Hacker News: apple4ever

New comment by apple4ever in "What Is a Dickover?"

apple4ever — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:21:08 +0000

A properly informed person would've understood that's what they'd do. They'd also probably realize cookies are not a big deal.

New comment by apple4ever in "AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center"

apple4ever — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:40:16 +0000

Which seems incredibly inefficient and expensive. I find it hard to believe.

New comment by apple4ever in "Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C"

apple4ever — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:35:41 +0000

Objective-C for the win!!

(They use @ for marking keywords)

New comment by apple4ever in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

apple4ever — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:14:18 +0000

Exactly this, which is the problem with all modern accounts. No person to talk to so you can understand what happened and maybe fix it.

New comment by apple4ever in "New Jersey residents say they can't even wash their clothes due to data centers"

apple4ever — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:48:48 +0000

Government officials should not be allowed to sign NDAs that provide benefits to companies.

New comment by apple4ever in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

apple4ever — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:46:32 +0000

This seems like the more likely reason. People wanted to give them money, but they didn't want to take it unless it was in a giant pile.

New comment by apple4ever in "New York state set to ban law enforcement, including ICE, from wearing masks"

apple4ever — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:29:34 +0000

Yes but only not in the course of their federal duties.

New comment by apple4ever in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

apple4ever — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:22:20 +0000

Nope

New comment by apple4ever in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

apple4ever — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:01:36 +0000

They are lying about it not being a cost cutting exercise

New comment by apple4ever in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

apple4ever — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:12:04 +0000

That's exactly right. Bad leadership got them here. Of course they won't suffer, but their employees will. But only because they announced it as AI related. So the investors don't care.

New comment by apple4ever in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

apple4ever — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:09:28 +0000

Oh yeah, AI is just an excuse to sell it to the public. But it's not about that at all. It's about bad leadership.

New comment by apple4ever in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

apple4ever — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:07:41 +0000

Yikes. That's bad leadership at that top all around. But we already knew that when they announced layoffs. No good leader lays people off.

New comment by apple4ever in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

apple4ever — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:25:02 +0000

In hindsight though, and really also in foresight, it didn't work out that way.

New comment by apple4ever in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

apple4ever — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:06:25 +0000

> What? I have never seen this.

What? Never? Is extremely common. I just checked both my Mac and Windows desktops and they both show a link local gateway.

It makes me question whether you've used IPv6 all that much.

New comment by apple4ever in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

apple4ever — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:03:10 +0000

>> IPv6 has some quirks that make it harder to digest. > Almost every point in your list is wrong.

You missed the point and almost every counterpoint in your list is wrong.

>> - link local gateway address, makes it hard to understand why the subnet does not have a gateway from the ssme address space >IPv4 has link-local addresses, too. Those are the 169.254.X.X addresses that you see on Windows machines. IPv6 adds nothing new.

That's not what the OP said. Note it says gateways. IPv4 when DHCP'd will show 192.168.1.1 for example when it has a 192.168.1.55 address. IPv6 will show fe23::166:8f2c:9a21:96de when it has a 2001:921:61c:aef:78f:7190:1ca2 address, despite the gateway actually being 2001:921:61c:aef::1. So its highly confusing for no good reason.

>> - privacy extensions: it is very hard to explain to people why they have 3-4 IPv6 addresses assigned to their computer > Well then, don’t use them. Configure the machines with one address each, just like before. If you want the (arguable) advantages of the privacy extensions, they are available, but not mandatory.

While you can configure not use them, by default DHCP'd devices WILL have a bunch. Again confusing for no good reason.

>> - no real tentative mapping to what people were used to. Every IPv6 presentation I did had to start with “forget everything you know about IPv4” > That’s the complete opposite of my experience. Almost everything in IPv6 works exactly the same as with IPv4.

It's the complete opposite experience for most people, including network engineers.

New comment by apple4ever in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

apple4ever — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:56:01 +0000

For me, the journey is more important than the destination. Using coding assistance takes all the fun out of it, as well as the learning. (Not to mention adding aggravation of dealing with prompts and figuring out whether the response is correct or not).

New comment by apple4ever in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

apple4ever — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:42:21 +0000

Because there are so many bugs that it makes me wonder if Apple Execs ever use their own software.

For example, on MacOS, you can set an app to be on all spaces. But on reboot, despite that setting, it will stick to a single space, until you relaunch the app. It has been this way for 4-5 major OS versions.

There are PLENTY of examples just like that.

New comment by apple4ever in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

apple4ever — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:36:49 +0000

> but the problem is, they were better in the past.

So true. I run into so many little and annoying bugs I sometimes wonder if Apple Execs actually use their own devices.

New comment by apple4ever in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

apple4ever — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:35:32 +0000

I appreciate what Cook did for the hardware, but he really failed on the software side. Too many little and annoying bugs. I look forward to Ternus improving that side while maintaining the same hardware quality.

New comment by apple4ever in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

apple4ever — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:27:51 +0000

> What leads you to believe Agile implies a fixed set of precise, rigid rules?

How it's been implemented at every company. They are always a fixed set of precise, rigid rules.