Hacker News: Jaecen

New comment by Jaecen in "With Core One, Prusa's Open Source Hardware Dream Dies"

Jaecen — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 23:29:16 +0000

I don't understand why Prusa thinks keeping their designs proprietary addresses the "unfair competition" problem they seem to be concerned about. Anyone wanting to release a printer can use freely available designs, like those from Voron. The openness of the Prusa Core ONE is not what would allow a competitor to enter the market "unfairly" with a competitive product. Maybe it would make sense if they were bringing some new innovations to the market, but for a catch-up product like the Core ONE restricting access feels like slighting your customers for no gain.

New comment by Jaecen in "Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments"

Jaecen — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:57:05 +0000

It's difficult to quantify. Perhaps it's something as intangible as a space optimized for _living_ (like an apartment) as opposed to a space optimized for _profit_ (like a hotel).

Whatever the case, despite the existence of the options you list, Airbnb's are still popular. There's clearly some significant differentiator between them and an Airbnb.

New comment by Jaecen in "Show HN: Mana Pool – Market for Magic Cards"

Jaecen — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:45:12 +0000

The checkout process requiring I enter my credit card details before seeing the final cost (tax + shipping) is strange and discourages me from proceeding.

New comment by Jaecen in "Apple issues security update for the almost 10-year-old iPhone 5S"

Jaecen — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 07:15:16 +0000

Samsung announced that their mainline phones and tablets from 2019 onwards would receive at least four years of security updates. We are now entering the fifth year of the life for the oldest of those devices, so we can already see what they actually delivered. No need to cast aspersions.

New comment by Jaecen in "Apple issues security update for the almost 10-year-old iPhone 5S"

Jaecen — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 06:59:15 +0000

Google has been reliably delivering OS and security updates for the promised timeframes on their Pixel phones. I've run a few different models out to the end of their promised support window and updates were timely for the duration.

New comment by Jaecen in "The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations"

Jaecen — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 19:45:15 +0000

The experiment was on mice, but the process has been observed elsewhere.

From the article:

> This use of orthogonal coding to separate and protect information in the brain has been seen before. For instance, when monkeys are preparing to move, neural activity in their motor cortex represents the potential movement but does so orthogonally to avoid interfering with signals driving actual commands to the muscles.

New comment by Jaecen in "Hello, LineageOS 17.1"

Jaecen — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:02:15 +0000

The main value I find in LineageOS is for devices past the end of vendor support. If LineageOS supports a device I own, great, I get to keep using it with security updates for extra months or years I wouldn't have otherwise.

Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2019

Jaecen — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 22:22:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/06/06/whats-next-for-visual-studio/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17251609

Points: 4

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New comment by Jaecen in "Tesla's Simultaneous Brilliance and Incompetence Revealed in Teardown of Model 3"

Jaecen — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 21:19:44 +0000

> If a reviewer doubts the CPU benchmark on a phone, are we going to talk about how a single reviewer cannot understand the trade-off a bigger team at Apple/Samsung/Google has put?

The equivalent for the GP's claim would be the reviewer claiming that a phone's CPU is underpowered and that a more powerful one could have been used instead. That assumes a lot of knowledge about the tradeoffs that the phone designer had to consider - technical, logistical, financial, etc.

I don't know anything about Monroe & Associates' expertise, but I agree with the GP that this is a high bar to clear.

New comment by Jaecen in "Why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else"

Jaecen — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 21:14:30 +0000

Speciesism is a new concept to me. Thank you for introducing me to it. Since you seem to be familiar with the concept and its application to the discussion at hand, perhaps you can clarify a point.

Are humans, among the species on earth at least, uniquely capable of speciesism? Are rats or ants guilty of it too, to the extent that they exercise speciesism until they run up against limitations of their environment? Or is speciesism a moral ideal, similar to murder, meaning rats and ants can't be guilty of it because they can't reason and act with intent?

New comment by Jaecen in "Why the long-term future of humanity matters more than anything else"

Jaecen — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 19:52:01 +0000

I don't understand this point of view. My interpretation of it is that there is some idealized, perfect form of earth (and apparently the universe) that doesn't include humans. Everything in it is perfect except for the humans, which ruin and devalue it.

What confounds me about this view is that humans are as much a product of the earth/universe as any other part of it. What is so unique about humanity in the universe that gives us the exclusive agency to tarnish it? Why are the products of humanity somehow excluded from the perfection of the other productions of the universe?

New comment by Jaecen in "Backdoor in the firmware of Antminer Bitcoin mining hardware"

Jaecen — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:00:09 +0000

When the difficulty is adjusted, the next difficulty adjustment is set to happen after the number of blocks the current hash rate will complete in two weeks. If the hash rate drops, it will take more than two weeks to adjust again.

New comment by Jaecen in "Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s not just Cisco hit"

Jaecen — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:55:34 +0000

I understand that the chip has a flaw. The title claims non-Cisco products are being bricked. What other products have actually been impacted by this issue? The article doesn't give any data, just a list of vendors using the chip. Is there any proof other devices are impacted by this issue?

I'm not claiming that the chip isn't failing; I'm disappointed that the title makes a claim that the article doesn't deliver on.

New comment by Jaecen in "Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s not just Cisco hit"

Jaecen — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:43:10 +0000

It says other vendors are using the chip, but there's no data on failures of other devices. We don't know what causes the chip to fail, but it's possible that Cisco's application may be uniquely, or at least uncommonly, susceptible.

New comment by Jaecen in "Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s not just Cisco hit"

Jaecen — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:23:40 +0000

This title seems incorrect. The article doesn't specify any other vendors or products that have been directly affected by this issue.

New comment by Jaecen in "C# 7 Work List of Features"

Jaecen — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 01:01:25 +0000

csproj's do have wildcard support, just no way to create them through the IDE: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms164283.aspx

New comment by Jaecen in "Apple's libc shells out to Perl to implement wordexp"

Jaecen — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 06:54:37 +0000

Can you explain why wordexp.c on the referenced site has a completely different (and older) copyright? Did they merge in another implementation?

New comment by Jaecen in "A gun is now more likely to kill you than a car is in the U.S"

Jaecen — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 17:38:03 +0000

I don't think anyone is trying to ban smart-guns. What they're trying to stop is regulation requiring guns to be smart.

New comment by Jaecen in "Keurig 2.0 DRM Bypass"

Jaecen — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:57:43 +0000

Does Keurig actually sell their coffee makers at a loss? I've always thought they were overpriced to begin with.

New comment by Jaecen in "Spider Programming Language"

Jaecen — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:23:43 +0000

This looks to be an implementation of the concepts (but not the language) proposed in http://www.walkercoderanger.com/blog/2014/04/what-coffeescri.... Several of the terms used are exactly the same.