Hacker News: a_f

New comment by a_f in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

a_f — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:16:54 +0000

Looking for QA or QA management work. Lots of experience across multiple domains.

Location: Southampton, UK

Remote: Prefered, but not essential

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Robot Framework, AWS, JIRA, PostGres, DynamoDB, Node, React, GitHub

Résumé/CV: https://1drv.ms/w/c/b51a0ed90bcbfc29/IQCruUz3VSbgR7MhuFaDiWq... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ben-ient-b706ab221

Email:ientb@hotmail.co.uk

New comment by a_f in "Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal"

a_f — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:11:20 +0000

> doom bar

Maybe not for much longer: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjendwk7979o

New comment by a_f in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

a_f — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:11:38 +0000

Reminds me of the Xbox One release disaster, and the push for Kinect and TV streaming support.

New comment by a_f in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

a_f — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:24:33 +0000

Looks like MyGet is impacted too. Seems like they use Azure:

>What is required to be able to use MyGet? ... MyGet runs its operations from the Microsoft Azure in the West Europe region, near Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

New comment by a_f in "Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes"

a_f — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:54:49 +0000

I think it is in some part to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_hemoglobin

New comment by a_f in "Take the pedals off the bike"

a_f — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:48:13 +0000

This is one of the biggest hurdles to getting kids to enjoy riding bikes too. If you think about the weight of many cheaper kids department store bikes they are a significant weight compared to the child. Having a lighter bike makes it much more enjoyable for the kids.

Also recommend Islabikes and Frog bikes for two companies that offer lighter offerings. Again you have to pay for it, but they can often be resold and a decent value later. Especially if you keep the bike clean and loved.

New comment by a_f in "DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine"

a_f — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:33:54 +0000

Sheldon is a great resource as mentioned already, although it will not include information on newer components.

I really like the park tool website and videos for step by step instructions. RJ the bike guy on Youtube also has some good instructionals too.

I found most of the difficulty is identifying which components and/or standards your bike is using, rather than the process of fixing.

New comment by a_f in "Shaving is too expensive"

a_f — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:28:41 +0000

I found my leaf razor spring has started to become semi-slack, and failing to return as well to the original position. I suspect I will need to replace it soon (should be a waranty issue). Had it ~ 1 year. I found the shave is also not that close, and the larger head flat region means it is more difficult to get to spaces like under directly the nose. I like the design, but it is far from perfect

New comment by a_f in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)"

a_f — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:52:34 +0000

  Location: UK, Southampton
  Remote: Prefered
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: AWS, GitHub, Git, Python - robot framework, PostGres, 
  Résumé/CV: Available on request
  Email: ientb@hotmail.co.uk

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13 years in the industry, the majority of it spent in software QA. After a more hands-on QA role, currently in a managerial position. Experience in scientific and engineering software domains. Broad scope of testing across multiple platforms, product types and everything in between.

New comment by a_f in "There's No Good Reason to Buy a Carbon Bike"

a_f — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:50:42 +0000

There is also this video from Santa Cruz: https://youtu.be/w5eMMf11uhM?t=148 where they test the fork and frame

I am also remind of the Danny M video of the carbon wheels test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfjjiHGuHoc

New comment by a_f in "Windows 11 struggling to escape the shadow of Windows 10"

a_f — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:36:34 +0000

Given the direction they have taken Windows 11, I am glad that this is not an update to Windows 10.

New comment by a_f in "Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew"

a_f — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:03:00 +0000

Do NBA CEOs get paid less than the highest paid players? I would expect them to get paid more.

New comment by a_f in "Two-parent households should be a policy goal"

a_f — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 17:47:17 +0000

Could it be that a widow might inherit some of the remaining assets of the deceased, whereas in a divorce the assets are split?

New comment by a_f in "Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?"

a_f — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 09:51:58 +0000

Would love to see a write up of this if you ever do one, had one

New comment by a_f in "Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease"

a_f — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 09:14:18 +0000

Do you have any recipies? I have a bread maker and would like to know more

New comment by a_f in "Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content"

a_f — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 11:37:49 +0000

It looks like redgifs may have split from Gyfcat (according to wikipedia). Interestingly gyfcat is owned by Snap[chat].

New comment by a_f in "It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes"

a_f — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:51:50 +0000

What I have read people do is that they prime the text with something obviously emotional before hand, including punctuation, before their desired output. They then trim the audio they want to remove the prime phrase.

So something along the lines of:

"Remove this audio because it makes me super angry! Very angry! Now I say what I want to keep!"

Just having the AI read a script is often not enough alone without post processing and manipulation, often it is somewhat flat

New comment by a_f in "Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down"

a_f — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 13:54:59 +0000

I wonder if you could get it into an infinite loop bug somehow

New comment by a_f in "Google Bard waitlist"

a_f — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:41:15 +0000

I wonder if it is for the best - imagine getting locked out of your work account becuase of some flagged request or response in Bard

New comment by a_f in "Running large language models like ChatGPT on a single GPU"

a_f — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:54:13 +0000

Nitpicky but the RTX 3060 (non-Ti) has a variant with 12 GB, whilst the Ti is 8 GB. Agree with your points though