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DoctorNick··on 70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll
Just turn back now, this comment section is full of people who took this Dead Kennedy's song as a serious policy proposal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqnaHDdvh5I
DoctorNick··on CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases
I don't know if you've noticed, but the political process is completely fucking broken. Good fucking luck getting any of that passed in any meaningful form.
DoctorNick··on The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
Yes, that's correct.
DoctorNick··on The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
Americans are more prone to this kind of thing because they're already used to overriding settler-colonial propaganda influencing their mindset; Zionist propaganda is just another flavor.
DoctorNick··on How to Become a Bad Developer
"How to be successful" screeds like the one cited in this article from the Berkshire Hathway ghoul always seems to leave out a crucial step: "Come from a well-off, well-connected family".
DoctorNick··on A study used data from phones to predict depression and personalized treatment
uh, this is fucking horrifying.
DoctorNick··on Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
"largely supported by research" is complete horseshit. It's was just reheated biological determinism: https://www.wired.com/story/the-pernicious-science-of-james-...
DoctorNick··on Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side
Really; More bombs in tonnage were dropped in three months than the entirety of WW2. The devastation wrought by the US on Vietnam is still being felt today, particularly the use of Agent Orange. The birth defects stemming from exposure are horrifying.
DoctorNick··on Show HN: I hate adding updating to my apps, so I created Pakkly
Be very careful about this. App toolchains love to create dependencies on services like this without asking you, and then you'll be bombarded with support requests.
DoctorNick··on I have a lot to say about Signal’s Cellebrite hack
It is incredibly disingenuous to frame this as a personal "slight". This is a real security threat to the users of Signal, not some vendetta. Celebrite sells their tech to oppressive regimes and they use this against their opponents, who likely use Signal to communicate.
DoctorNick··on Samsung boosts non-memory chip investment to $151B
Yeah, because it's not like this exact thing has happened repeatedly since the emergence of capitalism.
DoctorNick··on Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?
The ecosystem for for node is literally this goddamn comic from xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2347/

Really, my advice is to start holding the node ecosystem hostage until you get properly compensated. Leftpad 'em.

DoctorNick··on No Flutter on Linux desktop
>Hell, even Chrome, technically an open-core project, is more or less entirely usable as Chromium (the Free part of Chrome) and projects exist specifically to remove all remaining Google services and telemetry (e.g. Ungoogled Chromium).

It has become increasingly difficult to maintain forks of Chromium due to the sheer complexity and build time. Merging patches and testing them for each new release is a huge bitch due to the time required to compile (1h40 mins on a 3700X). You can't do iterative development, since most changes require recompiling from scratch, and forget about regression testing. It's only really feasible to do serious development on Chromium with either the Google-only tools, like Goma, or building/renting your own expensive build farm.

DoctorNick··on Why I Work on Ads
It's written more for the benefit of the author than anyone else.
DoctorNick··on Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now?
Chased off all their users by reigning in all their free tiers until it became commercial-only.
DoctorNick··on Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now?
It's amusing to see all the little indicators that Docker is desperate for cashflow. At this rate, they're going to end up like Travis.
DoctorNick··on “Shared libraries are not a good thing in general”
there is, but nearly all of the ones I've seen are for reverse-engineering purposes.
DoctorNick··on Paid in Full: an internet where every interaction is a financial transaction
Nice try, but we can tell that this written by GPT-3.
DoctorNick··on The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
So you'd prefer that farmers get screwed by the onerous IP clauses surrounding them?
DoctorNick··on HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merged
X11 is a security nightmare. It is absolutely broken enough to justify a huge change.
DoctorNick··on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
I have to wonder if the upvoters realize I'm talking about the US State department...
DoctorNick··on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
I look forward to a bunch of HN posters uncritically swallowing State department propaganda.
DoctorNick··on Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate
Because cryptocurrency mining is now one of the biggest contributors to climate change. It is killing the planet. It is a moral imperiative to shut it down by any means necessary.
DoctorNick··on US raises ‘deep concerns’ over WHO report on Covid’s Wuhan origins
Wow, they're really assassinating his character here. They're taking a metaphorical interpretation of a painting that he made out of context, and spinning it so it seems like he's a religious nutcase. This is the paper in question, it's nothing like they're making it out to be: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7087640/
DoctorNick··on How Covid brought the future back
If "The Future" is widespread poverty and massive inequality, then sure.
DoctorNick··on An F-117 pilot and the officer who shot him down meet, 15 years later (2013)
"lmao you got wrekt, nerd"
DoctorNick··on Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Will he stop immiserating the warehouse workers that work for them?
DoctorNick··on Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production
The US has a uniquely exploitative work visa program and undocumented immigrants are hired at slave wages. I wouldn't call this an accomplishment.
DoctorNick··on We Are Preparing a Class Action Lawsuit Against Robinhood
>The conspiracy hypothesis might have legs if Citadel's asset management and market making arms colluded. Absent evidence, however, it's a suspicion at best.

Yeah, uh, they do that all the fucking time. It's a Soviet fiction that they keep a firewall between those two businesses.

DoctorNick··on Errors vs. exceptions in Go and C++ in 2020
thank you for emulating the experience of debugging distributed systems
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