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scantron4··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
Ok but I watch more movies from the 2000s than from the 2020s.
scantron4··on Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
Thats also partially because they were told fillers dissolve and to keep getting them, when actually fillers migrate and continue to absorb water and grow, leading to puffy "pillow face".
scantron4··on How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
I WAS THIRTEEN
scantron4··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Give Fall: Dodge In Hell a try. It has a few characters from Reamde but nothing to do with it so you don't need to read that one. Its an amazing idea about realistically what building the singularity could look like. Starting with one digitized mind.
scantron4··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Diamond Age is the most important science fiction book of all time... until you get to 2/3 of the way through and the guy in the ... underwater? hippy? drug dream? It never recovers.
scantron4··on Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel
A couple of years ago I got two call/email pairings from recruiters at the same company about three hours apart. With the same (Indian) name so I was confused. "Didn't I talk to you three hours ago?"

Yes I used to be naive enough to answer calls from random 3rd party recruiters.

scantron4··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
Ah but can it reply snarkily and close your ticket as a duplicate that is NOT A DUPLICATE? If not it will never recreate the real stack overflow experience.
scantron4··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
What was their citizenship? My guess is there are security clearances involved.
scantron4··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
How dare you point that out on a discussion about gatekeeping being treated like a good thing.
scantron4··on Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
if you also switch your phone, messages.google.com has you covered.
scantron4··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
So its a time traveling crime?
scantron4··on FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices
Being on uber one does not prevent this. You get priority by paying another $3 to be priority, nothing else.
scantron4··on But what if I want a faster horse?
And Tubi
scantron4··on Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
Its the next blockbuster series. If my mother, who claimed murderbot was too complicated and has never played video games loved it... the series has legs.
scantron4··on Generation Junk
Nope. My mixer, which I put off buying for years, came out of the box much worse than my mothers 50 year old model.

It doesn't actually move slowly at the stir speeds and sounds atrocious.

scantron4··on The X Files: Leaked documents reveal X staff stripped of moderation power
Reduce reach but doesn't penalize accounts seems a pretty reasonable compromise. Most of this article is just "things I don't like should be illegal" which is no standard for a society to live by.
scantron4··on Should you add screenshots to documentation?
This is what I was going to say. Nothing more frustrating than trying to find an option that has been moved somewhere else (why is android documentation the worst about this). At least with a screenshot you know it is either where they say it is or that you need to find a different tutorial.
scantron4··on How to compete with Patreon
This for me. I don't use patreon perks for the people I support on an ongoing basis. I have subscribed for perks (templates for some productivity tool) and then unsubscribed a couple of months later, but that wasn't an ongoing creator I watch all the time. I guess getting my SMBC comics by email is convenient but I already have an RSS feed reader and early access isn't important.
scantron4··on How the BRICS nations failed to rebuild the global financial order
South African energy crisis means no one will invest there either. Down to BI.
scantron4··on Landlord Software Is Making Life Hell for Renters, Report Says
I think he meant that people are less likely to have home repair skills
scantron4··on Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing
Justwatch refuses to show me multi channel searches without amc+, for some reason. Either a really annoying advertising plot or a glitch with my account.
scantron4··on Subscription fatigue and related musings
Meditation timer this post is about you!
scantron4··on YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study on recommendations
amen
scantron4··on Launch HN: Astro (YC W21) – Build your own dev teams in Latin America
Its frustrating that over and over you say "comparable to" rather than a number.
scantron4··on Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start
Here is an article saying their total tv viewership in the demo is just 126,000 a night. (Older than the demo seems more likely to me to be people that are going to keep paying for cable and thus be less willing to substitute a streaming service, you may or may not agree. In that case it comes up to 500,000 a night.)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2022/02/21/cnns-rat...

How can they seriously think they could quadruple their current cable viewership with a paid app in a year? "expected to bring in around 2 million subscribers in the U.S. in the service's first year and 15-18 million after four years."

scantron4··on The fake artists problem on streaming platforms
If generic jazz can easily substitute "important" jazz it just means your important jazz doesn't have the value you ascribe to it, especially not in the context of "things for background music."

I don't think this is saying anything about more active music consumption where people are actually listening to it. I personally get annoyed if more than 20% of a mix is songs I haven't already upvoted so there isn't a lot of room to bring in weird knockoff artists into my streaming--in fact I saw a recent article that talked about the current problem with streaming is that 90% of profits come from titles older than 18 months so it is harder to break through with new songs (the opposite of radio-driven sales where most profits came from new albums). That seems to be the opposite of "no one cares what they listen to so spotify can just redirect profits wherever they like."

scantron4··on Show HN: A more social, Amazon-free alternative to Goodreads
Storygraph also doesn't have an api, unfortunately. If they did I'd jump over wholeheartedly.
scantron4··on Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single homeless person
Not if it gets trashed by the residents.
scantron4··on Twitter doesn't care about spam?
>You only have to mention NFTs, even in a negative light,

Play stupid games win stupid prizes?

scantron4··on Google Kills YouTube Originals
Click the tab, laugh at the idea that anything about this page is anything I would want to watch, click away.
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