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corrral commented on Ask HN: Do newsletters work? Why do websites push them so much? · Posted by u/nicbou

nicbou · 3 years ago

You should start unsubscribing and setting some filters, for your own good.

corrral · 3 years ago

I gave up on this years ago when I realized the only valuable things coming to my email were transactional emails, anyway. The rest is... newsletters and shit.

If you're only checking your email to use the "search" function for something very specific, or to find an expected transactional email sent within the last minute, there's not much reason to bother setting up filters.

Text is probably the best way for non-friends to get through to me, because I mostly ignore email and calls since they're overrun with crap, though the current campaign season is really trying to make text useless, too. So many damn fundraising texts, usually from candidates in other states entirely.

corrral commented on U.S. Army Camouflage Improvement Explained (2013) hyperstealth.com/camo-imp... · Posted by u/BonoboIO

sillysaurusx · 3 years ago

Now I want to show up at our Zoom meetings in full camo. Doctors and soldiers get such cool uniforms, but us programmers are just business casual.

Plus then you could convince a few of your coworkers to show up in camo with you and make your manager nervous you’re about to do a hostile takeover of the company.

corrral · 3 years ago

> Doctors and soldiers get such cool uniforms, but us programmers are just business casual.

Programmers' uniforms are excessively-expensive hiking clothes, or selvedge jeans with flannel and full-grain leather boots, ideally in a work- or jump-boot style.

corrral commented on Librarian's Letter to Google Security docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/2352500

TheChaplain · 3 years ago

Google employs the smartest minds on the planet and also have full insight on how Google works and what tools they have, so it shouldn't be hard for them to come up with a viable solution I believe.

corrral · 3 years ago

Yeah but we can't expect them to be able to handle a problem that ( checks notes ) many other kinds of business have been solving since the earliest days of commerce.

corrral commented on Librarian's Letter to Google Security docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/2352500

0xbadcafebee · 3 years ago

The main reason we don't want a ubiquitous national ID is that once it's there, everything will require it, which means everything you do will be tracked. Which is okay until the government decides to go psycho and attack some section of the population. Right now, literally every red state would love to get their hands on logs filled with IDs of people who have anything to do with abortion (a Texas bill makes it illegal to even drive someone to an abortion) so they can put them all in jail (abortion doctors get 99 years). In the past it was the gay rights movement, civil rights movement, the satanic panic, the communist panic, rounding up all asians into concentration camps during ww2, etc. We can expect more of this, and a ubiquitous ID makes it much easier for the government to execute these plans.

corrral · 3 years ago

I'd be more sympathetic to this argument if all that info weren't a couple subpoenas or search-warrants away at most—in fact, the government can often just pay for access to these things, usually with the implicit threat that if access isn't granted at a reasonable rate, the business may find itself in some trouble. Like, if we banned private parties from collecting tons of info about us, then maybe that concern would have some merit, but we don't, so it doesn't.

Point is, they don't need a national ID to pin you to some cell phone records that place you at location X at time Y, to get your CC usage data, to find out pretty much anything they like, to connect that to a license plate, to snag toll and other photo records of the vehicle from various sources, et c., and the only reason there are any restrictions whatsoever on that ability isn't because we don't have a national ID, but because we're not yet living under a tyranny. Difficulty IDing people isn't the limiting factor.

The public-private hybrid ID we have now is terrible and also carries all the same risks under tyranny as a national ID, which is at least not-terrible.

It's not like having a national ID would mean all the spying-data companies collect on us would automatically be shared with the government—more than it already is, anyway. It'd be the same as now, except with fewer ID-related problems for people.

corrral commented on Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support blog.gitea.io/2022/07/git... · Posted by u/belfalas

Kelteseth · 3 years ago

I find it a bit amusing that Gitea does not use Gitea to develop Gitea. Does anyone have insights on why they chose to use/stay on Github?

corrral · 3 years ago

If you want anyone to find your project, you're gonna need to at least mirror on GH regardless.

corrral commented on How far can you go by train in 5h? chronotrains-eu.vercel.ap... · Posted by u/mritzmann

samatman · 3 years ago

Because Metropolitan France (note the capitalization) is how the European portion of France is referred to: compare with Overseas France, which includes territories in South America and Oceania, to be non-exhaustive.

corrral · 3 years ago

This is a difference in attitude between Americans and French when describing their countries: the French tend to regard overseas territories as more vitally part of their country than Americans do. Not sure why, possibly it was a deliberately-cultivated attitude by the government at some point, or maybe the difference arose organically. Meanwhile I think a lot of Americans kinda-unconsiously barely even consider Hawaii and Alaska really parts of America, let alone the numerous non-state territories.

Actually, now that I think about it, the sense of "Metropolitan France" is very similar to the term "the continental United States"

corrral commented on MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out Lego instructions theregister.com/2022/07/2... · Posted by u/samizdis

ctoth · 3 years ago

Try going to <yourcity>.craigslist.org and searching for Lego in the For Sale section. You'll likely find bulk Lego for super cheap.

corrral · 3 years ago

Toys—even Lego—are damn near free if you aren't picky and will accept whatever you can find used. Often they're literally free. Kids often outgrow toys before they're worn out or broken, and for some reason people hate giving used toys as gifts so there are just tons and tons of them always being dumped on the used market, with relatively little demand.

You could set out with a $20 bill and outfit a 6-year-old with a totally adequate set of toys, from scratch, by just walking a neighborhood on a yard sale day.

corrral commented on MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out Lego instructions theregister.com/2022/07/2... · Posted by u/samizdis

sschueller · 3 years ago

I actually find ikea instructions quite clear and reasonable. I don't know why so many people have a hard time with it. Maybe spacial awareness is not something you can learn easily.

corrral · 3 years ago

I don't get it either. Every single non-Ikea flat-pack thing I've assembled has had much worse instructions than Ikea. Plus usually been more expensive and lower quality than the Ikea equivalent.

corrral commented on Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation laphamsquarterly.org/roun... · Posted by u/pepys

corrral · 3 years ago

An aid for anyone else who found the usage "knowledges" unfamiliar and distracting:

Knowl"edge (?), n.

2. That which is or may be known; the object of an act of knowing; a cognition; -- chiefly used in the plural.

There is a great difference in the delivery of the mathematics, which are the most abstracted of knowledges. Bacon.

Knowledges is a term in frequent use by Bacon, and, though now obsolete, should be revived, as without it we are compelled to borrow "cognitions" to express its import. Sir W. Hamilton.

To use a word of Bacon's, now unfortunately obsolete, we must determine the relative value of knowledges. H. Spencer.

- Webster's 1913

I figured it was some probably-from-critical-theory-because-aren't-they-always liberal-artsism, but looks like it's just an unusual-bordering-on-archaic sense.

corrral commented on Appetite for Destruction: Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation laphamsquarterly.org/roun... · Posted by u/pepys

RajT88 · 3 years ago

The early settlers, as they point out, also had a far more diverse diet than we do now. In fact, they (partly) ate passenger pigeons out of existence.

It seems to me that China still has this kind of diversity somehow. Going to a large Chinese supermarket is dizzying in the variety of vegetables, dried fungus, seaweed, spices, etc. on display. I wish I knew more about it, and how they maintained that diverse food culture.

corrral · 3 years ago

> In fact, they (partly) ate passenger pigeons out of existence.

Mann's 1491 suggests this may be a myth, as passenger pigeon remains are nearly non-existent in native refuse piles, so they don't seem to have been a normal part of their diet (at least, before contact). Rather, he paints both their incredible abundance and subsequent demise as consequences of contact with Europe: the boom in the passenger pigeon population may have been a sign of an ecosystem experiencing a catastrophe, resulting from large areas of cultivated land falling out of use as entire cities were depopulated by disease, causing a temporary but enormous increase in easy, available calories for animals positioned to take advantage of it, and of course their decline and extinction is entirely a post-contact event.

[EDIT] I misread you as having written that the native people contributed to the demise of the pigeons, but I think the info's still broadly relevant so I'll let the post stand.