Bratmon

5 ms·

61.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
Didn't like 20 different YouTube channels do this exact thing back when Wordle was relevant?
62.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
Even in cloistered private communities, "not playing the online meta" is an unstable equilibrium. As soon as someone loses a bunch of games in a row and decides to Google "$GameName strategy", the community's unique
63.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
I noticed the article pointedly didn't compare the stroke to the forward crawl, which is clearly both faster and more efficient. There's no real way to compare the butterfly and the forward crawl that doesn't make the butterf
64.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
I never quite understood why there are Olympic medals for Butterfly swimming, but not things like "100m hop-on-one-foot sprint" Like, why is being good at a deliberately-inefficent form of movement worth a medal in only this one c
65.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
Another Boeing disaster. Although we can't really blame this one on McDonnell Douglas.
66.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
I apologize for derailing this conversation about whether or not Uber is better than taxi companies by bringing up irrelevant topics like whether or not Uber is better than taxi companies.
67.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
As opposed to taxi companies, who are famously efficient, honest, and not creeps.
68.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
People who can see the article can see that it's incredibly mid and not worth commenting on. But for people who can't see the article, it could be anything! For all they know, they're being kept out of the greatest content of
69.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
This is a rare occasion of the Trump administration getting something right. Why even do a census if you're just going to synthesize random data as the last step?
70.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
I think the TFA was very light on evidence that people's desire to respond to the census is increased if the government fabricates the results later
71.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
Surely any such foreign occupier would just demand the unredacted data?
72.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
But this article is about a decision to damage the census less. If you value an accurate census, you should be celebrating!
73.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
The official cause of the Lionair 610 crash was literally "The pilot pushed the nose down for no reason in the middle of the flight"
74.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
If this article was written by an AI, then the "author" needs to upgrade to premium. If it was written by a human, then the "author" definitely needs to upgrade to premium.
75.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
Fun fact: Neither of the 737 Max 8 MCAS crashes were determined to be an engineering defect either.
76.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
> It’s not because of capability, it’s because Anthropic’s guardrails prevented it from solving the problem. I'm not familiar with this case, but in general people should be very suspicious about this claim- it is extremely common f
77.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
I don't think enough parents have internalized that if they're the "I don't let my teenager have a phone" parent in 2026, that also means they're the "I don't let my teenager have friends" parent
78.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
If you're worried about bad DNS changes causing problems, then you should be terrified about bad Ansible changes.
79.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
> Instead of configuring domain names that may not resolve, we can just directly inject the appropriate IP address(ess) into configuration files Because now you've replaced one single point of failure configuration system with cachi
80.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
Well, there are two ways to reduce homelessness: enforce vagrancy laws directly or wait for homeless people to commit a second crime and arrest them for that. Some American cities have the state capacity necessary to do the former option, b
81.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
> I do not live in one of the cities that have issues with a large homeless population, so the experience is a bit lost on me That's the key experience you're missing. If you've never lived in a high-homeless/drug ab
82.
by Bratmon 4mo ago
It would be a very useful service for them to provide a "User forgot password and can't log in" flow for important accounts for private companies.
83.
by Bratmon 5mo ago
Yet not as disappointed as the people who actually believed Microsoft would give them a perpetual license for something just because they paid for it.
84.
by Bratmon 5mo ago
This feels like something that would have done numbers on StumbleUpon
85.
by Bratmon 5mo ago
I genuinely don't understand why anyone would ever make a business transaction with Microsoft. Like, they're up there with crypto companies in the category of "This outcome was so inevitable that if you didn't expect it,
86.
by Bratmon 5mo ago
For me, it's a tripwrire. If I'm ever feeling desperate enough for new content that I'm checking the "newest" page of Hacker News, that means I need to put down my phone and reset myself.
87.
by Bratmon 5mo ago
But surely if having the best possible basketball team is important for national success, then it makes sense to pour more resources into the players with more talent
88.
by Bratmon 5mo ago
If you don't like it when people make important decisions based on metrics because metrics can be abused, then you're really not gonna like what happens when people make important decisions without metrics.
89.
by Bratmon 5mo ago
Unpopular opinion: If we have evidence that shows that keeping all the smart kids in one group creates massively better outcomes for that group, then that's something we should be doing everywhere, not something we should ban.
90.
by Bratmon 5mo ago
> What sad place do you come from? The American public education system

More ›