Hacker News: SifJar

New comment by SifJar in "A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system"

SifJar — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:39:28 +0000

Given the title "Elements of Rust", I suspect that is very much intentional.

New comment by SifJar in "Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility"

SifJar — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:40:01 +0000

> doing it their way gets rid of all of the ambiguity involved with USB C

At that point, why use USB-C for the dock connection at all? Just use a proprietary connector if you're not going to follow the standards.

Having a separate USB-C port for charging should satisfy e.g. the EU regulations requiring that, I think. (Assuming that is the reason they used USB-C in the first place)

New comment by SifJar in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

SifJar — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:23:57 +0000

The excerpts from the review posted here were _not_ from the section that was quoting the reddit post

New comment by SifJar in "Plane – Open-source Jira alternative"

SifJar — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 11:39:02 +0000

Haven't used it extensively, but there is XWiki: https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

New comment by SifJar in "Instant Pot and Pyrex Maker Instant Brands Files for Bankruptcy"

SifJar — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:19:09 +0000

They were referring to Pyrex when talking about "shoddy replacements", not Instant Pot (although they didn't specify this in their comment, so confusion is very understandable).

New comment by SifJar in "Is AI killing the stock photo industry? A data perspective"

SifJar — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 07:40:52 +0000

> Not sure how parents feel about putting kids in front of a machine that can fabricate lies.

You mean like a human teacher?

Of course, I agree with your point, but worth remembering that teachers can and do (knowingly or unknowingly) give incorrect information to their students.

I think one big difference with ChatGPT etc. is, as far as I've seen, it will pretty much always give a confident sounding answer (unless it's on a banned topic) rather than saying something like "I don't know", which a (good) human teacher should do rather than just making something up.

New comment by SifJar in "r/all removals over time"

SifJar — Tue, 23 May 2023 07:27:42 +0000

the methodolgy of the bot that posts the deleted posts every 12 hours is explained here: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditMinusMods/wiki/index

the graph just shows the number of posts that this bot has found "missing" each 12 hours

New comment by SifJar in "r/all removals over time"

SifJar — Tue, 23 May 2023 07:18:06 +0000

it's labelled as number of removals, I think it's an absolute number of removed posts per day(?)

edit: sibling comment points out it's per 12 hour period, not per day

edit: as for the cap of 50 - it seems that is the number of posts shown on a first page of r/all (using old reddit), so it seems that means that all 50 slots "should" be filled with posts that have been removed

New comment by SifJar in "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release"

SifJar — Fri, 12 May 2023 07:32:53 +0000

Presumably they can run the pirated version on actual hardware as well (via custom firmware etc.), and therefore compare?

New comment by SifJar in "Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years"

SifJar — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 08:02:13 +0000

Netflix also (I think briefly) offered DVD rental in UK, competing with LoveFilm. LoveFilm did continue for a while after the Amazon acquisition, both as DVD rental and with streaming added (LoveFilm Instant, if I remember correctly), which eventually got rebranded into Amazon Instant Video

New comment by SifJar in "Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy"

SifJar — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 20:36:49 +0000

Yep for sure. Was just a response of simple things they could do, if they cared. Obviously nothing they won't have thought of themselves, was really just pointing out that it's not the case that there's nothing that can be done about it, as the parent comment to mine seemed to suggest.

New comment by SifJar in "Amazon starts flagging frequently returned products that you maybe shouldn’t buy"

SifJar — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:18:48 +0000

Couple of fairly simple things they could do to at least help somewhat:

* Put reviews for current listing at the top of the reviews (currently default sort seems to be a vague "Top reviews", but can be changed to "most recent" which presumably accomplishes this. Vast majority never change defaults though)

* Clearly mark any review that is for a previous version of the listing, and provide a link to view the listing at time of review (so can easily see if it was a completely different product or a simple typo correction etc.)

* Perhaps make history of listing visible, so customers can see when and how the listing has changed

New comment by SifJar in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

SifJar — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:41:29 +0000

> but the admin(s) will give you plenty of time to migrate to a new instance

that seems like a big assumption - if I'm running an instance, what's to stop me pulling the plug with zero notice?

New comment by SifJar in "ReVanced"

SifJar — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:12:43 +0000

YouTube has both shorts & stories as separate things, and I believe Vanced could remove both

First pill to treat Covid gets approval in UK

SifJar — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:26:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59163899

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29105704

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by SifJar in "What does Google think minimum wage is?"

SifJar — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:57:05 +0000

In fairness, it appears they're only mentioning taxes in the context of comparing to other countries' minimum wage - if Google wasn't displaying the other countries minimum wages, there'd be no reason to factor in taxes for a fair comparison.

New comment by SifJar in "Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses"

SifJar — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:18:38 +0000

Specifically if you watch live broadcasts on YouTube or Amazon Prime (in the case of Prime, I believe that's mainly sports events).

Watching regular YouTube videos or movies/shows on Prime does not require a TV license.

New comment by SifJar in "NordVPN disables features when you turn off auto-renew"

SifJar — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:36:03 +0000

FWIW last time I tried to cancel & still had credits, Audible did warn me I'd lose them if I cancelled (so I quickly used the credits before cancelling - thanks to their generous return policy, shouldn't be an issue if I change my mind about one of the books I chose hastily before cancelling)

New comment by SifJar in "Opening Up the Samsung Q60 Series Smart TV (2019)"

SifJar — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:58:11 +0000

Difference between a car & a dishwasher is that a car is typically outside (at least during use) which would help it to get a signal.

Anecdotally inside my house, phones generally get no/weak cell service but WiFi is accessible anywhere in the house.

Obviously they could include both, but if it were relying only on cellular, my washing machine quite possibly couldn't get a connection

New comment by SifJar in "The Battle of GameStop"

SifJar — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:45:42 +0000

Ah my mistake, I thought hedge fund clients would include pensions etc.