Hacker News: irlib

New comment by irlib in "European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices"

irlib — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:54:01 +0000

They'll be sure to stick around if there's still money to be made.

Here’s a case where leaving makes sense: Google was hit with a literal bazillion-dollar fine in Russia.

New comment by irlib in "Sequoia backs Zed"

irlib — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:00:44 +0000

It does not support Monokai because of reasons. That does not scream good taste to me. It screams something different.

New comment by irlib in "How I run my servers (2022)"

irlib — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:50:32 +0000

He said Microsoft. Not Amazon.

New comment by irlib in "Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers"

irlib — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:51:03 +0000

Well, I am using ChatGPT as a pocket keto nutritionist and it is recommending an actual product brands quite often. Not sure if this is intentional or just learned behavior.

New comment by irlib in "Apple Watch momentum is building"

irlib — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 04:12:31 +0000

I have everything on on my series 6 LTE. After 23 hours on my wrist it usually at 50%. It is new though. But the screen is always on. It seems they have improved battery life on series 6 comparing with my old series 4.

New comment by irlib in "Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy"

irlib — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 04:08:40 +0000

Well, they have a publicly accessible price list in most hospitals out of USA.

New comment by irlib in "Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy"

irlib — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 03:34:08 +0000

Does the "bronze" plan have "out of pocket maximum"? It supposed to be 20% up to the OOM and total coverage after, right?

New comment by irlib in "Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them"

irlib — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 21:02:16 +0000

I do. Those 3 wheel cars/bikes in California...

New comment by irlib in "Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?"

irlib — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 02:30:10 +0000

Weather tax.

New comment by irlib in "Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries"

irlib — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:58:24 +0000

It's already just like that here in california. They schedule a free in-home sleep study, then lend you (again, for free) a CPAP machine for a week. Then you decide if you want to keep (buy) it.

New comment by irlib in "Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries"

irlib — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:51:43 +0000

Yeah, I've been provided with a CPAP machine for a week, and although it reduces the breath interruptions, just like in your case, it does not improve the quality of the sleep perceivably, just like in your case.

So I decided not to buy it after the week of the free test drive.

New comment by irlib in "Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries"

irlib — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:42:42 +0000

Yeah, a couple of years ago, I had an at-home sleep study. It was free for me with Kaiser insurance, so I guess the cost was neglectable.

New comment by irlib in "Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries"

irlib — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:36:21 +0000

I am in the USA, and my cheap ass insurance covered the sleep study in full.

CPAP machine, however, is upon deductible, so I have postponed it upon I'll have spent the deductible on something like CT.

New comment by irlib in "Fitful nightly sleep linked to chronic inflammation, hardened arteries"

irlib — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:07:23 +0000

In my case, the sleep study was done at home. I just have to wear some gear at night for a week or something.

Then a week of CPAP machine for free to feel if it's helping (I feel no improvement, although wife said there was no snoring with the machine).

New comment by irlib in "AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates"

irlib — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:58:33 +0000

If you have Apple care plus, you may just exchange the AirPods at some point during second year of wearing.

New comment by irlib in "NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2016)"

irlib — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:54:35 +0000

You must be living in a perfect world where people finally won laws of physics.

In my world, if you driving at speed limit near intersection you have zero chance to stop before the line. And even if you managed so, there is a very good chance that a driver behind will not have so good brakes and reflexes.

New comment by irlib in "Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?"

irlib — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:26:12 +0000

Miss Google Reader.

Now I have to host a miniflux to have relatively similar experience. Still, GR was much more convenient.

Miss Mr.Reader as a RSS client on iPad. Miss AlienBlue Reddit client.

New comment by irlib in "Python in Visual Studio Code"

irlib — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 03:36:19 +0000

My story was: vim (5 years) -> emacs (7 years) -> sublime (2 years) -> atom (1 year) -> vscode (2 years and counting).

Switch from vim to emacs is obvious. Switch from emacs to sublime was triggered by moving from Linux to MacOS (my Thinkpad was failing after diving in a tropical rain so I bought a brand new MacBook).

New comment by irlib in "Things they don’t teach you running a business by yourself"

irlib — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 19:26:20 +0000

But why?

Family plan on coveredca site costs about $13k/year. Or even less if your business is not yet profitable enough.

New comment by irlib in "Tesla crash victim had complained about auto-pilot in same location"

irlib — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 18:13:07 +0000

His car does not always veers.

He owns the car/work in apple/drive the same road to work - for about half year (i.e. >100 times) and according to the article he has just about 7-10 veering incidents here. Like one or two per month.