ziggus

Darn it, I thought this was going to be about IT backup and recovery strategies, which is much more relevant to me than whatever this nonsense is.

User finds bag of M&Ms difficult to open:

"IS CANDY DOOMED?"

Is it an Electron app?

Hard disagree.

Watching/reading/consuming modern news is too stress-inducing (as it is designed to be) just to have something to chat about or become more well-informed about issues that in large part have no bearing on me.

I pay attention to issues that are important to me at scopes that matter - state and municipal. Everything else is noise.

Antiseptics and antibiotics are both classes of antibacterials, but yes, antiseptics can be delivered intravenously. At that time, they may have used something like iodine, penicillin or even carbolic acid.

Allowing comments on a news aggregator doesn't mean it's a forum. The fact that HN purposely doesn't have much of the standard functionality of a forum should clue you in to the fact that it isn't one.

Agreed. In fact, I'd like to see HN go even further and close discussions after some limit has been reached, whether it's time- or attention-based.

HN isn't a forum.

The anonymity of online forums is like alcohol: your personality traits are going to be amplified under the influence of them. If you're an asshole, both alcohol and anonymity are just going to make you a bigger asshole.

Doesn't mean it's the fault of either Lagavulin or HN.

You can claim all you want that 'Google Search Is Dying', but their quarterly earnings report says otherwise.

The internet is never going to be 'small' again. You can choose to deny the changing reality of the modern internet and stick your head in the sand, but it's going to be apps and centralization from here on out. Maybe DeFi will have some impact on moving the modern internet in a different direction, but indulging in nostalgia for the 'good old days' of Gopher and NNTP mean you're not contributing to the betterment of the current internet.

If you're new to the 'professional' working world, then I can understand a lack of conformance with the norms of those environments. However, if you've been working in professional environments for a while, there's no excuse for not understanding those norms and why they exist, short of some kind of cognitive differences.

This article does a decent job of summarizing some of the issues that face the mentally ill and pointing out that psychiatry without strong community support is almost useless.

However, it's really just a subtle ad for a book, which probably just reiterates the same points in greater detail via lots of anecdotal data and case histories, points the finger at the government for not spending more money on programs designed to support the mentally ill within their communities, and doesn't provide any further concrete solutions.

Hasn't this same book been written over and over again?

"...with today's technology..."

So we have the ability today to move 50K tons of parts into orbit, and come up with vast quantities of helium-3?