Hacker News: intoverflow2

New comment by intoverflow2 in "This is the Razer Phone"

intoverflow2 — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:25:38 +0000

I mean I haven't held it but how is a Sapper-esque stoic black rectangle bad or ugly?

Only thing unappealing about it to me is the logo

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Sony Aibo"

intoverflow2 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:32:40 +0000

> It doesn't clean the floor, so there's no practical function. It's not an MP3 player that follows you around or a Siri-like assistant

What an utterly joyless way to look at the world.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Sony Aibo"

intoverflow2 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:30:23 +0000

Real dogs make plenty of noises and smells too to be fair.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "WhatTheFont – Shazam for Fonts"

intoverflow2 — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:20:23 +0000

Doesn't this predate Shazam? Isn't it more a case that Shazam is WhatTheFont for music?

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Sway 1.0 is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary driver"

intoverflow2 — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 09:15:39 +0000

Who really loses out in this scenario though?

It sure as hell isn't going to be Nvidia who hold all the cards as far as CUDA based computing goes.

People who want to use this tech will go where the tech is, people even switch away from Mac to Windows to access this tech.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Square Could Pass Twitter in Value"

intoverflow2 — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:35:40 +0000

> It was designed for normal people to be able to get in touch with famous people or vice versa

Not so sure about this. Wasn't it just designed to broadcast messages among people who knew each other. The celeb focus came later.

I'd also say it doesn't help that your onboarding focuses greatly on what celebs you're going to engage with on the service.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 14:11:15 +0000

I feel TF2 has a place in peoples hearts so it keeps getting wheeled out in this debate way more times than it's deserved these days (especially considering Valve compromised both the art direction and coherence in recent years).

All 3 examples here are excellent but I want to say I know a lot of people hate on Destiny but the art direction, environmental art, creature design is all magical in terms of tech and results. Honestly feels like concept art brought to life and anyone dismissing it and not even giving it a chance just are missing out on some seriously impressive visuals resting perfectly between realistic and stylistic.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "150 days of living and coding in a van"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:06:49 +0000

Wonder what the harmful emissions from my flat and walk to work were vs the van. /s

Smug statements about how wasteful people not living in these fringe conditions are always remind me of the Soylent founder lecturing about how doing laundry wastes water while also reordering all his clothes from china when they get dirty. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/08/op-ed-how-i-gave-up-...

New comment by intoverflow2 in "iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:56:58 +0000

Try it in a few more apps it's the choice of the app dev so basically random.

Not that a user should have to know "only enter your password into the black keyboard", which can also be faked mind.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Jewelbots – A Friendship Bracelet You Can Code"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:03:37 +0000

Technology Will Save Us ship a similar product that is more gender neutral if anyone is interested.

Actually think in this space the norm is actively going gender neutral.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Facebook Lies"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:55:27 +0000

I did similar with a good 6 years between and with two different emails on different domains and it's friends suggestions both in it's own app and Instagram (not linked to FB account but sharing an email) manage to reference people I only ever knew during the time of the first account and never even interacted with on Facebook.

e.g a guy I interned for 10 years ago who I never spoke to/added on FB keeps showing up in my Insta suggestions. It's actually a bit unnerving and makes me worry who my account is suggested to.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:38:27 +0000

Sad that I hear something complained about on certain Apple podcasts and that little qualm of that host is fixed magically a release or two later while real users are ignored.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 09:04:02 +0000

Quicktime 7 is one of the first things I install on a new mac because it still opens a bunch of files and does things that Quicktime X cannot.

Quicktime X can't even open a plain .mov file without "Converting" it.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "High Sierra's Disk Utility does not recognize unformatted disks"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 09:03:07 +0000

Too many product managers these days who don't actually understand or engage with the product and instead think they can create from reading metrics tea leaves alone.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Apple reminds the FCC that it can’t activate imaginary iPhone FM radios"

intoverflow2 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:38:52 +0000

Not sure why the article needed that smug condescending tone, not everyone is a tech blogger who upgrades their phone every year, plenty of people are still using sub iPhone 7 devices which as the article states DID include a radio hardware just not connected, yet the article seems to focus on how absurd it is that someone could be using an old device.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased"

intoverflow2 — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 16:01:05 +0000

Pretty much, Jobs thoughts on sales/marketing people driving companies more relevant than ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased"

intoverflow2 — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:58:57 +0000

> and the Mac Mini is embarrassing

Embarrassing is an understatement, I'd say it's overtly consumer hostile https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/1000779/large_7cbe8b3f... 2012 Mac Mini on the left; 2014 Mac Mini on the right. The unscrewable bottom was one of the championed features when this design initially launched

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Apple does right by users and advertisers are displeased"

intoverflow2 — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:55:46 +0000

Someone there has some kind of vision, doesn't mean it's a good one but there was a definite attempt to shove most MBP customers into using iPad Pro and the Mac Pro line probably only survived by a very slim margin.

It's pretty obvious the iMac Pro was supposed to replace the Mac Pro lineup (despite having all the same problems) then at the last minute they decided to start working on a New New Mac Pro.

Not sure who has this vision if it's Tim, Ive or someone else but whoever it is they don't respect the idea of an actual computer like Jobs did. From what has been reported Cook doesn't even use a laptop anymore.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "How to hack a turned-off computer, or running unsigned code in Intel ME"

intoverflow2 — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:04:19 +0000

Am I the only one sceptical about if these scores actually translate to true computing power?

If these things can outperform on passive cooling why are we not seeing people building farms out of them with active cooling.

New comment by intoverflow2 in "Oculus Medium Under the Hood: Developing the Move Tool"

intoverflow2 — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:00:49 +0000

This and TiltBrush are the only reasons I'm considering a headset at all, tried 3D sculpting unsuccessfully in 2D so would love to try it in 3D.

Medium looks excellent but yeah not amazing enough to outweigh being owned by FB. Still pretty disappointed VR tech innovations are just being locked up into proprietary camps.