Hacker News: i_love_cookies

New comment by i_love_cookies in "DJGPP"

i_love_cookies — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 06:38:17 +0000

For me it let me use a c compiler without paying for visual c++

New comment by i_love_cookies in "We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score"

i_love_cookies — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:22:28 +0000

Yes, it's actually made phone theft even worse as a victim. instead of running with the device muggers are demanding pin's and passcodes at gun/knife point

it's resulted in a few deaths in chicago at least

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification"

i_love_cookies — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:54:04 +0000

almost anything using cloudflare

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes"

i_love_cookies — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 22:20:16 +0000

It depends on how Firefox was installed, snap and flatpaks are becoming the default for firefox on a few distros every variant of each that I've tried has those issues

I usually have to download the developer edition from the website and setup a desktop entry for decent performance

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout"

i_love_cookies — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:53:27 +0000

Well I'm not getting paid the entire team was essentily furloughed (~25 ppl)

No idea what's going to happen with insurance since some people were expecting

I'm generally treating it as being laid off with no severance and looking elsewhere

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Qualcomm wants to replace eSIMs with iSIMs, has the first certified SoC"

i_love_cookies — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:57:24 +0000

at&t refuses to give me a esim for the pixel6 i bought though them on the same account

the concept itself is fine the implementation is a downgrade since it gives the carriers more control

New comment by i_love_cookies in "MSFT Q2/2023 Earnings Release"

i_love_cookies — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:13:07 +0000

I do feel like some of those companies were doomed before microsoft was involved at least

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

i_love_cookies — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 15:36:09 +0000

for real, everyone was saying microsoft was the new ibm

New comment by i_love_cookies in "How transportation technologies shaped empires"

i_love_cookies — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:30:57 +0000

wasn't the war of 1812 partly/mostly driven by a US desire to annex canada?

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Waymo's collision avoidance testing"

i_love_cookies — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 19:37:24 +0000

tbh car ownership for day-to-day is kind of silly, leave it to more commercial use and enthusiasts

i may be biased since i use public transit or bike for everything

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Google is shutting down Stadia"

i_love_cookies — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:27:04 +0000

It's a shame their platform choices prevented a decent stream of content, stadia was easier to use but I subscribe GFN due to the content

on the whole I feel like they were to focused on potential vs. offering something desirable right away

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)"

i_love_cookies — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:06:21 +0000

I mean, that's true to an extent but there's large volumes of software that has no use for high achievers and is better off with process consistency and predictability

the development of something like Chrome isn't one of those project but say a banking website or a inventory management system could be

New comment by i_love_cookies in "Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)"

i_love_cookies — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 01:03:43 +0000

The education hurdle and objective goals of nasa also changed a lot