OldSchoolJohnny | 6 years ago | on: Helsinki's solution to homelessness
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OldSchoolJohnny | 6 years ago | on: A Teen Programmer Built a Tool to Generate Fake Lyrics for Your Favorite Artists
There should be a life rule, if the word "teen" or "child" appears in any headline about some new "invention" or "app" you should immediately ignore that article as it's going to be some breathless gushing bullshit.
OldSchoolJohnny | 6 years ago | on: iPadOS
Why are we as developers giving this company any of our business when they've thumbed their noses at us for decades?
OldSchoolJohnny | 6 years ago | on: More evidence that autism is linked to gut bacteria
No the research is getting pretty definitive in this area, don't count it out and the article also specifically talks about another study not the mouse one where they had real world success (over 50%) treating autism in people via bacteria transplant.
OldSchoolJohnny | 6 years ago | on: More evidence that autism is linked to gut bacteria
The research cited in the article directly refutes what you are positing and shows that ASD symptoms are transferable via fecal transplant.
OldSchoolJohnny | 6 years ago | on: Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model
It plays just fine on my W10 FireFox
OldSchoolJohnny | 6 years ago | on: Google Is Eating Our Mail
Difficult to host smtp?! That's absolutely not true and has never been true. It's difficult to configure and set up in the first place but after that it's just updating. Source: personal experience for decades.
OldSchoolJohnny | 6 years ago | on: How to hide from the AI surveillance state with a color printout
I'd actually like a daily dose of dystopia, anyone know of any reliable places to view it online?
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Katie Bouman, the computer scientist behind the first black hole image
No.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy
Yeah...no. Increasingly fewer people are buying this narrative anymore. Hard work is something everyone can get behind, but cheating is just cheating even if it has a veneer of legality behind it we all now know how easy it is for people of means to make the laws that work best for them.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger
Emotion is not a real legitimate source of information, it's an inspiration to tell the brain to pay more attention to something and then work it out logically (like when you have a bad feeling about something), but to make any non trivial decision entirely out of emotion is simply foolish.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: US refuses to ground Boeing 737 Max
"they" is a historic and accepted gender neutral pronoun.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Against Willpower (2017)
There is no such thing as "willpower" and there is also no such thing as "motivation" (https://medium.com/swlh/theres-no-such-thing-as-motivation-e...). These are both complementary pre-scientific beliefs. Modern, well done science is pretty conclusive on these matters and it needs to be more widely known so we can progress forward as a species.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Notepad++ drops code signing for its releases
Wow.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Fully managed PostgreSQL databases
> At the point you care about backups and standby nodes, you're already sort of outside the cheapo hobby tier
WTF? Why would anyone ever not care about backups?
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
Yes. You get to interact with real people and stretch your legs.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Did offering a money-back guarantee help your business?
Thank you for asking this! I honestly never considered it before as we offer a free trial up front to combat refunds and make it harder to refund; but it makes perfect sense after reading all the other answers and has changed my mind completely.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Is Earth's Magnetic Field Flipping Soon?
Because no one would care if it was too far in the future?
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: One of the Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working with the FBI
This part is concerning though:
"Under the arrangement, the company has also agreed to test DNA evidence for the FBI in its private laboratory."
I hope the FBI will corroborate whatever results the private company comes up with later and just use the data to narrow down the suspects.
OldSchoolJohnny | 7 years ago | on: Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
> This is one of those HN threads with a lot of misinformation by people who don't know the subject area well but have a strong opinion anyway.
So essentially just like every thread in every online discussion group then?
Addiction is a great indication of this, it's pretty conclusive these days that it's a medical and biological issue that can be treated successfully when treated as what it actually is.
But do we do that? Hell no! Our North American protestant roots pretty much insist that we treat it as a moral failing which radiates outwards as ripples of harm on every level of society all because we can't leave some primitive dark ages way of thinking in the dust bin of history like we should.
Housing unaffordable for young people? Of course it's a moral failing, they just didn't work hard enough...cue harm to society in general as it spirals and radiates outwards from that one completely wrong and ignorant thought until we reach the point where there are desperate people everywhere with nothing to lose.
It happens with so many problems and it's lazy thinking that hurts us all.