Hacker News: bmicraft

New comment by bmicraft in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

bmicraft — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:59:56 +0000

Believe it or not, the eu is not one single entity with one undivided goal. As is perfectly well demonstrated by chatcontrol being proposed by one side and continually struck down by the other.

New comment by bmicraft in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

bmicraft — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:07:34 +0000

Wrong. If you just take out the fat you've necessarily got more of everything else per kcal. I didn't say per volume, I said per kcal.

New comment by bmicraft in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

bmicraft — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:18:13 +0000

My dumb answer would be that less fat means more sugar per kcal, so less satiety per kcal. No idea if that's correct.

New comment by bmicraft in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

bmicraft — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:58:25 +0000

Nuclear is too expensive and takes to long. We can't afford to waste the resources that could go into a fully green grid in a couple of years taking decades building a fraction of that capacity as nuclear.

New comment by bmicraft in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

bmicraft — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:30:40 +0000

Many people do, although I too don't get why

New comment by bmicraft in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

bmicraft — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:28:13 +0000

240W max is very little when it comes to hearing up water, and most powerbanks don't even do more than 100W output. That's more in the range of those swappable tool batteries.

New comment by bmicraft in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

bmicraft — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:25:02 +0000

Charging a 5Ah phone empty to full every day of the year adds up to all of about 7kWh. Nobody cares if you shave off a couple cents per year if the experience is worse.

New comment by bmicraft in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

bmicraft — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:05:31 +0000

If you didn't specifically test without it, I'd attribute that to cgnat

New comment by bmicraft in "Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

bmicraft — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:50:35 +0000

> if you have that little respect for leadership, why are you working at that company?

What an astoundingly dumb question. Most people work somewhere to get paid, and If you think its unusual to hate the boss, oh boy, do I have news for you!

New comment by bmicraft in "Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

bmicraft — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:47:00 +0000

Several things severely wrong with this example. The employee didn't talk to an outsider, they didn't talk to someone the CEO would be likely to have known personally, and they're so far removed from the CEO nobody thinks they'd know them on a personal level.

You just can't talk about a CEO as if they're a person interacting and hiring people individually because they just don't.

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:32:18 +0000

I never said loud. Comfortable podcast listening volume in both cases.

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:24:07 +0000

You can turn up your car stereo and mow over pedestrians undisturbed in your two ton death machine yet I'm not allowed to cycle on a bicycle-only path with with a podcast and transparency mode enabled? For my own safety? Safety from car drivers that fell asleep driving with their stereo on?

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:21:33 +0000

> The "plausible sounding-text generator" generated plausible sounding text. More news at 11

Yeah, that's what LLMs do. Now is it true? Who knows!

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:19:19 +0000

My XM4's always do that at the beeps from the cash register, although I always attributed that to their volume rather than frequency. My theory was that they refuse to produce sound loud enough to cancel the beeps for safety reasons.

New comment by bmicraft in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bmicraft — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:10:54 +0000

There is no handshake, all that's needed are two 5.1 kΩ pulldown resistors. By omitting them the manufacturer saved all of about 0.1c and made their device incompatible with compliant usb-c chargers.

More info: https://hackaday.com/2023/02/07/all-about-usb-c-manufacturer...

New comment by bmicraft in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

bmicraft — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:41:07 +0000

The author may feel like this is true, but she probably probably doesn't care for the Kafkaesque nature of the system and doesn't stand to profit from their misery either.

New comment by bmicraft in "FreeCAD v1.1"

bmicraft — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:49:18 +0000

Or don't and adjust it in the sketcher? If you name your constrains you can just reference them directly elsewhere.

I think that's much easier as you don't have to go back and forth with a spreadsheet.

New comment by bmicraft in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

bmicraft — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:31:23 +0000

The main problem with PHEV is, that's it's comparably small battery will age very poorly because it will both: a) do more charge/discharge cycles per distance driven, and b) get charged and discharged closer to 0 & 100% making the battery age even faster.

New comment by bmicraft in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

bmicraft — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:40:54 +0000

I've had some very bad ram (lots of errors found when tested) and consistently the only thing that actually crashed because of it was Firefox.

New comment by bmicraft in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

bmicraft — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:29:02 +0000

That's what named pipes do.