Hacker News: bhandziuk

New comment by bhandziuk in "Why are Flock employees watching our children?"

bhandziuk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:36:13 +0000

As someone who has been somewhat involved with this I'm disappointed and but not terribly surprised this goes even deeper than Dunwoody public spaces. There was a lot of community engagement on the Flock contract renewal but the vote was postponed twice. It seemed like once community engagement died down (because asking people to stay vigilant constantly is exhausting). Council seemed upset but when it came down to it they voted unanimously to continue and expand the Flock contract.

I feel like it really does a lot of harm to public trust. But also most people, even people pretty engaged in the community, just don't know or care about the consequences of being surveilled constantly. It's very hard to convey to them the potential harm this is doing to them or their kids.

New comment by bhandziuk in "AI World Clocks"

bhandziuk — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:07:01 +0000

Looks like css keyframes

New comment by bhandziuk in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

bhandziuk — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:01:32 +0000

I honestly thought Explorer was broken and have been looking into 3rd party file browsers for Windows because this has been driving me so nuts. Thank you!

New comment by bhandziuk in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

bhandziuk — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:52:06 +0000

This must be why, when I have a folder in Win11 full of files with GUIDs as names, they are never in the order I expect. Windows seems to sort them randomly but there must be some sub-sequence of numbers that it's deciding are the important ones and sorting off those. For me I'd much rather just sort left to right alphabetical.

New comment by bhandziuk in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

bhandziuk — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:23:16 +0000

GitHub personal access tokens could be a lot better. It'd be nice if you could assign tokens at the team level or you have more fine grained control over token permissions.

And yes, I know "Fine Grained Tokens" exist but they don't seem to be usable almost anywhere and the fine grain level of control isn't actually very fine grained so they kind of suck.

New comment by bhandziuk in "Electric cars produce less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"

bhandziuk — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:00:02 +0000

Your Tesla has an iPad? Or you're saying someone sitting in a car can play on an iPad if they have one?

New comment by bhandziuk in "Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill"

bhandziuk — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:21:12 +0000

I already pay $220 /yr to register my EV in Georgia. That's far more than I would pay if I were driving an ICE car. Does this mean that I'd have to pay $420 /yr if this passed?

New comment by bhandziuk in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

bhandziuk — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:26:39 +0000

Pretty much all the pinch points encountered were things visible and could have been through about at the start of the project. They've done this 9 times before, you need a wrench/pliers to put the hoses on. It needs to drain (also that drain cover likely needed a only a flathead screw driver to remove. Drilling it out leaved burrs and usually they are designed to be popped out with a little force.) They lived in 9 places and don't have a drill that can chuck in a small hole saw. Seems surprising. But I guess the point is you don't know what you don't know.

New comment by bhandziuk in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

bhandziuk — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:14:08 +0000

I was surprised they got stuck here and need to use a totally different drill. Several of my smaller hole saw fit in a 1/4" chuck.

New comment by bhandziuk in "YouTube's New Hue"

bhandziuk — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:31:38 +0000

I noticed this gradient and knew it didn't used to be there. I thought for a long time there was something wrong with my TV. I would walk around the room looking at the TV from different angles and would move the progress bar to different points in the video. I was looking at the color settings and other known-color images. Ultimately I'm glad I saw this article and I can stop thinking I've gone crazy out that my tv is broken!

New comment by bhandziuk in "AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k"

bhandziuk — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:30:01 +0000

This isn't a "rights" issue. It's taking a step back and seeing that what happened to her could, to a degree, happen to any of us and she's not deserving of mockery.

New comment by bhandziuk in "Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch"

bhandziuk — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:36:04 +0000

Do you need an Apple product to use AirPlay?

New comment by bhandziuk in "Rider is now free for non-commercial use"

bhandziuk — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:41:18 +0000

I think an unsuccessful commercial venture is still a commercial venture.

New comment by bhandziuk in "Major Toronto Utility Company Stores Customers' Passwords in Plain Text"

bhandziuk — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:05:34 +0000

Absolutely. Like how many times has my mother's maiden name and the name of my first pet been leaked.

New comment by bhandziuk in "Is a 'slow' swimming pool impeding world records?"

bhandziuk — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:55:06 +0000

I could be fully enclosed for the full length and just have a glass top

New comment by bhandziuk in "Students invent quieter leaf blower"

bhandziuk — Sat, 18 May 2024 12:01:37 +0000

I use a corded electric blower (it's also the motor for a shop vac). It works very well for the driveway, blowing out the garage and, for the very rare times I've done it, leaves on grass.

New comment by bhandziuk in "Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars"

bhandziuk — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 22:21:34 +0000

How much is the fee? It only costs like 7 $ to fully charge.

New comment by bhandziuk in "Things we learned analyzing 515M Wordles"

bhandziuk — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:38:40 +0000

They have confirmed that the answer with never be plural so if you have the hope of getting it in 1 guess GIRLS ain't your best guess.

New comment by bhandziuk in "YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads"

bhandziuk — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:29:26 +0000

I am seeing this post minutes after feeling fed up with all the scam ads on YT and finally reporting a bunch of them. Reading all these comments makes me feel rather deflated. Like there is no hope.

New comment by bhandziuk in "EVs have more reliability problems than gas cars, says Consumer Reports"

bhandziuk — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:05:15 +0000

I guess I didn't think about it like that. That my bottom of the line car is more serviceable because it doesn't have all the bells and whistles.

Personally I think it still has very good cruise control (adjusts speed based on traffic and can come to a complete stop, makes an attempt to stay in the lane, maintains a safe following distance) and errors on the more conservative side (will turn off the lane maintenance feature if the lines become too difficult to see). None of that is "self driving" I guess but I find it impressive and useful still.