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New comment by irunmyownemail in "Microsoft 365 Personal goes up in price by $30"

irunmyownemail — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:09:52 +0000

They have "AI" now so time to grab more buckaroonies!

Microsoft 365 Personal goes up in price by $30

irunmyownemail — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:09:52 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/1i7jrek/microsoft_365_personal_goes_up_in_price_by_30/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808571

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by irunmyownemail in "How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain"

irunmyownemail — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:20:35 +0000

Light on my desk for light under the monitor, light from behind me which bounces off the angled ceiling and only light themes no dark themes.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?"

irunmyownemail — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:25:00 +0000

Not being able to use DNS I prefer, is why I've never hosted anything with Cloudflare.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Home Loss File System"

irunmyownemail — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 03:27:33 +0000

If we click that link, who besides Google can instantly identify us?

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records"

irunmyownemail — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 03:02:13 +0000

Blood.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records"

irunmyownemail — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:09:10 +0000

How recent was the last death of a veteran, given to Ancestry.com, compared to what your efforts have now exposed?

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records"

irunmyownemail — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:04:46 +0000

Agree completely with your comments and the parent's comment. It feels like this shouldn't have been allowed by the courts without better scrutiny and wisdom on the part of the courts.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)"

irunmyownemail — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:41:31 +0000

I have around a billion short bash scripts, it's rare I've used an array but it's cool it has it as long as the script doesn't go beyond a few lines.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Today I learned that bash has hashmaps (2024)"

irunmyownemail — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:39:02 +0000

Anything complex should be written in a competent language like Java. Script languages (like Bash and Python) are for short (a few lines long) scripts. Using the tool outside the scope of what it was designed for is not a good idea.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

irunmyownemail — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:16:37 +0000

Not sure I followed all of that lingo but it sounds like a fancy way of saying, if you're losing the game, try shifting the goal post.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

irunmyownemail — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:01:34 +0000

It's 2 days after Christmas, too early to know the impact of the purchases made based on what AI recommended, either positive or negative.

If you're relying on AI to replace a human doctor trained in skin care or alternatively, your Google skills; please consider consulting an actual doctor.

If she "knows a lot about skincare in general, so she had the capacity to recognize any wrong recommendation", then what did AI actually accomplish in the end.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

irunmyownemail — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:50:04 +0000

It would have to be trained in 100% of all potential scenarios. Any scenario that happens for which they're not trained equals certain disaster, unlike a human who can adapt and improvise based on things AI does not have; feelings, emotions, creativity.

Posit: Many who are excited about AI are BA graduates

irunmyownemail — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 15:37:29 +0000

Who are trying to be relevant in the job market. Use any argument against AI and over 70% of the counter-arguments will involve the word "creative" in a pejorative context or as part of a personal attack, e.g. "You're obviously not very creative person.".

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42515790

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?"

irunmyownemail — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:56:59 +0000

Unfortunately that creates a choice between an app that updates in an aloof manner or allowing it to exist in an insecure, not updated state.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?"

irunmyownemail — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:23:12 +0000

I don't use Snap on my Ubuntu Desktop systems because I don't like apps secretly updating without my awareness and also for the immense amount of additional disk space used by Snap.

Having said that, no, I don't see any usage of immutable Linux in my future.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

irunmyownemail — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:59:46 +0000

An NPE means an incomplete feature was originally pushed to production. It would still be incomplete or incorrect, in Kotlin and would still need a fix pushed to production.

It's even worse with Kotlin, without the NPE to provide the warning something is wrong, the bug could persist in PROD much longer potentially impacting the lives of 1 Billion users much longer than it would have if the code remained in the sane Java world.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

irunmyownemail — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:27:46 +0000

Personally, I love Java syntax, or did before Java 8. It's still better than Kotlin though. At least it gets the type and name in the correct order.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

irunmyownemail — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:22:47 +0000

It reminds me of Spock tests written in Groovy. I have to help maintain a code base like that now at work where a Groovy zealot (who has moved on) convinced the teams to write tests in Groovy instead of Java.

When a test fails, the method name describes what it was supposed to do written out like a sentence enclosed in double quotes which seems like a win but not much of one.

When you need to add a new test or analyze if an existing test needs to be changed, you have to eyeball all the code in the test class because even with methods named with spaces, it's not always indicative of what it does.

With Java, I can sort a list of method names and have a better idea immediately what needs to be updated or added.

New comment by irunmyownemail in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

irunmyownemail — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:05:14 +0000

I view this as great news. It will attract those would rather code in Kotlin for whatever reason, to FB, leaving more Java opportunities for the rest of us who like and prefer Java, even after 29 years with it.