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NDizzle··on Ask HN: Do others with young kids prefer work to holidays?
No... Shit, no man. <<Office Space Lawrence scene>> You priorities are backwards.
NDizzle··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
Have you tried something like JetBrains tooling with IdeaVim, or one of the Vim plugins for VSCode? Might help with the transition.
NDizzle··on Windows 11 update added 'Search' label to taskbar search button – how to remove?
To search in Windows, click the start button (or hotkey for start) and simply start typing. I’ve never seen the need for the search box or button, label or no label.
NDizzle··on JFK Assassination Records – 2022 Additional Documents Release
You should see... even modern pharma deal contracts. That's what makes ocr on these deal sheets so hard, they are covered with scribbles.

All the good stuff is hand written, in the margins, or above/below the line.

NDizzle··on Twitter has banned Mastodon links in name and bio for being “malware”
Why do you think he is melting down? The use of this word may be surprising, but things aren't often as binary as they appear. I bet this decision wouldn't make a polygraph needle move.
NDizzle··on SvelteKit 1.0
Could you go into a little bit more detail?
NDizzle··on Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America
The US would really benefit from a strong southern border. That's obviously a politically loaded statement, but just take it at face value. There is such a thing as borders. The US needs to stop the flow of illegal shit across the southern border. I know this won't solve 100% of the fentanyl issues. Low hanging fruit, and all that. Start somewhere.
NDizzle··on Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says
At this point I can't say I trust a single thing the US government tells me.

Sorry, you lost me these last almost 3 years. Good luck getting me to buy back in. Maybe next lifetime. At least I won't do the suddenly dance, which is getting more and more common.

NDizzle··on Mercedes Makes Better Performance a $1,200 Subscription in Its EVs
Except for the AMG line. Although, the one I owned WAS owned by an elderly realtor who just wanted the most expensive one.

Supercharged, 525 ft lbs of torque on tap, tire murdering machines. I really, really liked my E55. Had it for 3 years and sold it before anything expensive broke. Went through like 5 sets of tires. Couldn't corner for shit, but onramps and any straight line, look out.

NDizzle··on One in five who voted for Brexit now think it was the wrong decision
Way more than 1 in 5 Biden voters, given the last two years...
NDizzle··on What Happened at Alameda Research
It’s a bipartisan, top to bottom rug pull exposing the corruption everywhere.

Fucking nothing will happen.

Here is the turtle’s cut, for example. Out in the open.

https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202210159536655878

NDizzle··on Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast’s belly
One point in there - data management. It varies in cost because on the upper end, that includes support for data change requests for the life of the trial. Zillions of people involved, human error, need paper trails and sign offs to fix most things.
NDizzle··on ‘Putin’s chef’ admits to interfering in U.S. elections
Whataboutism? No, I'm just sticking with Soros for now. The rest are an exercise for others to complete. Color within the lines, please.
NDizzle··on ‘Putin’s chef’ admits to interfering in U.S. elections
$100k in Facebook ads, in 2016.

Soros has donated $126M for midterms tomorrow. [1]

But, you know, mean tweets, Putin's puppet, etc, etc.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/politics/midterm-money...

NDizzle··on Rust: “Explain GATs Like I'm 5 Years Old”
As a non-beginner, I feel the same way. I'm not too worried about it at the moment, but it's early in the day (and week) and DST happened yesterday, sooo...
NDizzle··on Why are so many babies born around 8:00 AM? (2017)
I would guess it's coffee related. Let's get this over with so I can have my coffee.
NDizzle··on Playstation VR2
Unfortunately not everyone is like the folks who work on No Man's Sky. They have released a boatload of fixes, new content, engine updates, VR support, you name it, they keep delivering.

Their support of that game has been very impressive over the years. Launch was rocky, sure, but they recovered and kept pushing ahead.

NDizzle··on Playstation VR2
Yeah, I'm a little bummed about this. Maybe it's a combination of the controllers and the increase in resolution/etc. With the gen 1, you had the move controllers and a remote camera. Games were probably developed with that in mind - even if they knew some changes were coming down the pipe, it would be difficult to write the games with the VR2 system in mind.

Whether or not this is all abstracted away, I have no idea... but there really is a pretty huge difference between 1 and 2 if you think about the camera set up and the controller situation. The move controllers were optional - they didn't even come with the system. I think there were bundles that had them. They came out BEFORE the VR system did, and were kind of a gimmick until the PSVR landed.

Now that you have a real high quality headset, that ships with standard, hopefully high quality controllers, the target application should take advantage of those things.

NDizzle··on Shanghai Disney shuts: Visitors unable to leave without negative Covid test
The current strains are in between the severities of a cold and the flu. Lockdowns and so forth are ridiculous at this point and have been for at least a year, maybe even 18 months.
NDizzle··on Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation
Apparently you've never seen/heard Hitchens on free speech?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDap-K6GmL0

NDizzle··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
Can you list left wing sources that are banned from twitter? I'm struggling here. The KKK, maybe?
NDizzle··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
Alex Jones. Gavin McInnis. James O'Keefe. Breitbart, which is banned 2/3rds of the time.

Fox News is for your 65+ year old uncle. It's harmless, controlled opposition. Look at the Jan 6th coverage. It exists for the left to point at and say, "see, there it is! Right wing bias!" - for one example.

NDizzle··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
Sure I can.

All the right-wing sources I followed on twitter were banned. Therefore I didn't get ANY content sent to me.

How is that a bias FOR right-wing sources?

NDizzle··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
What? They ban most actual right-wing sources. What's left is crap like Fox news.

They can't be biased towards stuff they ban. They are biased towards controlled opposition, which makes people feel warm and fuzzy. Big difference.

NDizzle··on An Analysis of the Origins of the Covid-19 Pandemic [pdf]
Can we actually discuss this, or are people still freaking out? This was incredibly obvious, even early, early on. Suppression isn’t good, folks.
NDizzle··on PayPal’s Objectionable Terms Are Back, $2500 Fines for Content They Don’t Like
Paypal owns Venmo.
NDizzle··on U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 7.16%, highest since 2001
Unless you have a ton of cash.

For example, if you were a tech worker in California, unable to eat out or go out regularly for 2 years, so you piled up cash...

And now the rest of the country looks like a good choice, compared to CA policy...

NDizzle··on U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to 7.16%, highest since 2001
When do you expect rates to come down?

Prices aren't dropping that much - inflation. If you're expecting a 40% price drop anytime soon, well, don't hold your breath.

NDizzle··on California’s greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires
Last I knew (as I lived right by areas that were constantly burning) Cal Fire had the contacts to maintain the majority of the federal land in northern California.
NDizzle··on California’s greenhouse gas reductions could be wiped out by 2020 wildfires
I mean, we're fighting wildfires about as good as anyone could.

What CA doesn't do well is manage forests.

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