Hacker News: i1856511

New comment by i1856511 in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

i1856511 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:59:19 +0000

Yes, those things cost money, but the money that we want to make, we want to make it today. And this is how we make it. What economic incentive is there for preservation?

(/takes off devil's advocate hat and puts on flame suit)

New comment by i1856511 in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

i1856511 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:37:23 +0000

Did they ever get legs?

New comment by i1856511 in "A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry"

i1856511 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:49:26 +0000

The problem is entirely due to the labor and compensation for mechanics. The Mechanics get a shit proposition. If you are smart, you do not do it. Exhibit A, mechanics are paid a fraction of revenue but are 100% responsible for warranty. Imagine if you shipped a bug, you are told to work without pay to fix it. That is what a mechanic does.

New comment by i1856511 in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

i1856511 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:41:54 +0000

Can somebody please tell me what is the business play behind The Browser Company. It has always seemed very suspicious to me, well-funded, not making money, and now this

New comment by i1856511 in "Thoughts on thinking"

i1856511 — Fri, 16 May 2025 19:57:41 +0000

If you do not know how to say something, you don't know how to say it.

New comment by i1856511 in "Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads"

i1856511 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:39:47 +0000

I cannot read this article because of a pop-up ad on the website.

New comment by i1856511 in "The beauty of concrete"

i1856511 — Fri, 17 May 2024 22:03:58 +0000

When I looked myself in my local garden center, I actually found over 9,000!

New comment by i1856511 in "Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison"

i1856511 — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:36:55 +0000

I agree with you as well, but this is a major example of how, despite this ideal, something like this can sweep up so many people that would otherwise never interact with a system like this. People who don't know who SBF is, never heard of Hacker News, who don't understand crypto, getting convinced to put money into this by, say, a younger relative. It is a real side-effect of this thing existing on this scale on a planet populated by humans.

People don't go mass free-climbing because it isn't something you do by accident. The danger is obvious. But this danger is abstract, and the ease of entering this type of system can happen with just a few clicks from the comfort of your home. And getting dollar signs in your eyes is a very psychologically influential pull.

New comment by i1856511 in "Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies"

i1856511 — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 04:13:21 +0000

Surely someone here either knows a FB insider or is one, and could anonymously give a realistic description from the inside on what "creepy information" exists for the average user. And yet I haven't seen such a description. Is this because FB is simply too large and complicated for any person to really know what is tracked to any useful degree?

New comment by i1856511 in "Gmail using too much RAM: 1-2GB per tab in Safari"

i1856511 — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:48:28 +0000

It's not false, I have this same problem right now. I have mail.google.com opened in a Safari tab. When the tab is open and In Activity Monitor, I see: Memory 1.2 GB, Real Memory 500 MB, VM Compressed 260 MB. When I switch away focus, Memory drops to 900 MB. The Gmail web app is a RAM hog in Safari.

New comment by i1856511 in "The AI research job market"

i1856511 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:54:36 +0000

I have a background in computational linguistics from a good university, and then I got sidetracked by life for the last decade. What real experience did you look for that was a good signal?

New comment by i1856511 in "EV Chargers Should Be Dumber"

i1856511 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:56:45 +0000

This is a pretty uninformed and distracting article.

New comment by i1856511 in "The Windows desktop is dying"

i1856511 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 23:41:14 +0000

It seems strange to me that you would "move PC to cloud" for mass market users without also removing restrictions that are typically bound to local hardware - RAM for example.

If you take it for granted that you want to eschew typical hardware, and deliver experiences over the Internet, is the best way to do that really let someone rent 8GB of RAM in the cloud, and load Chrome and web pages into that cloud ram they rented? and then let the webpages paint in the cloud and draw it for the user over RDP?

This makes sense for Microsoft to use their desktop telemetry investments in the cloud era. But less sense for users doing basic productivity.

New comment by i1856511 in "Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year"

i1856511 — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 19:03:15 +0000

It should be illegal to own more than two homes.

New comment by i1856511 in "Are forum platforms dead?"

i1856511 — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:42:21 +0000

Biggest knock against modern communication platforms (Discord Slack et al): they are not a part of the Web.

New comment by i1856511 in "Audi owner finds basic HVAC function paywalled after pressing button"

i1856511 — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 07:05:07 +0000

We are first familiar with this concept of payment activation in software where all product units are identical and the cost to produce an additional unit is 0. To implement this same concept in a machine is a little funnier. If this means the car units can be produced identically, at a lower cost of production per unit, I understand why companies do this. But it is also a natural human reaction to be frustrated by this concept implemented mechanically where the cost to produce is >0. Both sides have a point.

New comment by i1856511 in "Apple's whitelist of the 250k auto-completable domains in iOS"

i1856511 — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 06:54:21 +0000

"smoot" dot apple dot com?

New comment by i1856511 in "Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)"

i1856511 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:44:59 +0000

If you want an extremely quick scan of the front pages of many world newspapers (less than 5 mins), check out "NEWS ACC" on YouTube.

New comment by i1856511 in "Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s"

i1856511 — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 23:39:10 +0000

Software development? Or other industries?

New comment by i1856511 in "Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing"

i1856511 — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 22:07:08 +0000

Consider human evolution and human psychology. What has been most important to most individual humans, for all of history? Having a safe and satisfying individual life, providing for and integrating with those friends and family in our immediate presence.

That's the biological firmware running in your brain. The Internet screws with this perception. It can be a "make yourself feel bad" machine under the right circumstances.

Hold those 0.0001% up as personal heroes (keeping in mind most people have no connection at all to writing Corkscrew Follies in Assembly) and use that inspiration to live your life to your own satisfaction. That's what Chris Sawyer was doing too.