jcaprani's comments

On: Owners report rust forming on Tesla Cybertruck

[jcaprani]

In the marine industry, 316 is standard.

On: Iran crash: Ukrainian passenger plane crashes with 170 on board

[jcaprani]

You mean the reputable journalists at BuzzFeed?

[tozeur → jcaprani]

Apparently they’ve evolved quite a bit: https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/chris-hamby-buzzfeed-news

[viraptor → jcaprani]

BuzzFeed is quite different from BuzzFeedNews which produces higher quality content. Very unfortunate naming and we go through that exchange on hn every time they get linked.

[AmericanChopper → viraptor]

As we should. Reputation is the best tool we have for tracking credibility throughout society. As a pioneer of clickbait garbage, Buzzfeed has a deservedly poor reputation, and a little bit of brand diversification doesn’t change that. If the Sackler family started opening rehab clinics, it wouldn’t change my opinion on what a bunch of scumbags they are.

[Gigablah → jcaprani]

No, the reputable journalists at BuzzFeed News, which has produced two Pulitzer Prize finalists so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News

[otalp → jcaprani]

Any writer of news someone doesn't like can be an "activist" rather than a journalist, it's a pointless distinction

[sitkack → jcaprani]

Please don't.

[thereare5lights → jcaprani]

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

[shakna → jcaprani]

BuzzFeed News is not BuzzFeed. They've won several well-deserved journalistic awards.

On: Let me give you a list of the top scams coding bootcamps use to steal your money

[jcaprani]

You don't understand!

Austen has zero intention of answering you!

If you could please stop bothering him with your plebeian concerns, that'd be great!

On: Ask HN: Has anyone ever been hired from “Who wants to be hired?” threads?

[jcaprani]

Depends on the place.

I happily biked for years in London (considered a dangerous cycling city).

I gave up in fear of my life in Fiji (tiny and sparsely populated).

I wouldn't even consider it in Dublin (which has a lot of cycle lanes).

[circlefavshape → jcaprani]

FWIW I cycled for 10+ years in Dublin without incident

On: Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well

[jcaprani]

Is anyone else seeing the irony of the poor writing in this article?

[hardwaregeek → jcaprani]

In fairness, the author is not a native English speaker. And he makes his point with clarity and cohesion. There are some awkward phrases, but by engineering standards his writing is perfectly fine :D

[amirhirsch → jcaprani]

I enjoy the coincidence of our comments asking this same thing as a question.

On: Floyd Martin retires after nearly 35 years as a mailman tomorrow

[jcaprani]

At least once a day

On: Pilotwings demos act differently depending on when the cartridge was made

[jcaprani]

Discrete

On: Bill Gates promises to add his own billions if Congress does nuclear power push

[jcaprani]

Centuries

On: Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh

[jcaprani]

Raising Awareness is the contemporary 'last refuge of a scoundrel'. Greenpeace lost any broad credibility as a maverick campaigning organisation a long time ago, it's now just another MOTR 'charitable' org that overspends on admin, salaries and PR.

On: Rainbow Warrior on shipbreaking beach in Bangladesh

[jcaprani]

Probably both... I've worked with a lot of people from Bangladesh; idealistic stated goals, paired with deeply cynical actions is a good, succinct and fairly generalisable summary in my experience.