Hacker News: dev_daftly

New comment by dev_daftly in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

dev_daftly — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:18:37 +0000

What analysis has shown that people are not doing this? All I have seen is that there aren't a significant number of convictions, but that doesn't really hold wait if you aren't actually trying to catch/prevent people from doing it. If it never happened, there wouldn't be a standard well known practice of casting a provisional ballot if you have already "voted".

New comment by dev_daftly in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dev_daftly — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:32:39 +0000

That was a day or two ago.

New comment by dev_daftly in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dev_daftly — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:25:03 +0000

He canceled elections and is serving past his term. He clearly doesn't have to answer to the people of Ukraine anymore.

New comment by dev_daftly in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

dev_daftly — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:11:33 +0000

If Putin is removed from power, it won't be with somebody more friendly to the west.

New comment by dev_daftly in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

dev_daftly — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:16:03 +0000

The crazy thing is, it's not that long ago that Irish and Italian immigrants were not discriminated against. They didn't even consider Italian immigrants to be white.

New comment by dev_daftly in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

dev_daftly — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:59:58 +0000

Ballmer, the person who pushed for and created the entire Microsoft Enterprise focus, is not an idea guy that understood what made Microsoft successful? This idea that Ballmer was some goof when he was actually considered a co-founder by Bill Gates which is why he received like 17% of the company when he joined.

Also, they put plenty of effort into getting developers to onboard windows phone. They even created multiple platforms that allowed devs to create a single app that worked across all windows devices(pc, phone, xbox) but developers decided, with some very influential devs being extremely vocal, that is was some sort of power grab to force devs to only deliver their software through the windows store.

New comment by dev_daftly in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

dev_daftly — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:47:36 +0000

I think it was actually a good idea. I think they correctly predicted the Android market and saw Windows Phone was a good way to differentiate their phones from everybody else. If you look at the history of Android manufacturers, it was a long slog of brands trading off popularity and hardly making any profit until Samsung eventually became the only mainstream player.

New comment by dev_daftly in "Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week"

dev_daftly — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 05:50:50 +0000

They decided they want to actually get paid for their work and changed their pricing structure so large companies need to pay for their software and apparently that's terrible and everybody started being very vocal about alternatives despite still being able to use it for free.

New comment by dev_daftly in "macOS Sequoia Preview"

dev_daftly — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:04:59 +0000

I would love it if I could have different natural scrolling settings for mouse and trackpad, but that's apparently too much to ask for despite it being supported by every other os.

New comment by dev_daftly in "WWDC 2024 [video]"

dev_daftly — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 17:37:59 +0000

So far, everything should have just been a blog post

New comment by dev_daftly in "Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35B stock deal"

dev_daftly — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 02:13:51 +0000

How would that change after this merger?

New comment by dev_daftly in "Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year"

dev_daftly — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 02:06:20 +0000

We wouldn't because the issue always was iphone users never willing to use an app outside of imessage. What good is a messaging platform if more than 1/2 your network won't use it?

New comment by dev_daftly in "The Future of How We Work Together at Roblox"

dev_daftly — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:34:47 +0000

Because it would be leaked anyways

New comment by dev_daftly in "Brave is a fork, not a Chromium reskin"

dev_daftly — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:43:17 +0000

User agent strings are all fake and should just be removed. Browsers modify them to game what servers send them, Microsoft had a great blog post about it when they released edge showing the difference in what it received based on user agent string changes.

New comment by dev_daftly in "Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi"

dev_daftly — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:18:45 +0000

They have an electrified version of pretty much every car they sell.

New comment by dev_daftly in "Toyota has been developing a solid-state battery for EVs with a range of 745mi"

dev_daftly — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 15:39:35 +0000

Except we do know why because they have written blog posts about it. They would rather make 100 hybrids than 10 BEV's. They think it's better environmentally and they haven't said this part, but probably a lot more profitable as well.

New comment by dev_daftly in "FreeWilly 1 and 2, two new open-access LLMs"

dev_daftly — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 00:21:51 +0000

Free Willy 1 is a classic and holds up, Free Willy 2 doesn't

New comment by dev_daftly in "Why they're smearing Lina Khan"

dev_daftly — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:43:38 +0000

Politics has broken him

New comment by dev_daftly in "SUSE is forking RHEL"

dev_daftly — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:45:24 +0000

This gets stated a lot, but I don't think it's actually true and RH has stated they don't see an actual benefit from this. Plus, they already have that ecosystem that isn't just free-version of RHEL with CentOS Stream and Fedora.

New comment by dev_daftly in "SUSE is forking RHEL"

dev_daftly — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:28:32 +0000

Yea, we are going to destroy RHEL by doing what they want us to. RH wants more people using and building distros off of centos stream instead of using RHEL clones. I don't think they see this as a negative, especially since it devalues suse in the process because they are basically admitting RHEL is more desirable.