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rkomorn commented on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you? louplummer.lol/nice-stran... · Posted by u/speckx

Waterluvian · a day ago

A concussion despite a helmet. Surely that foam and plastic saved a life.

rkomorn · a day ago

I've cracked two bicycle helmets and I don't know if they saved my life, but I'm quite certain they saved me a lot of pain, at the very least.

I can't fathom how some people ride without them.

rkomorn commented on iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hksVv... · Posted by u/walterbell

gatnoodle · 3 days ago

I've switched to GBoard on the iphone. I don't like the fact that I need to use a third-party software for something that's so crucial. But GBoard is so much better than the default iphone keybaord.

rkomorn · 3 days ago

I was a gboard user on iOS for years but it progressively got so inexplicably unusably slow I gave up.

Maybe your comment means it's got back to being usable.

Edit: https://apps.apple.com/pt/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1...

No updates in 3 years? And search results complaining about gboard on iOS 26? Doesn't sound promising.

rkomorn commented on How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants laurenleek.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/justincormack

ssl-3 · 4 days ago

> I have literally not rated anything at all, ever since YouTube removed dislikes, and my recommendations are working fine.

How can you know how green the grass is on the other side of the fence if you've never even seen it?

Isn't it like Shrodinger's Grass, or Green Eggs and Ham, at that point?

(And if your recommendations are working fine, then what is this "AI slop" that you're complaining about? I don't find any of that on my end.)

rkomorn · 4 days ago

> Shrodinger's Grass

Fantastically apt, IMO. Kudos.

rkomorn commented on Craft software that makes people feel something rapha.land/craft-software... · Posted by u/lukeio

flemins · 4 days ago

Does anger count?

rkomorn · 4 days ago

Not if you want to stand out from the crowd.

rkomorn commented on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools larr.net/p/namings.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

9rx · 4 days ago

If you didn't already know, what do you think a tool called a "combine" does?

Combine things? Nope. Its purpose is to separate things...

Its not just the software industry.

rkomorn · 4 days ago

I'm conflicted because you're not entirely wrong (that it's not just the software industry), but the name is because the combine combines steps that used to be separate.

It's not actually badly named.

rkomorn commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

pdimitar · 4 days ago

How exactly would empathy be a superpower? If I'm empathetic then I'm effectively making excuses for people who don't care that they make my work unbearable.

I'm very interested in your response. I have accepted that I have blind spots and I want to remove them.

rkomorn · 4 days ago

Not "OP", but I will say that empathy can certainly help you build better things (tools, processes, policies, etc) for the people they affect.

It can also help you understand where coworkers or peers are coming from, and work with them better.

The problem comes when it's a one way road where the empathetic person is doing all the work.

rkomorn commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

rhyperior · 4 days ago

"I want my heart to harden."

You're just at a different place in the curve of rationalizing other humans' behaviors and motivations and how they affect you. Your response is not invalid, but it makes me sad, because you think it's the best response for you. Why wouldn't you instead hold on to your empathy and make it your super power?

rkomorn · 4 days ago

> Why wouldn't you instead hold on to your empathy and make it your super power?

At least one reason would be because the empathetic person is usually the one bearing most of the cost of this "super power" while at best only sharing in the reward. Quite often entirely thankless work.

rkomorn commented on The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn segasaturnshiro.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tosh

kouteiheika · 6 days ago

> 10-13 minutes if I remember correctly from booting the game to actually being able to do anything besides mash buttons to try and skip the cutscenes.

Genuinely curious - if you don't care about the story then why play an RPG? When you're speedrunning - sure, skip all of the cutscenes, but when you're playing casually - why would you want to do that?

rkomorn · 6 days ago

I play RPGs for the fun of turning time and grind into more advanced abilities (eg going from getting slaughtered by dragons in Skyrim to being the one doing the slaughtering).

There are few games where the story has mattered to me, and even basically no games where the cutscenes did.

Edit: the presence of story and cutscenes in a game I enjoy is basically correlation and not causation (for me).

rkomorn commented on The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy ceodinner.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/LordAtlas

PunchyHamster · 7 days ago

now if you only read the comment I answered to you might've figured the answer to that on your own!

rkomorn · 7 days ago

Touché.

I don't see how we get to "why would you rent and save for a house at the same time?" from "it takes 10 years to save $720K" but whatever.

rkomorn commented on The AI wildfire is coming. it's going to be painful and healthy ceodinner.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/LordAtlas

PunchyHamster · 7 days ago

not for 10 years you don't

rkomorn · 7 days ago

You don't need to save for a downpayment for 10 years? Or are you saying it won't take 10 years to save up for a downpayment?

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