derekbreden

In the few months I’ve had the Samsung All-in-One my experience has been at least a 50% increase in time spent drying compared to an LG stack I had previously. Also, when complete, if you do get to it within 5 to 10 minutes of finishing, it feels damp, but that clears on its own after 15 to 30 minutes or so if it sitting in the dryer with the door automatically opened.

Very pleased with the experience personally. I am very happy to trade not having to transfer the laundry in the middle with it simply being done when I get back to it a few hours later. YMMV.

There is a thing I am looking for.

I frequent here (and chatgpt.com) because it is the closest I have found to what I am looking for.

I have paid enough people to visit my attempts that I think I have a decent sense of how a large number of people will react to what I have tried.

My intuition is that my language to describe what I am looking for is insufficient to convey the idea to others (including the venerable responder at chatgpt.com).

Source is here: https://github.com/derekbreden/truce-web

Prompts are here: https://github.com/derekbreden/truce-web/blob/main/server/pr...

It’s a pretty simple “post and follow” app, using ChatGPT to automatically add labels for escalations, judgments, and name-calling.

I’m optimistic to find or create a forum for people seeking understanding of ideological opponents instead of arguments with them.

> It sure would be nice to have a place where you could discuss ideas without it being an argument

100%

Arguments result in walking away, the relationship ends before hardly any information is exchanged. If either side wants an argument, it can be difficult to avoid. If both sides are seeking understanding, it becomes very easy to exchange a lot of information and for all to learn a great deal, even as they still disagree.

I would very much like to find (or create) forum(s) for discussions seeking understanding instead of arguments seeking to “win” wars or battles.

My own attempts have shown the potential audience is small to non existent, at least with the combinations of words I’ve tried.

Anecdotally, I’ve paid to promote a number of tweets over the last few years, and have consistently found that there is a certain percentage of users that are apparently retweeting absolutely everything in their feed. My content is niche, and usually has a very small audience, and so these “blind retweeters” stick out like a sore thumb when I look into who does anything with my tweet.

The behavior I’ve observed is consistent with the article, in that the timings of their flood of retweets could very well indicate a real human pressing the buttons, and I suspect they are. And, it does not surprise me that when looking at the long tail of the most absurd fake news that has a small audience on an individual tweet level, that one would find the majority of the retweets for such obvious fakeness is coming from such blind retweeters.

The effect overall is that whatever bubble such users are in gets amplified a bit, absurdity and all, though I’m skeptical they play any role at all in what becomes truly popular.

The real problem is far more nuanced with the less obvious fake news that even those not tapping blindly are taken in by, the less obvious fake news that gets a large audience because a lot of people find it believable, hoaxes that persist in the collective unconscious long after their time in the spotlight has faded, regardless of any debunking or fact checking that played a role in its popularity dying out.

I think the effect of these super spreaders repeating complete nonsense is minuscule compared to the effect of organically popular almost reasonable nonsense that truly goes mainstream.

I imagine it’s easier to go from middle/upper class to homeless and then bounce back, than it is to bounce back to a place you’ve never been.

For my own homeless experiences (~5 years), I was able to jump back because of work history and experience that would not have existed if my life had started out otherwise.

More cross-the-tracks experiences would undoubtedly make the world a more tolerant, understanding, and uplifting place to live. Though I can’t say I’d wish my personal trauma on any specific person. I’m thankful for the perspective gained, but it would be easier to prescribe if there were less long-term-costly means of gaining it.

I liked the specificity in your original post.

For myself, the example in the blog post brings up a lot of feelings from previous complex relationships with managers and their managers.

I have been in contexts where asking for a heads up on skip level feedback would have seemed reasonable. I have been in contexts where asking for a heads up on skip level feedback would have felt like retaliation. I’ve honestly been more fearful of saying anything at all in skip level 1:1 in recent years, from those previous experiences of feelings of retaliation.

I recently had a coworker point out to me a grammatical error I keep repeating, flush vs flesh, that he had reminded me of a year ago.

I recently pointed out to a different coworker some whitespace inconsistency in a pull request in a similar fashion as I had pointed out a while back.

In digging deeper into both situations where I was the reporter or the reportee, the issue came down to legitimate lack of agreement on whether it was indeed a mistake.

> Actually, I have for a long time been of the opinion that the quantity of noise anyone can comfortably endure is in inverse proportion to their mental powers, and can therefore be regarded as a rough measure of them.

Ditto.

My personal subjective observation on tolerance of meaningless noise and mental powers of others coincides with this observation.

This getting downvoted would improve my opinion of both the noise intolerance and intellectual prowess of the hackernews community.

That was close to my guess, the only small difference is I would add some maybe-ends-up-in-food-eventually crops as well.

My family would refer to the roundup ready corn and soybeans we sold to the grain co-op as commodities, while the small sub-acreage of sweet corn grown to sell at the farmer’s market might be much more likely to be referred to as food.

Food being a perhaps overly generous word for partially hydrogenated soybean oil or high fructose corn syrup.

Anecdotally, my parents had a son while under the financial support of both sets of my grandparents. Then 4 daughters while only supported by a single not quite middle class income. Then a 10 year gap and under the support of two middle class incomes had their second son.

Upon seeing the name of the comedian, I wasn’t planning on watching, as I’d previously found his humor more baffling than funny. But, the title of the song piqued my interest, “Peace anthem for Palestine”, so I watched in entirety and include below my complete summary.

Tim Minchin, comedian pianist, is going to share a song he hopes will be a seed for peace (first 2 and 1/2 minutes), the lyrics are “You don’t eat pigs, we don’t eat pigs, why not not eat pigs together ... ... pigs.” (last 2 and 1/2 minutes)

The audience laughs and sings along. I liked the song but the laugh timing, particular when he was playing music but not speaking, made me feel as if there was an in joke I was very far outside of.

At one previous job, during a 1:1, boss was pressing for anything I would change about the job, anything that could be improved. I had said no nothing several times, and so I replied in what I hoped would be understood as jest, “I guess Billy’s gum chewing”.

“Have you talked to him about it?” “It’s really not a problem” “Well I could sit you farther away from him, but we don’t have any open desks on this side of the office, do you want to sit on the other side by yourself?” “I didn’t mean that, I’d rather keep my desk.” “Well I don’t know what you expect me to do about it.”

“Well that went downhill fast.” - I did not say out loud.

I got the vibe I wasn’t the first to bring it up, and perhaps others had been less ambivalent towards the interruption.

I like my dead pan delivery of ridiculous statements. I had not considered the ramifications of that one being taken seriously, nor that it might be.

The replies I've seen elsewhere here seem well thought out, and in almost all cases take consideration of the contents of the article into their responses, even if not intentionally.

I like what this article says, and would like to support the promotion of it's content without adding further confounding additional language.

Should I have upvoted the article and said nothing?

P.P.S. This comment could be posted on most things I see on HN without further editing, and would convey what I feel about them.

The appropriately named DataTables[1] has worked well for me recently.

- It’s focused entirely on tables (as opposed to being a more general widget framework).

- I believe it covers most of the functionality discussed in the article.

- It has a mobile vertical layout.

[1] https://datatables.net/

I believe I mistook the use of the word folly in a context that was not relevant.

I would not feel qualified to say for whom it might be of value, but my thinking was perhaps for the individual having their behavior being categorized, or a clinician assisting them. Not super relevant here.

We're talking about the journalist, and perhaps ourselves, and in that light folly makes a lot more sense than it did in how I had initially misinterpreted.

Why would mental illness, temporary or any other temporality, be reason to eliminate any value in categorizing the specifics of the behavior as racist?

If not all racism, maybe some racism could be a symptom of mental illness? [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071634/

Geologists/geology can be useful in identifying promising sediments with particular characteristics, like dried lake beds, of particular ages.

Vaccine is foreign word to one afraid vaccines.

Pro choice, pro life ... what the heck is birth control?

Is Elizabeth the 2nd the most popular person in that list of people or is beth a common name?

[edit: I mean to say, there are hot topics, and search results that land on wikipedia, and the two don't line up super well for some specific parts of this particular report]

For me personally, I believe it would be most effective if I payed more (or only) when I completed tasks.

At the end of the day, that's what's happening anyway. As in, why continue the service if it's not working.

The incentives are already set so I am willing to pay (more) for successful management, and they will get paid (more) for successful management.

You get what you pay for. Why pay for failure?

Didn't volkswagen "fix" some emission tests in this manner?

I think the purpose of 'aeach' is not to rename, but to provide a conversion. 'aeach' converts to an array in order to be able to perform a 'forEach' on the non-array NodeLists.

The 3 elements being removed are the tr containing the story options, a literal whitespace node, and a tr used as a spacer.

I agree it is a coupling, and while accurate to describe as fragile or even really fragile, I personally would not have used those words.

I would feel more comfortable daring to make changes in this html and JavaScript than any other front-end code I've worked with in the last 15 years of my career. If for no other reason, the sheer small size of it and lack of external dependencies that you mentioned.

A video of toddlers wanting to help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J32iF6djMd8

I think it’s more like the design equivalent of open source software. It’s meant for internal use but then “open sourced”, there may be a trend, I’m not sure.

https://atlassian.design