Hacker News: Czarcasm

New comment by Czarcasm in "Apple is 'drastically' cutting iPhone Air production"

Czarcasm — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:47:01 +0000

iPad mini sells pretty well for how little it costs apple to keep producing.

New comment by Czarcasm in "Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle"

Czarcasm — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 06:45:48 +0000

My team at Apple had PMs.

New comment by Czarcasm in "How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works"

Czarcasm — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:36:37 +0000

Rubber alone would require pressure pushing the battery against the housing to maintain the battery position during a drop. This pressure against the underside of the display module would mess with the display.

Adhesive is needed because there can’t be any pressure against the underside of the display module, and the battery can’t be allowed to move even a slight amount during drop impacts.

New comment by Czarcasm in "Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism"

Czarcasm — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:07:12 +0000

I fail to see your argument. How would opening up immigration benefit Japan, other than depressing wages? Japan is an island already overpopulated relative to it's native energy and agricultural resources. Importing more low-value workers will only lower the quality of living for existing inhabitants of Japan.

Japan should focus instead on better utilizing the high-skill labor force that they already have.

New comment by Czarcasm in "Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier–and didn't tell subs"

Czarcasm — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:43:35 +0000

I cancelled my Prime within 24hrs of them adding the ads to the base tier. Just isn't worth it anymore.

New comment by Czarcasm in "Germany explores 4-day workweek amid labor shortage"

Czarcasm — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:51:44 +0000

Flawless communication between team members is important when developing complex products. If my team was primarily comprised of people who only fluently speak German, and we are located in Germany, is it not reasonable for me to set a requirement that new candidates must speak fluent German?

Why are you entitled to have people speak your language, when you are the immigrant?

New comment by Czarcasm in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

Czarcasm — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:58:19 +0000

They have an operating profit, but they choose to reinvest it all back into the company, thus they don't have an overall profit. They could reduce the amount they are reinvesting into the company at any time in order to produce an overall profit.

This is exactly what Amazon did/does. Doesn't mean that they have "limped along"

New comment by Czarcasm in "ChatGPT for Hardware Design"

Czarcasm — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:04:14 +0000

Github can't monopolize the word "copilot". It's a basic english word to describe someone that is assisting you to steer a vessel/team/project. It's been around for hundreds of years in naval industry, and in aviation since the dawn of flight.

New comment by Czarcasm in "Control EMI, Don’t Dump AM Receivers"

Czarcasm — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:44:57 +0000

In rural areas with no cell service, AM radio is often the only available form of weather and news. It's also a great form of emergency information broadcasting in the event of a natural disaster.

New comment by Czarcasm in "A hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections"

Czarcasm — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 04:16:14 +0000

> US intelligence agencies by law do not operate within the US.

The NSA (a US intelligence organization) has verifiably been conducting widespread surveillance of US citizens on US soil for decades.

New comment by Czarcasm in "How Apple names things"

Czarcasm — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 07:36:02 +0000

The Airpods and Apple Watch I think were both legitimately innovative when first released. They were massive leaps over what previous existed in their respective segments.

New comment by Czarcasm in "Ask HN: Examples of large acquisitions that did not ruin the acquired company?"

Czarcasm — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 00:20:33 +0000

Over the last 10 years Dassault has slowly been destroying Solidworks. Each update brings new bugs, and almost no new features.

They are now trying to force all users over to their new 3DExperience platform which is a half-baked pile of garbage for all but large companies which can afford to have a dedicated IT team to support it.

Dassault did kill Solidworks, it just took them some time.

New comment by Czarcasm in "BMW F Series Gear Selector, Part Two: Breakthrough"

Czarcasm — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:47:39 +0000

What you can do instead, is slip under the car and splice into the wire harness that is running under the car to the transmission or differential.

The transmission controller and differential speed sensor (or even differential controller on some cars) will be post gateway on the CAN bus.

I've done this on GM vehicles to spoof different vehicle behaviors while evaluating traction control systems.

New comment by Czarcasm in "Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact"

Czarcasm — Thu, 26 May 2022 17:41:22 +0000

Check out Joby Aviation! Currently hiring all types of engineers. Developing zero-emission aircraft.

The company is very social/environmental-impact conscious, and has an incredible culture.

https://www.jobyaviation.com/

New comment by Czarcasm in "An update on the campaign to defend serious math education in California"

Czarcasm — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 20:56:31 +0000

This is probably the best counterargument to raise in response to the "late-bloomer" anecdotes that many people raise.

For every unit of societal productivity created by a late bloomer that is saved by a common-stream system, I would personally argue that there is an order of magnitude more societal productivity lost by holding back the more typical high performers.

Late blooming intellectuals aren't the norm. Most highly intelligent people begin performing as such from a young age.

New comment by Czarcasm in "World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate"

Czarcasm — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:49:47 +0000

Chickens are amazingly stupid, disloyal, impulsive animals. Not anywhere close to pigs, and far away from octopi. (I grew up on a farm with both chickens and pigs).

New comment by Czarcasm in "FAA says 5G could impact radio altimeters on most Boeing 737s"

Czarcasm — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:57:01 +0000

That's not true. I work in aviation and we've had a number of reports of radar altimeter interference during takeoff and landing near airports with the new 5G towers. Older aircraft are particularly effected.

New comment by Czarcasm in "I have no capslock and I must scream"

Czarcasm — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 01:11:35 +0000

I'm a mechanical engineer, and ASME Y14.5 (the leading drafting standard in the west) requires the use of all capitol letters for technical drawings. Because of this, I use the CapsLock key very very frequently.

Removing the CapsLock key would piss off a lot of people in the hardware engineering world.

New comment by Czarcasm in "France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors"

Czarcasm — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 04:46:15 +0000

Canada has the largest nuclear power station in the world [1], led the development of one of the most successful reactor designs [2], and continues to be a leader in nuclear fuel, steam generators, and nuclear waste management engineering [3]. Also, most of Ontario's power generation comes from nuclear. You can see the supply breakdown live here: https://www.ieso.ca/power-data

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nuclear_Generating_Stati...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor

[3] https://www.bwxt.com/about/business-units/bwxt-canada

New comment by Czarcasm in "Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design drawings"

Czarcasm — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:16:13 +0000

Of course it’s not ideal, but in the real world the designs are often impossible or impractical to build. If work halted every time construction workers came across a design that didn’t work, instead of tweaking the design onsite and keeping going, nothing would get built.

Source: multi-generational heavy construction family business.