mattrick (u/mattrick)

mattrick commented on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline cnbc.com/2025/01/17/supre... · Posted by u/kjhughes

JumpCrisscross · 7 months ago

If the President had over Meta and X the sort of control the CCP has over TikTok, Instagram and Twitter would be banned in most countries. The only reason this is debated so much here is we’re (in my opinion correctly) very cautious about free speech.

mattrick · 7 months ago

The owner of Twitter/X is about to be in the president’s cabinet. And the owner of Meta is clearly cozying up to the incoming administration with their new “anti-woke” policies.

mattrick commented on A simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils nationalpost.com/news/can... · Posted by u/IndrekR

fingerlocks · 9 months ago

If you can swallow glass shards without feeling any pain, they will pass through the intestinal track just fine.

Source: ER doctor when I checked myself in after discovering I accidentally ate glass. He was right. Nothing happened. I was fine.

mattrick · 9 months ago

I’d be interested to know how you ate glass without realizing it until it was too late.

mattrick commented on Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres oscilloscopemusic.com/wat... · Posted by u/webmaven

mattrick · 9 months ago

If you like this sort of thing, I highly recommend checking out C. Allen’s work. The visuals and music are both really impressive, in my opinion the best out there: https://youtu.be/OP7sTQQ0Blw

mattrick commented on Ask HN: Has anyone been able to contact Cloudflare Support in the last 5 days? · Posted by u/thebiglebrewski

mattrick · a year ago

I’ve had a lot of trouble with their support recently as well. A domain I was trying to renew just…wouldn’t. The ticket I opened went unanswered for nearly a month. What finally got them to look at it was posting on their forums with a ticket ID. Even still, they just quietly renewed the domain without a response or confirmation or anything so it’s technically still open…

mattrick commented on Tesla Cybertruck Unexpectedly Accelerates into Home with Rear Wheels Locked jalopnik.com/tesla-cybert... · Posted by u/jjav

romwell · a year ago

>I think, if someone is holding down both the accelerator and brakes

...which is not something that happened in this case in any way, as far as we know.

According to Tesla, "due to the terrain the accelerator may or may not disengage when the brake is depressed".

Not "due to the driver holding down both pedals", but "due to the terrain".

(The driver clearly says that he was not holding down both pedals, too).

mattrick · a year ago

I could be misremembering, but I think I remember Teslas having a feature that would apply slight torque to the motors when braking on hills to prevent the car from rolling backwards when switching from brakes to the accelerator.

I wonder if this was a malfunction of the system that detects the car being on a slope which caused it to accelerate forward despite the brake being pressed?

mattrick commented on Personal VPN services are snake oil httpscolonforwardslashfor... · Posted by u/ementally

UniverseHacker · a year ago

Pretty funny to say they're snake oil, and then list 3 very good reasons to have one.

mattrick · a year ago

I think the snake oil claim is in regard to VPN companies marketing themselves as a security product. The security benefits that these companies claim in their ads are dubious but of course there’s other benefits to them, they just can’t advertise that they can be used for these things.

The problem is people who aren’t aware of this see these ads and think that they actually do prevent hackers from stealing their information.

mattrick commented on Go Enums Suck zarl.dev/articles/enums... · Posted by u/pionar

neilalexander · 2 years ago

> The encoded value can change any time you re-compile your program, so you can't actually use it for anything where the value of the enum leaves the process that instantiated it

This is not true, iota is stable in its ordering. https://go.dev/ref/spec#Iota

mattrick · 2 years ago

I think they may be referring to if someone accidentally changes the ordering, either by inserting a new variant between two existing ones or by shuffling the order of the existing variants the value can change and cause problems.

mattrick commented on Why is Prettier rock solid? mrmr.io/til/prettier/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

deepfriedrice · 2 years ago

1.1k open issues. OOF

mattrick · 2 years ago

1.1k isn't bad for a project with ~33 million weekly downloads[1], imo. Yes, I know that's not necessarily a good metric, but it's ~10 million more than React[2] which also has a similar number of open issues[3].

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/prettier

[2]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react

[3]: https://github.com/facebook/react

mattrick commented on CSS WG resolved to officially work on native custom functions and mixins css.oddbird.net/sasslike/... · Posted by u/donohoe

wrs · 2 years ago

This will eliminate the need for CSS preprocessors about as much as each annual edition of JavaScript eliminates the need for JS preprocessors.

mattrick · 2 years ago

If this feature were added, I’d see very little need to use CSS preprocessors - at least for me. We already have variables, nesting, and color functions. Throw in mixins and user defined functions and that pretty much covers 90% of what I’d usually do in Sass.

Maybe you still use PostCSS for some auto prefixing/ backwards compat stuff but the need for that should go away as the usage numbers for unsupported browsers go down.

mattrick commented on Why you've never been in a plane crash asteriskmag.com/issues/05... · Posted by u/throwup238

ssl232 · 2 years ago

One of the most important pieces of legislation in the UK that helped improve safety in workplaces was the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which placed a duty of care on organisations to look after the wellbeing of their staff. One of the tenets is to take near misses seriously. According to a health and safety engineer in a course I attended, near misses are like gifts from the heavens, as they show you exactly how something could go wrong despite no one getting hurt, giving organisations a chance to improve their processes. If a workplace accident does occur, the Health and Safety Executive (who enforce the act in large organisations) can levy enormous fines for preventable accidents especially where there is evidence of a near miss beforehand.

mattrick · 2 years ago

I've been obsessed with the US Chemical Safety Board videos on YouTube that describe in great detail the events that lead up to industrial accidents. One of the common themes I've seen among them is that there's usually some sort of warning sign or near miss that goes ignored by the people responsible for them since they don't cause any major damage. Then a few days or months later that system fails in an entirely predictable way with catastrophic consequences. A good example of this is the fatal phosgene gas release at a DuPont chemical plant[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISNGimMXL7M