Hacker News: GSimon

New comment by GSimon in "Why I'm Not Worried About Running Out of Work in the Age of AI"

GSimon — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:53:02 +0000

"Retirement aged man not concerned about finding work"

New comment by GSimon in "OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer"

GSimon — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:57:01 +0000

You need to install a 3rd party software Blackhole to even get desktop audio for screen recording with QuickTime. After about an hour of troubleshooting settings I gave up and used OBS, esp since I was in a public space at the time and the Blackhole config disabled my headphones and for a moment you could hear a loud YouTube tutorial playing through my Mac speakers. Also the shortcut to stop screen recording on QuickTime sucks, it’s like CMD+CTRL+ESC and you need to have it memorized because there’s no “Stop Recording” button option

New comment by GSimon in "Walmart begins selling the Mac for the first time: M1 MacBook Air for $699"

GSimon — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:23:02 +0000

MacBook: better screen, keyboard, speakers, battery life, milled aluminum unibody, has airdrop/App Store.

New comment by GSimon in "The day I canceled my Spotify subscription"

GSimon — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:13:18 +0000

I bought it when he released it. It was good for him but arguably he lowered his worth and took a pay cut, and it also set a bit of a price ceiling base rate for comedy specials at 5$, which if you aren’t the #1 comedian at the time like Louis was you can’t bring in the same sales volume.

New comment by GSimon in "What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker"

GSimon — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 05:15:01 +0000

> I'm convinced there's nothing I own thats made of plastic that my grandparents didn't have a much nicer all metal or wood version.

Agree mostly unless it's for something that needs to deal with water in some way.

New comment by GSimon in "Threads, an Instagram app"

GSimon — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:46:06 +0000

For those racing to call this an end to Twitter, remember which platform allows you to post spicy pics.

New comment by GSimon in "The UX Research Reckoning is Here"

GSimon — Mon, 29 May 2023 14:14:44 +0000

From my experience the terrible experience is pretty often because of bloated features (and the bad UI that comes with it) that are shipped quickly in order to be first to market and capitalize on the novelty of some new technology. Move fast and break things. Then hardware technology improved so bloated UI etc got a pass because no one needed to optimize anything unless you're developing for 3rd world with outdated hardware and poor internet speeds.

New comment by GSimon in "Goodbye, CSS-Tricks"

GSimon — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 05:47:44 +0000

CSS-Tricks was and likely still is a great resource for web developers, congrats on your time working there! I once reached out for a position and heard back from Chris Coyier, ultimately I wasn’t quite motivated enough to start but in hindsight sounded like a great opportunity and appreciated the tentative offer

New comment by GSimon in "Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs"

GSimon — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:18:26 +0000

A leaner organization could reduce reliance on advertising as payrolls go down, and if traffic increases (as Elon is claiming, who knows if true) than advertisers would pay more for greater exposure. Also FB using AI or target marketing to the extreme for their ads just ended up turning people away from the platform by sterilizing it of any actual content you’d like to see.

New comment by GSimon in "Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs"

GSimon — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 17:58:40 +0000

80% imo could so very easily be bloat. Features/services that are underutilized and haemorrhaging money don't need to be upkept, teams dedicated to curating content like twitter headlines and moderating content don't need to be there (at the scale it's currently at). Staffing for hospitality services at Twitter HQ and all the ancillary services that are unnecessary or under-utilized. As long as the servers are running, people will be able to post 240 chars of content and some rich media images, the Twitter platform is not ground breaking tech

New comment by GSimon in "USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)"

GSimon — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 03:28:43 +0000

Amazon Basics logo (or other generic company) looks a bit tacky

New comment by GSimon in "Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg"

GSimon — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:02:44 +0000

Just to be clear what you're saying, you personally, or for the sake of others, need satire labels to identify that "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine to Spin News Before Publication" is satire? That is the statement you just made?

New comment by GSimon in "Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg"

GSimon — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:53:15 +0000

"Repeat offenders will see their distribution reduced and their ability to monetize and advertised removed." Is the problem, a satire post by a satirical publication has been notified their distribution and monetization could be penalized as a result of their satire, because a 'fact checker' decided to identify the content and treat it like a news piece.

New comment by GSimon in "Reddit files to go public"

GSimon — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 07:19:29 +0000

I don't know how anyone enjoys the new design, old.reddit.com I can browse so much more effectively.

New comment by GSimon in "Covid.com – trusted Connectivity Supplier for 40 years. Unfortunate URL"

GSimon — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 03:05:07 +0000

Ha, all their YouTube videos get the Covid 19 warning

New comment by GSimon in "Tim Cook’s Fortnite trial testimony was unexpectedly revealing"

GSimon — Sun, 23 May 2021 19:18:15 +0000

The new M1 Mac Mini might literally be the first 'affordable' Apple machine that isn't underpowered. Will need to cough up some $ for display adaptors if you want more than one monitor for development though.

New comment by GSimon in "I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service"

GSimon — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 03:37:17 +0000

> they just see you supporting the people who relocated their entire group of people from their native homeland.

I'll take "Things that you'll never have to worry about IRL for 1000$ Alex" This reads like satire. What cross-circles of people who happen to recognize the .io and know its associated with a TLD for a country or nation and also happen to not know it's other innate purpose of representing input/output? This is as ridiculous as worrying about having a brand with a .tv domain and a negative perception of those from the Tuvalu island.

New comment by GSimon in "Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US"

GSimon — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:13:34 +0000

This is cool, I may join! Thanks

New comment by GSimon in "Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US"

GSimon — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:06:39 +0000

Now they ask for e-mail before you can sign up, but you don t have to go to your inbox to activate you accounts so basically it's the same.

New comment by GSimon in "Mecanum wheel"

GSimon — Fri, 04 May 2018 13:16:50 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out, might be unrelated but I wasn't impressed by the video because it didn't seem to work right, i.e. the robot didn't travel straight, just did a series of small turns to go in one direction.