Hacker News: idinnoaname

New comment by idinnoaname in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

idinnoaname — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:21:19 +0000

This reads like a comment from a non-parent, or a comment from the kind of parent who argues its okay for their kid to spend 16 hours with their eyes glued to a screen because "blippi is educational".

New comment by idinnoaname in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

idinnoaname — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:17:21 +0000

And poor Judy thought for just a moment that someone actually cared enough about her to remember her favourite food. Sorry Judy, youre just not that important I suppose. :|

New comment by idinnoaname in "Ask HN: What are you buying your kids for Christmas?"

idinnoaname — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:55:24 +0000

This is satire right? I’m just not sure of any of this any more.

New comment by idinnoaname in "Installing Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii [video]"

idinnoaname — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:40:39 +0000

Chances are the commenter you’re responding to threw the “x” after Mac OS as that is the common verbiage for the operating system, not realizing that X represents a version number. I know I’ve made this mistake countless times as well.

New comment by idinnoaname in "Ask HN: What is your workflow for self studying new subjects?"

idinnoaname — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:10:16 +0000

I’m not an expert in many things, and someone else will likely give a better answer, but..

I usually start with exposure. Watch videos, listen to podcasts, watch lessons, in the area of interest. I’ll be presented with new terms and concepts without any context. Eventually as I continue to do this I build just a little bit of context, and before I know it I’m asking myself questions. “Why does x do y to z?”

At this point the search engines usually can tell that I’m a newbie to the field and will return so very low level explanations of my questions. Maybe they are right, maybe they are vague, I can’t really tell at this point.

Once I’ve found some answers that appear to make sense, I’ll have built up enough confidence in my understanding to dive in deeper.

At this point I usually seek out a lesson or course on the subject. This is when the learning curve resets. Any confidence I had is often out the window and I begin to build some actual context around the terms and concepts I exposed myself to early on.

From there on, it’s all uphill. Taking lessons from many sources until I’ve gained a beginners understanding of the area of interest. Eventually something clicks and I realize I’m ready for the next lesson.

I might not be completely ready to complete the next lesson, but I feel comfortable starting this process over again from a slightly higher level of understanding.

It certainly helps that my employer provides us with a great learning/lesson platform that I can either listen in on passively while I do other work (to begin the exposure part), and begin taking lessons and completing assignments when I’ve gained a bit of confidence.

Hope this was helpful.

New comment by idinnoaname in "There is no data engineering roadmap"

idinnoaname — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 04:17:34 +0000

The author stated that the only logical starting point is to learn to solve problems in a dialect of SQL then approach problems of the same type in other dialects of SQL. You’re entirely right, and the author seems to agree to an extent.

New comment by idinnoaname in "Chinese warship almost hit US ship a week after incident with American plane"

idinnoaname — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:34:55 +0000

This raises a good point..

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=moose_man

New comment by idinnoaname in "Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children"

idinnoaname — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:59:46 +0000

I can see why this got down-voted, but seeing this in fruition would be quite interesting.

Of course, this would probably require sharing internal corporate data which is a big no-no.

Lost in Nature (Blog Entry)

idinnoaname — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:15:57 +0000

Article URL: https://srslyw.tf/perception-lost-in-nature/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31826525

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by idinnoaname in "Solve Puzzle to Join Waitlist"

idinnoaname — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 01:49:46 +0000

Well then. I suppose i was overlooking something. Much appreciated.

New comment by idinnoaname in "Solve Puzzle to Join Waitlist"

idinnoaname — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 01:26:18 +0000

I don’t get it. The first puzzle maps to “The reef is falling!”, but does not accept my answer. What am I overlooking?

New comment by idinnoaname in "Show HN: Shoot the neural network before it shoots you"

idinnoaname — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:57:32 +0000

Very cool! I was slightly confused when I aimed right at the opponent at full force and was prompted to click to restart. Definitely was a bit more interesting once I stopped doing that. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by idinnoaname in "Ask HN: Besides a job or freelancing, how would you make money with coding?"

idinnoaname — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 15:54:24 +0000

Glad to hear the person with no input shared their input.

New comment by idinnoaname in "Make the Internet Yours Again with an Instant Mesh Network"

idinnoaname — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:38:53 +0000

Last time I heard about one of these they turned out to be financially supported by the NSA. Not making any claims here, but in the scenario of alternative protocols popping up on the web, how can one be sure this the same thing is not going on here as stated in my first sentence?

New comment by idinnoaname in "Ask HN: How to build a light weight personal blog?"

idinnoaname — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:30:35 +0000

I feel like there are two camps of SSG’ers. One camp who chooses an SSG to offset their reliance on big tech, and the other who see big tech reliance as an acceptable means of publishing. Not sure which is right, but my personal inclination is to steer away from this reliance.

New comment by idinnoaname in "Using a mild Twitter addiction to get things done"

idinnoaname — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:34:23 +0000

About a year ago I broke the Facebook doom scroll habit by setting an iOS shortcut to open a HN in a browser instead. Now I habitually doom scroll HN. Adding an element of incentive is a much better idea.

New comment by idinnoaname in "Waffle House Poet Laureate (2019)"

idinnoaname — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:14:50 +0000

Am I the only one that associates waffle houses with the most decrepit corners of a city? Specifically the areas where major interstates intersect, and prostitution, drug use, and homelessness peak?

I'm sure there are some nicer waffle houses down south, or away from the city. ..But that is unfortunately what I personally associate waffle houses with. Please tell me it's not this way across the US.

New comment by idinnoaname in "I created a video game for tired gamers. Now I have to find them"

idinnoaname — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 01:56:45 +0000

Make a pc version for us tired gamers who turned their gaming systems in for work computers :)

That said, this looks really cool. Great job!

New comment by idinnoaname in "Those that game together, stay together"

idinnoaname — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 18:03:09 +0000

I appreciate that last paragraph more than the author may realize...

New comment by idinnoaname in "The High Cost of Men's Loneliness"

idinnoaname — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:34:43 +0000

Interestingly enough there are a lot of comments in this thread that seemingly support the authors statements.