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New comment by jackvalentine in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

jackvalentine — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:39:04 +0000

Here is a picture of the food you actually get along with the poster.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1uv0xcq/...

New comment by jackvalentine in "When One Nanny Isn't Enough, 'CEO Parents' Hire a Whole Team"

jackvalentine — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:17:48 +0000

What a strange article. It launders core parenting care tasks such as clipping toenails, toilet training, teaching your kid to ride a bike and just being there while they explore their space in with things I don’t think anyone would object to outsourcing if they had the resources like breaking down boxes and handyman services.

In any case the parents that outsource the parenting are paying to give away a part of their humanity.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

jackvalentine — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:46:50 +0000

YT can be/was empowering for the viewer. Product choices have made it far more of a pointless timesuck and consumer hostile but it still remains the place where I can find a video of a guy taking the front off the same model dishwasher that I have to fix the latch in the soap dispenser while he points out how to do it without permanently destroying the clips that hold it together.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino EV for $13,995 in U.S."

jackvalentine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:05:25 +0000

A lot of people miss this but Atto 1 is only a four seater.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Show HN: Neil the Seal Game"

jackvalentine — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:31:33 +0000

Now driving on the correct side of the road, but wrong side of the roundabout!

Neil’s reign of terror knows no limits.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Show HN: Neil the Seal Game"

jackvalentine — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:04:30 +0000

Cars are driving on the wrong side of the road - presumably in terror of His Neilness!

New comment by jackvalentine in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

jackvalentine — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:55:22 +0000

https://prodlaw.eu/2025/02/eu-battery-regulation-removabilit...

Basically changeable with normal tools and safely without risk of destroying the battery or product.

New comment by jackvalentine in "CarPlay Is Additive"

jackvalentine — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:10:59 +0000

I bought a BYD that is as close to that as I could.

https://esv6hz7yeij.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/b...

New comment by jackvalentine in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

jackvalentine — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:19:47 +0000

You can do that, once, if you want to trigger an avalanche of realignment away from the U.S.

Not only would you lose the 450 million odd EU customers, but the rest of the world will reconsider doing business with you as well.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

jackvalentine — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:20:39 +0000

I don’t need it now but this was a godsend a few years ago.

New comment by jackvalentine in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

jackvalentine — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:41:12 +0000

The administration is trying every single angle they can to make congress-less tariffs stick. The latest is slapping a bunch of countries with 10% because they claim those countries insufficiently prevent goods produced by slaves from being imported which makes it unfair for producers in the U.S.

Might be true but it’s hard to take that argument in good faith at this point.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M"

jackvalentine — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:16:17 +0000

I live in Australia and local governments are too small and cause idiotic delays to things. They’re always being taken to administrative tribunals and losing and the state government periodically has to suspend their planning powers to make progress happen.

I liked the government structure of the ACT when I lived there with a territory government that also had all the local government responsibilities for bins etc.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

jackvalentine — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:43:03 +0000

Come really, really far south (to Australia) and you’ll find we don’t require voter ID.

Frankly it’s easy to dunk on the U.S. for a lot of things and it’s very short term gratifying to do so but don’t let yourself fall in to the trap of assuming your ‘little procedural important thing’ is universally accepted and it’s just those silly Americans who don’t get it.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes"

jackvalentine — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:34:50 +0000

you can also hold down the windows key and use the arrow keys to position the window left/right top left/top right/bottom left/bottom right.

And Windows-shift-up to make a window fill the vertical space of the screen without changing its width.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

jackvalentine — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:56:26 +0000

Yes!

https://www.macworld.com/article/2107557/iphone-ios-update-i...

https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/apples-in-box-device-update...

New comment by jackvalentine in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

jackvalentine — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:31:08 +0000

Weak reforms, I'm disappointed and will write to my MP to express that sentiment.

Frankly all advertising for gambling on TV, radio, social media, bus stops - everywhere - should be banned the same as we did for cigarette ads in the 90s.

It basically killed a bunch of racing teams that I was a fan of but it needed to be done.

New comment by jackvalentine in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

jackvalentine — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:24:30 +0000

Those factories won’t be run by Chinese automakers they’ll be shut down with the corresponding loss of jobs and secondary industries.

Gotta say I was annoyed at the time but deprecating the Australian car manufacturers last decade means we have no scruples about allowing cheap as chips Chinese EVs through the door and I’m loving it.

New comment by jackvalentine in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

jackvalentine — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:09 +0000

A month ago my debian 13 laptop out of the complete blue decided it wanted zero DNS. Might have been an update that did it I am not sure.

I was unable to resolve it and ended up reinstalling.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie"

jackvalentine — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:45:08 +0000

Interesting thing to tell people - this means any change of heart or apology from Marc should be viewed purely through a cold realist self interest lens and not be afforded any of the trappings of humanity.

Don’t anthropomorphise the lawnmower indeed.

New comment by jackvalentine in "Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war"

jackvalentine — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:22:01 +0000

> Sounds like whoever is scheduling meetings need to adapt to a new asynchronous environment whereas many meetings isn't necessary.

I agree, and a lot of my 'participation' in these meetings these days is read the papers, write my opinion, attach it to the documents and tell people I'm not attending.

That said we're 5 years in to this thing and people haven't adapted.