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Torgo

2,575 karma · joined March 28, 2012

My philosophy on beliefs is, strong opinions, weakly held.

I also reverse downvotes, just to piss you off.

It would be cool to see the up/down variance on comments over time.

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Torgo··on Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We’ve terminated this account
The bottom line is that whether or not Molyneux is any of the things he was accused of, kicking him off the service is a PR win for MailChimp. I don't think this disconnect between facts and accusations before punishing is a good thing, but the majority of people clearly don't care.
Torgo··on Glacier National Park to remove all 'glaciers will be gone by 2020' signs
What was the park's plan for 2020? Close down? Change the name of the park? Without the glaciers, what would be the draw?
Torgo··on Ask HN: Ways to Improve Cognition?
The quality has to be good, too. I was getting "enough" sleep, but it didn't matter until I got some pills (trazadone) that really knocked me out.
Torgo··on Anime Floppy Disks
The Ah! My Goddess clips showed a famicom disk card https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Famicom_Zelda_Disk.p...

Legend of the Galactic Heroes was a WORM disk: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41eTWeeR8XL...

I also owned a couple minidisk players, a real underrated format.

Torgo··on What were the creepiest declassified documents of the last decade?
The papers detailing finding tunnels under the mcmartin preschool are not FBI papers but are taken from a book about the mcmartin trial by Ted Gunderson who is one of the primary proponents of the satanic ritual abuse theory. The investigation was funded by the families and none of the people involved are reputable. You can find another copy of the whole report here:

http://tedgunderson.info/index_htm_files/McMartin%20Scientif...

you will find the exact same pages as included in the finders fbi file. Even if you choose to believe the report, this demonstrates that it didn't actually have anything to do with the finders and in any case was not done for, or by, the fbi or police. it was (presumably) included in the file because it had similar claims to ones made against the finders.

I have read the entire finders fbi file. Repeatedly there are the fbi and police fielding claims that the finders were satanists, or that they were sexually abusing the children, but in every case they document they found no actual evidence of this.

the claim of an fbi cover-up was documented in the fbi file (that would be weird if you think about it) but this claim was made by a single junior member of the manhattan beach police, and is never repeated or corroborated anywhere.

the claim that the finders were tied up in the intelligence community seems to be based on uncorroborated claims as well. nothing in the document or linked resources supports it.

I hope you find this helpful, I had multiple of my friends bring up this fbi release as "proof" that SRA was real all along but after reading every page of the file I just don't think there's anything compelling in there.

Torgo··on An IT migration corrupted 1.3B customer records
I don't know how to fulfill this that makes every auditor happy, but so far what we're doing is, we have a restricted-access role on the db that denies access to certain sensitive tables, create a time-restricted temporary user for the developer, and then give them access to the read-replica.
Torgo··on Apple Mac Pro Available to Buy
Every single overpriced Mac Pro I've seen sitting on a desk was bought with other people's money.
Torgo··on The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests
You're arguing that everything can be subject to exploration via scientific method, and he's arguing that some people reject this anyway. Here is a quote about an ideological split that happened in the anthropology community:

>The divide is trenchantly summarized by Lawson and McCauley (1993) who divide between ‘interpretivists’ and ‘scientists,’ or, as noted above, ‘positivists’ and ‘naturalists.’ For the scientists, the views of the ‘cultural anthropologists’ (as they call themselves) are too speculative, especially because pure ethnographic research is subjective, and are meaningless where they cannot be reduced to science. For the interpretivists, the ‘evolutionary anthropologists’ are too ‘reductionistic’ and ‘mechanistic,’ they do not appreciate the benefits of subjective approach (such as garnering information that could not otherwise be garnered), and they ignore questions of ‘meaning,’ as they suffer from ‘physics envy.’

cite: https://www.iep.utm.edu/anthropo/#SH4b

Torgo··on The “backfire effect” is mostly a myth, a broad look at the research suggests
Not necessary. Science advances when entrenched proponents of the old theory die out.
Torgo··on Colleges improve website accessibility as they are defendants in lawsuits
As a contractor I used to construct special websites for both universities and government agencies. I would bring up in meetings "this site is required by law to be accessible" and invariably I was told "accessibility's not in the list of requirements". So in my opinion, they've had this coming for a long time.
Torgo··on PostgreSQL 11.3 and 10.8
I inherited a production system with a PostgreSQL 8.1 database. It's one of the most reliable systems I have.
Torgo··on I Can’t Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems (2017)
The type of banana you get at the grocery store now is called Cavendish. When the slip on banana peel meme was invented, the common banana was the Gros Michel, which has a more slippery skin.
Torgo··on “Be yourself” is terrible advice
What I learned was, "be yourself" is terrible advice if "yourself" is the kind of person who writes for Gawker.
Torgo··on An Easy Mode Has Never Ruined a Game
The entire movie/captioning analogy is off. Language spoken in movies isn't meant to be adversarial but gameplay is. It's just not an accessibility issue. I hate this argument because it feels manipulative. If it's about accessibility and if you still say no, you're a monster.
Torgo··on Ask HN: What's the dumbest thing you've done on the job?
JetBrains DataGrip does put up a warning like this before you can do a DELETE on a table, unadorned by a WHERE clause.
Torgo··on Ask HN: What's the dumbest thing you've done on the job?
I stored an entire 30GB PostgreSQL production database on an AWS ephemeral volume (gets automatically wiped on restart) because I mistook the device ID for one of a regular volume I thought attached.

Found my mistake months later, was able to fix it before disaster struck.

Torgo··on Newmail: Generating random email aliases on OpenSMPTD
I do this on my home email server via Thunderbird. There is a plugin here: https://www.absorb.it/virtual-id that lets you put in an arbitrary from address (as long as your server will accept it.)
Torgo··on Pika/web: Web Apps Without the Bundler
>I have to review at least monthly all our dependencies for published vulnerabilities and new versions.

Off-topic, but can you write about how you manage this without tons of manual work?

Torgo··on 4chan has been blocked in NZ “for security reasons”
It is an undeniable fact that mosques have radicalized more people than imageboards have.
Torgo··on Ethereum's Constantinople upgrade: a success – developer and community reaction
It won't happen this year.
Torgo··on Linux Desktop Setup
Compositing was (shortly) after OS X.
Torgo··on PeerTube. What It Is, and What I Think It's Problems Are
The videos were too short for piracy, they were capped at like five minutes long. I used to watch videos by a legit "youtube star" named Brookers. They also used to have reply videos, before it got clogged with spam. It used to be a lot more social.
Torgo··on UK makes it an offence to view terrorist propaganda even once
teaching a dog to raise its paw on command isn't really racist nor anti-Semitic, even in context. People heiled on the comedy Hogan's Heroes.
Torgo··on Pufferfish in China bred poison-free
The pain and suffering is also shouldered by people around the substance abuser. While I don't disagree with you about prison, if much of innocent parties' pain can be abated by taking the abuser out of the system, then it is not just moralizing.
Torgo··on Ask HN: Hardware guy needs to learn web application development – what language?
Please do a writeup on something you've built, I am extremely interested.
Torgo··on OpenBSD: New console font Spleen made default
How do you make these work in Ubuntu? Tried copying them to /usr/local/share/fonts and running "fc-cache -f -v" it seems to detect them but lxterminal, fontviewer were still unable to find and use them...
Torgo··on Ask HN: What are unusual perks of a job?
Early in my career I used to work in the public sector, one place I worked everyone's salary was public information. But discovered that several checks were printed every month for the executives "refunding" expenses like "transportation costs" and various other things, substantially boosting their pay, which was not reported as part of their official salary.
Torgo··on Coolest Things I Learned in 2018
Try going on a couple blind dates.
Torgo··on Top Patreon creators launching an alternate crowdfunding platform
Carl Benjamin didn't break their rules and their "proof" stripped vital context to make it appear that he was saying the exact opposite of what he was saying. I have to assume this was on purpose because they went out of their way to make a transcript and could not have missed that; so people are fully justified in believing Patreon had it out for him.
Torgo··on Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard (1992)
The lesson I'm getting from this thread is, if you want to learn a foreign language, get a foreign bride.
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