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mayoi··on Programming Paradigm
Now go tell me which one of those is C++, you know, this thing that is about to adopt every single concept in our universe :)
mayoi··on Show HN: Hacker News Lite – I made a less distracting version of HN
When you start naming text and people "content" on webpages that you need to "consume" as efficiently as possible, you should know that it's time to go outside and touch grass.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Conten...

mayoi··on The coming tsunami of fakery
Changing it back is a change by itself, genius.
mayoi··on The coming tsunami of fakery
You can already call most things "content" without a whiff of irony. Just look at youtube. "Content creators", you think they're misusing the words? No they're being 100% genuine to you what their intention is.

Also, here's a good website in general for this kind of stuff, thank you Stallman: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Conten...

mayoi··on The coming tsunami of fakery
You can always contribute by crawling ipv4 range searching for http servers that don't necessarily have a domain pointing at them and posting a list for us when you're done crawling it merely once :)
mayoi··on The coming tsunami of fakery
Just a wild guess based on past 2 years, but probably outside.
mayoi··on The coming tsunami of fakery
Why does it matter?

You love seafood, so just literally run grep on the entire page and if it contains the word then include it as a correct.

In reality, you will miss a lot of real seafood pages because they don't really need to mention "seafood" and context matters, so what? Chances are that that one website where person randomly added "I love seafood" to the top of the page will be the only page that you've ever wanted to see anyway.

There's too much data for you to go through in entire life in any case, so why worry about it as long as you can get something that's good enough? You will never get best data, if it was possible, google would be giving you best data already.

How do I know? Well, looking up my real name shows where I grew up, what school I went to, graduated, and even which exam I scored 100 on... And even some places I used to work for in the past, and while that part is going to make most people paranoid, I wish ALL results were as detailed as this one, but there's little you can do.

mayoi··on The coming tsunami of fakery
It cannot be gamed. You wrote your own search engine, you wrote your own filters, you know how it works and noone else.

Whitelists that I wrote by hand also don't introduce new unexpected entries by the way :)

This instead could be more like RSS where as your crawler gets new sites, you get updates on new things, and you could filter in your crawler or in RSS client directly, doesn't matter.

mayoi··on The coming tsunami of fakery
Who stops people from running their own search engines?

As if you cannot look up address range of your own country then crawl your whole country for websites that may be hosted by people living locally.

As if you cannot do the same with a foreign country that interests you.

Maybe you could even find a list that only shows residential IP's so you're sure to be only finding webservers ran by individuals and not corporations.

And if somehow "port scanning" by trying to send a http request to a residential IP is illegal in your dystopian country, you can always start by scraping the site that you're interested in, there will always be at least one more link to another domain somewhere.

For large scale servers python is shit, but that doesn't mean that you cannot spend few weekends writing your own python crawler for your needs, which is so easy that you don't need to be a programmer to do it, and if you really care about this at all, a bit of a startup hurdle won't make you immediately disinterested.

And if it really does, there's always options like https://yacy.net/

You should see these things more like real life. If you wanted to know more about your own neighbourhood, what better way is there than to go outside and walk around your neighbourhood and see things with your own eyes?

Maybe that's just my opinion, but status quo is noone's but your own fault, because I never had this problem.

mayoi··on How long can you stay awake?
"Sleep" has a loose definition and going by the least restrictive one, I cannot go without sleep for more than 18 hours. My brain just stops working.

I've been "awake" for 42 hours before, but the the second day was probably the least productive one out of my entire life, and I don't even remember it at all, it's like it never happened.

mayoi··on One-Time URL Redirects
What?

Why would I trust "br3f" with "sensitive URL"? Why would it be accessible by anyone or from anywhere to begin with? And most importantly, why would I put it in email which is literally the least secure form of communication?

mayoi··on Atmospheric Water Harvesting
How about harvesting water from the oceans? Novel idea I know.

I wonder what situation in Africa would be like if nuclear reactors were built to be cooled on seawater and excess steam was collected as semi-clean water that is a lot easier to purify already. And these useless solar power plants were replaced with solar-based water purification facilities. Wells exist too... Water is literally everywhere, the only problem is how deep you need to dig.

And it's not like I am making this up, nuclear power plants were proven to be suitable for desalination, and there's no issue with water evaporation in the middle of the desert, is there?

Africa was colonized once, it can be colonized again. It could be a central hub of power and water generation that sells it to the entire world, and noone likes Russia anyway. On top of that, this would naturally create jobs.

I really wonder where this "$133.7 billion each year from official aid, grants, loans to the private sector, remittances, etc." gets spent considering that what I proposed doesn't cost that much and could be integrated gradually over many years, throughout which there's "$133.7 billion" every single year, just think for a moment how much money is that. Most expensive part of this would be building a seawater pipeline to the suitable location, so what? I guess noone wants to do it because it's not going to move oil...

mayoi··on Not a Coke ad; Rats fed with soda for 2 months got more stupid
Yeah and chocolate straight up kills dogs, so what's your point?

I don't see anyone shilling against coffee which is literally a drug like alcohol and tobacco however.

Same people who want me to avoid sugar also want me to not use butter and instead use v*getable oils for cooking so I'm not sure why their opinion matters.

From all these meme studies, the only thing that I've learned is that you can take an obese landwhale, feed them whatever you dislike, and observe the complications totally caused by the thing you gave them and not the fact that they cannot physically move without a motorized 4 wheeled scooter which in fact has nothing to do with the type of food you eat.

My issue with this non-study is that it doesn't look like they forced sugar-drinking rats to work harder than rats that didn't gain those extra calories, nor did they mention any weight changes whatsoever. Why do I care? Because it has been proven that obesity can in fact cause brain damage. From cholesterol clogging your arteries and killing braincells that way to other random inflammations, this is the main way to turn into a vegetable. As if I need to tell you that obesity and retardation is literally inseparable. Of course, there are studies that "prove" that obesity doesn't lead to lower intelligence, but I wonder how did they test this considering your intelligence has to be low to become obese in the first place.

mayoi··on Does syntax highlighting help programming novices? (2018)
It helps everyone and always. Don't believe me? Go program with it completely turned off for a month.

If you can suffer that long without switching back prematurely, maybe you're built different, and that's good for you, but noone I know could last that long.

mayoi··on Hostile Architecture
I wonder why noone simply vandalizes it.

It would be funny if someone with an angle grinder came to the public bench and cut off the "arm rests" that you can't even rest your arm on because their only purpose is to prevent homeless from sleeping on a bench that literally noone uses at night anyway.

mayoi··on Ask HN: How to guide contractor to properly use Git branches and pull requests?
> He submits PRs that have lots of weird merging issues [1] that are too complicated to unpack and I end up creating new branches to cherry pick his contributions manually.

You could start by not doing this and instead working your way together to fixing the problems because that's literally what PR's were made for, even more so on GitHub where unlike in email, you can discuss it in almost real time. It looks like you have as much to learn as him, because even if you have to make 500 commits to fix all issues, there's this git feature called commit squashing that helps you clean things up even after the fact, and branches, especially personal ones, can easily have their whole history overwritten without fear as many times as you need it.

mayoi··on Falsehoods programmers believe about time
And I'm not sure how this contradicts what I wrote.
mayoi··on Is there hope for Linux on smartphones? [video]
Android works just fine on my smartphone.
mayoi··on Devs don't want to do Ops
What is a job of a developer again? I wonder where's the strain considering you have to actually have an idea what you're doing, implement that idea, compile it and then run the tests to see whether your idea isn't shit to actually develop something to begin with, and are paid more on average than most professions.

Unlike most professions, they don't need anything but a chair and a computer, meaning that even most obese person on the planet can do this job. The hardest part of it is solving the problem you need to solve, and if you cannot do it, maybe you should consider different kind of job, like a warehouse worker, or assembly line worker, there will be 0 thinking involved and you usually won't have to do much, just one trivial action that is a part of the bigger picture over and over again, without ever having to finish something from start to the very end, like you always wanted to!

mayoi··on Cold Email = Email Marketing
My email server is configured to send all cold email straight into the trash and I never ever even see it. The only way to bypass this is to make me aware of your existence and also convince me that I should care, life is too short to read all the spam, goodluck!
mayoi··on Ask HN: Is it unfair to reject senior candidates based on their language skills?
> If someone isn't fluent in English how are they going to be fluent in code?

By being good at programming and not English? Writing code is more like solving mathematical problems rather than writing English essays...

mayoi··on The World’s Cotton Supply Keeps Shrinking, Hit by Drought, Heat
> the US, the largest exporter of the commodity is having problems

I can't help but laugh at the fact that infographics on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding literally have the iconic Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II as the choice of the plane that would do the seeding.

I wonder why don't they just do this now?

mayoi··on The Five Dimensions of Curiosity (2018)
I'm curious how can there only be 5 dimensions when there's more than 5 fields of study that people dedicate their lives to which all require different kinds of mindsets to approach.
mayoi··on VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
You can always simply install a better text editor that doesn't spy on you.
mayoi··on Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse
The only horseman of infocalypse that I know is my government and I'm not sure where other 3 went.
mayoi··on Fast response times signal social connection in conversation
> No topic variation

Seems like an useless study then because most people would consider me antisocial but even I can rapid fire stupid generic smalltalk responses and questions which may very well have been that "constant topic" in the study because I know no other topic that literally anyone can talk about with such fast response times that you don't even have time to think.

mayoi··on Ask HN: URL format for blog posts - which format is best?
It doesn't really matter to me that much because it's all useless and too long to remember that I will bookmark everything I care about and give them a proper name handwritten title by myself, but if I had to choose, it would instead look something like the urls in software documentation:

> https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector

See? You don't even need to open it to know what's going to be there.

Sadly, it's kind of hard to map for arbitrary blog topics so I can't give you a realistic example for how it would work there, but I guess if you made a post about new foreign recipe, it could probably be

> /<country of interest>/<topic of interest>/<object of interest>

> /japan/food/salmon

Your imagination is your only limit and I recommend you stop to think about what is the purpose of spending that much time on it, and you may find what you need.

mayoi··on ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy
Yes they do, they know that it's okay to do things at other's expense and how easy it is... I'm not sure that's the "better" we need however.
mayoi··on The EU Commission accepts high error rates when checking chats
As the old saying goes... Works on my machine.
mayoi··on Scientists are unraveling the mystery of the arrow of time
What does time have to do with entropy?

Does alternate reality where entropy tends to order imply that time is flowing backwards somehow?

Do things need to change for time to flow at all? Does time need to "flow" if there's nobody to experience it?

Time is an unbounded concept that we made up so we don't lose ourselves in the boring routine that sometimes becomes fun for a moment and I'm not sure which part in that article is scientific at all, considering that people who have nothing to look forward in life literally say "I have no future", at which point in time did we grow so stupid that our subconscious is more intelligent than the conscious? You can't even tell me what time is, you can't explain why time is somehow real and doesn't require you to exist, but then you go ahead and blurt out "I have no future" as if you were pretending to be stupid all along.

Time is a personal thing, and if there's no observer, there's no time, we made it up, there's no mystery.

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