Hacker News: iicc

New comment by iicc in "The appropriate amount of effort is zero"

iicc — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:31:58 +0000

>Let me share my slightly unusual definition of “effort”: it’s the felt experience of expending energy beyond what an activity requires

How about finding a word that actually captures your meaning, or defining a new one?

I asked an LLM - it came back with "overexertion".

>Using this definition, it’s clear that the appropriate amount of [overexertion] for any activity is zero.

New comment by iicc in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

iicc — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:40:44 +0000

>Addresses of buildings aren't private, and they're somewhat analogous as with many computing concepts.

Buildings are analogous to domains, not email addresses.

New comment by iicc in "UK workers must keep all customer tips under new law"

iicc — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 12:13:37 +0000

>Raising wages has an inflationary effect on the prices in the restaurants/bars

That implies consumers spend differently if they know the actual cost ahead of time, otherwise service inclusive pricing would make no difference. ie the whole industry is exploiting anchoring effects.

Removing anchoring effects would make restaurant businesses less profitable, and consequently the properties that host them less valuable, so lower rents.

There are clear incentives for pushing an inflation narrative.

New comment by iicc in "Moments in Chromecast's history"

iicc — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 14:53:30 +0000

Snapcast https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

New comment by iicc in "Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers"

iicc — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 11:41:32 +0000

Last year the UK ATC system crashed when it "encountered an extremely rare set of circumstances presented by a flight plan that included two identically named, but separate waypoint markers outside of UK airspace".

https://www.nats.aero/news/nats-report-into-air-traffic-cont...

New comment by iicc in "EU right to repair: Sellers liable for 1 year after products are fixed"

iicc — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:48:20 +0000

>they'll claim they are "Security related barriers" and therefore exempt?

Why would it be exempt?

The obvious cynical ploy is extending the EULA idea and apple becoming a phone leasing company. Going from hardware you don't really own, to hardware you really don't own.

New comment by iicc in "Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB"

iicc — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:47:28 +0000

>don't have large enough decoupling capacitors

Is this something you can eyeball to guess at quality?

New comment by iicc in "Researchers analysed novels to reveal six story types"

iicc — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 14:49:02 +0000

>It's like saying all music in the world consists of some form of "lower note, higher note, lower note, higher note"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsons_code

New comment by iicc in "WhatsApp could disappear from UK over privacy concerns, ministers told"

iicc — Fri, 19 May 2023 15:24:15 +0000

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...

>Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

>There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.=

New comment by iicc in "Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone"

iicc — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:20:45 +0000

Sometimes the full content is available - but only if you navigate to it via a Google results page, and you don't have existing cookies implementing a "free article limit".

New comment by iicc in "Cruel optimism and lazy pessimism"

iicc — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:50:34 +0000

Ideas should be judged on their merits, but based on previous behavior I wouldn't necessarily trust Johann Hari's writing out of hand - ie other things in the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari

New comment by iicc in "Hyundai Head Unit Hacking"

iicc — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:58:31 +0000

Ridesharing - arguably it's Google Maps who're ignoring it.

New comment by iicc in "3M to end 'forever chemicals' output"

iicc — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 15:53:36 +0000

>Maybe someday humans will get that.

That's what the litigation is.

New comment by iicc in "Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January"

iicc — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 14:02:23 +0000

Ironic to link to a website doing a similar thing - illegally using "legitimate interest" to justify data processing.

New comment by iicc in "Apple Music Sing"

iicc — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 15:54:13 +0000

>Can anyone make out if songs like this are specially mastered with separate vocal channels ... or if Apple is applying ML to do voice isolation

"Coupled with an ever-expanding catalog that features tens of millions of the world’s most singable songs"

"The vocal slider adjusts vocal volume, but does not fully remove vocals"

Based on the quantity and results it's ML like Spleeter (https://research.deezer.com/projects/spleeter.html).

New comment by iicc in "User-Agent Reduction"

iicc — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 09:59:21 +0000

I've been blocked from an Akamai fenced website because I used Firefox for Android. Not great when you have a plane ticket you need to change.

New comment by iicc in "Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares"

iicc — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 10:13:56 +0000

JMAP is a replacement for IMAP. Unlike IMAP it has immutable IDs[0] but not much support[1].

[0] https://jmap.io/#faq

[1] https://jmap.io/software.html

New comment by iicc in "Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon"

iicc — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 15:20:26 +0000

>Maybe self-hosting could be made more common through selling a (cheap) appliance with self-hosted services pre-installed.

Mastondon-as-a-service exists eg https://masto.host/.

one-click-install mastodon exists too -eg https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/04/mastodon-now-available...

New comment by iicc in "Noise cameras to be trialled in England to tackle ‘boy racers’"

iicc — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 11:17:32 +0000

https://www.vehicle-certification-agency.gov.uk/fuel-consump...

>The external noise emitted by passenger cars has been controlled since 1929 when the Motor Cars (Excessive Noise) regulations were introduced. New cars are now required to meet Europe-wide noise limits. These have been progressively reduced from 82 decibels (dB (A)) in 1978 to the current limit of 72 dB (A) established in 2016.

New comment by iicc in "Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays (2020)"

iicc — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:50:49 +0000

>Outlook Express format

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Outlook_Express_Data...