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New comment by iamjake648 in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

iamjake648 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:52:35 +0000

At least they clearly label them and make them easy to avoid!

New comment by iamjake648 in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

iamjake648 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:43:07 +0000

Same here. I would totally be fine if HW3 FSD was reduced to $50 a month, but charging the same $100 as HW4 is insulting at this point.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

iamjake648 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:42:13 +0000

I hear this a lot, and I'm genuinely curious why you think it might take more energy to be on alert for tricky situations. Wouldn't you already be doing that for your own manual driving?

New comment by iamjake648 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

iamjake648 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:11:52 +0000

Do you have a high efficiency heat pump, or how are you heating?

New comment by iamjake648 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

iamjake648 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:17:46 +0000

Yes, it's the standard in every legal doc I've ever seen too, but most companies have typically done some accelerated vesting as part of severance. Of course they don't have to, but it's a generally lower cost way of showing some good will.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

iamjake648 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:13:23 +0000

Interesting, the _majority_ of developers I know write in JVM languages - mostly Kotlin for new stuff at this point.

Typically I see folks using the Amazon Corretto java distribution.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Amazon One palm authentication discontinued"

iamjake648 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:26:45 +0000

If you trust Amazon, they were never storing images of your actual palm but instead creating and storing unique hashes from that data. Again, if you trust them, they did it in just about the most privacy protecting way possible.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Amazon One palm authentication discontinued"

iamjake648 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:23:57 +0000

It doesn't seem like a big deal, but this is just so much more annoying than using my palm that not only links my payment method but also prime membership.

Now I need to tap through a stupid app and scan a code.

We always stopped at whole foods on the way home from the gym, and I didn't always have my phone with me or readily accessible. This will definitely cause me to cut back on this quick stop in / impulse purchases.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it"

iamjake648 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:49:27 +0000

If this were true, Tesla wouldn't have the only use able car infotainment system in the industry.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Two new PebbleOS watches"

iamjake648 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:55:50 +0000

What is the sample rate on the barometer?

If it’s sensitive enough, a compelling skydiving altimeter app could be developed. Considering most purpose built altis used worse screens and cost 350+, could be a quite compelling use case.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Designed to Crash: the story of Antonov An-28 HA-LAJ and its demise"

iamjake648 — Wed, 22 May 2024 17:57:35 +0000

As someone with thousands of jumps from this altitude, I disagree. The VAST majority of 'first timers' I've taken on tandems don't feel much, if any, difference either going up.

Biden Administration's new round of tarrifs on Chinese products

iamjake648 — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:34:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/05/14/fact-sheet-president-biden-takes-action-to-protect-american-workers-and-businesses-from-chinas-unfair-trade-practices/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40357031

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New comment by iamjake648 in "Visa, Mastercard Agree to Lower Swipe Fees, Settling Long-Running Lawsuit"

iamjake648 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:31:14 +0000

Countless times I've been at the Airport and overhear people complaining about not being able to use their Debit Card with a rental car, or that they don't have enough money in their account to cover would just be a pre-authorization on a credit card.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin"

iamjake648 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 15:28:19 +0000

Yea I guess I'm just surprised OP hasn't seen any. The junction point explains the fast chargers, but the Level 2 would presumably be used primarily by locals.

I mean even middle of nowhere cities like Ellsworth are getting DCFC - granted at a dealership, but still it's happening!

https://www.plugshare.com/location/560842

New comment by iamjake648 in "Governor signs bills creating EV charging station network across Wisconsin"

iamjake648 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:46:27 +0000

Eau Claire, WI - a pretty small town has at least three DCFC - EA, Tesla & a local electric company plus tons of level 2 all over.

> I'm confused at why this was included in the regulation

The WI GOP. At least you can pay by the kWh in WI now instead of by the minute with this law.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Coding in Vision Pro"

iamjake648 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:42:30 +0000

I returned mine today after attempting to use it for work for a few hours at a time over the last week. I felt the same eye strain with my Mac as a mirrored display.

Zoom calls were cool, but nobody could take the Persona seriously.

After a few days the eye strain seemed to get worse and worse, until yesterday it give me such a bad headache I decided that was enough.

New comment by iamjake648 in "Apple dials back car's self-driving features and delays launch to 2028"

iamjake648 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 05:30:10 +0000

Yeah I think this holds true there as well. It's a small, niche market, but it's hard to argue what they are doing isn't leaps and bounds ahead of anything from Meta (Ignoring the price differences).

New comment by iamjake648 in "U.S. Consumers Spent More on Food in 2022 Than Ever Before (Inflation Adjusted)"

iamjake648 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:29:15 +0000

Not sure what you're getting at with this. Are you eluding that these clean vehicle rebates are directly contributing to food price inflation? Are you saying policy is focusing on the wrong things to subsidize or what?

New comment by iamjake648 in "U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose"

iamjake648 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:52:08 +0000

Yea, but this point is a bit disingenuous because ships that make port in Cuba can't then also then make port in the US.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/779

The US has a huge amount of influence on all global trade, regardless of it's with the US or not.

New comment by iamjake648 in "U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose"

iamjake648 — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 21:47:37 +0000

Military Aid.