Hacker News: diddid

New comment by diddid in "Googlebook"

diddid — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:42:08 +0000

I wish google would just go away. The thought of another product with googles tentacles in it makes me nauseous.

New comment by diddid in "OLED, Not for Me"

diddid — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:39:30 +0000

The gaming community has known this forever, it’s a personal preference for how much it bothers someone.

But fret not, they announced at CES there will be OLED with vertical pixel arrangements really soon.

New comment by diddid in "Eat Real Food"

diddid — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:28:13 +0000

Don’t drink water, if you drink too much, it’ll kill you!

New comment by diddid in "I'm returning my Framework 16"

diddid — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 00:58:35 +0000

I agree, if they had a framework it would have been trivial to swap to a new keyboard.

Also I get annoyed where they say they don’t like it but don’t yet have an alternative.

New comment by diddid in "The Graffiti Question"

diddid — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:43:42 +0000

My thoughts exactly. It’s all fun and games until they tag something you own.

New comment by diddid in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

diddid — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:39:17 +0000

Interesting contrast to all this tech is that my wife liked the Rivian, but when I told her they won’t do car play that interest went to 0. Can CarPlay not play nice with these things or do they want to keep all the tech dollars to themselves?

New comment by diddid in "AI should only run as fast as we can catch up"

diddid — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:28:00 +0000

AI can really only be as good as the data it’s trained on. It’s good at images because it’s trained on billions of them. Lines of code, probably 100s of millions, but as you combine those codes into concepts, split by language, framework, formatting etc all you loose the numbers game. It can’t tell you how to make a good enterprise app because almost nobody knows how to make a good enterprise app, just ask Oracle… ba-da-bum!

New comment by diddid in "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"

diddid — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:15:48 +0000

Trying to read all these threads and perspectives is truly exhausting but I lean more on the Rebble side. The idea that someone steps away for 10 years and then expects to take the work of others to use them and throw them away is tech toxicity 101.

I had owned two of the original pebbles, but I honestly think this looks bad on everyone and will gladly ignore every future article on either of these two groups.

New comment by diddid in "iPhone Pocket"

diddid — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:56:44 +0000

I had to check the calendar to see if it was April 1. If Apple can sell a sock to put your iPhone in for 150 bucks… I wish I had the skills for that.

New comment by diddid in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th"

diddid — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:26:23 +0000

That’s silly, they will make a ps6, they’ve made billions with a healthy profit margin.

New comment by diddid in "US Intel"

diddid — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:54:16 +0000

You can’t in good faith say the root article was an “article about chip making” unless you didn’t read the article. I will only agree my tone was off but it was very much on topic and anyone who actually read the article would realize it’s political. I’ve learned often what HN is going for, which is often shallow group think, and I agree HN is better when it posts articles that are “about chip making” but this wasn’t one of them. The silver lining is at least we can still comment on this without the “system” making a “decision” that just ends the discussion immediately.

New comment by diddid in "iPhone Air"

diddid — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:37:56 +0000

iPhones last killer feature was usbc. These are all good and appreciated upgrades for someone with no phone, but my wallet is happy none of it is really that interesting and enough to warrant an upgrade. Right now I don’t know what they could do to get me to want to. Folding? Even more zoom? Even more battery? Return of the headphone jack???? I won’t lie, a headphone jack might…

New comment by diddid in "AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86"

diddid — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:42:45 +0000

I mean the M1 is nice but pretending that it can do in 110w what the 3090 does with 320w is Apple marketing nonsense. Like if your use case is playing games like cp2077, the 3090 will do 100fps in ultra ray tracing and an M4 Max will only do 30fps. Not to mention it’s trivial to undervolt nvidia cards and get 100% performance at 80% power. So 1/3 the power for 1/3 the performance? How is that smoking anything?

New comment by diddid in "MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline"

diddid — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:02:47 +0000

Graphing calculators did, which is why in a lot of math classes they got banned. If your calculator can solve for x, you won’t spend time learning how to. The best math classes usually do without calculators focusing on concepts and skip numbers you’d need a calculator for.

New comment by diddid in "US Intel"

diddid — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:26:49 +0000

To have a conversation about the US government buying a stake in Intel, and the threats of China in that space, requires one to have a conversation about both politics and ideology. It’s disingenuous to claim anything else. And to point out the irony of the passing fad on straws but deep love of fast fashion highlights the hypocrisy of US society in general and why we are incapable of having nice things or getting anything meaningful done at a scale of other countries such as China, Taiwan or even South Korea. And love or hate DEI you also can’t say companies like Target jump on and off that band wagon at shareholder will, when they aren’t ever jumping on the “we should invest in R&D and the next generation” because why would they, we haven’t asked them to so why would any other company Intel included.

New comment by diddid in "US Intel"

diddid — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:34:48 +0000

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New comment by diddid in "Is Jeff Bezos killing The Washington Post on purpose or by accident?"

diddid — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:51:04 +0000

Rich people have been paying off politicians forever, Trump isn’t the first, and he won’t be the last. Back the winner until the winner is the loser, then back the new winner, repeat. AKA the king is dead long live the king!

New comment by diddid in "Therapy dogs: stop crafting loopholes to fair, reasonable laws"

diddid — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:56:22 +0000

I feel too, at least in the US, people have backed themselves into a corner where they are unable to dole out punishment. Not just for violating or abusing taking their dogs everywhere, but literally everything. Should someone be punished for a prank gone wrong? Of course not, they didn’t mean it, it was just a prank! Should someone be punished for faking a therapy dog? Of course not, it’s just a dog! Should someone be punished for speeding? Of course not, it’s just speeding and all cops are bad! Should someone get in trouble for minor theft? Of course not, it’s just minor theft, capitalism is bad! Eventually though they end up on the side being taken advantage of and now they have no recourse because they are all in on the no consequences society. If they speak up, their peers who are also part of the no consequences society disown them, until it then also happens to them. I guess that’s an oversimplified version of it. If nothing is a crime then you can have no criminals, society is better already, and you all get A+, yeah for us!

New comment by diddid in "Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance"

diddid — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:59:56 +0000

I don’t think it’s entirely a mentality issue. I think North America created an environment where you wouldn’t want your 8 year old to navigate New York City. I would let my kids wander Tokyo before I would let them wander Chicago. Japan would not tolerate people spitting at and harassing children where Chicago does indeed tolerate that. I’d say ask me how I know but you could probably guess.

New comment by diddid in "Google change is breaking some digital photo frames"

diddid — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:32:12 +0000

Never trust google for anything important, because they will mess with it to get money or cancel it if they can’t get the money, regardless of anything they’ve claimed in the past.