Hacker News: jamaicahest

New comment by jamaicahest in "Unexpected things that are people"

jamaicahest — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:02:59 +0000

Could personhood be applied to autonomous cars, potentially absolving manufacturers of all liability, if a car they built, kills a human being?

New comment by jamaicahest in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

jamaicahest — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:32:24 +0000

Shokz

New comment by jamaicahest in "Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks"

jamaicahest — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:07:52 +0000

I think the reason AirTag works is because Apple turns it on-by-default on i-devices and people can't be bothered to go turn it off. For a chat to work on the same scale it would literally need Apple or Google to ship it as enabled-by-default on all phones.

New comment by jamaicahest in "Software development topics I've changed my mind on"

jamaicahest — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:04:04 +0000

20+ years as a professional developer and I still have to argue with coworkers on why MongoDb is a terrible fit for their data, which is clearly relational, just because said coworkers can't be bothered to learn SQL.

New comment by jamaicahest in "Study Shows EV Batteries Maintain Nearly 90% Capacity After 200k Km"

jamaicahest — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:52:46 +0000

> High currents, often resulting from rapid charging, quick acceleration, or high-speed driving, can negatively affect the battery’s state of health.

So to preserve battery health I need to spend 8 hours charging the battery at opposed to 45 minutes? Not a great selling point for EVs.

New comment by jamaicahest in "An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews"

jamaicahest — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 16:15:06 +0000

> then that has to be replaced by finding the perfect candidate who can immediately be productive.

We're called freelance consultants. And we charge a high price for that service.

New comment by jamaicahest in "First Impressions: Lenovo T14s with Qualcomm Snapdragon ARM64 CPU"

jamaicahest — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 05:33:09 +0000

> (which AFAIK you only need for NVIDIA GPUs).

Which is what a lot of users have.

New comment by jamaicahest in "Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out"

jamaicahest — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:15:20 +0000

An alternative in sitautions where OTP-only is allowed. E.g. I work as a freelance contractor and every single customer requires MFA with GPS tracking. Some also require accessing Bluetooth on the phone.

New comment by jamaicahest in "Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions"

jamaicahest — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:12:18 +0000

GrapheneOS is nice for people using Google Pixel phones. And useless for anyone else.

New comment by jamaicahest in "Latency numbers every programmer should know"

jamaicahest — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 10:39:15 +0000

How is this something "every programmer should know" ? I mean 95% of us work with software that is not performance critical, where security/auditing/monitoring/stability/maintainability/etc. is more important than raw performance.

New comment by jamaicahest in "AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer"

jamaicahest — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 07:22:57 +0000

I was under the impression that hacker news was not a place for sharing personal anecdotes, but rather a place for factual debate.

New comment by jamaicahest in "AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer"

jamaicahest — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:28:50 +0000

Why are the top comments in this thread all personal anecdotes? Is this reddit now?

New comment by jamaicahest in "Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"

jamaicahest — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:10:48 +0000

One downside to pirated content is: 99% of the time it only has English audio track and the majority of the world's population does not have English as their native language. I have small children and they don't understand one word of English, and even if they did, I want them to hear their native language on tv, not English.

New comment by jamaicahest in "Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"

jamaicahest — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:07:59 +0000

> Btw. Ads in front of streaming content I just selected, to tell me about other streaming content on the same service I did NOT select should also be on the NO list.

I'm looking at you, Apple TV+.

New comment by jamaicahest in "Wine 9.0 RC5 – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS"

jamaicahest — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 07:01:27 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) is driving Steam running windows games on Linux

New comment by jamaicahest in "Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitution scheme"

jamaicahest — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:18:58 +0000

So because I think it is ok that smoking cigarettes is legal, therefore I am perfectly happy if my wife or child started smoking?

New comment by jamaicahest in "Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitution scheme"

jamaicahest — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:15:33 +0000

How is this any different from any job? I need money to eat and pay rent and I am forced to offer my body as a tool for an employer in exchange for payment, regardless if that job entails sex or laying bricks, if I don't offer my body for work I can't eat or live in a house.

And keep in mind that prostitutes are not exclusively women, there are a lot of male prostitues.

New comment by jamaicahest in "A coder considers the waning days of the craft"

jamaicahest — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:01:14 +0000

> LLMs in particular can be a very fast, surprisingly decent (but, as you mention, very fallible) replacement for Stack Overflow

I think that sentence nails it. For the people who consider "searching stackoverflow and copy/pasting" as programming, LLMs will replace your job, sure. But software development is so much more, critical thinking, analysing, gathering requirements, testing ideas and figuring out which to reject, and more.

New comment by jamaicahest in "The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy"

jamaicahest — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:16:44 +0000

So what you're saying is Twitter/X works the same way as every other human communication medium, i.e. provocative statements get more attention.

On the other hand, if zero people retweet your "substantive Tweet", maybe it's just not that interesting to anybody but you?

New comment by jamaicahest in "Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine"

jamaicahest — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:43:13 +0000

Or just pay the $10/month to Kagi, for search results that aren't garbage.