hiccup_socks
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just delete this stupid fucking account from this stupid fucking place.
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Comment · 9 months ago
>The Latin effectively means "after death"
language evolves over time
post mortem is even in dictionaries (meriam, oxford, american heritage) as "an analysis or review of a finished event"
Comment · 9 months ago
>"Post Mortem" feels a bit like it's done in bad faith as it's usually applied to projects that are over.
is it? outside of autopsies, i think i have only ever seen it used as a synonym for "incident report". i dont think ive ever associated the term specifically with the end of a project.
e.g. cloudflare uses the tag for all of their incident reports (https://blog.cloudflare.com/tag/post-mortem/), not as a signal that they are closing shop
Comment · 9 months ago
i wonder what sorts of creative "haha copilot blah blah" and "haha microsoft blah blah" and "but they said AI would do xyz!" jokes we will get to see today.
(please github, you need more uptime so that people can come up with some new jokes)
Comment · 9 months ago
>A very sad truth is people HATE decentralization.
no, people hate friction.
it just so happens that most/all decentralized things have more friction than centralized ones.
99% of people do not give 1 shit in either direction of centralized vs. decentralized. they just want an app that is easy and "just works".
Comment · 9 months ago
many countries already have a working system mostly integrated, so yes, i would say it is possible.
the government should issue physical tokens that are sold wherever you can buy booze or smokes. when you login to a service that needs age verification, you type in the code from your age token.
its pretty cheap, its low-tech, we are already accepting of showing id to a store clerk privacy-wise, we generally trust the enforcement mechanisms around smoking/drinking already, it would be easy to expand existing laws to accommodate selling them/punishing misuse.
Comment · 9 months ago
wow, very cute reply.
also love that mods dont step in and instead they leave the comment flagged.
ridiculous.
Comment · 9 months ago
you may be surprised to learn that you can be a parent and have rules without being a "helicopter parent".
given your other bad faith comments in this thread, though, im sure you know that and are just trying to be contrarian for... fun? is it fun?
Comment · 9 months ago
this comment should not be flagged.
if i said exactly what tptacek said, and malfist replied with exactly this, it would not have been flagged.
Comment · 9 months ago
it is literally just "authority said so".
and its ridiculous that someone's comment got flagged for not worshiping at the alter of tptacek. they weren't even particularly rude about it.
i guarantee if i said what tptacek said, and someone replied with exactly what malfist said, they would not have been flagged. i probably would have been downvoted.
why appeal to authority is totally cool as long as tptacek is the authority is way fucking beyond me. one of those HN quirks. HN people fucking love tptacek and take his word as gospel.