<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bjarneh</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bjarneh</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 04:15:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bjarneh" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bjarneh in "iPhone Air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> As someone who rarely takes photos, and never photos of importance<p>Even people who do take photos often would probably gladly sacrifice some image quality to loose that massive thing on the back of the phone. The thinness of the phone almost make it look worse as long as that camera sticks out like that; like a huge watch with a thin strap or something...</p>
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<p>Seems that we focus on all the crazy stuff Trump is doing, just like we did the last time he was president, depressing stuff. All of it.</p>
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<p>> Later I found out that it was indeed real.<p>Wow, we do learn something new everyday :-)<p>The effects were so good for their time as well, a semi-forgotten gem that film.</p>
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<p>> ..near death accidents on sets of The Abyss<p>What a great movie that is! Who can forget that rat breathing liquid oxygen (or whatever they called it), and the water creature making her face to say hello. It seems sort of forgotten now (perhaps it's just me?) compared to other good films from the same era.</p>
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<p>> Sigourney Weaver trained to hold her breath for 6 and half minutes in her 70s!<p>That is crazy. It seems Kate Winslet broke Tom Cruise's old record while filming Avatar 2; over 7 minutes(!) in her case:<p><a href="https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/kate-winslet-beat-tom-cruise-underwater-record-avatar-2-1234598694/" rel="nofollow">https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/kate-winslet-beat...</a></p>
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<p>Fully agree. He must have been itching to use the term "chart junk" :-)</p>
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<p>> the animation adds no additional information.<p>No it removes information; to be able to focus on one period at a time as it evolves.<p>Seeing a "living graph" of how something evolves is different than seeing the graph fully drawn statically, that cannot be considered chart junk IMO.</p>
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<p>> is that it discourages from collecting superfluous data<p>Wouldn't that require some kind of actual policing? Here (in Norway) at least, police does not use any of their time trying to access random data systems looking for personal info stored in violation with GDPR. This is not something anyone fears, so as long as you say you are OK, you are OK.<p>> Big companies have a real incentive to act.<p>The company I worked for was almost as big as they come here in Norway (handled extremely sensitive personal information also). We are full of clown tech companies here as well (just like your 'Epic Health Journals' etc.). These kind of companies cannot comply with these types of rules, they cannot even make their own systems work properly.</p>
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<p>> A bit like complaining that fraud is hard because of those pesky police officers. Yes, this is the intention.<p>GDPR did not lead to any actual changes for the company, except they set up a fancy web-page about how serious we where about GDPR. That's the intention?<p>Many companies cannot possibly remove the info GDPR demands, as they barely know they have it, and they will use minimal efforts to fiddle with this stuff. From what I saw, GDPR is just another example of legislation, that looks good on paper; and the intention is certainly good. But no real change followed; at least where I worked.</p>
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<p>Yes, it has tons of regulation which at least from my experience is very difficult to implement. I used to work for a company that basically barely knew what info they stored about anyone; and they also had long relationships with tons of clients. It was virtually impossible to follow GDPR in that company, but for some reason they wanted to show everyone that they were "best in class", since they handled a lot of financial info etc. It basically just ended up with some fancy web-pages proclaiming that we were serious about GDPR, but nothing else materialized.<p>The cookie-banner just seems like a very strange "security" measure; but GDPR seems very strange as far as I can tell. It was sparked by the "forget me" campaign a few years ago I guess, and most people probably agree with the intent, but it has led to very strange set of rules.</p>
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<p>> (GDPR) is the best-known European standard. After all, it’s hard to miss the opportunity to reject cookies on European websites. But there’s far more to data security.<p>We should not be bragging about that "security", those cookie pop-ups are just a pointless annoyance. At least I guess we can all agree that there is far more to data security :-)</p>
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<p>The guy has his blog going since 94. What a legend!</p>
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<p>This is what we come here for!</p>
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<p>Exactly, it's a very quick way to get an overview. Just by looking at how many developers have been working on things + their frequency of committing code is very helpful. Tons of files appearing at once is a quick give away that something is either copied from another project, or some massive "technology" (read: library, framework) is added; which can be hard to maintain unless the stuff being added is very mature.</p>
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<p>It certainly isn't an alternative to actually digging into the repo and find out what has happened. But I wanted to find out something about:<p>1. How many developers have actually been working on this stuff<p>2. Has the guy who set up the wire-frame actually stepped back<p>3. Are there more developers doing stuff, then what we get the impression of, based on the weekly Teams meetings<p>All of these questions could be answered in 1 minute by starting 'gource' + increase the speed of the visualization for the past year. I was afraid that this newly hired consulting company was pretending to use less resources then they actually did, in order to sink their hooks into our company, which I could see instantly that they had been doing. I could also see that the "big gun" setting up the wire frame for the project, had not really been taken of the project at all, but had been helping some of the jr. devs all along. Something that would have taken some digging with 'git log' or 'tig'..</p>
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<p>It is super useful. We started a project with some hired consultants about a year ago. Did not engage much with that project, but when I was recently asked to get back into the loop and find out what these people had been up to, a quick view of the 'gource' visualization was all that was needed in order to know who was doing stuff, and how much they had been working on it etc. At least I knew who was just attending the meetings, and who was actually coding and so on :-)</p>
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<p>> the less technical managers have been bozos AND bad at management<p>The golden combo.</p>
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<p>> I was saying the system is doing a best efforts action just in case there is dust or snow or other debris there which there sometimes is<p>I guess that could be the case; but they do seem quite random.<p>> I'm guessing they have birds in Trondheim.<p>We do, mostly seagulls where I park my car :-) But you're not dry wiping away anything they produce, that takes a good scrubbing.<p>> I haven't tried the roller for the wiper<p>It makes the experience fully controllable from the steering wheel using one hand, which is very good. One light press on the left stalk, and the menu pops up down on the left corner on the screen where you can roll to your preferred setting. I hate having to go into menus on the touch screen while driving.<p><a href="https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-A5C33F3D-E41D-4671-ADE5-C2FB73203323.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-A5C33F3...</a></p>
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<p>You're preaching to the choire</p>
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<p>> is showing a robot at the event failing miserably at picking up a small bag of chocolates<p>Luckily that's not one of the dirty or dangerous jobs it will soon take over :-)</p>
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