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New comment by eatingCake in "A few thoughts on Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift"

eatingCake — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 16:40:09 +0000

The ticket prices start high and are gradually reduced at a set rate until they reach a pre-defined minimum. The idea being that scaplers can't profit off of purchasing early since the official clearinghouse is lowering the price all the time.

People have to make a judgement call on the value of the tickets and purchase at an appropriate time.

New comment by eatingCake in "Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?"

eatingCake — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 03:27:32 +0000

The assignment to match returns undefined. The value of match is null.

New comment by eatingCake in "Feds sue auto repair shop that paid former employee in pennies"

eatingCake — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 03:22:27 +0000

The pennies were in payment of his final paycheck. The suit is in regard to unrelated wage theft from unpaid overtime and discrimination/retaliation (presumably for reporting the wage theft), as well as failure to maintain required records.

New comment by eatingCake in "'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight"

eatingCake — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:12:19 +0000

The most jarring Dazzle camouflage[1] imaginable.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage

New comment by eatingCake in "Duke Nukem 3D Mirror Universe"

eatingCake — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:06:19 +0000

To your point, I think that you could generate the duplicate geometry pretty easily but the issue would be making sure no overlapping sectors were visible at the same time, as that would cause glitches in the Build engine.

You might be able to subdivide the build engine's sectors into visleaves (borrowing terminology from Source) and clip all sectors in the mirror-verse according to the aperture + view-frustrum. To work correctly you'd need to do this every frame, probably an unthinkably huge task for the hardware at the time.

New comment by eatingCake in "T-Mobile to share customers' data with advertisers unless they opt out"

eatingCake — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 23:49:43 +0000

Unfortunately, they are being purchased by DISH network.

New comment by eatingCake in "USPS Awards Contract to Modernize Postal Delivery Vehicle Fleet"

eatingCake — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:26:51 +0000

This way the driver can put mail in suburban mailboxes without leaving the seat (while driving on the right side of the road).

New comment by eatingCake in "The Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court"

eatingCake — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:41:42 +0000

Yes, this is very much a "dad's in charge, mom said so" moment.

New comment by eatingCake in "Yandex said it caught an employee selling access to users' inboxes"

eatingCake — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:05:28 +0000

> they often backup everything in a central location like Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal which put everything in your Google account without any additional crypto layers

I don't know about the others but I don't think Signal does this. Signal offers the user the ability to backup their messages, and lets them password protect them, but the way you've written this implies Signal is uploading messages to Google of its own volition, unencrypted, which afaik is not the case.

New comment by eatingCake in "US intelligence agencies have 180 days to share what they know about UFOs"

eatingCake — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 19:37:34 +0000

Who decides that they are "different matters"?

New comment by eatingCake in "Ask HN: Why are 5 inch USB floppy drives so uncommon?"

eatingCake — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 19:46:51 +0000

Doesn't the magnetic data on the disks fade over that time scale?

New comment by eatingCake in "Children choose to save dogs over humans, adults chose 1 human over 100 dogs"

eatingCake — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 20:30:23 +0000

Are you sure? I was under the impression that, for instance, diamond's value is mostly manufactured, but gold is actually useful for various electronic and chemical properties.

New comment by eatingCake in "Going All in on the Mac App Store"

eatingCake — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 01:10:44 +0000

I agree it could take years to get right, which is why app developers should not pigeonhole themselves into immature stores.

New comment by eatingCake in "Ask HN: Can non degree-holder use the title Software Engineer?"

eatingCake — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:59:28 +0000

Same with Architect. It's use in software is completely unregulated compared to Registered Architect (the equivalent to P.Eng).

New comment by eatingCake in "In 'Cyberpunk 2077,' the Only Truly Punk Move Is Not to Play"

eatingCake — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:08:43 +0000

I thought it got delisted because CDPR said they'd refund people and Sony said we-dont-do-that-here and went nuclear?

New comment by eatingCake in "FlashFloppy: Open-source Firmware for floppy emulators"

eatingCake — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 18:43:59 +0000

I'm surprised there isn't some open source hardware for this to run on. Could be an interesting project.

New comment by eatingCake in "macOS unable to open any non-Apple application"

eatingCake — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:44:50 +0000

I would like to get a thinkpad, but I'm not sure Lenovo can be trusted any more than Apple can, especially since Apple atleast pretends to care about customer security.

https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/lenovo-superfish-scanda...

New comment by eatingCake in "Anatomy of a Binary Executable"

eatingCake — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 06:12:43 +0000

It may be worthwhile to point out that the example is built in debug mode, and also Rust is including the whole standard library in the output. Re-configuring some low hanging fruit [1] reduces the binary size on my test machine to 27K. This is still not small, granted.

[1] https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

New comment by eatingCake in "Woman allegedly impersonated prosecutor, dropped charges against herself"

eatingCake — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 03:51:21 +0000

The flipside of this would be that anyone from out-of-town would be shunned under the assumption that they had left their previous town for negative reasons.

New comment by eatingCake in "Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling"

eatingCake — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:16:07 +0000

> Perhaps American culture is more receptive to this

As an American I don't think people like corporations feigning social intimacy either.