Hacker News: Congeec

New comment by Congeec in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

Congeec — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:03:15 +0000

Best in terms of what? Quality Control? UI/UX?

New comment by Congeec in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

Congeec — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:44:42 +0000

If you have ScreenTime turned on. Port :8080 is occupied and your ubuntu apt-get in a docker build gets hash mismatch because they obviously modified packets. Let alone I am having another issue of unable to delete a private key in Keychain Access.

The whole macOS thing is amateur

New comment by Congeec in "Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech"

Congeec — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:20:07 +0000

The identity issuer - the government - already has the your privacy. If you have a unique identifier from the government which websites can call the government with to verify your identity, you won't lose any privacy. All the websites get is just a unique string, no date of birth, no name, no address. This approach is the cornerstone of oauth/oidc.

New comment by Congeec in "Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging"

Congeec — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:28:41 +0000

Some religious groups may not support science

New comment by Congeec in "Collaboration sucks"

Congeec — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:26:16 +0000

There is a saying: "big meetings for small things, small meetings for big things". Get sponsors before a meeting if there's anything you really want to push out

New comment by Congeec in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

Congeec — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:47:57 +0000

depending on how you define "leave". The search engine was shutdown, and the office still has business like ads

New comment by Congeec in "Don't avoid workplace politics"

Congeec — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:27 +0000

There is a saying "People are politics. How can you avoid people?".

New comment by Congeec in "US retail giants raise prices due to tariffs"

Congeec — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:06:43 +0000

Not true for camera gears in the US https://petapixel.com/2025/05/19/those-rumored-sony-price-in...

Also, lo, PS5 https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/1my6t3o/sony_discounts...

New comment by Congeec in "Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)"

Congeec — Tue, 06 May 2025 03:14:07 +0000

Because social media. The same goes for a phone number. If your contacts give out a phone book, your number is leaked.

New comment by Congeec in "How good are American roads?"

Congeec — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:31:32 +0000

Yep, in New York the pothole season is early Spring rather than winter, for example.

New comment by Congeec in "One Million Checkboxes"

Congeec — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:31:24 +0000

It only works in Chrome, not Firefox or Safari. Sad.

New comment by Congeec in "Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription"

Congeec — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:38:37 +0000

I convert and upload my flac files to Apple Music which is available cross-platform, though poor on linux.

Speaker quality makes a huge difference according to my experiences from lower end $30 portable speaker to stereo sound systems in cars. Last weekend I rented a Jeep Grand Cherokee. Its sound quality is noticeably terrible because I couldn't hear some backing violin/piano sound of a symphony compared with my own car.

New comment by Congeec in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

Congeec — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:51:27 +0000

Have I found a bug? I entered JFK and Heathrow, it resolves to correct airports but the map shows a route between London and Lisbon.

Addresses used:

John F. Kennedy International Airport, JFK Access Road, Queens, New York, 11430, United States

Heathrow Airport, Cranford Lane, Hatton Cross, London Borough of Hillingdon, London, Greater London, England, TW6 2DN, United Kingdom

New comment by Congeec in "Wayfire 0.8"

Congeec — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:59:52 +0000

As an average user, wayfire has been pretty reliable since 0.7.5. It is just its ecosystem needs more work.

New comment by Congeec in "U.S. universities are building a new semiconductor workforce"

Congeec — Sat, 20 May 2023 10:16:14 +0000

Fairychild, which incubated many of these semiconductor companies above

New comment by Congeec in "OOP in C"

Congeec — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 18:47:23 +0000

The famous htop actually employs OOP in C. https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/blob/650cf0f13bf667270d0a6a...

New comment by Congeec in "Should small Rust structs be passed by-copy or by-borrow? (2019)"

Congeec — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 18:36:22 +0000

C++23 is not too late to the party https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/out_ptr_t/out_ptr

New comment by Congeec in "I have reached Vim nirvana"

Congeec — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:38:45 +0000

This can be further extended to show plot images if the author decides to render repl outputs in a separate terminal (or a tmux pane) instead of a vim window.

New comment by Congeec in "Devbox 0.2.0: Automatic Nix installer, plugins, and background services"

Congeec — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:30:53 +0000

AFAIK, a vanilla flake.nix does not help you start/stop services like docker- compose does. You need extra customization. devbox is like a wrapper around nix and docker-compose

New comment by Congeec in "Devpod: Remote development environment at Uber"

Congeec — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 02:55:45 +0000

I always dream about this setup. But an unreliable network prevents it. mosh and VSCode Remote partially solved the problem of latency. There's is still a problem of unavailable network - when you are in flight.

nix solved my problem by and large for well modularized projects. Because, nix can provide nearly identical dev environment in practice.