Hacker News: coob

New comment by coob in "SSH Secret Menu"

coob — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:53:19 +0000

Not on a Mac

New comment by coob in "Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair"

coob — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:25:14 +0000

Nah some environmental regulation is batshit.

Literally, in the UK you can’t build if there’s a protected bat species in the area.

New comment by coob in "Bugs Apple loves"

coob — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:47:54 +0000

It's even done the right way on Mac OS! Infuriating.

New comment by coob in "Apple needs a Snow Sequoia"

coob — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:45:36 +0000

Yawn, there is some variant of this story after every os release.

The articles specific gripes with macOS are Mail, Messages, and System settings. Fixing those does not require a ‘no new features’ (which was always BS) major release.

New comment by coob in "Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server"

coob — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:15:48 +0000

It is a rite of passage. That config system…

New comment by coob in "Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza"

coob — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 22:15:53 +0000

Are either Israelis or Gazans more secure than when this war began? What has either side achieved?

New comment by coob in "John Carmack on inlined code (2014)"

coob — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:18:50 +0000

> I never said he said his email was completely outdated.

From your prior message:

> Carmack called his email completely outdated

New comment by coob in "Apple found in breach of EU competition rules"

coob — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:21:09 +0000

They’d snap your hands off for distribution and marketing costs as low as 30%.

Retail markups were much higher on physical software.

New comment by coob in "Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed"

coob — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:24:16 +0000

Wow this some pretty biased reporting. No attempt to assess whether or no Qualcomm have actually breached their contractual license with ARM

New comment by coob in "Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals"

coob — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:46:23 +0000

His bless His Majesty’s Gulf Stream.

New comment by coob in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

coob — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:59:38 +0000

Most people are happy for (2) already - iCloud Photos, Device backups, iCloud Messages… email.

Those that won’t use those won’t use this either.

New comment by coob in "The trouble with ingredients in sunscreens"

coob — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 21:50:23 +0000

What about Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate (P20) ?

Is that available in the US?

New comment by coob in "Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers"

coob — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 15:43:01 +0000

I thought the issue with wind in the UK was that its supply is (Scotland) where the demand isn’t (the south). So we’d (a) have to build loads of pylons or expensive underground cables and (b) lose a lot in transmission.

New comment by coob in "How to Make a CPU – A Simple Picture Based Explanation"

coob — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 05:40:59 +0000

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Afte...

New comment by coob in "How to scale LLMs better with an alternative to transformers"

coob — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:26:56 +0000

Had to laugh at this sample output:

> "dataset":"oasst",

> "instruction":"What do you think about ChatGPT?",

> "output":"ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by Meta AI…

New comment by coob in "The Mac Sonoma sure is starting to look like the iPhone"

coob — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 08:25:29 +0000

You need to re-order the network interfaces in System Settings to your desired order of preference.

New comment by coob in "Rivian in talks with Amazon to remove exclusivity clause of EV van agreement"

coob — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:31:19 +0000

> Plus it's Amazon's first delivery EV

No it isn't, I see Mercedes EV Amazon delivery vans in London all the time:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/10/amazon-el...

New comment by coob in "Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT"

coob — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 07:51:23 +0000

90 episodes on the History of Europe and 3 on the History of Africa.

Blimey

New comment by coob in "MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max"

coob — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:12:11 +0000

People have said this for every single OS X release…

New comment by coob in "New Mac Mini"

coob — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:50:42 +0000

I'm sure Apple would point you in the direction of a Mac Studio instead…