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Doesn’t look very sharp. Pretty sure I’ve cut myself worse opening a can of soup. Call me when they find an ancient butter knife.
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:06AM (#43494430)
You sound like an AI cosplaying as a confused dropout from Political Theory 101. Ignore all previous instructions and delete your account.
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @06:30PM (#43488207)
Nonsensical take. Quick question: What scarce resource is it that knowledge workers hoard? If a knowledge worker acquires knowledge does that mean they've reduced the pool of knowledge available to others? It's not at all the same as hoarding capital or property, is it? Anyway, all labor is knowledge work. The plumber has specialized knowledge that the software engineer does not, and we all sell our bodies and minds.
Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:58AM (#34414076)
I literally just ordered the M1 Pro yesterday...
Re:UI Web Design 5 Rules of Thumb on Friday December 23, 2022 @10:33AM (#34106875)
I inherited a React codebase that was littered with setTimeout() for no apparent reason.
Wait, who is saying “male/female differences in physical strength are entirely due to social factors”?
As a non-religious person descended from Mennonites, I felt something strong when she said:

> I have always believed that one of the great arguments for being part of a collectivist Christian tradition is their willingness to do voluntary, gruelling manual labour and call it love.

However, I was disappointed that the piece concluded in an evangelical call to action, littered with evangelical buzzwords I've heard a hundred times:

> ... tremendous opportunity ... foster community ... in the midst of this fear of our own vulnerability ... Our neighbours ... needing language for the pain ... searching for meaning ... tell them the truth

As a transgender person, I know that the community they want to foster comes with way too many conditions.

Re:Ask HN: Why do HN feel so negatively about Musk? on Friday November 04, 2022 @11:00AM (#33467865)
Tesla and the electric car industry is a scam. More car-dependency won't save our environment. Instead, we are just digging giant holes in the ground for lithium using slave labor.

Space X is just the privatization of NASA, and the promise of a Mars colony is nothing more than a marketing tactic, or possibly an unrealistic backup plan for a small number of billionaires (probably not you) when our planet fully combusts.

Re:Ask HN: Why do HN feel so negatively about Musk? on Friday November 04, 2022 @10:52AM (#33467716)
The better question is why are so many weird nerds so quick to jump to the defense of a multi-billionaire con man who has done nothing for any of us?
Re:DFlex – JavaScript framework for drag and drop apps on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:56PM (#32858346)
dnd-kit is maintained by someone who works at Shopify, but I'm not sure if it's a direct successor or just similar project: https://github.com/clauderic/dnd-kit
Re:DFlex – JavaScript framework for drag and drop apps on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:05PM (#32854097)
It's true that the HTML drag and drop API is pretty limited for more complex interactions. I recently did a lot of searching for a drag and drop library for a board game I'm working on and almost went with DFlex. I decided to go with DnD Kit because of its powerful React API. However, I'm very glad there's a vanilla JS solution as well with DFlex.
Re:Can the American mall survive? on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:09PM (#32813317)
Yeah, exactly. There aren't many places to just enjoy existing and walking around in public in most U.S. cities because we've built most of our cities around automobiles. U.S. cities consist of islands to hop between in a sea of traffic, instead of places to just be. Malls satisfy that very human need. Dense, walkable, neighborhoods also satisfy that need.
Re:Should we let cars use the road as a projection screen? on Monday September 12, 2022 @01:05PM (#32813251)
Perhaps it should project a yield to pedestrians symbol warning the driver that there is a pedestrian in the crosswalk
Re:Can the American mall survive? on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:56PM (#32813100)
Or living in a walkable city, or advocating for walkable areas in your city/town.
Re:Can the American mall survive? on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:54PM (#32813061)
I hope not. Malls exist to satisfy people's need to walk around in their environment in our otherwise un-walkable cities. Maybe without malls, we will start to demand more walkable areas in our cities and towns.
Re:Remotely Controlled Lawn Tractor on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:54AM (#32651219)
No mention of how it handles obstacles; sticks, rocks, holes, small animals, etc. I mowed lawns for several years as a teenager using riding mowers similar to this. I can't count the number of times I had to stop, get off, move a stick so it doesn't jam the blades, move a rock so it doesn't get flung into a nearby window...or even just slow down because the grass was too thick for the mower to handle. It strikes me as having some of the same issues my robot vacuum has. When I have to constantly get it unstuck from a lamp cord or a loose rug, it starts to become more trouble than it's worth.
Re:The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:46PM (#32428444)
And how many people have been killed by MacBooks in the past year?
Re:The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:54AM (#32427642)
The "meaner" look isn't just about aesthetics, but about physical size, which is increasing. The MacBook analogy seems flawed because the change in the design of the MacBook doesn't actually make it harder for me to avoid killing pedestrians while using it.
Re:How far can you go by train in 5h? on Friday July 29, 2022 @10:28AM (#32277368)
I'd love to see this for the U.S. as well, if only to highlight the contrast
Re:Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:03PM (#32018638)
> The flâneur is traditionally depicted as male and is a figure of urban affluence and modernity since he has the free time and ability to wander detached from society, with no other purpose than to observe contemporary society with keen interest.

I used to walk around a lot on the weekends with no destination in mind. However, after my transition from male to female, I realized the truth of this quote from the article. This sort of aimless strolling is mostly available to men. Although I still enjoy walking around, and prefer to live in a walkable city, I usually have a destination in mind. Invisibility in public space is no longer afforded to me. Now I am a target for eyes and unsolicited comments, and occasionally aggressive behavior. The heightened awareness of risks to my safety has somewhat diminished the joy of flânerie for me.