Hacker News: MintelIE

New comment by MintelIE in "Transport makes up only 6% of the greenhouse gas emissions from food"

MintelIE — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 19:32:34 +0000

Poorly written blog post. Author even skips analysis of their own opening graph.

New comment by MintelIE in "The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design"

MintelIE — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 17:19:24 +0000

Busy work for people who really shouldn't be in tech is what UI design has become.

We had great UI, then tech branched out and we need to redo every UI continuously so the marketing people (who mostly also don't belong in tech) can boast of new and improved this and that. It's all so tiresome.

New comment by MintelIE in "Tell HN: Giving away my homebrew windmill"

MintelIE — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 17:06:38 +0000

What kinds of grains have you milled with it? Is the mill included?

New comment by MintelIE in "China suppression of Uighurs meets U.N. definition of genocide, report says"

MintelIE — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 16:55:20 +0000

Oh come on, China's a big powerful profitable country. And genocide has a special meaning, we can't just call any ethnic extermination a genocide, that'd be improper.

China will just keep on killing their Uighurs and companies will keep doing business there. There's perks, too, I bet CEOs can get organs if they need them, CHEAP, these days, if they bring manufacturing into China.

New comment by MintelIE in "Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution"

MintelIE — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 05:22:32 +0000

Digital radio just can't compete. Not only are the players generally large and battery hungry, everybody will be expected to buy a new receiver. It's a terrible shame and they might as well just switch to the Internet.

New comment by MintelIE in "Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking"

MintelIE — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 22:03:44 +0000

Heh, yeah, it's a pain in the ass. But blame Google and other greedy un-trustworthy mega-corps who data mine.

New comment by MintelIE in "Ask HN: FB suggests friends after visiting same city, don't use FB phone. How?"

MintelIE — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 21:30:49 +0000

Voice recognition, cameras always on and recognizing, could be a million things.

New comment by MintelIE in "In Search of King David’s Lost Empire"

MintelIE — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 18:49:19 +0000

I don't agree. It seems that Israeli archaeology is focused on the premise of being there first, above all else. It doesn't seem that Christians are heavily involved in Israel's archaeological program either.

New comment by MintelIE in "In Search of King David’s Lost Empire"

MintelIE — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 04:18:49 +0000

There doesn't seem to be much of anything actually substantiating King David's existence. Has this changed as of late? I know it's very important to modern-day Israeli historiography.

New comment by MintelIE in "Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers"

MintelIE — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 03:56:42 +0000

That's what the BIOS claims anyway...

New comment by MintelIE in "Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers"

MintelIE — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 00:54:16 +0000

Intel ME can be used to monitor employees without the OS ever becoming aware of anything. The only way to detect it would be to sniff the network.

New comment by MintelIE in "Boeing quietly pulls plug on the 747, closing era of jumbo jets"

MintelIE — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:56:42 +0000

I would have thought they'd pull the plug on these new jets they had to fake safety compliance for and keep the older, working models that people will actually fly on.

I can't imagine anybody flying on a 737 Max even if the Boeing execs over at the FAA claim it's safe again.

New comment by MintelIE in "TikTok app to stop accessing user clipboards after being caught in the act"

MintelIE — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 22:42:22 +0000

It's pretty simple, China doesn't allow western companies access to its markets reciprocally. This isn't controversial or esoteric information. It's a well known fact.

New comment by MintelIE in "Apple declined to implement 16 Web APIs in Safari due to privacy concerns"

MintelIE — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:59:02 +0000

Nah people can just program in Java again.

New comment by MintelIE in "There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore"

MintelIE — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:49:03 +0000

Good bookstores are so rare, Powell's is about the only one worth visiting. Chain bookstores sell so much pulp, garbage, remaindered coffee table books about cats, etc.

New comment by MintelIE in "Shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy"

MintelIE — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 23:25:56 +0000

It'll dead cat bounce a few times, the smart money buys it on an up day and sells before noon.

New comment by MintelIE in "Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids"

MintelIE — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 23:17:22 +0000

Do they reserve the right to change this at any time and indemnify themselves if something goes "wrong?"

New comment by MintelIE in "Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of OS design?"

MintelIE — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 22:45:53 +0000

Yeah how's that work? I have an older 3B which I'm not using right now (4 4gb replaced it) and I might try it. Maybe I should blog it and put it up on HN.

New comment by MintelIE in "Software should be designed to last"

MintelIE — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 22:44:21 +0000

Actually the way it usually works is a voting system, where if one component disagrees, and two agree, the majority vote is upheld.

New comment by MintelIE in "Software should be designed to last"

MintelIE — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 22:42:51 +0000

Looked it up finally, I agree. It's why we have steering wheels instead of joysticks (except for the people who have a leg-related disability, they've been driving with joysticks for like 100 years).