Hacker News: Slikey

New comment by Slikey in "PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities"

Slikey — Sun, 08 May 2022 15:48:41 +0000

Isn't it ironic that the operating system called "Windows" offers one of the worst window management user experiences?

New comment by Slikey in "Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?"

Slikey — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:35:53 +0000

Amazon. Amazon Pay has been the worst offender and every purchase using Amazon Pay has leaked my Amazon email to third parties.

New comment by Slikey in "Twitter's new Tor onion service"

Slikey — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 18:43:44 +0000

I believe Twitter is trying to be better though and it appears they do chip away at this. They have also been in a difficult situation between cancel culture and free speech absolutism. Determining the reasonable solution is hard when the extreme edges and vocal minorities are yelling at you. My personal hope is that Twitter will further crack down on the very low hanging bots / trolls / alt accounts - there are many especially young accounts with handles like @Name359345809 which don't contribute to the platform in any way.

New comment by Slikey in "China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war"

Slikey — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:39:19 +0000

Free Speech for individuals does not mean that we have an interest in allowing foreign and potentially hostile actors to run propaganda campaigns using the ad targeting machine we have built using social media. They can say what they want and every citizen can do so as well, but we should not allow asymmetric amplification.

New comment by Slikey in "Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says"

Slikey — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 21:42:11 +0000

Not just that solar is the cheapest but nuclear is also the second most expensive option. I really don't understand this recent flood of pro-nuclear posts on HN.

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

New comment by Slikey in "EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document"

Slikey — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:04:17 +0000

Given that mountains are a result of geological activity, this is for sure the worst place to store it. You'll have a better chance digging out a big hole in the desert - which the EU doesn't have.

New comment by Slikey in "Intel chief Pat Gelsinger: Too many chips made in Asia"

Slikey — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 03:00:30 +0000

That doesn't matter. If they want to export TO the US they are subject to US export laws. The US has a history of their economical and political power forcing companies that have no business with the US to do their bidding to stay in business. Just look at the Iran sanctions.

New comment by Slikey in "How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%"

Slikey — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 23:29:26 +0000

Check out https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson

More than 3 GB/s are possible. Like you said 10 MB of JSON is a breeze.

New comment by Slikey in "Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare"

Slikey — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:34:04 +0000

He means a Dyson swarm and we are not centuries away from achieving this. The economical sense is on a different paper. Having ASIC miners in space connecting to something like Starlink is entirely possible even though not cost effective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere#Dyson_swarm

New comment by Slikey in "Berlin car sharing startup Miles demands €13k from customer whose car was stolen"

Slikey — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 22:53:34 +0000

3 months in advance is the legal limit, it's great. We also love our contract bindings for 2 years. Cunsumer friendliness here is heresy.

New comment by Slikey in "Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair"

Slikey — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:18:46 +0000

> Part of the problem with electronics is often a brand new unit costs less than replacing a faulty part

This is only partially true. The true cost is hidden and at least by average people like me immeasurable. We are putting a lot of cost out of sight if you consider the environmental impact of e-waste.

New comment by Slikey in "Tether price manipulation"

Slikey — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:12:26 +0000

> Dec 2017

I am fairly certain over 3 years passed since then.

New comment by Slikey in "Tether price manipulation"

Slikey — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:04:47 +0000

This sounds incredibly illegal. I can't imagine trading like this is wanted by legislators and even if Tether is currently backed 1:1 there is no way that legislators will allow this to keep happening eventually crashing the entire Tether currency into the ground.

New comment by Slikey in "US passes anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies"

Slikey — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 20:17:49 +0000

I am not a US citizien but I'd still like to thank you for taking time out of your day to explain. I wish politics would generally be more transparent about their intentions but I guess it wouldn't be politics then. It's always hard to find out the intentions of thresholds and numbers as the models behind them are never communicated through the media.

New comment by Slikey in "How bad is your Spotify?"

Slikey — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:58:12 +0000

Spotify became entirely unusable for me when I started using Bluetooth headphones on my computer. When I turn them off, Spotify goes into some weird attempt to play every single song in rapid succession as it has no Output device to play to. Finally crashing so bad that I have to end the process and reopen it. It doesn't help that I've reported that a long time ago and even though the QA triage should have marked this as a low hanging fruit, nothing has happened. // rant end, I know this post doesn't help anything but venting is always a form of self-therapy haha

New comment by Slikey in "Microsoft may be developing its own, in-house ARM CPU designs"

Slikey — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 15:59:09 +0000

In an ideal world that'd mean we become architecture agnostic and solutions should work on any CPU entering the market while ARM has still not achieved majority support on desktop solutions. Sadly I am certain there will be an extremely painful phase in which some software runs a lot better (more than the instruction set would explain) on some hardware and not on others. Driver support is going to be really poor and tech support will be a very secure job for the coming decade.. hah :)

New comment by Slikey in "No Cookie for You"

Slikey — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:13:06 +0000

Sadly this is often unfeasible if your site relies on reCAPTCHA. Are there any cookie-free GDPR compliant captcha options?

New comment by Slikey in "Amazon disallows pointing out paid reviews"

Slikey — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 06:50:23 +0000

Amazon is truly the AliExpress of the west and they are running the quality down faster and faster. A dead giveaway is the fact that there are tons of rebrands of the same product whenever you look for something. If I want the China product I go directly to AliExpress and get the unbranded version and don't need to pay the 100-300% premium on Amazon.

New comment by Slikey in "AirPods Max"

Slikey — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:57:24 +0000

This is just demonstrably not true. Bluetooth Hands-Free mangles the sample rate to 16 / 24 kHz. See this video for a collection of pretty much all common devices from "this decade". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmGS_WWk7o

New comment by Slikey in "AirPods Max"

Slikey — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:45:08 +0000

Especially if you consider the inherent issues with Bluetooth call quality. No matter how good their microphones in them are, they will mangle the audio back to the 90s. $549 seems entirely detached and I am baffled, even as an ANC enthusiast.