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vikloveon U.S. has entered unprecedented climate territory

Don't forget to subtract CO2 for all the goods/services we export. It's only fair if you count imports!

vikloveon The real reason to end the death penalty

7 days later... my account still exists. I guess I've quashed the "just email us and we'll delete you're account" lie.

vikloveon The real reason to end the death penalty

What more do I need to do to have my account deleted? I sent you an email as per your request, but my account still exists.

vikloveon Why we switched from Webpack to Vite

One great problem it solves is namespacing all of your styles. I don't have to worry about classname collisions because the bundle handles it all for me. Instead of having one massive global stylesheet, I have a bunch of small, modular stylesheets that fit entirely on my display without scrolling, and I can reason about the output much easier than before.

vikloveon The real reason to end the death penalty

Seems like I disagree with everything this site is intended to be.

Can you please delete my account? I'm sick of this site and its biased, self-righteous mods. I even sent you an email and everything, just like you asked!

vikloveon Bitcoin has few attributes of money but all the attributes of a collectible

> Stocks have price appreciation typically due to higher current and projected earnings

Yes, projected earnings. Speculation. Just like cryptocurrencies.

vikloveon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

It's not off topic, this article is about HN's features and I'm discussing HN's features.

Just because you have something in your FAQ doesn't mean it's off-limits for discussion. You can post whatever you want there, and I can choose to disagree with it. It's one of many reasons why my disdain for this site grows with each passing day.

And they're not false claims. You guys absolutely do not have an account delete button, and you guys absolutely do deprioritize accounts and comments in an opaque manner to limit their exposure.

If you want me to stop complaining, stop using subterfuge to accomplish nefarious objectives. Be transparent about the moderation on this platform.

vikloveon The real reason to end the death penalty

Yes, because corporate policies are the best picture of the current state of American culture.

vikloveon The real reason to end the death penalty

The only flaw I see in your analysis is that you seem to believe Europe is better off in any way. Feudalism is making a resurgence all over the west.

vikloveon Fitted Filtration Efficiency of Double Masking During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Backend software developers and a superiority complex

vikloveon Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices

In the US we just call this a powerline adaptor

https://www.amazon.com/Powerline-Computer-Network-Adapters/b...

vikloveon Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake

I don't think communities would put up with foreign ownership of local land where said owner literally never sets foot in a 1000 mile radius of the land they "own." Even following your argument, this type of land ownership (pure speculation) would likely cease to exist.

vikloveon iMac 24-inch

Your computer fan is as loud as a lawn mower? You can't have a conversation in your room while your fan is running? What?

vikloveon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

I think it's pretty clear what I'm trying to achieve. I'm trying to get you guys to implement an account deletion button in user settings like you should have. I should not have to expose my personal email by contacting you in order to do so. How would you even know the request was legit? I have no email associated with my account.

vikloveon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23008642

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892517

How about you guys just implement an account deletion button and treat your users like actual people?

vikloveon iMac 24-inch

> I have tinnitus at ~30 because of loud poor-thermal expensive work laptops.

I'm sorry, but I just cant bring myself to believe this statement. There's no way a computer fan can get loud enough to cause hearing damage.

vikloveon Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash

Seems like only one step is necessary

1. Strap in seatbelt behind you

2. Start autopilot

3. Remove yourself from the driver seat, into the passenger seat

And now the car is in autopilot with no driver.

TBH Tesla should be doing more about this, it's too easy.

vikloveon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

Because I have bad impulse control, and dang won't let me delete my account :)

Apparently once you sign up for HN they have the right to keep your soul locked up here forever.

I've asked for them to delete my account or permaban me for over a year, but users just don't have rights here and that's just the mentality that dang has always had.

vikloveon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

It's not that hard to notice, there's just no official documentation or explanation of what these mechanics are and that's the extent of how "secret" it is. I think if you search dang's comment history he mentions it a few times, and obviously if you look for anecdotes you'll find plenty of users on this platform that have been rate limited, and deprioritized on other ways to have their opinions filtered out of the conversation.

Selective moderation is also a big problem on this platform. Rules only apply to certain groups of people, basically at dang's discretion.

The biggest problem with this platform is that there is no moderation log. The mod team works in an opaque manner, making it hard to prove or disprove the claims I was making. If we could just see a list of all comments dang had deleted, and the true vote count of each comment, we could all see exactly what the mod team was doing and be confident in its fairness.

That's obviously not the case though, and HN keeps this information from us to protect their image.

vikloveon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

Yes, it appears that way because of the way the moderation works. Comments that HN wants to be hidden just get sent to the bottom of the comment stack, then grayed out, then hidden. You probably believe that only comments that users downvote get sent to the bottom, but no, there is a secret rating system controlled by the mods that causes certain comments to behave as if they were already downvoted. It's an opaque system that is selectively applied so as to conceal its nature.

If the system were honest and fair, the mods would have no reason to hide their behavior.

Now I have to be careful, I've posted 3 comments in the last hour and I'm running up against my rate limit since the mods have highlighted me as a troublemaker. Can't say too much exposing the secret system of moderation here, they don't like that.

vikloveon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

I disagree. I think HN is good in some ways, but awful in many other ways so much so that it overshadows the good. Unfortunately the good can trick honest people like yourself into thinking the platform as a whole is good, but hey, you're entitled to your opinion.

vikloveon The Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago

With the bar on the top and the uncloseable bar on the bottom, this site was too claustrophobic for me to commit to reading the whole article.

vikloveon A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018-20)

HN is an extremely authoritarian web forum, maintained this way solely to prop up the reputation of YC as an organization. You're not allowed to have certain opinions because it will make the platform look bad, but of course censorship goes against the core beliefs of the western world so they can't exactly be transparent about it.

The more experience I have with this site, the more I've found myself hating it. And the smugness of the users here who believe HN is the one-true-forum is the turd on top of the shitcake for me.

vikloveon Firefox 88.0

Unfortunately they still don't provide a PPA for their developer build, so I have to update it manually which is extremely annoying.

edit: I gotta say, why the fuck would someone downvote this comment?

vikloveon The Pentagon will have to live with limits on F-35’s supersonic flights (2020)

> You know we got rid of a few of those aircraft carriers we could probably eliminate childhood poverty within 5 years or so

Care to share your detailed plan?

vikloveon Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

Vettery, Jobot, Triplebyte

vikloveon The ecological disaster that is Bitcoin

I think we should shut down Netflix because it is a huge waste of energy that could be better repurposed elsewhere. Who are you to say Netflix is more useful than Bitcoin?

vikloveon The Pentagon will have to live with limits on F-35’s supersonic flights (2020)

They're not parking aircraft carriers off of Florida because we outnumber them 11 to 2. It would be pretty funny to see a single Chinese carrier parked in the Gulf, surrounded by 5 of our own though...

Military superiority is a bit like air. When you have plenty of it, it seems trivial, but without it, you're left gasping for a breath.

vikloveon Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India

Red Letter Media's show name makes so much more sense to me now. Thought it was just some random saying!

vikloveon Don’t we all just want to use SQL on the front end?

Rails has very robust and well documented generators if you find it's a lot of work to create the migration file and the model file when you're changing the schema (I usually just create them manually though). It's a pretty standard workflow for rails developers, and given that rails is used by a lot of companies that are not "simple CRUD apps" (like AirBnB, Stripe, etc.) I'd say it's definitely very useful in many scenarios.

In fact, I'd argue that the "code-first" approach as you call it is actually more useful, because rails gives you bindings for before/after commit hooks, validators that aren't supported by SQL, etc.

> Also, unless you are a following a "code-first" approach and doing all your schema migrations through the ORM

I've literally never heard of a rails team migrating their DBs manually. Everyone uses ActiveRecord because it's a joy to use and very well supported and documented.