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fifticon commented on A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes statsignificant.com/p/is-... · Posted by u/m463

fifticon · 3 days ago

audience scores, as I view them, is very much an indicator of "did the marketing connect to the intended audience?"

A great movie that met the wrong audience, will reasonably get a low score.

fifticon commented on Rethinking DOM from first principles acko.net/blog/html-is-dea... · Posted by u/puzzlingcaptcha

Much of this complexity comes down to primitives being too primitive for the use case of web apps. They’re fine for documents, but for web apps it’s like trying to build a building from grains of sand instead of concrete blocks. Rube Goldberg machines are unavoidable when you’re doing that.

The browser should be doing most of the heavy lifting by providing a full suite of minimally themed but capable widgets that require little to no JavaScript and can be skinned entirely with CSS. That alone would wipe out an incredible amount of complexity and if done right would make web dev as an experience vastly more pleasant.

fifticon · 17 days ago

you have put into words a feeling that has been burning in my chest for 20+ years :-)

I cry at the ways we are doing and defining column tables.

fifticon commented on The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy self.com/story/contrarian... · Posted by u/tbrake

fifticon · 19 days ago

I wonder what "friend" is doing in that expression. Maybe I am one of those "friends" then :-)

fifticon commented on 150 years of Hans Christian Andersen newstatesman.com/culture/... · Posted by u/wholeness

secondcoming · 24 days ago

A story having a tragic twist doesn’t automatically make it inappropriate for kids.

fifticon · 24 days ago

I wonder what dr detroit did wrong to be bombed into oblivion; he is not fully wrong. As an example, the HCA story 'tinderbox' is clearly built from earlier borrowed cloth. As a dane myself, it is apparent that HCA didn't even have a danish term for the demon dogs, so he just calls them 'dogs' to avoid issues with his audience.

fifticon commented on Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game kathaaverse.com/... · Posted by u/rcrKnight

fifticon · 25 days ago

In spite of what some others have said, and knowing we have 2025 and AI, I still was rather impressed and pleased with this. I tried to play an evasive hobbit trying to put off Gandalf and the dwarves, but still they insisted. I find this hilarious.

fifticon commented on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen shellshore.com/review-rot... · Posted by u/Alupis

fifticon · a month ago

I am probably an uneducated cretin, but I have my preferences anyway. I am in Denmark, and in Denmark, you can get "sharpie pens" () from the brand LYRECO, which I am very fond of, particularly of their high quality and durability. There is a personal story (for me at least..) regarding them. More than a decade ago, I worked for many years for a specific company, which had its good and bad sides. One major upside, was that their employee equipment supply included LYRECO pens. So I basically had free access to black/red/blue LYRECO pens. I am not a career criminal as such, but simply through basic negligence, occasionally one of those pens would wander in my pockets, briefcases or binders, back to my residence, through no active ill will, and be left lying around some random place. Mind you, these are "cheap" sharpie pens, so I am probably not going to jail anytime soon because of this. However you choose to interpret or describe it, in the end some number of those pens, larger than 1, but less than 10, ended up in random places in my house/possession.
Up until now, this is not a particularly ravishing story. But this is about to change (?). The issue is, those MF's won't stop writing! They ended up in my possession by now more than 10 years ago, but when I pull one of them out, they still write! So, a sharpie-style (sort of) pen, that still writes well more than 10 years later!
Of course, they eventually dry out, when I exhaust them of ink through use. But the 10 years of age has not dried them out. And further, they appear very well provisioned with ink. This story could end here, but there is another twist: Of course, I quite love these pens, and I really would like my own supply. But here is the kicker: They are not available to civilians/consumers :-(. LYRECO only wants to trade with companies. So to be able to buy my own, I would have to start or register a company. (In particular, to fill out their online order forms, I have to fill in mandatory fields with numeric codes only companies have). So, at various times, I have filled out most of their online ordering forms, and stared longingly at the empty fields I have no numbers for. I have also, on other websites, started to fill out the registration form to start my own one-man company. But never completed it, both because I don't have a valid business case other than "I'd really like some of those pens, man!", and because having a registerered company requires you to follow certain procedures, like filing specific tax forms regularly, IE I could get into trouble and bother by making a "fake company". The last issue is, that I also am paranoid, speculating that maybe the late-stage capitalism monsters have arrived at LYRECO's offices in the intervening 10 years, and whispered in some guy's ear "You know.. we don't really have to make our pens THAT GOOD, we could ship shit instead and charge the same!"
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) I don't know what their actual type is. They are filt pens I guess, with the 'filt' sticking out of what I assume to be a steel tube.

fifticon · a month ago

Note: I should probably call these 'felt tip pen' instead of sharpies. They are writing implements, not for kids drawing.

fifticon commented on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen shellshore.com/review-rot... · Posted by u/Alupis

fifticon · a month ago

I am probably an uneducated cretin, but I have my preferences anyway. I am in Denmark, and in Denmark, you can get "sharpie pens" () from the brand LYRECO, which I am very fond of, particularly of their high quality and durability. There is a personal story (for me at least..) regarding them. More than a decade ago, I worked for many years for a specific company, which had its good and bad sides. One major upside, was that their employee equipment supply included LYRECO pens. So I basically had free access to black/red/blue LYRECO pens. I am not a career criminal as such, but simply through basic negligence, occasionally one of those pens would wander in my pockets, briefcases or binders, back to my residence, through no active ill will, and be left lying around some random place. Mind you, these are "cheap" sharpie pens, so I am probably not going to jail anytime soon because of this. However you choose to interpret or describe it, in the end some number of those pens, larger than 1, but less than 10, ended up in random places in my house/possession.
Up until now, this is not a particularly ravishing story. But this is about to change (?). The issue is, those MF's won't stop writing! They ended up in my possession by now more than 10 years ago, but when I pull one of them out, they still write! So, a sharpie-style (sort of) pen, that still writes well more than 10 years later!
Of course, they eventually dry out, when I exhaust them of ink through use. But the 10 years of age has not dried them out. And further, they appear very well provisioned with ink. This story could end here, but there is another twist: Of course, I quite love these pens, and I really would like my own supply. But here is the kicker: They are not available to civilians/consumers :-(. LYRECO only wants to trade with companies. So to be able to buy my own, I would have to start or register a company. (In particular, to fill out their online order forms, I have to fill in mandatory fields with numeric codes only companies have). So, at various times, I have filled out most of their online ordering forms, and stared longingly at the empty fields I have no numbers for. I have also, on other websites, started to fill out the registration form to start my own one-man company. But never completed it, both because I don't have a valid business case other than "I'd really like some of those pens, man!", and because having a registerered company requires you to follow certain procedures, like filing specific tax forms regularly, IE I could get into trouble and bother by making a "fake company". The last issue is, that I also am paranoid, speculating that maybe the late-stage capitalism monsters have arrived at LYRECO's offices in the intervening 10 years, and whispered in some guy's ear "You know.. we don't really have to make our pens THAT GOOD, we could ship shit instead and charge the same!"
(
) I don't know what their actual type is. They are filt pens I guess, with the 'filt' sticking out of what I assume to be a steel tube.

fifticon commented on How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025... · Posted by u/OuterVale

fifticon · a month ago

I have a good one(?):

1. be multiple developers on the same project.

2. for each developer, use your own tools and techniques, insist on only handling those parts of the site that you did with your tools, and insist on never fully understanding those remaining parts of the site the other devs did.

This will allow for all sorts of fun, including:

- A multiple inconsistent implementations of the same thing

- B even better, those multiple inconsistent implementations affecting and breaking each other!

One you have this going, there are some easy bonus pickings: Whenever B happens, "fix" it with weird extra incancations inside your own toolset, cleverly avoiding any attempt at (2) above.

If you succeed at this, several developers can, combining these techniques to sabotage and trigger a veritable pinball game of strange breaking effects.

Note: CSS is a great place to start this game!

fifticon commented on SQL Injection as a Feature idiallo.com/blog/sql-inje... · Posted by u/foxfired

fifticon · a month ago

Why did the story end with a reference to "the machine fired me" essay (which I assume to be fiction, though admittedly funny and soon to be AI reality).

Is he implying, that tampering with the devil's query engine would get him escorted out of the building, or just trying to hook me up on the next story?

fifticon commented on Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom androidauthority.com/why-... · Posted by u/pabs3

DrScientist · a month ago

Back to the parental comment - it's been decided there isn't really a good reason to have most guns and so they are strictly controlled - I mean what's the legit reason for having an assault rifle?

Now if the government thinks there isn't really a good reason to have a phone they can't hack ( because they are the good guys right.... and in theory need court orders etc - so there is legal oversight ) then they will see such phones in the same light and consider banning.

This is at the core of the argument - and why governments ask for a special backdoor - as they accept a generally secure phone ( to stop your neighbour snooping ) is a good thing, but they are used to being able to tap phones and open letters if a judge gives them permission.

Obviously the ironic thing is most phones probably already do have special backdoors - but only for the country where the makers reside - and that countries government doesn't want other governments to know or have acccess.

And in the case of fridges - there is no argument there that they aren't legit reasons to own.

In the case of knives - zombie knives don't really have legit use, whereas kitchen knives do.

fifticon · a month ago

I can think of a country where they should probably ban windows, given how many people fall out of them.