Hacker News: JustSomeNobody

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "A $1k Wheelchair"

JustSomeNobody — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:37:04 +0000

It’s like being outraged and asking “Trek and Cannondale exist, why do we need fifty other bike makers?” When some new manufacturers pop up.

I don’t get the negativity.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa"

JustSomeNobody — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:04:54 +0000

How often you drive 200mph??

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone"

JustSomeNobody — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:14:36 +0000

This happens too often for it to just not be on purpose.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

JustSomeNobody — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:33:16 +0000

Nope.

I get it, it's Apple and it's great and all that.

I'm just not going to wear that on my face.

I'm not.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)"

JustSomeNobody — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 20:24:18 +0000

Shareholders.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap"

JustSomeNobody — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:57:36 +0000

We did a several thousand mile road trip a couple years ago. We planned it out using various online tools and pen and paper. Will have to look into doing something like this the next time.

The kiddos got to see a LOT of really cool things. They had a blast.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Using Google’s code history to write more code"

JustSomeNobody — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 16:40:44 +0000

>More code != better.

>more concise ways to render the logic

This isn't better either.

Edit before the shitstorm:

This isn't necessarily better either.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Arizona limits building as groundwater dries up"

JustSomeNobody — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:36:49 +0000

> I feel like our country is extremely unprepared for what climate change is going to mean for everyone in a decade or two.

The general populace is definitely unprepared. Those with means know what is coming and they're "getting mine while the getting is good" before it all goes to shit. Which, of course, means making things worse.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "The unsung hero of the Apple Watch is its hidden buttons"

JustSomeNobody — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:36:16 +0000

> Most watch users don’t know how to change the strap and I bet pre-Apple Watch, many didn’t realize that was an option

Hmmm... what's this little springy thing on my Garmin watch? Oh! check that out! I can replace the bands!

Apple makes cool stuff, I even have some of it, but stop suckin' their butts.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

JustSomeNobody — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 02:21:16 +0000

> Reddit has one credible third-party client: Apollo.

Ooof. I mean, if you're only an iOS user, maybe?

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Rarbg Is No More"

JustSomeNobody — Wed, 31 May 2023 13:47:17 +0000

That's because the first rule of Usenet is you don't talk about Usenet.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me"

JustSomeNobody — Tue, 30 May 2023 18:48:47 +0000

> I parsed more closely about what the ask here is, and its that Amazon is asking via separate motions for the same information given to the AG case which, due to how discovery works, they should already have, this to me reads as an attempt to press Molson legally and thus spend time and money on complying with these requests.

Can't his lawyer go to the judge and have this stopped?

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code"

JustSomeNobody — Tue, 30 May 2023 01:44:52 +0000

Given a domain, code generally changes similarly. For example: You have an app that interfaces with a scale to weigh widgets. At first you support one scale and so you just write code to solve the problem of reading the weight and sending it to the weight processor. After some time, there is a new scale. You now add some abstraction so that they both report a generalized weight message to the weight processor. When you later have to add a third, because you have that generalization, you can tell a new Junior dev "just follow what the code is already doing" and they should have no problem doing just that and add support for the third scale.

That is enough abstraction.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "12 years since Saab’s bankruptcy: Secret NEVS electric cars revealed"

JustSomeNobody — Fri, 26 May 2023 15:11:00 +0000

> And they’re dead set on doubling down on their homegrown software and freezing out CarPlay. Shaking my damn head.

This is going to go badly for them. A lot of people (all iOS users) will not even look at a GM. The used market for them will suffer as well. But, hey, if you need a really cheap used car in 5 or so years, and you don't care about Carplay, GM has you covered!

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond"

JustSomeNobody — Fri, 26 May 2023 14:44:57 +0000

It's still a huge red flag against the company that one team can be toxic and another great.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode"

JustSomeNobody — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:44:23 +0000

A lot of this has to do with keeping Microsoft happy, probably.

Once MS skips to ARM, let's see what Intel does.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "The forces at play in de-dollarisation"

JustSomeNobody — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:27:35 +0000

> matters most

This is like the least significant thing they could work together on. There are SO many more issues they could tackle together but won't.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Social Media and Youth Mental Health"

JustSomeNobody — Tue, 23 May 2023 17:30:40 +0000

I don't think you can put an age range on this. As an example: Look at all the QAnon believers. They're pretty much all ages. Look how many of those people went to Dallas for Kennedy's return.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)"

JustSomeNobody — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:18:47 +0000

I never pay attention to the overall cook times. I read through the recipe and picture myself doing the steps to get a feel for how long it will really take.

New comment by JustSomeNobody in "Beej's Guide to Network Programming"

JustSomeNobody — Mon, 22 May 2023 14:58:07 +0000

This. I think HN leans very heavy on webdev and somehow forgets that the entire rest of the planet runs on software also.