<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Affric</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Affric</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 07:44:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Affric" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "The case against boolean logic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought e was optimal</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 12:24:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234909</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Why is Inkwell stuck in review"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Needs to be generic in the United States, and only the United States... which is funny considering the global jurisdiction US courts often assume.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 06:05:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218521</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Never for production at scale admittedly, only for research and on fixed line connections, mostly public transport related. Some datasets are better than others.<p>Internet connected options here in Australia generally have good speed limit data but there are generally very few variable speed limits that allow you to travel faster than usual.<p>Transition is never perfect but surely regulation would account for that?<p>I genuinely don’t know but to me it’s an interesting problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 02:46:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143958</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Get a determined ex-partner who knows a lot about you and wants to harm you or kidnap your children. For most people this represents the greatest immediate risk with this kind of data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 23:23:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142540</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why wouldn’t they?<p>Dataset is readily available for most places. Pull local on  entry to jurisdiction on every drive…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 23:14:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142476</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tragic</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 06:54:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131978</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48131978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bingo. I know I would.<p>I am the king of knowing immediately when I have fucked up.<p>“Undo” has made us far too comfortable with mistakes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 22:07:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078738</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well said but by the time mobile phone towers were built we had been tapping phone lines for a long time. Hard to not think that to an extent default insecurity for telecoms was a choice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:36:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930500</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Used La Marzocco machines are coveted by cafe owners and collectors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No milk though</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:08:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885021</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "A Periodic Map of Cheese"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, the cheese are arranged by properties rather than just looking like a periodic table.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:08:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882774</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "A Periodic Map of Cheese"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And it’s actually attempting a periodic table rather than just using the aesthetics as found in Mendeleev’s.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:57:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855842</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here in Australia Apple Maps names everywhere by local council, which isn’t used at all, we use localities. I have reported this as a bug repeatedly but they just keep at it.<p>It just means nothing here except who you pay to collect the bins.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:32:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841926</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841926</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google is not without its errors.<p>I used to work to resolve addressing disputes and google just doesn't expose (maybe even store) the relevant information for a lot of parcels of land.<p>It’s all available freely from the government in simple formats but for Joe Public they don’t know that much less how to access it and it’s the case that technicians on the ground don’t always have it in their SOP either. Google has a level of market dominance that means their errors can be, for a small individual or over an aggregation of small individuals, costly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:31:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841908</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean the problem was the Google contract, yeah?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:26:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841847</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same in Australia, after they were corporatised (turned into companies run for profit rather than run as a service by some level of government) it was recognised that as natural monopolies there would need to be some sort of regulation on how much money they could recover, it was decided a method based on their costs was best, so they spent bad money agter good im expanding the network hugely (based on crazy projections of growth in demand to nowhere) rather than building resilience into the network and lowering their costs.<p>And that’s not even the cost of marketisation, that’s just the regulated network costs.<p>Series of awful blunders.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:12:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684587</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "How to get better at guitar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I repeatedly play the same phrase though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:59:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684475</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "How to get better at guitar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can’t imagine stopping every note. I think it is pretty good practice for me to never stop if one can avoid it.<p>I used to stop all the time, when I made a mistake, between repetitions, when I finished the piece.<p>I agree about ear to fretboard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:44:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681729</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It can't be a real thing that you can avoid being a monopoly by owning more of the supply chain.<p>Move the most important aspects of your software to hardware. Hard for MacOS but for a Chromebook style thing you could write the browser into its own pice of wafer.<p>Google should pay me to be this evil.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:40:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644281</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Solar is winning the energy race"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was speaking to a Kuwaiti princeling a few years ago about solar and he just couldn’t get his head around zero marginal cost, the efficiency of assembly of the panels, and the economics that would drive the growth. We spoke for about half an hour and he kept bringing up that powerbrokers don’t care about the environment and I had to repeatedly point out that I hadn’t mentioned the environment once.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:11:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568430</link><dc:creator>Affric</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Affric in "Rendering complex scripts in terminal and OSC 66"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are there terminal emulators that operate on vertical text?</p>
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