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chachachoney··on Slack wanted to stay independent, but was unable to compete with tech giants
J.R. "Bob" Dobbs is not amused.
chachachoney··on Ask HN: What are your favorite roguelike games?
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Caves of Qud.
chachachoney··on The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]
If your unarticulated fourth goal was to increase sales of this book:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disrupted:_My_Misadventure_i...

You've achieved it.

chachachoney··on The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]
Calling this love, especially given the documented history of your company, is gaslighting, please stop.
chachachoney··on Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show
The lack of a proper societal response to the disease, and what that reveals about the fragile state of our civilization is what's responsible for severe pandemic-related anxiety.
chachachoney··on Covid-19 Event Risk Assessment Planning Tool
500 Internal Server Error
chachachoney··on Writing a winning 4K intro in Rust
Can you articulate what the specific benefits would be if the person providing obscure free tools via esoteric channels suddenly conformed to the behavioral norms your wishing for?
chachachoney··on Mainframes Are Having a Moment
Is Cobalt an obscure dialect of Cobol?
chachachoney··on Spatial Interfaces (2019)
Thank you.
chachachoney··on Spatial Interfaces (2019)
Very interested. Can you recommend any seminal works?
chachachoney··on Coronavirus has caused a bicycling boom in New York City
They also joyride at reckless speeds around the borough of Queens blaring sirens and driving the wrong way down one way streets for fun. That's at night, while ON duty.

Inebriated police driving off duty are also a significant problem in the outer boroughs and are rarely prosecuted in any meaningful way for doing so...

If nothing is done about the above, seems like there's little chance that parking in bike lanes or on sidewalks in front of lunch/snack spots is going to be addressed.

chachachoney··on The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold
Of course! It's very difficult for the bourgeois to sleep when consumed by the knowledge that they're not living their most bourgeois life.
chachachoney··on The human body’s remarkable ability to adapt to the cold
Space blankets are made of mylar, and are not porous.

Not sure why people here think that they don't block moisture and allow evaporative cooling...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_blanket

chachachoney··on Officials: Dozens at WA nursing facility show possible coronavirus symptoms
>> I’ve heard symptoms relate less with age and more with viral load. The sicker other people are and the more frequently you come in contact with them, the more lethal it becomes.

Are you sure that's accurate? I'm not disputing that as viral load increases, so do symptoms, and ability to infect others.

However, I'm finding it hard to model a scenario in which a virus is already replicating in one's system and external exposure to comparitively infinitesimal amounts of the same virus has an impact. Do you have any actual evidence to present which backs up your claims?

chachachoney··on A Text Renaissance
They seem to be missing the point that the single greatest feature of text-mode interfaces is portability and not being tied to a single platform provider.
chachachoney··on Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device
What you're presenting is not factual evidence that adults don't take up new nicotine habits, it's evidence to the contrary.
chachachoney··on Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device
>> The fact is that adults don't take up a new nicotine habit

That's not a fact. There are plenty of smokers who acquire the habit as adults.

chachachoney··on Inside the Philip Morris campaign to 'normalize' a tobacco device
>> Second-hand smoke should be considered a form of battery, of which tobacco companies are accomplices and enablers.

That's hyperbolic to the point of seeming like farce.

chachachoney··on SEC proposes changes to “accredited investor” definition
Verification is necessary. Have you managed to invest in an endeavor which requires accredited investors while not actually meeting requirements yourself?
chachachoney··on Show HN: I Am Pickle Rick
You're leaving a lot of extra gold stars on the table by not including some Solenya lore...
chachachoney··on A Sad Day for Rust
>> It felt really bad and was the first time I felt how this community has changed from the years I started writing Rust.

I agree. I'm further disheartened by a lot of the reactions that happened since. One of Rust's greatest strengths is turning into a weakness.

The Rust community needs to treat this cultural exploit as if it were a critical technical exploit and apply the same sort of objective and collective examination of source and insightful exploration of assumptions made about existing grammars and syntax and come up with appropriately safe and forward thinking solutions to ensure that the code of conduct isn't just a progressive cliche.

chachachoney··on A Sad Day for Rust
Seems like there was plenty of actual terrible to go around, and the language barrier made quite a few instances of not terrible seem terrible.
chachachoney··on Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
>> their is something weirdly alex jones about his voice and mannerism

They are both passionate people whose articulation is rife with some distinct regional and broadcast (ie. radio) shibboleths.

Only one of them is a post truth raving lunatic dangerous populist performance artist shill.

You're doing a disservice to Dan Carlin and giving Alex Jones way too much power/credit by justifying a knee jerk bias based on superficial resemblances.

chachachoney··on Show HN: Angeldust – a fast and efficient video game
Your time scale and etymology are wildly off, or else your experience is confined to a very limited geographic region.
chachachoney··on Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
Sounds like you and and I disagree as to what constitutes a dense urban environment.
chachachoney··on Larry and Sergey: A Valediction
>>> Is it an obvious ad-funnel? I doubt it. Or Google Street Maps, for that matter.

Google Street Maps was an incredible tool in dense urban environments before it became overwhelmed with sponsored pins. 2016 was the beginning of the effort to monetize it, and now it's overloaded with sponsored pins/badges that it's nearly nearly useless for most visual search tasks due to the noise.

>>> It's funny how much public perception is tied to the media pulse of a company. If you read comments on online boards today, you'd think Google was one of the worst companies out there.

Google's brand/reputation is suffering precisely because they positioned themselves as benevolent unstoppable underdog saviors (remember the whole "do no evil" thing?) who have since failed to live up to their mission.

Hypocrisy is lethal to branding narratives.

>>> It's a separate matter how some of it is coming back to bite them now that they have hired too many people who are more interested in activism than doing their job.

Dissonance poisons culture, and privilege doesn't toil in the mines for the sake of toil.

chachachoney··on The Great Cannon has been deployed again
>> a workable solution to the massive body of education required to provide adequate technical sophistication

The problem doesn't have to be one of education if it is tackled as a legitimate UI/UX problem and served by a WC3 that supports the needs of end users over corporate partners.

chachachoney··on McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality
Indeed. Embrace, extend, extinguish comes to mind.
chachachoney··on Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
>> The horror of a bad a trip didn’t necessarily teach me anything other than to respect mushrooms much more than weed.

Give it time. It can take a decade of reflection to untangle/parse.

chachachoney··on Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook
>> Also think to yourself why this is front and center? Whereas cigarettes literally kill millions a year and they are perfectly legal. Why? Because politicians cant control their agendas with open social media platforms.

The current crop of populist politicians are benefiting far more from social media platforms than they are from cigarettes.

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