Viewing profile — shawn

Howdy! I'm the local undead pirate. Yarr. Thank ye for enablin' showdead! While it's true in this case that the comment was unsubstantive, I wanted to respond to a subtle but impor…

On the flipside, the mechanisms that make the tech world small are also the mechanisms that will exclude you and those around you if you happen to attract someone’s ire. In the lim…

Most people would not pay for the kind of content that shows up on Facebook and YouTube by so-called “content creators”. This isn’t really true. I’ve been trying to demonstrate thi…

I tried “yay!” “Woot!” “cyka blyat” and “fuck you” but these were all classified as neutral. I think it’s aimed more towards classification of news articles rather than short socia…

[dead]

college grads with useless majors like sociology can't get jobs, but feel manual labor is beneath them It's the opposite of a deep, thoughtful critique, which is what HN optimizes …

It’s impossible to separate censorship from moderation / curation, though. In many cases they are different names for the same thing. Is there a forum that doesn’t ban people, or r…

A lot of the reason for creating something new, besides money, is to do something because it’s fun. It’s regrettable that the rise of programming in business has transformed most o…

You are confusing me with someone else. I posted none of those things. > We've warned you about this before. I don't think so, but maybe a long time ago. Again, I think you're conf…

Most people here are talking about the dystopian aspects of this. But for a graphics programmer, this is astounding news. We're probably looking at the future of cinema. This is th…

You are no janitor. You banned my new account on Christmas when I was trying to help someone who is committing suicide on your website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1875809…

Hey. I won’t try to convince you of changing your mind. But before you do this, please consider that (a) there is nothing inherently wrong with you, and (b) Prozac might be able to…

Yes. Ping and DNS are some of the most effective ways to exfiltrate data since they are rarely blocked.

Laarc is now Christmas themed: https://www.laarc.io Arc makes it so easy to make changes like that. (def display-item-number (i) (when i (tag (td align 'right valign 'top class 'ti…

We run https://laarc.io off a $5/mo DigitalOcean droplet using FreeBSD. 30ms average page render time. It’s behind nginx + cloudflare, and I haven’t been able to DoS it yet. Very s…

Yes, a certain mod occasionally vouches comments I make. You can tell this is true because the comment is marked [flagged] immediately. If a comment is flagged by the community, it…

No, they attribute to me the most extreme bad views imaginable Yes. It’s partly why I’m banned, and why people call my behavior monstrous even though all I’ve done is point out inc…

I think it’s been about 90 days. Can you at least re-enable the ability for people to vouch my comments?

The irony of you complaining about a ban while calling me deranged for doing so is almost too much. Maybe you should take a break from the internet for awhile and focus on yourself…

Patriotism and loyalty usually come at a price. I think the question was more about the price than the loyalty.

Cue complaints about cats eating birds. And be sure to cite that one source that everybody cites just to make it sound reasonable to keep cats imprisoned. I had two indoor outdoor …

It’s following someone around and observing them. Think Shadow from FF6.

SHA2 is fine for guaranteeing integrity. But that's different from coming up with a way to store a password that can't be brute forced in a small amount of time. The goal is to mak…