Hacker News: DrJaws

New comment by DrJaws in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

DrJaws — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:30:40 +0000

this has happened to me with dell monitors since years ago, also with razer peripherals.

New comment by DrJaws in "Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record"

DrJaws — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:28:57 +0000

read about the drama of carlsen and niemann before saying that chess is cheat-resistant

New comment by DrJaws in "Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit"

DrJaws — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:02:33 +0000

it's not much different than a samsung device phoning their servers for every thing the device does.

but in this case as it does to china, people are a bit paranoid. usually mostly is their cloud services for notetaking or some push notifications.

but I think I remember people saying they could disable everything by rooting the devices.

New comment by DrJaws in "Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit"

DrJaws — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:01:05 +0000

they didn't, they even said something like "lol we don't care, we will never make things open source".

New comment by DrJaws in "Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit"

DrJaws — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:00:12 +0000

boox devices are not even close to 75hz though

not even the latest ones like tab x c

New comment by DrJaws in "Stop Killing Games"

DrJaws — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:49:40 +0000

fair enough, don't release it on europe and lose access to a market of 700 million people from the first world who pay the highest prices

maybe your game can live only by the sales of the US

New comment by DrJaws in "US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas"

DrJaws — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:50:40 +0000

If you go from Paris to Warsaw, you still won't need a passport, just a basic ID

Schengen area

travelling around Europe as European is not much more hassle than moving on the US from one state to the other.

New comment by DrJaws in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

DrJaws — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:00:44 +0000

maybe the workforce is not really behind the non-profit foundation and want shares to skyrocket, sell, and be well off for life.

at the end of the day, the people working there are not rich like the founders and money talks when you have to pay rent, eat and send your kids to a private college.

New comment by DrJaws in "Security pros question EU zero-day rule"

DrJaws — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:04:31 +0000

I feel more like companies "worried" about disclosure to governments in 24 hours worry more about needing to fix things fast and maybe hire more people to do it than from security concerns issues.

New comment by DrJaws in "First Impressions with GPT-4V(ision)"

DrJaws — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:13:52 +0000

chat-gpt at the end is a language model, not an real AI, it have limits and are huge

New comment by DrJaws in "Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour"

DrJaws — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:20:26 +0000

that have a reason, as it's been demostrated by a lot of metastudies you can find on cochrane that there is usually much more worst outcomes and long term effects on the broad of the population when misdiagnosed by overdiagnosing than just simply saving an extra 0.01% (not real number)

the same reason of why for example now there is an advocacy to end yearly mammograms on older woman, because the number of them saved by that practice is inferior to the ones that are misdiagnosed and then put under other unnecesary medical practices that end up hurting more by unnecesary practices on a lot of them that would have never developed a cancer or under pressure to the ones that no one will be able to save no matter how sooner they got the diagnostic.

infinite constant and unnecesary medical tests is not the way for now, maybe in the future, but not now.

New comment by DrJaws in "Cancer expert given experimental treatments for incurable brain tumour"

DrJaws — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:04:34 +0000

I think that it's more in the line of

- I jumped some walls that others won't be able because I knew the right people as we work together and they dedicated some of their personal time and public funds to help me, but they won't do it for you

but without sounding like he used the privileges he really had

New comment by DrJaws in "“Secrets” about the consumer audio business you may find interesting"

DrJaws — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:25:56 +0000

HiFiMAN has really destroyed the audiophile market for other brands. Every single bracket of their products perform like any other company +50% extra price product

Sundaras were amazing, but the new edition XS were just the last straw for competitors, never a headset of that quality was so affordable, the equivalent from other brands can even cost 2x the price.

New comment by DrJaws in "Bitwarden raises $100M"

DrJaws — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 15:19:06 +0000

this is brilliant

New comment by DrJaws in "One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants"

DrJaws — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 16:24:47 +0000

Welcome to costco, I love you

sorry couldn't help myself...

New comment by DrJaws in "Tools for Better Thinking"

DrJaws — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:23:04 +0000

This reminds me a lot to FS mental models, they even have some books

https://fs.blog/mental-models/

New comment by DrJaws in "Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces"

DrJaws — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 07:12:47 +0000

this is important to the war, everybody knows that those who control the mutant faction, will win the war

New comment by DrJaws in "Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack"

DrJaws — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:38:44 +0000

there are other countries that are closer to Russia than cities like Kyiv , but Russia is invading them

also, why Russia should decide on how other countries decide their internal affairs?

Ukraine doesn't need the approval of Russia to join or not join NATO.

New comment by DrJaws in "Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills"

DrJaws — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:30:40 +0000

A construction worker moving to cloud security and in a single sabbatical year already scrutinizing by himself the firmware and closed OS of a treadmill.

makes me happy. Hope a lot of people can leave behind those low paid high effort jobs thanks to this 2 shitty years

New comment by DrJaws in "Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors"

DrJaws — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:10:27 +0000

uranium may not be a fossil fuel but it shares all the problems of them

- pollution and waste - it's limited

At the current consumption, uranium would only last 80 years, if all the countries start to build new power plants, won't last more than 2 decades before it's depleted, and we will have the same problem again.

nuclear power is not a solution, is just a small patch.