wetback's comments

On: 'Dear Mr. Kubrick': 1960s Audience Responses to 2001 — A Space Odyssey (2009) [pdf]

[wetback]

I had the same experience with the movie. Even though I knew up front about Isao Takahata’s passing, I struggled to make all the imagery fit into my expectations of a “coherent” story. At one point I just had to let go of my search of any overarching analogy, and just enjoyed the fireworks.

On: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

[wetback]

Click and drag to draw lines.

On: Show HN: FlingUp, a Reddit-like platform Ive been building for the last 2 years

[wetback]

Fantastically straight forward sign up, no email required.

On: Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

[wetback]

noise

On: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

[wetback]

The total upvotes and downvotes used to be explicit, so you'd see (+100, -15). They've only shown an aggregated score for a while now.

[peakaboo → wetback]

They can set that number to whatever they want anyway. Many users have reported cleaned up numbers and censored downvotes.

Not to mention they delete entire subreddits, like r/nonewnormal that was going against the narrative about covid from the start.

We now have an online social media where you will never see anyone disagreeing with you, because the mods take care of that.

On: Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?

[wetback]

Diaspora is fascinating, it captured me from the first page. Permutation City is pretty good as well.

On: Write Emails Faster with Smart Compose in Gmail

[wetback]

I despise the homogenization of thought that these tools lead to. My words are my own, even my typos.

[ovao → wetback]

I don't think there's any basis for the argument that autocomplete tools lead to "homogenization of thought", and therefore no reason to "despise" them.

[netheril96 → wetback]

I don't think typos communicate any information of value.

On: China to bar people with bad 'social credit' from planes, trains

[wetback]

And just like that, Compliance becomes a virtue.

On: Free .party domains with coupon code HappyHour

[wetback]

There doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of domains bought using the coupon code.