Hacker News: iddqd

New comment by iddqd in "Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them"

iddqd — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:34:45 +0000

It works until it doesn't.

New comment by iddqd in "Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order"

iddqd — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 14:14:55 +0000

To be fair, it kind off started off as a large iPod Touch. It took a few years for iPad to really differentiate itself from iOS devices.

New comment by iddqd in "European Power Prices Go Below Zero Again as Solar Output Surges"

iddqd — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 05:20:20 +0000

Yes there are different energy retailers in different markets offering hourly priced tariffs, Tibber being an example. The deployment of the required smart metering varies widely between countries.

Searching PDFs in S3 Using OpenSearch and Tika

iddqd — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:40:44 +0000

Article URL: https://learn.mixpeek.com/creating-a-searchable-pdf-repository/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287524

Points: 2

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New comment by iddqd in "Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account"

iddqd — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:28:24 +0000

The Unifi Dream Machines allow you to set them up without a cloud account since the latest update: https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-OS-Dream-Machines-1-...

The Dream Router falls within your price range but is hard to get ahold of right now: https://eu.store.ui.com/products/dream-router-ea

Should be able to set it up and manage it over the local network via their mobile apps or via browser.

New comment by iddqd in "Cornell McRay T'Racing"

iddqd — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 12:22:10 +0000

How I wish it had native Vulkan support.

New comment by iddqd in "Terraform is not the golden hammer"

iddqd — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 13:01:01 +0000

It usually takes 1-2 years for AWS to roll out their latest updates to the regions I use and by then Terraform is stable.

New comment by iddqd in "Newline Delimited JSON"

iddqd — Tue, 25 May 2021 21:05:27 +0000

Line separated JSON has its uses, for example when streaming data.

New comment by iddqd in "Corrupt Signal DB issue crashing App and losing data"

iddqd — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 06:23:21 +0000

https://signal.org/donate/

New comment by iddqd in "McKinsey Settles for $573M over Role in Opioid Crisis"

iddqd — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 11:07:58 +0000

They were probably promoted a few times for hitting their targets then exited to join executive teams in various companies.

New comment by iddqd in "I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions"

iddqd — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:57:00 +0000

I agree. I have run quite a few Raspberry Pi over the years and so many of them died because of SD card corruption. Eventually I got a NanoPC T4 with built in eMMC and it’s been tugging along for a good 2 years with zero issues.

New comment by iddqd in "macOS Big Sur"

iddqd — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:31:45 +0000

FWIW, iCloud syncs quite well with Firefox on Windows.

New comment by iddqd in "Apple tells Telegram to take down protestor channels in Belarus"

iddqd — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:59:25 +0000

Do you think Apple would approve a client app to such a chat network?

New comment by iddqd in "Tesla hacker reveals what driver-facing camera is looking for"

iddqd — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:51:14 +0000

I hope as soon as EYES_CLOSED trigger loud alarms go off and the car slows down carefully, with or without autopilot enabled.

You should probably stay off the roads if you’re having these issues and/or seek help to resolve them.

New comment by iddqd in "How to blur your house on Google Street View"

iddqd — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 18:33:29 +0000

I saw a Street View car driving around in Berlin very recently, maybe they have started again?

New comment by iddqd in "Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable"

iddqd — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:30:40 +0000

Check out the Apollo app.

New comment by iddqd in "Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok"

iddqd — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:10:26 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawit_Isaak

New comment by iddqd in "Q2 2020 Update"

iddqd — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:24:34 +0000

Their mission statement is “to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy”, not “make nice cars”.

New comment by iddqd in "Now Resolved: FB iOS SDK Outage Causing Disruption to 3rd Party iOS Apps"

iddqd — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 05:25:30 +0000

> If your audience is developers who implement the SDK

I believe the audience is marketing and management.

New comment by iddqd in "GitHub was down"

iddqd — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 07:30:04 +0000

I haven’t used their new features but am heavily affected every time they go down. I wonder if they are making the right trade offs here.