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Re:How I got here (Preston Thorpe, incarcerated developer) on Sunday November 12, 2023 @07:48AM (#38239659)
This comment is everything.

Not to mention that due to understaffed and over budget facilities, rehabilitation programs are generally the first things to get cut.

Re:How I got here (Preston Thorpe, incarcerated developer) on Sunday November 12, 2023 @07:45AM (#38239639)
Yeah the punishments for the war on drugs has worked SO WELL. /s
Re:See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS on Thursday May 11, 2023 @12:41AM (#35897603)
Working for a Midwest dialup isp in the early 2000s, we definitely served some of our smaller POPs with PTP wireless backbones, thanks in part to vast expanses of flat land with fairly tall structures dotted throughout.
This video explains quite well why copyrights are complete bs in general.

https://youtu.be/5SaFTm2bcac

Re:Judge Decides Against Internet Archive on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:23PM (#35310073)
This is how copyright law is broken. It offers artists next to no protection.

https://youtu.be/5SaFTm2bcac

Edit: it really only benefits large companies who have managed to exploit it.

Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:48PM (#34508116)
Why is this on HN? This isnt even remotely related, all I see is Europeans not understanding the f'ed up wage policies of the US, and people from the US acting entitled like they do in restaurants.
Re:Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:57AM (#33246429)
Radio stations east of the Mississippi River start their stations with 'W', and stations west of the Mississippi with 'K'. So any call letters starting with K or W are real.
The banter and discussion here is great and I love to see all the culture discussion, but I'm compelled to ask, why is this in hacker news? Not that I mind, just seems a bit, off-topic?
Re:Google Search Is Dying on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:17PM (#30349408)
That's how I know it's not gpt-3, gpt-3 would write better articles. At the very best it's poorly trained Markov chains.
Re:Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer? on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:55AM (#30348130)
As a developer who's not blind beyond a pair of glasses due to being nearsighted, but with other quirks that make me different, like being trans, it's hard to not help but notice not only the privilege that the sighted of us have, that nearly all of us take for granted, but what I find really striking is the sheer amount of emotional labor that sighted people expect from the non sighted in relation to their non sighted-ness. And I guess I really shouldn't be that surprised because it seems like that's the case with any sort of disability or Quirk or thing that makes someone different in a significant way from the statistical mean average.

Kudos to all of you who did that, and do that emotional labor for everyone without even so much as calling it out, I recognize it and while I also do it as well so people understand a different point of view I know how tiring it can get. And sincerely thank you for that point of view and the resources provided in this post thread. I know that your challenges in computer accessibility are ones that I had not really considered much Beyond just you know knowing that blind people use computers and there were probably blind devs obviously, but not having the fortune to work with any as of yet it's not been something anywhere even close to the Forefront of the accessibility challenges that I've considered. Which is quite silly considering it's as plain as the nose on my face, and yes pun intended :) . And using that emoji just made me wonder how well do screen readers handle emojis? I can only imagine what ascii art sounds like to a screen reader. Thinking about it further I realized that the only blind person I have ever personally known that I'm aware of that used a computer on a regular basis and played games, I used to play with in a MUD back in the BBS days of the early 90s.

Anyway to those of you who have challenges or lack of sight thank you for your Insight and perspective into those challenges you face every day and deal with every day. And show us that the human body and mind is incredibly resilient and adaptable.

Re:Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:14PM (#30227836)
Joe Rogan is an expert at nothing and this cult of personality around his likeness and its toxic ideas is disgusting. I wouldn't be sad if they deleted them all.
Re:SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video] on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:25AM (#29274692)
@akling, I want to take a moment to comment just how amazing recovery can be. As someone who's suffered some similar substance issues. Thank you for being a great example of just how amazing of a place the mind can be when its trained onto something that gives us meaning and direction. I am in sheer awe of what you've created. Its incredibly powerful but yet so simple its staggering. I am so following the progress of SerenityOS (i get the name too, btw) and look forward to seeing great things come of it and from you.