seti0Cha (u/seti0Cha)

seti0Cha commented on From 0/10 to 8/10: Microsoft Puts Repair Front and Center ifixit.com/News/96998/fro... · Posted by u/vitorgrs

nikkwong · a year ago

I was incredibly disgusted to learn that to open a HEIC image on Windows, I would have to download an officially sponsored extension from the Microsoft Store that costs $1. Like.. wow; what's next? Pay to play for other new media formats that come out? At $1, it can't even be netting them a useful amount of revenue, at the cost of appearing more user hostile and eroding more trust.

seti0Cha · a year ago

This is likely a result of HEIC being under patent and requiring licensing. I'd guess Microsoft doesn't want to foot the entire bill for something only of use to a possibly small subset of users.

seti0Cha commented on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark' theverge.com/2024/5/9/241... · Posted by u/linguae

throwaway743 · a year ago

At their core, their for commercial/promotional purposes. Ads are inherently meant to drive consumerism, where as art is not.

seti0Cha · a year ago

The romantic ideal is that art is not about consumption, but the reality, both historically and currently, is that art objects are by and large made to be bought and sold. If you disqualify all works meant for consumption, you would have very little left that we currently recognize as art.

seti0Cha commented on 93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019) mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/... · Posted by u/ellieh

interroboink · a year ago

I think the old comment by Larry Wall about “manipulexity” vs “whipuptitude” still holds true. Perl occupies a powerful ecological niche in the space of programming languages. The space has become more crowded over the years, but it's still hard to beat Perl if you're experienced with it. CPAN is a big part of this.

As to the future... Perl 7 is coming (:

https://www.perl.com/article/announcing-perl-7/

seti0Cha · a year ago

Looks like that plan was abandoned: https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2022/05/what-happened-to-pe...

seti0Cha commented on Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets breakingdefense.com/2024/... · Posted by u/dcgoss

qarl · a year ago

Maybe.

But they almost certainly don't just take this work. They advocate for more work. They lobby for more funds.

I'm not a libertarian, so I don't know the details, but I believe advocated for larger government must be contrary to their beliefs, no?

seti0Cha · a year ago

Maybe, but not necessarily. It really depends on what they actually believe (or say they believe) specifically. If their belief is "societies work better when governments don't interfere with markets", then their beliefs say nothing about what individual people should do in situations where a government does interfere with markets. They may also believe that if you can't fix something, taking advantage of it is justified, in which case they are not being hypocritical. That's not to say you can't regard such a position as unethical. However, I think many if not most people use systems they are in favor of dismantling. For example, people who believe housing is a human right don't typically donate their houses when they move, they sell them on the open market.

seti0Cha commented on Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics to develop unmanned fighter jets breakingdefense.com/2024/... · Posted by u/dcgoss

qarl · a year ago

Pretty much, yes. Personally I don't mind the idea of sucking on the government teat - seems pretty reasonable.

But when you're a libertarian doing it - I just have to laugh.

Ditto Tesla. It's not a coincidence that all these guys are suffering the same hypocrisy.

seti0Cha · a year ago

Libertarians aren't anarchists. They don't generally believe that there should be no government (although you can find people who believe just about anything). I don't think there's anything hypocritical about libertarians taking government contracts for defense. If they were taking government contracts or jobs around regulating markets or building public housing, then that would be closer to hypocritical, but I'm not sure that even qualifies. Hypocrisy isn't benefiting from something you disapprove of, it's engaging in it, so arguably, they'd have to be the ones issuing the laws they disapprove of for it to be hypocrisy.

seti0Cha commented on I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract thehandbasket.co/p/google... · Posted by u/KittenInABox

simoncion · a year ago

This sentiment is just as useful as "Nah, don't bother wearing a condom or any other barrier protection, those STDs are just all over the place." would be in the mid-1980's (and onwards).

seti0Cha · a year ago

Just to be clear...your position is that wearing face masks when around people indoors is the prudent choice in perpetuity? I honestly don't understand your perspective. What is it about covid19 that makes that necessary as distinct from all the other communicable diseases that humans have passed around for millennia? Or is it your position that wearing masks was always the smart thing to do?

seti0Cha commented on Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable trustworthy.systems/publi... · Posted by u/snvzz

pvg · a year ago

It's my account, not Paul Graham's.

seti0Cha · a year ago

It appears my memory has failed me yet again. Sorry about that, pvg!

seti0Cha commented on Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable trustworthy.systems/publi... · Posted by u/snvzz

jermaustin1 · a year ago

They are speculating, but there is no telling if it ever even happened. I tend to believe the site's news was just more interesting than what OOP posted.

seti0Cha · a year ago

That's Paul Graham's account, so maybe not just speculation. I didn't realize he still read this site. Not to jump on to OPs paranoia but I kind of thought he was frequenting some secret meta-HN site that still talks about entrepreneurship. Paul, if you see this, let me in! I swear I won't complain about capitalism!

seti0Cha commented on Ask HN: Slow thinkers, how do you compensate for your lack of quick-wittedness? · Posted by u/michalu

seti0Cha · a year ago

Also a slow thinker. I try to make everything asynchronous. In conversations, I let other people talk until my brain has had time to produce something worth communicating. If people ask my opinion before that, I say I'm still thinking about it or I ask questions to get more context and delay needing a decision. Sometimes I start by saying "let me restate what I think the issues are". Often by the time I've talked through the problem, the answer has become clear to me, or at the very least I know what more I need to figure out. I also actually tell people I'm a slow thinker and often say "I'll have to think on that and get back to you". Sometimes that's literally a minute or two later, which must seem strange to them, but that's how my brain works. The results are generally good enough that people think I'm smart regardless, so I try not to worry about it. Possibly there's some anxiety component to the whole thing because not worrying about having the answer in time itself makes it easier to reach an answer.