Hacker News: bonney_io

New comment by bonney_io in "iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip"

bonney_io — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:13:25 +0000

They do! It's called the M1 MacBook Air.

New comment by bonney_io in "Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii"

bonney_io — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:30:17 +0000

It's crazy that we could now build a Wii that's self-contained within the sensor bar...

New comment by bonney_io in "Kino: Pro Video Camera"

bonney_io — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 11:40:13 +0000

> I really wish more companies would go back to the old-style model where users can buy the current version of a software tool but would need to pay a discounted price to upgrade to a newer version of that tool

We can thank Apple for this! They refused to adopt upgrade pricing on the App Store (which developers have been asking for since the App Store launched!) and instead introduced Subscriptions.

I like Apple, overall, but they absolutely decimated their software market by forcing apps to either be free with ads or paid subscriptions.

New comment by bonney_io in "Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?"

bonney_io — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 18:52:23 +0000

It seems to me that Mastodon, tumblr, Wordpress, Threads, and any future platform's support of ActivityPub could theoretically make the entire internet "old Facebook".

Facebook is/was two things:

1) a microblog (your personal page)

2) an interface for following other's microblog posts

This sounds an awful lot like a following, say, a bunch of WordPress blogs in your Mastodon feed. We just need the interface over it all.

Heck, if Threads does what they say it will, Threads very well may become that interface for many folks.

New comment by bonney_io in "Beeper Mini removed from Google Play?"

bonney_io — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 14:14:35 +0000

I still don't understand the pro-Beeper argument here. They have absolutely no right to unauthorized access to Apple's servers or network, this seems fairly cut-and-dry, despite whatever "moral" argument people seem to want to make.

New comment by bonney_io in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

bonney_io — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 15:41:29 +0000

> I require the ability to install apps from arbitrary sources, including piracy.

No one "requires" access to theft.

New comment by bonney_io in "Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice"

bonney_io — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 14:26:24 +0000

My version of this involved a Wii remote: freshmen-level CompSci class, and the group had to build a simple game in Python to be displayed at a showcase among the class. We wrote a space invaders clone. I found a Bluetooth driver that allowed your Wiimote to connect to your Mac as a game controller, so I set up a basic left/right tilt control using a Wiimote for our space invaders clone.

The Wiimote connection was the star of the show by a long shot :P

New comment by bonney_io in "Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips"

bonney_io — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:55:21 +0000

> This should have been a MacBook Air.

Great, let's compare it to the MacBook Air, then. Compared to the 8GB/512GB M2 MacBook Air, at $1399, the M3 MacBook Pro has:

- M3 chip

- Slightly larger display with higher brightness, HDR, and ProMotion support

- SD Card and HDMI ports

For only $200 more!

Sounds like an amazing "Pro" MacBook Air.

New comment by bonney_io in "So Long, Small Phones"

bonney_io — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:15:18 +0000

iPhone 13 mini owner here. I love this phone. I've used large phones in the past, was a happy iPhone 7 Plus owner, and owned and used the 5.8-inch iPhones X and 11 Pro, but I'm just so much happier with a smaller phone that I can more easily hold. Part of this is due to my smaller hands, and a large part is the reduction in weight. I don't even care if I drain the battery scrolling TikTok, because the battery is so small I can fast charge back to 80% in no time.

It's weird. I spent my teenage years and early twenties as a yearly/bi-yearly iPhone upgrader, but it turns out that form factor, more so than display, cameras, or gimmicks is what wins me over today.

I proclaim in my everyday life that the phone that will replace my blue iPhone 1 mini will -- as of right now -- be a used/refurbished green iPhone 13 mini. :)

The strongest online privacy law in the nation may be coming to Maine

bonney_io — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:29:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/10/17/politics/maine-data-privacy-law-negotiations-n6hjn1me0n/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37923424

Points: 5

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New comment by bonney_io in "Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched"

bonney_io — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:40:25 +0000

Hi -- just want to clarify -- I am NOT the OP, not trying to claim this as my project, simply relating a similar example from my personal life.

New comment by bonney_io in "Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched"

bonney_io — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 22:22:35 +0000

I did this back in 2016, with an iOS app I built/hacked away at while learning/self-teaching Swift and UIKit.

Easily over 1,000 hours (~2 hours ~5x day per week for ~2 years) invested in to the app. I learned so, so much, and fell in love with the Swift language, but that app never saw the light of day.

Instead, I developed skills that have made me a much better programmer. And, fast-forward to the current day, I could effectively re-write the entire app - from scratch - in a weekend, due to the evolution of Apple's platform dev tools and APIs over the last ~7 years + the mountains of Swift code and packages I've hacked and honed away at over the years.

This type of project should be celebrated. Programming is (can be) art. Art can be made just for you, as a creative outlet.

New comment by bonney_io in "Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers"

bonney_io — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:35:16 +0000

> It's for people who want to point and click, can't do a bash for/while loop, don't understand pipe chaining commands, and don't like using vim.

This sounds like the dream.

New comment by bonney_io in "LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees"

bonney_io — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:59:46 +0000

Gonna be a bit awkward reaching out to new potential employers... using LinkedIn.

New comment by bonney_io in "MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac"

bonney_io — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:27:42 +0000

Any insight on how Whisper works on older Intel Macs? I have a 2012 Mac mini with 16GB of RAM doing nothing; if I could use it to (slowly) transcribe media in the background, this becomes a must-buy.

New comment by bonney_io in "Claude 2"

bonney_io — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:02:22 +0000

Claude's UI is so tastefully done, and the website works excellently as a PWA when installed to my iPhone home screen. :)

New comment by bonney_io in "IRS Weighs Creating a Government-Run Tax-Prep Option"

bonney_io — Tue, 16 May 2023 21:52:27 +0000

So we'll spend our tax dollars in order for the government to tell us how many more tax dollars we owe?

New comment by bonney_io in "Shopify will be smaller by about 20% and Flexport will buy Shopify Logistics"

bonney_io — Thu, 04 May 2023 14:32:45 +0000

This all sucks, and I hate that CEOs can continue to lie about layoffs, hire uncontrollably, then completely 180 and lay tons of folks off.

That said: where do I sign up for 16 weeks of severance pay?

New comment by bonney_io in "Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing"

bonney_io — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:04:26 +0000

> Google is bringing in $160 Billion a year with their clean search result pages.

No, Google brings in $X billion a year with all the ads and garbage they stuff in between those clean search results.

The same is true for Microsoft. There's no money to be made to run the service (let alone justify an American company's lust for growth and profit) without stuffing it full of ads to hopefully sell you something.

New comment by bonney_io in "Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing"

bonney_io — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:01:06 +0000

(Mac user here) This is exactly why I use and love Safari.