Hacker News: MagnumPIG

New comment by MagnumPIG in "TransferWise changes name to Wise"

MagnumPIG — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:00:42 +0000

I assume they did and figured nobody would mistake a chips brand with an FX service. Legally I'm sure it's not a problem.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "OpenBSD boots multi-user on Apple M1 hardware"

MagnumPIG — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 05:37:22 +0000

Neither is making a black box a good use of Apple's talents, yet here we are.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "If any Ubuntu maintainers are listening: PLEASE STOP DOING THIS"

MagnumPIG — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 06:07:03 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to write this very in-depth comment, I can say I understand some of these words now!

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Gmail having issues"

MagnumPIG — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 05:47:21 +0000

> Their opaque rules have conditioned their counterparties to punish Google as hard as possible for a screwup.

Good for karma, bad for everyone though.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "HP Instant Ink is “ink as a service”"

MagnumPIG — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:25:01 +0000

A long year really

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Every possible pun of the form ‘You put the X in Y’"

MagnumPIG — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 21:05:59 +0000

"You put the Dinosaur in Dinosaurs"

Get outta here!

New comment by MagnumPIG in "The New Facebook Design Sucks"

MagnumPIG — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 03:44:08 +0000

All these metrics are very short-term and the user dissatisfaction builds up over time. It makes sense for everyone involved (the short term is all that counts for investors and CEOs), but I personally can't wait to see Facebook eat itself.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Why are some bilingual people dyslexic in English but not their other language?"

MagnumPIG — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 23:29:52 +0000

This is not entirely correct for French. Though there is an Académie Française in France, it doesn't directly dictate rules to other French-speaking nations and cultures.

This is because France doesn't contain the majority of French speakers in the world, and even if it did there doesn't seem to be an incentive to follow any rules they may publish.

Source: I live in Québec, we don't defer to the Académie.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain"

MagnumPIG — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 07:31:10 +0000

This is not really "huge", sorry.

For one thing, it's still an intrusive method which requires brain surgery. I expected something like radioactive isotopes but no, this is easily summed up as "better electrodes". As good thing for sure, not a game changer.

For another, the writer is a tech journalist and therefore more than likely wrong or inaccurate on important facts.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Microsoft is not rebasing Windows to Linux"

MagnumPIG — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:49:41 +0000

Is the point of Wine not to avoid giving Microsoft money?

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Having an alter ego can reduce anxiety, benefit confidence: research"

MagnumPIG — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:10:50 +0000

Goes to show how great that comic was.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Sweatpants Forever: How the Fashion Industry Collapsed"

MagnumPIG — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 19:35:48 +0000

> cultural "requirement": clothing that is required to fit into social circles. The shirt would be a good example of this, aswell as the tie.

So... fashion?

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Dance is superior to repetitive physical exercise for brain plasticity (2018)"

MagnumPIG — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 19:24:09 +0000

No wonder science journalism has a hard time keeping to the facts, even with direct access to the paper we're upvoting and misunderstanding a paper of trivial significance...

New comment by MagnumPIG in "LinkedIn to cut 960 jobs worldwide"

MagnumPIG — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:13:15 +0000

Ads.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Does playing chess make you smarter? A look at the evidence"

MagnumPIG — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 15:08:37 +0000

Only if you define intelligence tautologically as "this one innate attribute that makes you smart".

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Falsehoods programmers believe about build systems (2012)"

MagnumPIG — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 19:36:25 +0000

It's more like the very least we could collectively achieve while remaining functional.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021"

MagnumPIG — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:32:57 +0000

Paper straws were never actually better for the environment.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better"

MagnumPIG — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 23:56:03 +0000

But sadly this is not something Google and Microsoft would collaborate on. I would rather expect them to ready the lawyers.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting"

MagnumPIG — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 04:34:15 +0000

I imagine lack of maintenance is a deliberate choice.

New comment by MagnumPIG in "Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'"

MagnumPIG — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 17:50:07 +0000

Depends which users. A lot of teenagers are "mostly on Instagram" or "only use it for Messenger". And teenagers are apparently an important population to marketers.

I know FB owns Instagram but the point is, Facebook as a platform may be past its prime in NA.