Hacker News: Dfiesl

New comment by Dfiesl in "Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom"

Dfiesl — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:58:00 +0000

I guess the 21st century classroom is the free online classroom you connect to from your portable device

New comment by Dfiesl in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

Dfiesl — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:21:31 +0000

I think the whole native thing is more for better performance, debugging ease and dependency reduction rather than seeking variation in UIs.

New comment by Dfiesl in "Shopify moves back to Native from React Native"

Dfiesl — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:54:25 +0000

Android and iphone emulator MCP, model compares screens, flags is theres drift? Something like that I’d guess

New comment by Dfiesl in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

Dfiesl — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:07:05 +0000

I guess theyre talking about all the electronics being used to populate the various data centre's popping up about the place. The GPUs, RAM and what not

New comment by Dfiesl in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

Dfiesl — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:06:30 +0000

Probably not exclusively using Fable.

New comment by Dfiesl in "Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026"

Dfiesl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:53:20 +0000

I'm not seeing personal use as one of the DCMA exemptions to prohibition against copyright protection circumvention: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/chapter-II/subchapter-...

The exemptions seem to be for pretty specific cases. Have you got a link to the EFF case?

New comment by Dfiesl in "Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026"

Dfiesl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:11:56 +0000

I'm a bit confused by the title. It seems to suggest that ripping a DVD in 2026 is no longer a federal crime, which I'm pretty sure it is. And that ripping a DVD in 1999 didn't require $22 worth of hardware and some free software -> both of which I'm pretty sure it did.

New comment by Dfiesl in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

Dfiesl — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:38:51 +0000

Im definitely in this camp.

It seems like the biggest frustration from the teachers’ part with modern schooling is lack of engagement from the students. This is clearly telling us something.

Sure some students have not even had their basic needs met, which is a separate issue. But those that have and still don’t engage tells us that their brains have probably assigned the information they’re receiving as “having little or no value”, i.e. meaningless.

I bet if you were to lead a class of teenagers on the subject of relationships or friendship, or even how to host a successful party, suddenly you’d see a lot more engagement. Why? Because it’s actually relevant to their every day existence.

New comment by Dfiesl in "Ask HN: Spent thousands, got no customers. What's wrong with my site?"

Dfiesl — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:28:27 +0000

Even though on closer inspection the site is about more than just image generation, at first glance, it seems like its just an AI image generator. That's not a novel idea these days.

My interaction was, try to generate an image, get hit by a sign in screen, my enthusiasm has gone, close tab.

New comment by Dfiesl in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

Dfiesl — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:50:33 +0000

I imagine they just help with triaging the customers query so it ends up with the right department/team. Also probably some tech support first in case it can solve the issue first.

New comment by Dfiesl in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

Dfiesl — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:35:50 +0000

I guess apps can only handle a discreet set of pre determined problems, whereas LLMs can handle problems the company hasn’t foreseen.

New comment by Dfiesl in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

Dfiesl — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:07:02 +0000

It can make decisions that are unbounded by if statements. To me that is more autonomous

New comment by Dfiesl in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

Dfiesl — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:04:03 +0000

I think the thing that gets me is that, whether or not this was entirely autonomous, this situation is entirely plausible. Therefore its very possible that it will happen at some point in the future in an entirely autonomous way with potentially greater consequences.

New comment by Dfiesl in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

Dfiesl — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:59:22 +0000

Everything being done “quietly” is another one that now grates on me.

New comment by Dfiesl in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

Dfiesl — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:33:51 +0000

I think the bit you quoted is a tie in with an earlier bit:

“ I can be the architect without the wearing act of laying every single brick and spreading the mortar. I can design the dress without the act of cutting and sewing each individual piece of fabric”

To me, this text doesn’t read as being entirely written by an LLM, there is definitely an air of LLM about it though, so maybe the first draft was.

New comment by Dfiesl in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

Dfiesl — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:33:17 +0000

I’m going from macOS to linux currently. It was the hardware obsolesence that kicked things off but I definitely wont miss the constant nagging about my iCloud being full

New comment by Dfiesl in "It’s OK to block ads (2015)"

Dfiesl — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:47:30 +0000

Its a neat and rational way of looking at things but does it always make sense to give your time a monetary value?

New comment by Dfiesl in "Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death"

Dfiesl — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:00:59 +0000

I think if you explore the “classical” genre of music you’ll quickly find many works of merit by composers which date back over 100 years

New comment by Dfiesl in "I went for 1,200 jobs but got only two interviews"

Dfiesl — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:49:23 +0000

I think every job I've ever applied to has asked for both a resume/CV and a cover letter. A recruiter may glance at first but if they like what they see or they can only put through 10 applicants to interview then they're likely to properly read through.

New comment by Dfiesl in "I went for 1,200 jobs but got only two interviews"

Dfiesl — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:43:03 +0000

I defo agree that unless you get to interview you're unlikely to get any feedback, but showing your application to others in the industry (or university tutors as in this girls case) and getting their feedback can be super helpful.

With C, I think it always helps to demonstrate some knowledge of what the company gets up to so if your application does get a second glance then it seems like you actually care about the company, and that does take time.