I thought that was George Carlin.
Well, one might have stolen it from the other. Or they may have both come up with it independently.
It was definitely a quote in Discworld Noir though.
Readit Newstpoacher commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd
tpoacher commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd
> people aren't total idiots.
You clearly haven't met that many people.
Reminds me of that Terry Pratchett quote:
"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, statistically, 50% of people are even dumber than that."
tpoacher commented on Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki... · Posted by u/trms
I love anki.
But upon reading this I think it's high time I exported all my notes in simple text format, just in case.
Maybe also try Fernando Borretti's flashcard app I saw (and dismissed) recently here
tpoacher commented on What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted news.theuncommonexecutive... · Posted by u/yuezhao
> Businesses don’t do promotions at senior levels because you “deserve” it. They promote those who have the highest potential to deliver outsized impact and value.
What I've seen more of is: people get promoted because they already do the job at the higher level, or close to it
Doing the job "at a higher level" isn't enough. There must also be a 'bus factor' at play.
Otherwise you're the shmuck who does expensive work cheaper. If you start making trouble and ask for more money you're better off being replaced with another ambitious shmuck who's willing to work cheap without causing trouble.
tpoacher commented on What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted news.theuncommonexecutive... · Posted by u/yuezhao
Also: do you want a promotion or just a raise?
A promotion means you are getting a different job, typically leadership, which means working with people more with machines. If you are better with machines than you are with people, do you really want that? does your employer really wants that? If you are twice as fast and twice as good as others doing some job, and if you like that job, what you want is double pay, not a promotion to a position you won't be as good at.
That's Peter's principle, and your managers have heard about it too.
True, but many types of employment don't support this kind of raise without a promotion.
tpoacher commented on What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted news.theuncommonexecutive... · Posted by u/yuezhao
The massive missing factor here is personality.
You can be the most impactful person going but if you are an asshole then you won't get promoted.
Edit: maybe I should say - an asshole to management, or bring up difficult things, etc.
I have massive empirical evidence against your statement.
tpoacher commented on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28... · Posted by u/croes
tpoacher commented on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers piunikaweb.com/2026/01/28... · Posted by u/croes
Vote with your wallet.
Tell your favourite content-creators to consider alternatives alongside youtube (like peertube), and promote the alternative platforms, until the network effect pays off.
tpoacher commented on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings antirender.com/... · Posted by u/iambateman
Top of HN and people are loving it, but there's got to be a better way of getting some $$ rewards for fun viral ideas like this than "Buy me a coffee". I'm betting he's got tens of thousands of sessions currently and nobody is tipping. https://ko-fi.com/magnushambleton
Is there a better way? Asking for myself, also.
I don't think donation approaches are necessarily bad, but yes it should not be as simple as putting a kofi link at the top of a page.
This person doesn't just do that though. Right after the part where you've uploaded your own examples, there's a reminder: if you had fun buy me a coffee.
Though this is slightly offset by the fact that they state you have 2 free trials and then you pay. It's a complete incentives mismatch if you ask for coffee for something you explicitly presented to them as a marketing offer. Though, I suppose leaving the donation option on doesn't hurt in this case either.
In my experience, donationware works best when the donation request is polite, personal, uncoercive, unintrusive, and comes at a moment of surprise right after you would have seen actual value from a product, and from a product that has not otherwise asked you for any money so far (including showing you ads).
KeepassXC Android is a good example: the guy asks for a beer during octoberfest :)
This reminded me of back when wysiwyg web editors started becoming a thing, and coders started adding those "Created in notepad" stickers to their webpages, to point out they were 'real' web developers. Fun times.