Hacker News: daveheq

New comment by daveheq in "Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?"

daveheq — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:45:03 +0000

Why people prefer wireless earphones to wired I'll never know; they cost more, require charging, and are easy to lose.

New comment by daveheq in "For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity"

daveheq — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:58:48 +0000

I don't know why John Deere and other manufacturers aren't making parts for these old tractors, if they're not already, seems like a huge market opportunity.

New comment by daveheq in "Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?"

daveheq — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 02:31:56 +0000

I thought Google paid developers to slack off and date and get depressed and game.

Maybe your next career move should be to make YouTube videos about the days in your life as a developer.

New comment by daveheq in "Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition"

daveheq — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:07:35 +0000

They'll find some way to make internet required to use these devices.

New comment by daveheq in "Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition"

daveheq — Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:06:35 +0000

Just don't buy a smart tv, don't connect it to internet, cover its camera, and disable its microphone if possible.

These things are cyberdystopic surveillance devices

New comment by daveheq in "Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair"

daveheq — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:10:31 +0000

Yes, profits are threatened when rights to repair are allowed, and without profits nobody has a job nor can feed their family. That's why we need small government to get out of the way and make people replace their stuff rather than repair it. It's a basic human corporate right to make people buy more stuff from manufacturers rather than repair or buy parts, and freedom is threatened when people are allowed this choice.

New comment by daveheq in "Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair"

daveheq — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:06:19 +0000

But what about a corporation's right to replace? People having their right to repair infringes on a corporation's right to make you replace your stuff. You're stepping all over their rights by not wanting to be forced to have them replace your broken stuff.

New comment by daveheq in "Why Nukemap Isn't on Google Maps Anymore"

daveheq — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 07:29:57 +0000

I dont know why the author can't download a cached map every month and use that for the hits.

New comment by daveheq in "Brave launches 1.0"

daveheq — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 22:31:01 +0000

1.0 Chrome B

New comment by daveheq in "16-inch MacBook Pro"

daveheq — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:18:00 +0000

How 'bout a full-size up and down key? I use those all the time and those scrunched keys are easy to make mistakes on.

New comment by daveheq in "Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)"

daveheq — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:08:34 +0000

Fuck you 2011, I'm a programmer.

New comment by daveheq in "Pricing niche products"

daveheq — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 21:01:23 +0000

It's not about complexity, it's about convenience. The simplest bid on eBay is... the highest price you'll pay for it.

However, most people didn't think of it that way or want to do that (believe me I worked there for years), and they didn't like the chance to lose it anyway after waiting (snipers and bid shilling got ridiculous).

Fixed price is easier and you get it quicker. It may be less complex but if the price looks reasonable it's definitely more convenient.

New comment by daveheq in "Protester shot in chest by live police round during Hong Kong protests"

daveheq — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 20:47:11 +0000

How many American military personnel would just be OK with being told by the President to take property rights and freedoms like that? Do you think they're mind-controlled idiots? It doesn't just suddenly happen, we don't have a totalitarian mindset, it would have to be very gradual and against people who are demonized as immoral or as a scourge on society, like Mexicans or Jews or liberals or Christians. Even then it's so easy to spread news and there's so many people with guns and easy accessibility that it's just going to happen unless we become a more complacent fascist country.

New comment by daveheq in "Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows"

daveheq — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 05:20:16 +0000

How do you deal with Broadcom WiFi drivers?

New comment by daveheq in " Let's Encrypt makes certs for 30% of web domains"

daveheq — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 13:35:11 +0000

The article says "Current SSL cert lifetime best practices put lifetimes at 90 days" but SSL is deprecated... so its lifetime best practice is 0 days.

New comment by daveheq in "Firefox 69.0 Released"

daveheq — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 05:10:46 +0000

No way dude

New comment by daveheq in "Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News"

daveheq — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 23:01:39 +0000

Website bloat is why my laptop now runs slow when the browser is open. It's why I had to upgrade last time. Modern websites will just continue to get more bloated for every magpie developer who wants to thrust their version of "better" on everybody.

New comment by daveheq in "16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines"

daveheq — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 04:55:03 +0000

Hopefully someone will hack the machines so you can only vote No.

New comment by daveheq in "Information operations directed at Hong Kong"

daveheq — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 23:23:28 +0000

The US mainstream media is bought and paid for by corporations, who don't have the public good in mind, but maximizing profit at the expense of all else including reporting on corruption, oligarchy, and environmental abuse.

The government should not control the media, but neither should advertisers.

New comment by daveheq in "Start Your Own ISP"

daveheq — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 15:42:33 +0000

How do we know what's in WireGuard?