Hacker News: anbop

New comment by anbop in "New 13-inch MacBook Pro"

anbop — Mon, 04 May 2020 18:30:59 +0000

The problem is most heavy computer users set themselves up with a proper ergonomic setup, i.e. external keyboard. And by not building the touch bar into external keyboards, they killed the entire concept of the Touch Bar, because any "pro" application has to assume that you may or may not have a touch bar and can't put essential functionality there. Which limits the Touch Bar to proper first-class support primarily in Apple first-party apps.

New comment by anbop in "I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries"

anbop — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 05:19:34 +0000

Never happened to me. If there are no letters after unit numbers, and the delivery person sees a delivery for unit 522B, they'll leave it at 522.

New comment by anbop in "I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries"

anbop — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 06:24:30 +0000

One hack around address limits is to put in a unit number. 1 Park Avenue or whatever in Manhattan will have multiple units in it. And if you live in one of these units you can add a letter, like "Unit 522B" which will just get delivered to your unit 522.

Some companies have databases that know the layouts in each address but many do not.

New comment by anbop in "I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries"

anbop — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 05:51:42 +0000

Ordering groceries creates employment at a time when unemployment is higher than literally ever before.

New comment by anbop in "I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries"

anbop — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 04:22:42 +0000

I mean for Amazon Prime you have to have a Prime susbcription to even play, so the $129/year fee is a good barrier to bots.

New comment by anbop in "How H-E-B planned for the pandemic"

anbop — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:50:05 +0000

Singapore is anything but a mono-cultural country and is only recently rich. Basically through extreme government competence they made themselves rich and yes, their society definitely has Chinese at the top but unlike the US, the society is not completely riven by racial strife.

New comment by anbop in "How H-E-B planned for the pandemic"

anbop — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:48:09 +0000

I'm sure there are 16,000 people that would be thankful that you were 14,000 ventilators short instead of 30,000.

New comment by anbop in "Amazon Prime delivery delays are now as long as a month"

anbop — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 05:28:00 +0000

The fine print has always been that it's 2 days from Amazon's ship date and not from your order date.

New comment by anbop in "How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations [video]"

anbop — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 05:16:41 +0000

For some reason I initially read this as "Prince Charles." And thought that I was totally ignorant of Prince Charles' programming exploits, as though he were a Lee Hsien Loong.

New comment by anbop in "U.S. Says Accused Apple Secrets Thief Had Patriot Missile File"

anbop — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:42:50 +0000

Because it works. The earliest industrial base of the United States was created from textile production IP stolen from the United Kingdom, which eventually outcompeted British textiles.

The American government has been captured by the American CEO class, who don't suffer from IP theft since they get paid before the IP theft bears fruit, so the government doesn't care.

New comment by anbop in "Operations for Effective CEOs"

anbop — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:55:22 +0000

No one said it does. But if you tell someone "fix whatever is causing the disks on this machine to fill up" they're going to be more motivated to do so, and more able to make the best decisions about how to do so, if they know what the purpose, or "story," is, that they're a part of.

It's just like if you told someone to play the part of a random extra in a convenience store in a movie, they will do a better job if they know what the movie is about. Even the way you play an extra is different in a slapstick comedy vs. a movie about blood diamonds, for example.

New comment by anbop in "How much a baby is touched leaves measurable effects on DNA methylation (2017)"

anbop — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 22:17:21 +0000

Adoptive parents are people who have gone through a lot of effort and expense to get their children, so they're far more likely to be heavily invested in their kids. It's also expensive so they're likely to have money. If the effects of parenting are strong, but "cap out" -- i.e. above a certain level of care, parenting does little, but before that level it has a strong effect -- then twin studies will show little of that effect.

New comment by anbop in "Tesla Software Version 10.0"

anbop — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 22:13:26 +0000

What's a seat rocker? Google is turning up household furniture.

New comment by anbop in "Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data"

anbop — Sat, 10 Aug 2019 15:45:49 +0000

I can’t believe a drivers license scan is all that is needed for many companies. That means that losing my wallet on the street effectively means that someone can go get my entire digital history.

Why not require the user to request this data while signed in to the service?

New comment by anbop in "Smartphone Sales Are in Freefall, and That’s Okay"

anbop — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 20:07:39 +0000

When the iPhone 6S came out the iPhone 4S seemed like a dinosaur. Now even though the iPhone 10S is out the iPhone 6S works just fine. It happened in PCs and now it's happened in phones -- the annual increase in specs eventually passed the needs of most of the market.

New comment by anbop in "DM48 Digital Chromatic Harmonica"

anbop — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 16:34:12 +0000

oof, not comparable at all. The increased mechanical latency from a cello, compared to a violin, is an incredible source of tonal and musical complexity. First of all, the latency can be felt by the musician, so I don't lose control of the feedback loop. Second, the latency isn't a hard start/stop, but you can feel and hear the string first displacing under the bow and then starting to move. There is zero latency in terms of the physical universe... there is just some more latency between when you start an action and when the note reaches its full steady state.

The comparison is like the difference between driving a truck and a car compared to driving a car with a 500ms delay on its inputs.

New comment by anbop in "The Birth of the Semicolon"

anbop — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 06:16:16 +0000

The author's description of the various typefaces and their semicolons is just exquisite. What a fucking writer.

New comment by anbop in "Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons"

anbop — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:50:51 +0000

The original purpose of the “hackable” button was to give a fun piece of experimentation kit that worked with AWS and encouraged people to try it out. I set up my AWS account just to use one.

New comment by anbop in "Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons"

anbop — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:49:27 +0000

This is the first thing I’ve ever upvoted on Hacker News

New comment by anbop in "Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns"

anbop — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:56:52 +0000

My guess is that this whole story arc was planned from Day 1. They knew they’d need to do this, and they’d get caught, so they just tried to tag as much stuff as they could before the shit hit the PR fan.