Hacker News: UseStrict

New comment by UseStrict in "Blood puddles, mold, tainted meat, bugs: Boar's Head inspections are horrifying"

UseStrict — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:26:46 +0000

I mean a month shutdown isn't much of a punishment. They'll go back online, run their staff over capacity, and neglect cleaning and maintenance all over again.

New comment by UseStrict in "Ford trims EV battery orders as losses swell to over $100k per electric car"

UseStrict — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:27:27 +0000

If we're going to follow that reductio ad absurdum, I live in a city why not just take the bus? But walking is only a few miles, why not just walk? Don't buy a house because it's an inefficient waste of space, resources, and energy. Live in a studio apartment under 300sq ft, enough for a bed and a desk. Buying food seems unnecessary when I can have planters and some chickens out back.

I like the Mustang, electricity where I live is already generated above 90% by renewables, despite transit my quality of life is improved with a vehicle. The environment is a nice side effect.

New comment by UseStrict in "Ford trims EV battery orders as losses swell to over $100k per electric car"

UseStrict — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:11:10 +0000

I would really like to buy a Mustang EV, but I don't want to pay the $20,000 above sticker the dealership is trying to charge at 7.99% interest. Not a mystery why these things aren't moving.

New comment by UseStrict in "FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines"

UseStrict — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:30:02 +0000

Not for me, no change before or after the CPAP machine, but I had an over 100 AHI during 2 separate sleep lab assessments.

New comment by UseStrict in "Microsoft Teams went down around the world for over eight hours"

UseStrict — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:25:47 +0000

Teams is probably the worst communications app I've ever been forced to use. Extremely slow, random crashes, almost impossible to organize chats in a useful way, and outages as the cherry on top. I would have thought that Microsoft would put more TLC into a core part of their enterprise offering.

New comment by UseStrict in "Canadian man stuck in triangle of e-commerce fraud"

UseStrict — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:09:56 +0000

Sounds about right, the RCMP has a long history of First Nations neglect. This seems like it would be a straightforward case to prove his innocence. Also a good reminder of why it's important to never speak with police without a lawyer.

New comment by UseStrict in "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy"

UseStrict — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:34:25 +0000

So much of this bot store ships from Amazon... It's mind boggling to imagine how much waste this physical spam introduces, from manufacturing, to shipping to the Amazon warehouse, to warehousing. All for low-quality dupes that aren't even represented by a real business.

New comment by UseStrict in "Simple Lasts Longer"

UseStrict — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:41:07 +0000

I would assume this is more intended for locals or frequent visitors. Paris is nice, but after a few months it becomes like any other city.

New comment by UseStrict in "Polish Hackers that repaired DRM trains threatened by train company"

UseStrict — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:31:42 +0000

I have friends who work indirectly in rail systems procurement in Canada. If they don't know about this already, they will soon from me.

New comment by UseStrict in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

UseStrict — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:55:59 +0000

Agreed, I use their services, but I absolutely do not depend on them. They can't be trusted.

New comment by UseStrict in "Beeper Mini is back"

UseStrict — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:39:59 +0000

Siri is so incompetent it's basically unusable. I would love if they were forced to allow 3rd party assistants.

New comment by UseStrict in "Nothing's iMessage app was a security catastrophe, taken down in 24 hours"

UseStrict — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:38:19 +0000

That's a bit of a false dichotomy - just because they follow Sam Altman doesn't mean they can be incompetent. OpenAI was successful because of the rare mix of leadership with a vision and competent workers to back it up. Sam leaves, the vision dies. Workers leave, the product dies.

New comment by UseStrict in "US Government issues first-ever space debris penalty to Dish Network"

UseStrict — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:54:03 +0000

Ah yes, the true day-to-day life we all experience launching multi-million dollar satellites by a multi-billion dollar company, endangering the safe launch and operation of other satellites not just domestic but globally.

If they couldn't be bothered to put enough fuel in the cannister to deorbit, they get fined. I don't see why that requires a full trial.

New comment by UseStrict in "Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates"

UseStrict — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:56:48 +0000

Google hasn't had a track record of actually supporting their products beyond 2-3 years, software or hardware. I'll believe it when I see it.

New comment by UseStrict in "Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader"

UseStrict — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:01:38 +0000

If you took 10 seconds to read, it's not at all C-18 related. It's entirely related to India being able to strong-arm Facebook to comply.

New comment by UseStrict in "We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score"

UseStrict — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:58:38 +0000

Apple could just unpair parts when the phone itself is reset/deactivated. And new genuine Apple parts could at least have a one-time automatic pairing when signing in with your Apple ID.

Stolen phone? The phone is still activated, part can't pair with new phone. Not perfect, but at least somewhat less anti-consumer.

New comment by UseStrict in "I'm a paid user of Threads[.com] – No trademark?"

UseStrict — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:08:27 +0000

I'm sure they've upgrade since then, at least Windows 98 SE.

New comment by UseStrict in "Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics"

UseStrict — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:24:32 +0000

I had almost an identical experience, except I was local to Ottawa at the time. Literally a full day of back-to-back interviews. They asked which languages and technologies I was comfortable with, and then gave me a pair programming session with someone who didn't even speak to me, in a programming language I wasn't comfortable in, leading me to have to look up a lot of syntax. Radio silence for a week, then I called the original recruiter and they just basically said "no."

New comment by UseStrict in "We updated our RSA SSH host key"

UseStrict — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:17:45 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but since all GitHub events can be watched through the API, I don't think it particularly matters how long it was public. Anecdotal but I once accidentally pushed an AWS key (thankfully heavily locked down and not a root account) for all of 30 seconds and it was compromised anyways.

New comment by UseStrict in "Nordstrom to close all 13 stores in Canada, lay off 2,500 workers by June"

UseStrict — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:08:04 +0000

Target was a bit more complex, a combination of issues with logistics and blindly taking over basically all of the locations of Zellers regardless of analysis meant they expanded quickly with not enough product making it to shelves, and not enough customer traffic.

They carried fewer of the products you'd come to expect in an American Target store. Also due to this cost, the prices weren't more attractive than established incumbents like Wal-Mart.