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DarylZero commented on Sunsetting Atom   github.blog/2022-06-08-su... · Posted by u/ewired
wpietri · 4 years ago
Ooh, this is interesting. It sounds like you learned a lesson here. Could you say more about what prompted the change? I once talked with a Firefox engineer who felt like an initial urge for openness left them with a lot of API surface area that locked them into a lot of design choices. Was it something like that for you as well?
DarylZero · 4 years ago
>I once talked with a Firefox engineer who felt like an initial urge for openness left them with a lot of API surface area that locked them into a lot of design choices.

LOL, as if Firefox provided a stable API to extensions

DarylZero commented on A cancer trial’s unexpected result: Remission in every patient   nytimes.com/2022/06/05/he... · Posted by u/mhb
robocat · 4 years ago
FYI: your comment is a unique result for “metastatic solid-state tumors”[1], so much much less?

[1] https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22metastatic+solid-state+...

DarylZero · 4 years ago
We talking tumors in the state of metastatic solid?
DarylZero commented on In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (2019)   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/tayne
BurningFrog · 4 years ago
I suspect people not caring is not the main underlying cause of despots.
DarylZero · 4 years ago
Despots make sure the people who care are killed off (or at least marginalized, say in prison), leaving only people who don't.
DarylZero commented on Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators – by Ahrefs   yep.com... · Posted by u/daolf
Havoc · 4 years ago
>this site gives you the very metrics which every so called SEOer uses to game Google search results

Seems a little harsh. People would be trying to game the search results with or without the metrics.

They're just selling a shovel though. The ad industry and its money is the root cause behind the gold rush, not the shovel seller.

DarylZero · 4 years ago
It's not much like a shovel, as it's fundamentally a means of deception.

Deception only has legitimate purposes insofar as "the ends justify the means," and they never do in this instance.

DarylZero commented on In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (2019)   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/tayne
beanjuice · 4 years ago
By what basis do you make this estimation? The factors for aging and feeling awake arent exactly comparable.
DarylZero · 4 years ago
They're both cyclical.
DarylZero commented on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?   neil.computer/notes/dear-... · Posted by u/neilpanchal
Nextgrid · 4 years ago
The problem I see is that the "attention economy"'s end goal is still to be a marketing platform for real, paid products. It won't work in a world where there are no products and everything is an advertising platform - people won't be paying for the "privilege" of seeing ads.

The market has been distorted by VCs and investors who are willing to throw shit tons of money towards anything that "grows" and generates engagement. This pulled the ground out of the model of making products that people pay for - you would make money money (off investors) if you just give away your product than if you make people pay for it. That's how we ended up in the current situation, and there are tons of vested interests (people's entire careers are built on this) in perpetuating the problem even if the system can't ever be sustainable.

The music has to stop at some point though when everything is saturated by advertising. That appears to be now given the current, massive downturn. Investor money is no longer free or easy to come by, so the pendulum will have to swing back to making products funded by its end-customers.

DarylZero · 4 years ago
> a world where there are no products and everything is an advertising platform

Maybe the advertised products will all be opportunities to make money. Occasionally job listings, mostly crypto coins.

DarylZero commented on Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?   neil.computer/notes/dear-... · Posted by u/neilpanchal
motoxpro · 4 years ago
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-little-do-users-read/

This is why they were advocating for "Concise Titles" instead of "Titles that are Short Enough to Read, but Long Enough to Convey Info!"

DarylZero · 4 years ago
When you have 20 consecutive listings that all have the same first 80 characters, you don't even read those 80 characters.

But the listing only shows the part you don't read!

DarylZero commented on Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down    · Posted by u/RBBronson123
BizarroLand · 4 years ago
Outside of America, maybe, but most people in America live close to a gas station or a highway intersection.

My income quote comes from a gas station in a backwater town in the deep woods of Alabama, and I'm not a great guitarist or something amazing worth throwing money at.

DarylZero · 4 years ago
Sounds like you're talking about a one-time thing then rather than a sustainable practice. I think if you loiter in front of a gas station you will be rousted by police in much less than a week.
DarylZero commented on Uber loses appeal as top Swiss court rules company is an employer   reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/sschueller
npc12345 · 4 years ago
The evil companies are paying low wages, let's expel the companies where they'll take their capital to some other country and leave all employes unemployed, that'll show them!
DarylZero · 4 years ago
For Uber, it's the drivers who provide the capital!
DarylZero commented on Don't send to Gmail over IPv6   spamresource.com/2020/11/... · Posted by u/croes
rstupek · 4 years ago
Zip files are being used to infect computers with malware which would explain why they're blocking them
DarylZero · 4 years ago
I guess they're not allowed on Google Drive either.

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