Hacker News: goguy

New comment by goguy in "A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener"

goguy — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 09:41:27 +0000

I do this for any inbound call, unless the caller id is someone in my contacts it can go to voicemail. If it's important they either leave a voicemail or keep trying, for repeated calls I will answer but with skepticism.

If they are in my contacts I will recognise their voice.

New comment by goguy in "VS Code Pets"

goguy — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:05:12 +0000

We used to send an email from their account saying lunch/donuts are on me!

New comment by goguy in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

goguy — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:03:54 +0000

Not found any good proxy which works well with cisco VPN software. Charles and proxyman work intermittently at best and require disconnecting from the VPN and various such dances.

Fiddler on windows works flawlessly.

New comment by goguy in "SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud"

goguy — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:58:47 +0000

That really doesn't require that much complexity.

I used to send something like 250k a minute complete with delivery report processing from a single machine running a bunch of other services like 10 years ago.

New comment by goguy in "Spotify attacks Apple's 'outrageous' 27% commission"

goguy — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 20:41:39 +0000

Wow, glad I avoid native app development. The eternal dictatorship.

New comment by goguy in "Images from the 2023 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition"

goguy — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 21:08:00 +0000

The caffeine crystals one is wild.

New comment by goguy in "Google Maps has become an eyesore"

goguy — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 06:28:35 +0000

That's not really true though is it. I use it countless times a week to navigate from my current location to point x l, generally a postal code or POI.

At no point during this do I have to interact with alternative businesses or way points.

New comment by goguy in "WhatsApp has been using the microphone in the background"

goguy — Tue, 09 May 2023 20:29:02 +0000

Settings > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Privacy Dashboard

New comment by goguy in "MouthPad – In-Mouth Bluetooth Mouse Uses Tongue Sensitive Trackpad"

goguy — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 19:40:17 +0000

If quick gestures aren’t working: Turn off your phone, then turn it back on.

Some tricks never die.

New comment by goguy in "Don't believe ChatGPT – we do not offer a "phone lookup" service"

goguy — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 21:39:22 +0000

Our jobs are safe! For now...

New comment by goguy in "Regular Expressions make me feel like a powerful wizard: that's not a good thing"

goguy — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 06:31:10 +0000

That's less readable than the original suggestion though.

New comment by goguy in "The window trick of Las Vegas hotels"

goguy — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 22:14:45 +0000

Totally agree. It's a blog post, obviously it's your personal opinion and there's no need to explain nor excuse that.

New comment by goguy in "Strava hikes monthly subscription price"

goguy — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 20:56:26 +0000

Definitely not. Everyone knows these things are super accurate, considering that it's pretty darn good.

New comment by goguy in "Web IDE Beta"

goguy — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:54:40 +0000

> If someone came out with a free, cross-platform, attractive text editor that was a native executable and got critical mass going with a plugin ecosystem, then VS Code would fall out of fashion within a year.

Well yeah, there's the problem. This isn't an easy task, it has never been done before.

New comment by goguy in "Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web"

goguy — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:40:09 +0000

Based on their performance recently, badly.

New comment by goguy in "Why are glasses so expensive? The industry prefers to keep that blurry (2019)"

goguy — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:27:09 +0000

Just like anything you can shop around and get a good deal.

In the UK I use glasses direct, you can pick up a pair with a prescription for £50. They regularly have discount codes so most of the time that would be £35/40. Sure they aren't designer but they look ok for the price if you don't want to spend a lot, if you use them just got driving you can probably get an even cheaper pair that don't look as good.

New comment by goguy in "Who owns Tesla’s data?"

goguy — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 14:17:34 +0000

There is no good reason they can't provide updates without scooping up all your data.

As a minimum they could keep vin/installed software version number and date times. It would be an acceptable compromise.

New comment by goguy in "What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?"

goguy — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 16:56:13 +0000

Or so you think...

New comment by goguy in "The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones"

goguy — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:34:55 +0000

Nice article, spotted a small typo.

If you don’t, you risk being seen as ~reliable~ and people might feel you’re not there when they need you.

New comment by goguy in "China’s noisy ‘dancing grannies’ silenced by device that disables speakers"

goguy — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 07:01:50 +0000

Is it really that annoying? Appreciate someone sat in a park blasting music could be, it's generally stationary for a long period of time.

With a bike travelling at say ~10mph the noise is out of earshot in a few seconds.