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New comment by auiya in "Volkswagen will bring back physical buttons"

auiya — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:06:19 +0000

Is this for all brands under the VW auto group? Will we see Porsche bail on the capacitive screens for instance?

New comment by auiya in "Software disenchantment"

auiya — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:24:33 +0000

If the goal is to make money, you will make money. If the goal is to make quality software, you will make quality software. Sometimes those two goals are in alignment, most of the time they are at odds.

New comment by auiya in "De-anonymizing ransomware domains on the dark web"

auiya — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:05:38 +0000

Not sure why there's a mystique over the "dark web", they're all still just websites, and suffer the same types of vulnerabilities.

New comment by auiya in "Documenting Aramaic before its native speakers vanish (2013)"

auiya — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 19:06:07 +0000

At that point does the language become archived?

De-anonymizing ransomware domains on the dark web

auiya — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:15:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2022/06/de-anonymizing-ransomware-domains-on.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31911075

Points: 153

# Comments: 49

“If you want to speed up your old iPhone, change the Region setting to France.”

auiya — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 21:34:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/this-simple-trick-can-speed-up-your-old-iphone-in-seconds/ar-AAObFZi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28450251

Points: 18

# Comments: 6

New comment by auiya in "China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week"

auiya — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:44:12 +0000

There's PLENTY of jank in Dark Souls, don't kid yourself.

New comment by auiya in "China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week"

auiya — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 20:42:32 +0000

> Modern games though are clearly designed to get you as addicted as possible and to play as long as possible to an extent that made the old school 90s RPGs grinds look tame and mild.

You do realize the term "quarter muncher" isn't a modern one right? We had plenty of those types meth-level-addiction games back in the early days of gaming too.

New comment by auiya in "Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work"

auiya — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 19:53:16 +0000

You've reinvented Spotlight and tab-grouping by encroaching on the entire content space w/ nested layers of UI elements? If you're targeting the MacOS platform, you may want to reconsider this approach.

New comment by auiya in "“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)"

auiya — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:45:39 +0000

And for music producers! Logic Pro is probably the best bang for the buck you buy right now as far as DAWs go.

New comment by auiya in "“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)"

auiya — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:34:45 +0000

Vista also introduced several crucial security features that were sorely needed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_and_safety_features_n...

New comment by auiya in "“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)"

auiya — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:20:31 +0000

Isn't Apple walking-back that whole Touch Bar fiasco now?

New comment by auiya in "Collectors are also confused about that $1.56M Super Mario 64 sale"

auiya — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:58:24 +0000

That money's not going to launder itself, what's confusing?

New comment by auiya in "Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend"

auiya — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:18:38 +0000

Not to mention it requires a cold-fill method of production. For acidified foods this is mostly okay, but hot-fill is the preferred method for keeping the bad stuff at bay and reducing the need for preservatives.

New comment by auiya in "Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend"

auiya — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:33:07 +0000

I much prefer the flavor of the Sriraja Panich brand you find in the Asian markets. But the squeeze-bottle packaging/pour of the Huy Fong stuff is definitely more convenient than the glass ketchup bottle style package Sriraja Panich comes in over here. I've never seen it in a squeeze bottle package like that second article shows.

New comment by auiya in "Ask HN: 90s programmers, what did you expect the future of tech to look like?"

auiya — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 15:55:07 +0000

Less commercialized for sure, and certainly not being entirely consumed by predatory data gathering tactics. Also, I can recall in the early 2000's being enamored with the idea of cheap, unlimited, and ubiquitous high-speed wireless replacing all terrestrial infrastructure. Sadly, ISPs have colluded to ensure that never becomes a reality. I guess I'm just mad at commercialization overall?

New comment by auiya in "The Fine Art of Combining Harmonics"

auiya — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 14:33:53 +0000

Music producer Andrew Huang does a fantastic job demonstrating the harmonic series concepts in a video from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx_kugSemfY

New comment by auiya in "The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains"

auiya — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:20:09 +0000

I don't feel the WFH pros/cons align perfectly with engineer/managers either. I know many managers who are very comfortable with managing a geo-distributed remote team. Mine in particular is quite good at it.

New comment by auiya in "The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains"

auiya — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:16:02 +0000

> What was a matter of just getting six people in a war room for a week and getting that hard problem done

As a person who at a previous job was often pulled into said "war rooms", we almost never "got that hard problem done", but we did always make management feel good about not being able to fully solve hard problems. Mostly these "huddle-work" scenarios created more problems (long term) than they solved, because people weren't motivated to solve the problem, they were motivated to leave the war room. I do my best work when I'm not constantly distracted by others, but many managers simply can't understand this and instead hamstring their employees by having "war rooms" and white-boarding sessions and stand-ups and deep-dives and all the other nonsensical ways of preventing people from actually focusing and accomplishing a task. Good riddance to the on-location office and all the hot garbo that comes with it; the rest of us will be quietly humming away, getting tasks done and solving major problems without such managerial hindrances.

New comment by auiya in "What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour"

auiya — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 13:33:58 +0000

Fees for what should be a standard feature in a few years? That sets an anti-consumer precedent. Hard pass