Hacker News: ironick09

New comment by ironick09 in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

ironick09 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:24:15 +0000

As long as we’re throwing shade at EU vs US, I can’t remember the last time the US had a nationwide blackout, certainly not in my lifetime!

New comment by ironick09 in "Biden signs TikTok bill into law, starting clock for ByteDance to divest"

ironick09 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 22:59:01 +0000

Was it a ban? Also yes

New comment by ironick09 in "Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading"

ironick09 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 16:22:34 +0000

They said 1000 engineers. Surely a company consists of roles other than software engineers, right?

New comment by ironick09 in "23andMe changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing"

ironick09 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 03:47:00 +0000

i’m guessing you have a problem with signs that say “danger, do not enter” as well

New comment by ironick09 in "What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report"

ironick09 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 03:39:17 +0000

Just goes to show how much people make things up and couldn’t be further from the truth (see other comments for why this information was released, this one is flat out wrong).

New comment by ironick09 in "Apple's Blue Ocean"

ironick09 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:38:11 +0000

All of my apple devices have lasted multiple (4+) years. The only time an apple device hasn’t is because I broke it.

New comment by ironick09 in "LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees"

ironick09 — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:39:34 +0000

Which potential recession are we talking about? The one that was supposed to happen 3 months ago? or 6 months ago? Or 9 months ago? A year ago? 2 years ago? There’s so many potential recessions i’ve lost count!

New comment by ironick09 in "‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders"

ironick09 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:45:03 +0000

Last I checked, you cannot withdraw money from a steam account like you can a checking account. Has this changed?

New comment by ironick09 in "All IP addresses are equal? “Dot-zero” addresses are less equal (2013)"

ironick09 — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:45:21 +0000

You think that’s why it’s taken so long to move off of IPv4? Surely it can’t be _anything_ else, like lagging support for IPv6 in newer network routing protocols, bug related to those implementations with IPv6, or sometimes no support for IPv6 at all. Similarly for systems and applications that just have no concept of IPv6 at all. To single out the US as the reason why we have not moved off of IPv4 is laughable, the US has a pretty significant adoption of IPv6.

New comment by ironick09 in "GPT4All Chat – Locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J"

ironick09 — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:29:44 +0000

…except the name of the site.

New comment by ironick09 in "Senate Bill to Ban TikTok"

ironick09 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:14:52 +0000

Honestly this just sounds entirely made up. It seems surreal to me that you live your life in fear, of what? The United States? Either that or you’re extremely over exaggerating.

New comment by ironick09 in "Docker"

ironick09 — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 17:24:46 +0000

This is only partially true, if _all_ traffic is tunneled over the vpn, then yes you’ll have this issue, but if the traffic is split such that only interesting traffic is sent over the vpn, then you won’t have this issue.

New comment by ironick09 in "What if Meta launches a mobile app store?"

ironick09 — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:54:25 +0000

Yup, it’s been replaced by Meta now!

New comment by ironick09 in "FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms"

ironick09 — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 14:51:33 +0000

What makes you say this is largely a US problem?

New comment by ironick09 in "Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch"

ironick09 — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 02:17:03 +0000

Do you have any resources/information you can share on this? I’d be curious to read more.

New comment by ironick09 in "Microsoft and Nvidia Announce Expansive New Gaming Deal"

ironick09 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 01:31:08 +0000

Like what? Unless you’re a professional gamer playing a very active really time game like Counter-Strike, there is a 0 chance you notice any sort of measurable different between 10 and 20ms.

New comment by ironick09 in "Why would a 21st century warplane shoot a balloon with a missile?"

ironick09 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 12:45:38 +0000

Missiles can track things other than heat signatures.

New comment by ironick09 in "The 27th Letter"

ironick09 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 23:52:34 +0000

It’s used as a symbol in programming, I have a hard time imagining a symbol that could replace “the”. That’s not to say there isn’t one that would be suitable, I just lack the creativity or imagination to think of one.

New comment by ironick09 in "OpenAI Status: Multiple engines are down"

ironick09 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 08:04:52 +0000

The is the worst comparison in the history of comparisons.

New comment by ironick09 in "Ask HN: Airbnb requires my credit-card transaction history?"

ironick09 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 14:04:21 +0000

You don’t… have you stayed at a hotel before? You just put the do not disturb sign up that hangs off your door handle on the outside of your door…