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tetraca commented on Malus – Clean Room as a Service   malus.sh... · Posted by u/microflash
RandomGerm4n · 3 days ago
This time it's satire, but I bet someone will offer exactly that for real in the next few days. The idea is unethical but far too lucrative from a business perspective.
tetraca · 3 days ago
The people that will take this as a good thing unironically will just have their personal Yes Man do that work internally.
tetraca commented on SQLite as an Application File Format   sqlite.org/appfileformat.... · Posted by u/gjvc
rtyu1120 · 3 months ago
Bit unrelated rant but I'm still not sure why ZIP has been adopted as an Application File Format rather than anything else. It is a remanent of a DOS era with questionable choices, why would you pick it over anything else?
tetraca · 3 months ago
Because Windows can view and extract them out of the box without installing any additional applications. If it supported anything better out of the box I'd guess people would use that instead.
tetraca commented on We're losing our voice to LLMs   tonyalicea.dev/blog/were-... · Posted by u/TonyAlicea10
tetraca · 4 months ago
Subsume your agency. Stop writing. Stop learning. Stop thinking for yourself. Become hylic. Just let the machine think everything for you and act as it acts. Those that own them are benevolent and there will never be consequences.
tetraca commented on Why English doesn't use accents   deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/sandbach
felipellrocha · 8 months ago
English is your favorite language to read and write? Said no one ever…
tetraca · 8 months ago
I don't see why it couldn't be. It has a pretty large corpus of decent literature/poetry/other media/etc, and the worst people seem to complain about is its inconsistent spelling rules that even native speakers struggle with. In general I'd rather deal with spell check failing on some common homophone from time to time than say, having to memorize arbitrary genders for inanimate nouns that lack any consistent marker and then tables of grammatical cases to apply on them based on those genders. Or having to shove a verb to the end of a complicated sentence and having to unroll the whole thing to figure out what's being said (not to pick on any particular language(s) I've learned).
tetraca commented on Got Ghosted names and shames companies that stop communicating   gotghosted.fyi/... · Posted by u/ohjeez
basementcat · 2 years ago
Perhaps I’m not plugged into etiquette but isn’t "ghosting" normal and standard procedure? I remember the first time I wasn’t "ghosted" (it was a FAANG) and I was totally shocked and was afraid the recruiter was going to get reprimanded.

That said, in retrospect perhaps it would be nice if fewer employers "ghosted" former prospective employees.

tetraca · 2 years ago
Most times I've applied anywhere they will at least send you a generic letter of rejection.
tetraca commented on Paper cuttings made by 17th-century schoolgirls discovered beneath floorboards   smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/benbreen
mseepgood · 2 years ago
Why where they so much more skilled than today's schoolchildren?
tetraca · 2 years ago
If the only way you could entertain yourself is either make something interesting or (maybe) read the Bible, you'd be very good at making things.

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tetraca commented on Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?    · Posted by u/perihelions
tetraca · 2 years ago
QuickBASIC or even Visual Basic 1 immediately come to mind. They have good, discoverable navigation and documentation.

I have no idea where you'd be able to find it since it's a proprietary product but InfoLease 9 had one of my favorites TUIs from a long gone era. You could navigate through and edit complicated contract information extremely quickly through a series of fixed number based menus and views. Once I got the hang of it I could blaze through entering tons and tons of data without any effort. I suppose a lot of BBSes had a kind-of similar interface but without the field validation and documentation (you could write ? virtually anywhere to get quick documentation about what you were editing or what something was intended for, and fields were validated in this really "perfect" way where it never felt like you lost time if you fat-fingered something).

tetraca commented on OpenVoice: Instant Voice Cloning   github.com/myshell-ai/Ope... · Posted by u/tosh
bloopernova · 2 years ago
This is partly why I'm so fascinated and disgusted by trolls and astroturfers. They erode trust in a given forum, which degrades the quality of discourse because no one wants to invest time in untrustworthy discussions.

Sometimes I wish I could get an honest answer from trolls about what they hope to achieve, but of course that will never happen.

tetraca · 2 years ago
> Sometimes I wish I could get an honest answer from trolls about what they hope to achieve, but of course that will never happen.

It's usually not that complicated: They enjoy provoking people, particularly people that can be reflexively upset by reading words. It's a game to them, against a party that they do not respect. The words they say might upset you, but the words ultimately mean nothing to them outside of provoking you, and the more chaotic they can make the situation the more amusing it is.

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