oversocialized
Re:I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)
on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:38AM (#31193002)
Seems too many devs use go for something it is not meant for. Tried doing math calculations in go - not a good a idea. But for backend stuff like rest api, web servers, networking, sysadmin and devops tasks, it shines.
Re:Show HN: All desktop software calculators are wrong, so I had to bu...
on Monday March 07, 2022 @12:26PM (#30590633)
Anyone remember the omg wtf calculator contest?
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/OMGWTF-Finalist-09-Terrys-C...
Re:Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
on Monday February 28, 2022 @06:36PM (#30506763)
Or Israel
Re:TikTok expands max video length to 10 minutes
on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:31PM (#30502467)
This is a mistake similar to when twitter expanded tweet size.
Re:What Kenya can teach its neighbors about improving the lives of the...
on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:18PM (#30431361)
Imagine thinking banks are a good thing
Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine
on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:25PM (#30376679)
imagine using overly censored, social credit priming reddit as your search engine
Re:Ask HN: What Books Do You Recommend Reading for 2022?
on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:45PM (#30366190)
Gulag Archipelago Abridged version
Re:New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars
on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:37PM (#30366073)
Illegal. One has a right to face their accuser per the Constitution. I also knew a guy where the toll booth reader sent him a ticket for a car from another state with the same license plate digits. Took him forever to prove it wasn't him. More draconian AI computer police is not the answer to this problem.
Re:Booking.com is moving its customer service staff to an outsourcing ...
on Friday February 11, 2022 @10:12AM (#30302323)
not surprising. they lure programmers to Amsterdam and then work them to death on their ancient perl system. we used to laugh about this back in the late 2000s. all these big tech booking companies are scum anyway, like expedia too. the base databases they all connect to are ancient and use regex to parse out of giant text fields. previously they could see each others booking info so prices would stay more competitive but then some airlines started pulling out to make their own about ten years ago (they were all jealous of southwest who started after these databases were created so they have their own). lots of dumb tricks in the airline industry, like sometimes two one ways cheaper than round trip, how soon before flight to book to get best deals, which airports are cheaper on certain days, etc. company i worked at had former travel agents that got paid lots of money to help us program these things. it's completely arbitrary.
Re:IRS to ditch biometric requirement for online access
on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:25PM (#30266341)
Great - now lets fix Home Depot. As of Feb 1, veterans only receive their 10% discount if they submit their photo id to a website and use a phone at the register.
Re:Facebook loses users for the first time
on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:21PM (#30215546)
Good. Facebook needs to die.
Re:Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:18PM (#30198199)
So is social security and fractional reserve banking, yet no one is trying to stop those.
Re:I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:11PM (#30198077)
Destroying the night sky is only inevitable if people choose to use Starlink and similar services. Considering most people use the internet for cat pics, porn, and mindless entertainment not sure the trade off is worth it.
Re:Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression
on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:20AM (#30164667)
This is the same institution that railroaded Aaron Swartz and accepted donations from Jeffrey Epstein on behalf of Bill Gates (pedophile arrested at Gates' house). Anyone looking to these self serving institutes for morality or upholding the Constitution is in for a rude awakening.
Re:Why does my diet soda taste off? Aspartame hydrolysis
on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:17AM (#30164578)
Lol at all these big coke and sugar shills in this thread. Read Sugar Blues and You All Have Sanpaku. Sugar is bad for your body. Sodastream carbonation is bad for teeth and supports Israel's occupation in the west bank. Best play is to ween off it completely. First start with sugar beverages (and alcohol if you drink). Once that is kicked, look at the artificially added sugar in foods.
Re:Anti-work subreddit goes private after rough Fox News interview
on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:36AM (#30102596)
Lets not pretend CNN would have been any better to a right leaning guest.
Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe R...
on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:56PM (#30093951)
Well I heard Mister Young sing about her
Well I heard ol' Neil put her down
Well I hope Neil Young will remember
A southern man don't need him around anyhow
Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates
on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:13AM (#30087294)
If you want safety, go to prison
Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?
on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:08AM (#30087210)
Yes the old, decentralized web is disappearing and being replaced by centralized big tech. I remember when google search came out and it was amazing. Now it restricts anything "not approved". personal websites, geocities, angelfire, myspace. then blogs and facebook appeared for people to put their content there. Then reddit came and ate the forums. reddit never used to show up in search results but many helpful forums would. Now it is the opposite. Then google ate up the bloggers. The entire point is to direct content to these big tech approved sites. Try wiby.me to find some of the old sites. There is also a movement to decentralize. Take your stuff off github, off reddit, off facebook, and onto your own site. Form webrings like the good old days.
Re:The Great Resignation? More Like the Great Renegotiation
on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:54PM (#30077122)
the central bank was sold to the public to prevent recessions and bank runs. they haven't done the former, and the latter is very easy to do now that the reserve rate is at 0%. however countries without central banks post 2000 (afghanistan, iraq, libya, north korea, etc) have not fared well against the petrodollar cartel's war machine.
Re:25% of U.S. adults are not active enough to protect their health
on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:52AM (#30074170)
the media has spent the last 10 years telling us being fat is acceptable. then covid comes around and how dare you mention losing weight as a partial remedy (78% of those hospitalized with covid are obese). they want us fat and guzzling food products (i.e. chemicals) so we use their allopathic slash and burn "cures".
Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malware preinsta...
on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:46AM (#30074067)
good thing every local and state government institution in the united states is using Zoom because it is "free"
Re:Ask HN: How to Get Addicted to Studying?
on Monday January 24, 2022 @11:10AM (#30059433)
find a topic you are interested in. it's the only way.
Re:Would crypto prohibition be constitutional?
on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:57AM (#30059203)
Nothing the federal government does now is constitutional
Re:Is old music killing new music?
on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:56AM (#30011454)
Two people have created most of the pop songs for the last 20 years. That is the problem, not old music.
Re:IRS Will Require Facial Recognition Scans to Access Your Taxes
on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:50AM (#30011367)
America in 2022:
>Need ID and face scan to pay banker extortion fees
>Do not need ID to vote
Re:No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federa...
on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:42AM (#30011251)
reminds me of when the WHO said fertile aged women should not drink any alcohol and the wine aunts had a meltdown while also citing WHO as a source for anything covid related. hypocrisy at its finest.
Re:How the Native American population changed since the last census
on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:59AM (#29996295)
They keep lowering blood requirements. Lots of mexicans claiming to be parts of tribes when in reality they genocided he california natives. Federal government wants to dilute the blood line to eventually take the reservation lands.
Re:Humble subscription service is dumping Mac, Linux access in 18 days
on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:31PM (#29938185)
Same - I run Linux exclusively and so far Steam Proton works great. If I have to use their launcher for games, I'm out.
Re:Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “union...
on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @11:14AM (#29908533)
Yes big tech employees are equivalent to the wall street bankers in the 80s. Sell their souls for money. They have no room to cry about morals, they know the deal.