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toldyouso2022··on Show HN: Learn a new language by speaking with AI
You are missing the universal language
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: How do I improve eye contact?
I never knew people looked each other in the eyes when taling until I was in my 20s. I never looked at people in the eyes while talking and yet I made so many friends and friendships that lasted long. To me it was not a thing so I never felt a psychological defeat because nobody ever told me I was "wrong". Even today it feels weird to me and it feels like the weirdos are those that look me too much.

Point is, consider if this looking people in the eyes is something really worth investing on: maybe not looking at people is your thing and you're fine that way too? Why you have to be wrong? Maybe it's the others that are doing the uncomfortable thing for others and are wrong.

toldyouso2022··on Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
Yeah, I used to be a libertarian too, and heavily invested, and the thing is that someone will do a bad thing with the law eventually, so you may as well do good things with the law instead of cucking out because bad things will be done wheter you do good things or not.
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
A burger menu in the top right where you then see settings and help.

Again, well done

toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
I'm really liking it, I've played multiple times and installed it. I will ask though: is it possible to remove the vibration?
toldyouso2022··on React 19 almost made the internet slower
You skipped the worst part. Things are great now. I wonder how big corps are gonna ruin them this time.
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Why isn't Laravel used in more enterprise apps?
You got the standards replies and maybe they are true.

Me, I rationally agree with those replies but my insticts tell me that it is because in an enterprise setting managers don't want what works best, they want what can cover their ass best.

Java and .net do that.

If you as a manager use laravel and save the company tens of thousands, nobody gives a crap. If you use laravel and things go wrong, even if things would have gone even worse with java and .net they are gonna set your butt on fire and throw you out of a window.

Laravel is for entrepreneurs, java and .net for managers.

Just my opinion of course

toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Is fulfilling but lower-paying work worth it?
From what I gathered + my personal experience, most of the times not only low pay work pays less but it sucks too. I think it applies to gov and non-profit too
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Doing $16k MRR. How do I deal with cease and desist?
I hope you will find the support to overcome this. Good luck
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Doing $16k MRR. How do I deal with cease and desist?
I think you can make midjourney stop by using social media pressure, but you need to improve communications. For example don't start with "I'm making 16k a month" because most will think you can afford a lawyer.

Also, I repeat, consider explaining better what you do and what exactly are they accusing you of doing wrong and why they are wrong in doing so.

Also now that I see the screenshots, the way you phrased things it did look like you were the official midjourney api, so the trademark violation is there for sure.

toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Doing $16k MRR. How do I deal with cease and desist?
How is he violating the tos? His client is making requests to a server, the server is replying and his client is elaborating the requests how it wants.

If midjourney doesn't like the requests they should stop replying, maybe banning (or suing) the users that use the client.

If his stuff is suing-worthy then stuff like adblockers, download managers, etc become suing-worthy too, is this what we want now?

toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Doing $16k MRR. How do I deal with cease and desist?
From what I gathered from your service description it doesn't make sense to me that yu provide a service and they try to sue you If anything they should sue, aka block, the accounts of your users. It's them that are violating the tos, not you. It's weird replies on hn have been so cold towards you, if you want the internet defense force coming to your rescue I think you have to explain better why you are not violating the tos (reasonable tos). Your service is no different from youtube-dl and many other services from what I understand, right?

Also layout of your post is screwed up on mobile, I yhink it made you lost attention from mobile users which are many I guess

toldyouso2022··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
It's the same in the US, Italy, etc Doctors are a cartel receiving a monopoly from the State. That's all there is to it, really
toldyouso2022··on The return of never-ending job interviews: 'It can go beyond the pale'
Similar to what social media did with dating, it also created the delusion in managers that the perfect candidate is out there.
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: What do I do if a job is causing me to be depressed and demotivated?
The your job is to find a new job is the nice, rational answer but it's not what most people are able to do when feelings are in the way.

You are probably feeling so mant emotions, I'll dare one guess: feeling disrespected since you wrote how they are pushing this undesirable project on you.

It's not easy to look for a job when emotionally charged, so I would set aside a space with silence and focus on the feelings. Repeat for a few days. Processing the emotions will help.

toldyouso2022··on Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
Americans are scared of saying the wrong thing. Meanwhile I say things that would get me arrested in the uk and fired in the US, daily, and I have lots of friends and an active social life, in person, no phones, no problems. If you can't tell your friends what you think, social places become a second workplace, of course you don't wanna go
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Independent contractors, what tips do you have for starting?
Choose a way you want to conduct business, internalize it and stick to it. Clients will try to steer you towards deals you may not enjoy, so you really need to know what you want out of a business relationship
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: Why are resume gaps frowned upon?
Managerial class needs to strip away any responsibility so they are perfectionist. If we sill lived in an entrepreneurial society this whole thing would not be a big issue
toldyouso2022··on GoatCounter creator is hoping to raise at least €1k for basic living expense
Put "faster support" and then don't do anything different (or maybe do, it's money after all)
toldyouso2022··on Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU
Just ban minors from using smartphones. Works even better for their growth than trying to block them from seeing porn. And it's a very simple law to write, no need for useless bureaucrats to make money (but maybe that's the problem).
toldyouso2022··on We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't
Damn this got downvoted so hard. HN needs less js frameworks and more basic economics (so I'd recommend basic economics by Thomas Sowell as a start)
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: What imageboards do you use?
Vecchiochan is probably the most popular italian imageboard right now, it should have surpassed diochan.

On 4chan I prefer to check the generals instead of whole boards. I used to skip them but it was a mistake, they are quite comfy. I skip non-blue boards because there is too much chaos.

I like chans a lot. For some reason I would rather be insulted than downvoted. Maybe it's because I know I can respond, meanwhile downvoters are truly anonymous and cowards!

toldyouso2022··on Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
Fair question. The profit incentive in this case is not meant as a psychological incentive, but a purely economic one. If I make money doing something, I can keep doing it. If I don't, I lose money and so I can't.

It's a natural selection mechanism that will always happen. We broke it (aka we don't like it) because we moved from the consumer choosing who profits to central banks.

So, doctors that are not liked by the consumer don't disappear as fast as they should. They also don't land where they could do good because we leave everything to arbitrary judgements of well meaning bureaucrats instead of the choices of people that have to be served.

No system is perfect but we are missing something important in healthcare and I think this is the main culprit.

toldyouso2022··on Medical schools do not prepare students to care for autistic or disabled people
Profit and loss incentives make it so that if you are competent you get clients and you keep going, if you aren't you lose money and fail. With central banking we have destroyed this system and in the case of medicine not only there is a lot of central banking interference but here is also a guild system that limits the supply of doctors, so bad doctors don't fail and with time you get more and more bad Doctors. Things will only get worse
toldyouso2022··on We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution
In the world of central banks Profit is not what motivates corporations.
toldyouso2022··on You don't need JavaScript for that
I use them and doing so saves a lot of time developing. Problem is that managers will complain that they are too simple. At least that's my experience working with "enterprise" consultancies
toldyouso2022··on Ask HN: I'm bad at design, which stops me from finishing side projects. Advice?
Buy a bootstrap theme, they're cheap and they offer a lot out of the box. Better solution than bare tailwind in your case, which actually requires you to know how to design. I used tailwind on my personal website, result was good but I had to do a lot more than if I used a bootstrap theme.

You make your app ui work within the boundaries of your bootstrap theme and you're good for 96% of the design stuff.

If you don't want to even learn bootstrap css classes and stuff, consider https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

It's amazing, you drop it and you have a theme based on the html only. I use this mostly for prototyping though

toldyouso2022··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
Youtube is a very toxic environment. Even "informative" content is often toxic, but in a very subtle manner.

At google They may be not respecting the web but they are doing firefox users a favor. If you really need to see a video, five seconds won't make a difference. If you don't need it, five seconds may remind you that you don't really need it.

Try to see the positives

toldyouso2022··on US business elite welcomes Xi Jinping with standing ovation
Today's business leaders are members of the managerial class. Xi is probably the world's most important manager, so there may be some sincere appreciation. (now think about what this chinese manager did to the oceans, the people, etc and what a sincere standing ovation would mean)
toldyouso2022··on YouTube cracks down on synthetic media with AI disclosure requirement
The small enclaves are gonna become a little less small, the plebs are gonna keep plebbing (now with AI)

I am an optimist

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