<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: echoangle</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=echoangle</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:20:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=echoangle" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by echoangle in "Gloomberb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can still give constructive criticism of an open source project though, right?</p>
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<p>Wouldn't this become pretty difficult to do at scale over time? Is there a way to compare the similarity in a database of responses without doing a search over every entry and comparing them? Because that would probably become pretty slow if literally every LLM output is saved and has to be scanned.</p>
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<p>Technically you're still correct even when you would advocate for both. Every additional copy increases the risk that the data is accessed by someone else.</p>
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<p>I don’t know if the building data is from OSM but some of the buildings in my area are not high enough at all and therefore only make a really small shadow. It’s off by a factor of 3 or so.</p>
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<p>Right, but hydrodynamic drag is drag too.</p>
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<p>> To be in motion, any object must need to overcome friction. For large container ships, between 2 and 10% of resistance encountered is caused by drag, which worsens a vessel's fuel economy as the additional friction requires more energy (in the form of fuel) to overcome.<p>Do they mean aerodynamic drag here? Otherwise, what’s the remaining 90 to 98% of resistance from, if not drag?</p>
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<p>Are you sure that this is not something every single device does? I’ve never heard of a device that continually switches between charging and discharging while powered if the battery is full.</p>
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<p>What’s the actual use case for this that’s not malicious? When would someone want to generate a fake satellite image of a selectable area? Is it for architects that want to visualize projects?</p>
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<p>You don’t need internet to run JS though. And the JS seems to be pretty sandboxed in normal viewers too, so a pdf file shouldn’t make network requests on its own. As long as there is no iframe-like content I don’t see how rendering a document would ever need network.</p>
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<p>Even when drunk?<p>I’m not saying it’s a real danger (people willing to do that could already do a lot of other stuff) but I wouldn’t be so sure that you couldn’t do it either.</p>
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<p>It would have helped to write that when talking about the review.</p>
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<p>Do you seriously not see how this misunderstanding is coming about though?<p>If you write a blog post over a negative review accusing you of nagging, I would expect you to say “actually I’m not really nagging, I just have a line saying to please leave a rating in my app” if that’s the case. If you instead double down and make excuses and advocate to just ban the reviews because you don’t like user reviews anyways, it sounds like you’re actually wrong and the rating is correct.<p>And I’m not surprised that readers don’t proactively go out and look for your app to check themselves before criticizing you.</p>
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<p>> My opinion is low of them all.<p>Sounds like a you problem, people like them and find them useful, so I doubt they’ll be going away.<p>> One important difference is that Google does not review restaurants before they open, whereas Apple claims to review every app before they are published to the App Store.<p>What does that have to do with anything? So if google went around and checked food safety of every restaurant before listing them, you would say that google ratings for restaurant are stupid because the people doing the rating aren’t professional food critics?<p>The App Store review is like the food safety check but the ratings are the ratings.<p>> Amazon, like Apple, has a major problem with scam and copycat products in their store.<p>Ok, does that imply fake ratings or what does that have to do with the discussion?</p>
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<p>How is that baseless?<p>If someone says “hey, this guy has a nag screen” and your response is “but everybody does it!”, it’s not baseless to think you have a bag screen without checking your app.
If you don’t, I would expect you to write “the reviewer here is wrong, I don’t have a nag screen”.</p>
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<p>> complaining that my app requested a rating… like the majority of other apps in the App Store!<p>But your paid for app does request a rating when using it? That’s what people call a nag screen</p>
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<p>Why would you ever need that? I’m pretty sure you can already supply a custom explanation in the system permission modal to explain why you want the permission.</p>
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<p>> Imagine if a professional writer for the tech news media submitted this app review to their editor for publication. The writer would likely be fired for incompetence. Yet Apple allows reviews like this to be published to the App Store.<p>Yeah, like every public rating system. Google reviews on restaurants wouldn’t directly go into a Michelin guide either, and the same is true for Amazon ratings. Welcome to the real world.</p>
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<p>Kind of scary, imagine someone putting an ad in that and placing it on random people without them noticing.<p>Obviously doesn’t really make sense because if it’s an ad you also know who did it but somehow that’s the first thing that came to mind for me.</p>
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<p>If I enter Madrid and Milan in Google Maps and select walking, it does show some footpaths to take, no? Those don’t look like major roads.<p>Don’t know how to share the route without doxxing myself but you can enter it yourself.</p>
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<p>> Modern European pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago seem to do about 20 km/day [1] and it's considered tiring but accessible by average people, not serious hikers.<p>Yeah, because they sit in the Albergue half of the day. You need to start looking for one around 4pm or it will be full because people tend to stop walking around that time. It’s also an activity that mainly retired people do.<p>You can easily do 40 km/day on the Camino routes with manageable elevation (the coastal ones).<p>You’re right about the equipment weight though, I can’t imagine what a Roman soldiers full pack must have weighed with the textiles of the time. On the Camino, you don’t really need to bring anything except some clothes.<p>I see the point with the camp but on the other hand after the third day you’re more limited by your feet, not the time, so you would still have enough time for that in my estimation.</p>
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