (i.e. with high priority). They only show when your phone wakes. Does anyone know of a workaround for this?

MacroChipon Push notifications are now supported cross-browser

I've had no issue with Firebase on a personal project just pushing to my android. The big caveat is that the push doesn't wake the phone. So all notifications drop in when I click the screen on.

MacroChipon I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney

The more specific the source you draw joy from is, the more precarious you have always been in life. This is not a judgement.

MacroChipon March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened

You won't fire off a quick email nor warn others because there's no bug bounty?

MacroChipon America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars

Possibly all of them!

MacroChipon Shields Up

You don't need a Shields Up button to have a little self control on the internet. Seth is energized after a day on the internet. This blog post is about "we" being exhausted aka "you". Not Seth. If you are reading this, you can do it.

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

MacroChipon Shields Up

My thoughts and experience as well. Seth does not suffer or get exhausted online. He's had his list of what to avoid internalized for a long time. As do I. Believe it or not, you have some agency when using the internet. Even in the face of "the algorithm" (what that has come to mean).

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine

MacroChipon SVB Hall of Shame

It wasn't a prisoner's dilemma. Cooperating gets you almost nothing while defecting gives you benefit. It was nearly the opposite of the prisoner's dilemma. Couldn't another school of thought "blame" those who didn't participate loudly?

MacroChipon The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

Fwiw, your rant did not convince me.

I estimate that astronomers need to know about tradeoffs on a telescopes' settings for the data they are looking at. But I'm unconvinced that they necessarily need to know how to operate it (would depend on the workplace) and I certainly disagree that how they are constructed is absolutely necessary for all astronomers.

More knowledge is always good, so of course learn what you want. But it's not being "ashamed of tools" to say that a CS degree should "do one thing and do it well".

Additionally, we can simultaneously say that a university should encourage tool mastery while also saying that they don't need to teach entire courses on it.

MacroChipon The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

My university had Dijkstra's quote "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes". They made us aware of tools and we were free to use them as little or as much as possible to do the science. I always assumed that software engineering degrees focused on tools more than computer science degrees (among other differences).

MacroChipon I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

  -Meet Markus at a con  
  -Markus best friend now  
  -Play Minecraft for days
  -Write poem
  -Markus says "I ain't reading all that, ship it! We have a deadline!"
  -Take the money and run
  -Enjoy cold hard cash instead of speculating on royalties
  -Trip on shrooms on squatted land
  -Try to squat poem
  -"Dear Microsoft I don't care about laws. Love love love."
  -Love love love
  -Money money money plz
  -Love love love

MacroChipon Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?

https://archive.ph/DrDI7

MacroChipon Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies

Was the documentation a failure? Or did the US save untold amounts of money because of the mothballing->documentation? The failure of the 20M attempt doesn't mean the overall strategy was bad nor that the documentation was net negative.

MacroChipon Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022

Interesting that Jack keeps the tracking code on Twitter shared links

MacroChipon A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines’ in-flight announcements

Maybe some test mode is getting activated on accident. And those are the sounds a developer recorded long ago and didn't remove.

MacroChipon Good conversations have lots of doorknobs

I was confused for a few sentences when the giver/taker terms were used without explicit definition. I assumed they were used to denote information givers/takers but the definition is more like spotlight giver/takers

MacroChipon An odd discovery on Spotify

One time I made a "Hitler finds out"* meme and uploaded it to youtube. My video immediately got 2 copyright claims on it. One was for the video and was probably by the film rights holders. The other was for the audio and it was this song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlbcRumfwk I assumed that this was some kind of scheme. The audio claim has since been removed (not by me and I don't know when).

* https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hitlers-downfall-parodies

MacroChipon Ubisoft about to take away games you bought

The author is correct about centralized NFTs not being what you expect them to be. They are wrong that NFTs are debunked. A true web3 game will never have the servers shut down. Everyone collectively pays for the server costs. Every time you do something in the game, you pay for your little slice of server time.

MacroChipon I regret my website redesign

Yeah I'm a little surprised he regrets it. I guess he assumes that a freelancer would have done the same work since his takeaway says so. He may have indeed gotten "service normally reserved for large companies despite my limited budget".

MacroChipon Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1

Web3 games will never be shut down (if properly decentralized). The "game server" is effectively pay-as-you-go.

NFTs grafted on to web2 games is a start of player owned gaming, but true web3 games will be wholly player owned.

These shutdowns (along with things like Diablo's Error 37 launch) are why gamers will gravitate to games they can't get rug pulled on.

MacroChipon Ask HN: I'm disabled and out of money. Now what?

>I can't even afford to toss a few bucks into side projects Why do you need money for side projects?

MacroChipon Do Kwon in more trouble

Financial education and common sense are at all time highs at a global, hundred years zoom level. If you are trying to make a claim about your region on a shorter time scale, I could believe it. Same for "people want money more than ever". Could be true for your bubble, country, etc but is not globally/100 year window. But of course this claim is hard to measure.

MacroChipon Ask HN: Viability of an anti-AI social movement?

Imo most people who spend time resisting things like AI and Blockchain will spin their wheels before being lumped in with the Luddites. Make sure tech is used correctly because you aren't stopping it. Even if you "stop" a given tech in your country, many other countries will embrace it and leave you out of the conversation.

MacroChipon Ask HN: What does your mother tell people about your work or employment?

"He's making a video game that you can sell used like at GameStop. Or rent like at Blockbuster."

This is the line I tell non-gamers so they can repeat it. Usually people end up reminiscing about Blockbuster .

MacroChipon My students cheated... a lot

This is true for so many other aspects of life as well. Things are the way they are for a reason. Not understanding the deep and complex factors that got the system to where it is dooms you to repeat the mistakes of the past. This is why I go for depth on what I complain and ideate on rather than breadth. Dive deep on something you care about instead of having an opinion about everything. Humans have done well with specialization. If you enjoy breadth, go for it. I just don't see it as very effective.

I suppose that complaining without proposing solutions is akin to protesting. You may not necessarily know what you want specifically, but you don't want the current system.

MacroChipon Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021)

Not every node has to store every transaction ever. Nodes can prune old state

MacroChipon YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42M in funds from 4878 customers

Yes, some people leverage after 1000x unrealized gains. Their portfolio and investment thesis may not care about cost basis. Welcome to crypto.