Hacker News: gburdell3

New comment by gburdell3 in "Sora is here"

gburdell3 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 19:00:05 +0000

And some of us have no intention of publishing any output and find the existence of these tools extremely worrying and problematic.

New comment by gburdell3 in "VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network"

gburdell3 — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:47:21 +0000

Yes, they updated the audio codec a few years ago. Now it sounds great. They also updated the live position syncing system so that other planes move much more smoothly across your screen

New comment by gburdell3 in "Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It"

gburdell3 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:18:07 +0000

When I work from home, I watch 8 hours of Twitch and get 0 work done. When I work from the office, I watch 0 hours of Twitch and get 8 hours of work done. I simply don't have the self-control to effectively work from home. That's all the data I need.

New comment by gburdell3 in "Rising Share of U.S. Adults Are Living Without a Spouse or Partner"

gburdell3 — Fri, 05 May 2023 17:44:33 +0000

It is possible to be "happily alone" for many people.

New comment by gburdell3 in "The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020)"

gburdell3 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 21:25:26 +0000

The medical system is really messed up. I would love to eventually get my PPL, but I also highly suspect that I have undiagnosed ADHD, and I don't want to essentially sign away my right to ever get treatment. Fortunately Microsoft Flight Simulator and VATSIM scratch the itch to fly for now, but it still sucks that I'll probably never get to actually do it in real life.

New comment by gburdell3 in "Ask HN: What is your retirement plan? After retirement, what?"

gburdell3 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 22:42:19 +0000

I don't really plan on retiring. I'm saving for it, since I'm in my mid-20s and a lot can change over time, but knowing what I know about myself right now, I can't imagine that I would enjoy retirement. I need something to work for, but I've always struggled to motivate myself to work on things without outside influence. I think a lot of my coworkers have felt the same way, since about half of them who retired have returned as contractors just because they enjoy the work.

New comment by gburdell3 in "Wikipedia’s Redesign Is Barely Noticeable. That’s the Point."

gburdell3 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:02:31 +0000

I also thought I was served the mobile site at first, but after using the new site a bit I actually quite like it. One of my longstanding complaints with the old design was that using the full width of the screen for text is very hard to read on a modern monitor, so I'm glad to see they narrowed it down a bit. I also really like the floating table of contents.

New comment by gburdell3 in "An embeddable and customizable fiat-to-crypto onramp"

gburdell3 — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:06:55 +0000

I hate crypto as much as the next guy, but try sending some money to Iran and see how well that goes. There's a legitimate use there for people with families in tumultuous countries.

New comment by gburdell3 in "Tales of the M1 GPU"

gburdell3 — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:57:17 +0000

Some people just prefer their public persona to be in the form of an avatar instead of their real face. They want to have something there to represent themselves instead of just streaming a screen and nothing else, but they would rather that representation be an avatar or character rather than their physical selves.

New comment by gburdell3 in "FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns"

gburdell3 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:46:15 +0000

It's almost as if he's doing things that have real consequences for the world we live in!

New comment by gburdell3 in "Companies like HP must split to survive, is like the evolution of new species"

gburdell3 — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 19:15:28 +0000

Yep, as a current Keysight employee, it certainly feels like more of the original HP philosophy and values have stayed with us, while HP themselves have become unrecognizable.

New comment by gburdell3 in "X-Plane 12 Early Access"

gburdell3 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:47:06 +0000

I've found that MSFS works much better when you turn off all the "fun" stuff and use add-on aircraft. I enjoy flying Airbus planes, so using mods like FlyByWire (free) and Fenix (paid) can drastically improve the experience since the built-in A320neo is pretty barebones. Those mods can also load flight plans straight from SimBrief so I avoid ever using the built-in flight planner. I just load up at the gate with an empty flight plan, load in my real plan from SimBrief, and pretend I'm flying a real A320.

New comment by gburdell3 in "How to get the most out of your 1:1s"

gburdell3 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:07:54 +0000

You're not a work robot, you're a human being with a life. It's only natural for people to want to discuss their lives with each other. It's hilarious when people on this forum complain about being treated as "faceless worker drones" and then leave comments like this.

New comment by gburdell3 in "1Password Has Raised $620M"

gburdell3 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:49:23 +0000

I think a better way of saying this is that "nerds" (i.e. power users, the type of people typically on HN) want different things out of their UI/UX than the average user. That's the beauty of having different solutions to choose from: the power user is free to use something like KeePass, where it's not as easy to use, but you can set it up exactly the way you like; and the "normal" user can go with something like 1P or LastPass for more of a "set it and forget it" model. The average user doesn't care one bit about the things that you mentioned.

New comment by gburdell3 in "FDA Moves to Ban All Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars"

gburdell3 — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 21:24:39 +0000

Flavors aren't effective at hooking young people, nicotine is. Nobody smokes because it tastes good, menthol or not. This is just another ban that makes some people feel good about themselves while pissing off the rest. I lean pretty far left, but this is the kind of meaningless ban that makes people hate Democrats.

New comment by gburdell3 in "The Framework Laptop"

gburdell3 — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:34:31 +0000

It has to be software. I have a ThinkPad that I recently installed macOS on (not advocating hackintosh, but it's a fun project nonetheless) and the trackpad feels every bit as good as a real Mac. Smooth scrolling, smooth gesture recognition, everything just feels good. The hardware is capable of processing the gestures, but the non-Apple software just does a terrible job of making it feel good to use.

New comment by gburdell3 in "The total PC market (including tablets) had 23% year-on-year growth"

gburdell3 — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:29:54 +0000

A lot of school districts buy tons of them for students to use, but I'm not sure how many individuals actually choose to buy a Chromebook over a traditional laptop.

New comment by gburdell3 in "Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers"

gburdell3 — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:55:18 +0000

Which means that, according to Apple, it's better than the CPUs in the other laptops it's competing against. That slow i7 is typical for thin+light 13" machines. I fail to see how this is a bad thing or even sneaky marketing.

New comment by gburdell3 in "How Satya Nadella turned Microsoft around"

gburdell3 — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:24:34 +0000

I've been using Win10 on multiple machines since release day and I have never once seen a forced restart. That was a problem on Windows 7, but I honestly don't know how people are still having this problem with 10.

New comment by gburdell3 in "I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm"

gburdell3 — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:11:09 +0000

My favorite was the physical alarm clock that would launch a propeller across your bedroom. The only way to turn off the alarm was to find the propeller and put it back on the base.