this is 1:1 what i hear people say about solana memecoins
Memecoins as art? I count myself fortunate to have not been subjected to that line of thought until now.
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shigawire commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
Yeah, exactly this. No idea exactly what happened but people at some point seem to have stopped accepting other people having different views or perspectives. With basically every community there was invariably some sort of oddballs.
I remember a BBS with this guy called 'Nihilist' who was a total insufferable asshole that'd make glory days Linus look like the world's most gentle man. But as is the nature with community, you learned more about him over time - and he was a guy in his 20s dying of some sort of a muscular deterioration issue, and him acting that way was just how he coped. Everybody loved him, hated him, mourned when he passed, and the community was somehow genuinely a worse place without him.
For another example I'm sure some here are familiar with, Flipcode had this one dude, extremely knowledgeable, who'd basically snipe into conversations, give amazing advice in a rather curt borderline hostile fashion (was it all caps? I think it was, but that was a long time ago), and then disappear. But he was such an important part of that already large community that I'm certain somebody else can fill in the blanks I'm leaving here.
But now when anybody does something as mild as saying the quite part out loud on dumb things, of which there are many in modern times (probably owing to this exact issue), it's like 'zomg burn the witch'! Basically a prerequisite of community requires accepting people for who they are. In modern times today that statement is basically a euphemism for sexual/LGB stuff, but obviously that's a negligibly small part of the diversity and richness of personalities, even if those personalities, or their opinions, may not always be the most pleasant or politically correct.
This does not scale. If you have eccentric sure it's fine. If you have millions it degrades the experience and is impossible to moderate.
In my experience, there has been a wide-spread (across the retail and service economy) decline in how customer service personnel treat customers, and it seems like it might actually be deeper than that (extending throughout young people's attitudes towards their jobs).
In my experience, there has been a widespread decline in how customers treat service personnel.
There is just a widespread kindness gap in our society.
shigawire commented on How to rig elections [video] media.ccc.de/v/why2025-21... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
It's a big tent, good luck getting agreement on what football we should be kicking.
It's hard to be safe when you are snatching random people off the street without identifying as law enforcement. Especially in a country this armed.
shigawire commented on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally? · Posted by u/superasn
> People are starving to death and the world's brightest engineers are ...
This is a political will, empathy, and leadership problem. Not an engineering problem.
Those problems might be more tractable if all of our best and brightest were working on them.
Here is where Robert can come in and do something good by disincentivizing ultra-processed foods with the tools he has available at the FDA. Sure, getting bad color ingredients out is good --now go for the gusto and disincentivize ultra-processed foods.
He could, but he's more focused on decreasing vaccine usage.
shigawire commented on Tell HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be · Posted by u/paulwilsonn
Your link is broken. I do know that Mr. Schultz has given lip-service to the fact that Starbucks is no longer a third place, but in the other column I present the fact that there are no longer any comfortable chairs at my nearest Starbucks and the next one by distance is Drive-Thru only.
For what it's worth, they are working on a bunch of store redesigns to incentivize people to stay in stores. It probably hasn't hit your area yet.
All that said, I do think it is a sorry state when Starbucks is the only/best third place option.
shigawire commented on Why doctors hate their computers (2018) newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/mitchbob
All of my doctors for the last five years (Kaiser and Sutter) have no problem with their computers. When I switched from Kaiser to Sutter, the doctor showed me "how easy it is to transfer my full records" (they both have Epic, plus a custom integration). I have no trouble communicating while they use their computer, and handle just about everything through the captive website (which is a bit slow- sometimes the pharmacy faxes a request to my doctor, who ignores faxes until I ping them).
The one important thing is to know how to work the system. Once you understand how it works, it's remarkably easy to guide your doctor or other service providers to do what you want. I talk a lot with the doctor and my spouse (who has taught me a lot), and I also read various online forums. Further I have no truly serious health problems that require intensive care, which could change things a lot.
I understand many people feel differently, and I in no way want to invalidate their subjective experience- if you prefer paper, or find computer doctors impersonal, or anything else, I'm not here to try to convince you otherwise.
The electronic system often benefits complex patients more than someone like you. All your relevant history could fit on a few pages.
But if you have many illnesses, medications, and unclear causes - then having all the data documented and available to different doctors you may see is helpful.
shigawire commented on AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong ksred.com/ai-for-coding-w... · Posted by u/ksred
Why?
As the article points out, there is a huge market for selling these tools. And this is a forum of many developers.
When there is no actual code or full explanation of how the vibe coding process works, it seems like a straight up ad with no useful info.
That is my feeling at least. And I'm even open to these tools - my current assumption is that I am just bad at them. I'd like to see more examples of how to deliver on all these promises.