Hacker News: dade_

New comment by dade_ in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

dade_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:51:47 +0000

I was hoping the mushroom grew razor blades, but immediately disappointed.

New comment by dade_ in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

dade_ — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:48:52 +0000

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Nortel-Completes-Acquisit...

Oh bubbles... their so bubbly. Remember when there was an unlimited demand for fibre optics because - The Internet? So Nortel and other manufacturers lent the money to their clients building the Internet because the growth was unlimited forever? Except they actually didn't have any money, just stock valuations?

"This is a critical step in our effort to unleash the full potential of our high-performance optical component solutions business," said Clarence Chandran, COO of Nortel Networks. "This acquisition really strengthens Nortel Networks' leadership position in high-performance optical components and modules which are essential to delivering the all-optical Internet."

New comment by dade_ in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

dade_ — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:04:33 +0000

Great, wake up at 5 in the morning.

New comment by dade_ in "Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?"

dade_ — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:30:25 +0000

Is printing money inflating stockmarket and every other price?

New comment by dade_ in "Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change"

dade_ — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:46:11 +0000

It’s Vista 2! I switched to Mac in 2008, and I just did it again a few days ago. Reality is that almost everything I do is Linux, but Office with its horrific file formats keep it around. Fortunately Visio is nearly dead, 3 to go.

New comment by dade_ in "How to declutter, quiet down, and take the AI out of Windows 11 25H2"

dade_ — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:57:25 +0000

Everything is moved to Linux, but I still need Windows for the occasional proprietary Office document and tax software, which is available for Mac. I expect Windows 10 malware to be horrific so security risk is unacceptable and I despise Windows 11. I guess I’m buying a MacBook Air.

New comment by dade_ in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

dade_ — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:38:57 +0000

The next cloud android app is particularly bad if you use it to back up your cameras DCIM directory then you delete the photos on your phone. It overwrite the files on Nextcloud as new photos are taken. I get why this happened but it is terrible.

New comment by dade_ in "Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime"

dade_ — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:43:05 +0000

And, as noted in the article, it still wrongfully states decline Prime and pay for shipping despite shipping already being free if you are willing to wait for delayed shipping.

Since I cancelled Prime, I have saved a fortune in addition to my $100. Not just on Amazon, but period. Super convenient and fast resulted in me buying more, now I am just buying much less stuff, make fewer orders less often. even waiting to go to a store I figure out a way to solve a problem without buying anything, and sometimes to need goes away.

I guess I have Trump to thank for it, never would have cancelled Prime if it wasn't for the US boycott.

New comment by dade_ in "Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app?"

dade_ — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:25:49 +0000

Except that Matrix is a protocol.

New comment by dade_ in "Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October"

dade_ — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:19:48 +0000

Web app is faster, has more features, easier to use. Copilot key is useless, it took me a while to figure out how to get it to open the M365 app, instead of the corporate blocked personal one, and then I used it zero times. Never think to use it and I found it has no practical purpose, except Microsoft marketing.

New comment by dade_ in "Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October"

dade_ — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:13:13 +0000

My work PC has the app, because but like Onedrive and NewOutlook, the Windows app has fewer features, more bugs, and is more difficult to use that the Web app. At this rate Linux with Microsoft Web apps will have superior feature set than their 'Native' Windows apps.

New comment by dade_ in "Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25"

dade_ — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:28:12 +0000

I am surprised they weren’t already killed. Switched to Ecobee after the acquisition. I gave my friend my Nest. A year later there was a software problem, Google was like, it’s old, buy a new one. Glad I ditched it.

New comment by dade_ in "MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS"

dade_ — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:22:37 +0000

I was in Shenzhen, electronics market district. I hear Christmas music. What the hell? I round the corner to see a large stage and seating. There is a large banner in English that says, “Consumption Festival”.

New comment by dade_ in "GenAI FOMO has spurred businesses to light nearly $40B on fire"

dade_ — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:46:34 +0000

Strange advice to companies that can’t figure out how to deploy AI is to not use BPO when obviously they can’t figure it out themselves. Also, I am looking at a BPO RFP right now for a huge organization and they mostly care about is how the vendor going to leverage AI to reduce their price over the term of the contract.

New comment by dade_ in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

dade_ — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:41:38 +0000

You are absolutely right, let me fix that.

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

dade_ — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 01:49:44 +0000

lol. Amerika Freedom ™

New comment by dade_ in "Rust running on every GPU"

dade_ — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 02:33:09 +0000

Heathen! You clearly haven’t been baptized by the rusty water.

Dunno, it’s a cult.

New comment by dade_ in "Asyncio: A library with too many sharp corners"

dade_ — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 02:29:10 +0000

Asyncio is too dull. Twisted for the win! My favourite insane package of wonders.

New comment by dade_ in "The cult of doing business"

dade_ — Sat, 10 May 2025 13:31:16 +0000

Or the Protestant work ethic? I didn’t think this needed a new explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

New comment by dade_ in "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency"

dade_ — Tue, 06 May 2025 13:14:32 +0000

There’s no SSML. The model that came up with the text knows what it’s saying in theory and therefore would know that it’s a question, if the mood should be sombre or excited and then can pass this information as SSML tags to the text to speech synthesizer. The problem I’ve been seeing is that pretty much all of these models are just outputting text and the text is being shoved into the TTS. It’s on my list to look into projects that have embedded these tags so that on the one hand you have like open web UI that’s showing a user text, but there’s actually an embedded set of tags that are handled by the TTS so that it sounds more natural. This project looks hackable for that purpose.