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johncessna··on The man who killed Google Search?
I've always used it as a variant of chicken fucker
johncessna··on Fallout style RPG made in Excel
You can create a 3d engine with Excel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCeOEQVUWZ0

johncessna··on "Rabbit Test" Unwins the Hugo
Hugo awards have been more about agendas than SciFi or Fantasy. This is just another variation.
johncessna··on Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)
I was just looking at Esty wondering if it's time to start making some smalls to see if I could make a living off of them.
johncessna··on A female albatross over 70 years old
She's listed at 72 in wiki [1], so probably not.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_(albatross)

johncessna··on How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like
I think it's more likely that number 1 is the norm and 2 and 3 are the rare exceptions. We aren't omniscient beings. Your perception that person A stole credit for your idea may forget that person A was involved or doesn't account for the work they did that you weren't aware of.

3 people sit around at a table during happy hour discussing ideas for an offsite.

Person A suggests that they have it in Atlanta and provides good justification.

Later, Person B follows up with their contact in finance to see if they can extend the budget, and gets it approved.

Person C, who's job it was to plan the offsite, coordinates with the travel coordinators, gets invitations sent out, and other various

Who's idea was this? Who deserves the credit?

I think all 3 have claims and it'd be easy for each one of them to accuse the other 2 of idea theft or taking credit for things they didn't do. A contrived example, yes, but I think misunderstandings due to a lack of seeing all the information/data happens more often than people realize.

johncessna··on Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
really good idea. I already use youtube for name pronunciation and this just hones that search better than hoping youtube's search comes through.
johncessna··on Monty Python and the Holy Grail 48 1/2 year anniversary in theaters December
Yeap, same, and even then it wasn't until I watched it with subtitles on.
johncessna··on Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum
As someone who reads hackernews and works on security systems, yes, absolutely. Run their passwords through haveibeenpwned and disallow anything that shows up.

Based on the feedback I hear from my non-tech friends and family, not allowing them to use their single password used for everything would be a good way to exclude those folks from using whatever service you're trying to sell them.

johncessna··on Why BMI is flawed – and how to redefine obesity
Any athlete has known this for ages.
johncessna··on Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
That doesn't address GCP itself getting shut down in 2 years.
johncessna··on US Government IT contractor could face death penalty over espionage charges
Dec 22 through Aug 23

That's a long time, I would love to know the breakdown on that. How long was he operating undetected vs how long was he operating after detection (while being monitoring/investigated)

johncessna··on When the Homeowners Association Comes for Your Home
Conservativism isn't anarchy. It's about pushing government down to local levels where the impacted have the best ability to change the policies if they aren't liked/wanted.

I'd say an HAO def fits that bill. I've been in both chill HOAs and draconian ones. If you don't like it, join the board and motivate all the other like minded folks and get things changed.

johncessna··on Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models
"Following Pushback, Zoom Says It Won't Use Customer Data to Train AI Models"

Yet...

johncessna··on The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays
Now that we're a year removed, what was the outcome?
johncessna··on Farmworkers thought a new overtime law would help them. Now, they want it gone
They make 30 dollars an hour.

Given you got that far into the article, what are your suggestions for the farmers pain points? How would you price asparagus that needed twice the labor costs to harvest than a box next week that didn't?

johncessna··on It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027
Why do they need 4 years for this? This was how most phones used to work.
johncessna··on Laniakea Supercluster
Wild, I've def heard of some reasons how the Fermi paradox could be resolved, but I missed this explanation. A quick headline scan of the wiki article also doesn't mention it. [1]

You'd think that 94% of the observable universe not being reachable would get more of a mention. Granted, we can still look for artifacts such as radio signals or something similar, but it does seem to cut out why a type 3 civ hasn't shown up at our door.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

johncessna··on New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable
I really wish the study matched the headline. It should be 'most classic video games are commercially unavailable' To their credit, they don't try to hide it, but the sentiment in the headline is the actual problem, in my mind.

I'm less concerned about a gameboy game that you can't buy, but you can easily play via emulators or the physical cartridges, which still exist (for now), than I am with the class of games that are truly gone/unplayable.

Your online only games primarily fall into this bag, but without something like an internet archive or something similar to preserve them, we're in danger of losing the digital copies of old games as well.

Personally, I'd like to see the study expanded and then some sort of index that tracks true loss of media over time.

johncessna··on Show HN: Mystery-o-matic – A daily murder mystery to solve
I really like these types of puzzles. Here's some feedback:

I think I either missed a clue (i triple checked) or it came down to a guess on the time. I hope it's the former and not the later.

I also had a couple of waste clues. Once I had the murderer, I had a few possibilities of the murder weapon but then clues narrowed that way down. Out of 4 weapon possibilities, having 3 clues say what the weapon wasn't is 1-2 too many, especially that late in the game.

The graph was a little confusing. It's not clear that the relation of the rooms matters from the game/clues, but the graph makes me think it is. (this was written before I saw the how to play link, see below)

I got a constable score. I have no idea if that's a good score or a poor score, probably the later since I went through all the clues.

The how to play link should be at the top in the first set of directions on how to play. I think another commenter said that it takes at least 15 minutes to change rooms. IE in the example if Alice is in the kitchen at 10:15, she couldn't have been in the bathroom at 10:00. She could only be in either the living room or bedroom at 10:00 to be able to be in the bathroom at 10:15. I didn't even make that leap until I had read that comment. Call that out specifically!

johncessna··on Mid-1990s Sega document leak shows how it lost the second console war to Sony
Squaresoft moving their IP to the ps1 had a large part to do with it as well.
johncessna··on FDA approves first gene therapy treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Not sure why you're being down voted, here's the data:

https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function

Here's what the whitehouse thinks it is, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/budget... (page 63)

johncessna··on FDA approves first gene therapy treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
The US is creating that war-torn country so that it can test it's capabilities and weaken Russia at the same time.

Your point still stands though, but I don't think in the way you meant it.

johncessna··on My ranking of every Shakespeare play
Agreed, the comedies are the least enjoyable. Like today, much of the comedy needs a context and without it, it doesn't hit as hard.
johncessna··on SMS phishers harvested phone numbers, shipment data from UPS tracking tool
phishing

whaling

smishing

pharming

vishing

spear phishing

clone phishing

snowshoeing

Every year we get new ones, and I'm convinced it's so that companies can sell a new phishing training to corporations every year.

johncessna··on New York State Senate passes prohibitions on non-competes
Are there a lot of issues with non-competes? I've def heard stories, but it's usually related to poaching scenarios where a contractor gets hired by the company that they are contracting with.

That said, I also know that multiple states basically have mechanisms to prevent a non-complete from preventing work. For example, if I'm a mechanic, a non-complete can't keep me from being a mechanic and making a living because a former employer claims that every repair shop is a competitor.

johncessna··on New Massachusetts right-to-repair law now being enforced
Why not both? Most of these companies have green initiatives. Let's see them do something other than update their social media profile picture or mandate a corporate training or two.
johncessna··on The explosive legacy of the hand sanitizer boom
https://archive.is/AjH36
johncessna··on Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant
I'm not saying it's wrong or right, but this isn't not too surprising is it? Access out of an airport is tightly controlled whereas the border isn't.
johncessna··on Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for
Or Russia.
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