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this is more "crazy person with tech opinions" than the usual "tech person with crazy non-tech opinions" fodder for this thread, but i still think it fits. pop quiz: which side has better text rendering? according to this user on r/firefox the correct answer is the left one to the point that they go out of their way to use an unsupported version of Firefox from over 2 years ago because it has a bug that lets them force it to use that style of rendering. quote:It's called the brainwash effect, you are used to seeing blatantly unsmooth text so you can't deal with seeing smooth text. I guess high dpi displays don't look nice to you either. A proper monitor would follow exactly the sRGB curve, and the GDI rendering engine would take the inverse formula to anti-alias in linear RGB and give the best results. edit: they're still going. this is some legit timecube poo poo: quote:If you are used to seeing distorted text, you are going to have problems seeing smooth text. That's how it works. DirectWrite is a curse. DirectWrite is awful and will forever haunt me for life. It's one of the most overrated things on Earth. (emphasis theirs) it's a good thing I don't know what "actual text" looks like because it's apparently enough to break my brain. Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Dec 27, 2019 |
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"unrealistically thicker" is a hell of a phrase about text firefox just kinda gathers these people, i was on a bug report years ago where someone paid a professional developer $600 dollars to implement "preserve modified date on downloads" then got mad when the devs still wouldn't accept it, as they'd already told him
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 19:42 |
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Have a real Poe's Law situation here. Can't tell if this guy is on to something, or is the local crazy dude wandered around the shopping center with a laptop with like 12 Pringles cans glued to it, yelling at coffee shop clerks and city employees about "rogue attack signal". cwingrav 10 hours ago [-] I need help with something much more nefarious. I know of a location in a downtown area where someone has set up a malicious wifi "thing". I'm guessing the PWNAGOTCHI since the device changes patterns and comes and goes? It has learned how to use deauth to do man-in-the-middle attacks and absolutely closed down wifi in a half block radius by sending RTC packets of 12 second wait times and also waiting for others to send RTC packets and transmitting over them. Businesses close to it have no wifi. As you move away, wifi starts to improve. And no, it's not flooded as there is plenty of open air time not being used by the many devices there. Steps taken: - Have talked to multiple business owners nearby and they can't figure out why their wifi won't work. - Comcast Business is worthless and weeks of calls by business owners and multiple tickets have led to nothing. - Have talked to the mayor of the town and their tech guy agrees something is wrong. - A "smart guy" that works for the government doing security did a quick scan and said it was because one wifi was on a channel between 1 and 6 so the overlap was causing the problem... that wasn't it. - Have approached university researchers to see if their students would be interested in looking at/for it. No response. - Have walked with laptop watching signal strength and know roughly which building it is coming from. From what I understand, there is NOTHING one can do to attack it, other than sending massive RF interference, which would be a crime in itself. How the heck does one get rid of this thing? Any suggestions?
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 23:37 |
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they’re a crazy person either way
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# ? Dec 27, 2019 23:40 |
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inb4 it's some jackass that built a jammer in their apartment
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 00:34 |
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Mr.Radar posted:this is more "crazy person with tech opinions" than the usual "tech person with crazy non-tech opinions" fodder for this thread, but i still think it fits. this type of crazy person is actually super prevalent and you can find them everywhere, I don't know why
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 03:30 |
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Who wants to read an HN thread on homelessness? Of course you do! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900429
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 20:59 |
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Maximo Roboto posted:Who wants to read an HN thread on homelessness? Of course you do! quote:
hn: anti homeless spikes are like imessage
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 21:59 |
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uncurable mlady posted:don't practice sanitation on the same level (non homeless folks) That imo is true and we shouldn't ignore it. But why? people without regular access to showers don't take a lot of showers. what could cause this? and how could it be fixed with an app?
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# ? Dec 28, 2019 22:11 |
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josh04 posted:firefox just kinda gathers these people, i was on a bug report years ago where someone paid a professional developer $600 dollars to implement "preserve modified date on downloads" then got mad when the devs still wouldn't accept it, as they'd already told him lol @ that bug report. BTW that guy hired two devs, not just one in the most recent update the same guy, in the middle of getting mad (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178506#c255) wrote: quote:I do not know if my bad user experience with Firefox on desktop platforms is because I still use Intel Core 2 era desktop computers in 2019 hmm
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 04:46 |
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:people without regular access to showers don't take a lot of showers. what could cause this? and how could it be fixed with an app? preferably an app that doesn't work on obamaphones, because gently caress those deadbeats
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# ? Dec 29, 2019 05:15 |
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i posted this when i thought this person was done, but they apparently spent another day asking how to break their browser and berating people who tell them it's not possible/ask why they would want to. here are the highlights:
they seem to be done now, though. Mr.Radar fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Dec 30, 2019 |
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That seems like a very specific type of brain sickness
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Mr.Radar posted:i posted this when i thought this person was done, but they apparently spent another day asking how to break their browser and berating people who tell them it's not possible/ask why they would want to. here are the highlights: amazing
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 05:59 |
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Vol 1 of "programmers could do any other job because they are so smart" included running a news room trivially with zero experience. Vol 2 now includes medical doctor, lawyer and businessman. This is in response to saying most dev jobs are basic glue code and don't deserve the inflated egos of their authors. alexandercrohde 14 hours ago | parent | favorite | on: Programmers Should Plan for Lower Pay? Most doctors are doing simple glue stuff and think they're hot poo poo. You think I couldn't diagnose that cold, or a machine? Most lawyers are doing simple glue stuff and think they're hot poo poo. You think I couldn't refer that case to another law firm, or a machine? Most businessmen are doing simple glue stuff and think they're hot poo poo. You think I couldn't randomly guess at the market, but not outperform it, nor a machine?
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 07:43 |
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compuserved posted:lol @ that bug report. BTW that guy hired two devs, not just one i want to be sympathetic because preserving the server's modification time seems like probably the right thing, but lol at the guy's antics
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 08:38 |
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seeing an actual doctor is overkill for the vast majority of checkups/visits, which is why those things are already usually handled by nurses, and a doctor maybe waves at you if you’re old and insist on it a programmer could do a great job of diagnosing a cold when that’s all the patient has. so could a donut with “you have a cold” written on it in sprinkles. the point of seeing an actual medical practitioner is that occasionally it’s not the correct diagnosis
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Xik posted:Vol 1 of "programmers could do any other job because they are so smart" included running a news room trivially with zero experience. Vol 2 now includes medical doctor, lawyer and businessman. This is in response to saying most dev jobs are basic glue code and don't deserve the inflated egos of their authors. love to elide the fact that those three professions actually have liability as opposed to software "engineering"
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 16:15 |
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rjmccall posted:a programmer could do a great job of diagnosing a cold when that’s all the patient has. so could a donut with “you have a cold” written on it in sprinkles. the point of seeing an actual medical practitioner is that occasionally it’s not the correct diagnosis You mean there’s no OTA update for fixing Ebola?
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 16:28 |
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doctors have to interact with other human beings so programmers would make terrible doctors
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 16:29 |
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Jose Valasquez posted:doctors have to interact with other human beings so programmers would make terrible doctors I used to run a product team making software for doctors. They’re a population at least as bad in general as programmers. Their nurses often pretty much make them tolerable.
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 16:35 |
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klafbang posted:You mean there’s no OTA update for fixing Ebola? if you think about it, ebola is itself an ota update
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 16:46 |
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g42gregory 6 hours ago An honest question: How does this compare to the group-think in the climate change/global warming research? Are we similarly rejecting funding to any research that does not fit into the common consensus? The fact that we call some people "climate change deniers" tells me that we have an unhealthy dynamics going on there. Will it take 30 years to get to the same point?
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 16:48 |
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AFashionableHat posted:I used to run a product team making software for doctors. They’re a population at least as bad in general as programmers. Their nurses often pretty much make them tolerable. its this. doctors have the same level of social graces
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 16:58 |
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Xik posted:Vol 1 of "programmers could do any other job because they are so smart" included running a news room trivially with zero experience. Vol 2 now includes medical doctor, lawyer and businessman. This is in response to saying most dev jobs are basic glue code and don't deserve the inflated egos of their authors. Is this some type of philosophical method where you prove the point by engaging in the exact behavior you’re arguing about? mystes posted:g42gregory 6 hours ago Yess, there’s no opposition funding at all, a bunch of paupers on that side of things
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 17:00 |
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so, i’m not going to scour hn to find that doctor/lawyer post, but: on second read, that post is almost certainly an argument by absurd analogy, i.e. it is trying to make the point that it is silly to think that trained programmers are unnecessary just because some of what they do is rote. it’s just in the context of hn that it’s confusable for “actually these other professions are trivial”
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 17:22 |
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curse you poes law
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 17:24 |
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fritz posted:if you think about it, ebola is itself an ota update like ios13 or windows 10
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# ? Dec 30, 2019 18:09 |
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Among the HN labor aristocracy, syndicalists are starting to outnumber libertarians https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21923085
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 21:47 |
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Maximo Roboto posted:Among the HN labor aristocracy, syndicalists are starting to outnumber libertarians
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 21:55 |
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By labor aristocracy I meant specifically HN posters who are presumably engineers, not the cafeteria workers the OP is about. There does seem to be greater pro-union/anti-management/anti-VC sentiment on that site these days
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 22:04 |
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Rapzid 1 day ago | parent | favorite | on: Write Junior Code "Junior" might as well be an IQ classification.. How many people change their IQ? The reality is something nobody really talks about.. When a company doesn't want to hire a "junior" it doesn't mean they don't want to hire somebody without X amount of experience in a tech stack or without X amount of experience in the industry.. They don't want to hire people bellow a certain aptitude. Many "juniors" will never be "senior". Even if they get the title and salary. We all know "seniors" in salary and title only. Some people are inexperienced "seniors" year one.
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lainga 5 hours ago [-] I don't agree with what greatscott404 says, but I will defend to the karma-death their right to say it without getting grey'd out. reply
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fritz posted:Rapzid 1 day ago | parent | favorite | on: Write Junior Code this was 100% me 1 year out of college
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fritz posted:lainga 5 hours ago [-] greatscott404 18 hours ago | parent | flag | favorite | on: Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have union... The only reason labor unions are legal is that certain unions have outsized political clout, in a perfect world labor unions would be illegal under antitrust laws as forcing companies to pay workers more than what a free market dictates inevitably increases prices.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 14:47 |
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in a perfect world executive bonuses would be illegal under antitrust laws as allowing companies to pay management more than what a free market dictates inevitably increases prices
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 17:54 |
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my grandparents are pathogists. they always joke about how good their bedside manner is
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 03:23 |
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for many users, the lipstick IS the pig.
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 06:11 |
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Love the typical HN commenters stumbling over each other to add their totally unique insight on Amazon cracking down on employees criticizing them in public as actually OK because it’s Against Company Policy
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