Hacker News: jdalgetty

New comment by jdalgetty in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

jdalgetty — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:08:31 +0000

I haven't used google maps in years.

New comment by jdalgetty in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

jdalgetty — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:06:48 +0000

Does this work with Web MiniDisc Pro?

New comment by jdalgetty in "To teach in the era of ChatGPT is to know pain"

jdalgetty — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:02:09 +0000

I'm in an online course right now (teachers college) that requires weekly discussions. I feel like every discussion is just AI responding to AI. As a student I think it's lame, I'm sure the profs do too. I'm not totally against AI usage as it is incredibly helpful with spelling and grammar, what I hate is reading meaningless, vague and uninteresting discussion posts week after week. There is nothing personal or interesting about anything anyone posts because its all done by AI.

New comment by jdalgetty in "Closure of the Weatheradio service in Canada"

jdalgetty — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:53:46 +0000

One less thing to listen to on my radio scanner :(

New comment by jdalgetty in "Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in"

jdalgetty — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:30:41 +0000

What do you mean it costs too much to start businesses here? I’ve founded 3 start ups and have not had any issues with things costing too much. Not a single one of those startups needed much to get going and there was no red tape or mysterious taxes that got in the way.

New comment by jdalgetty in "40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]"

jdalgetty — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:46:12 +0000

This is 100% the fault of parents.

New comment by jdalgetty in "Clicks Communicator"

jdalgetty — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:48:40 +0000

Can you elaborate on the sim duplicate thing - I've never heard of that before - how would I go about getting one of those?

New comment by jdalgetty in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

jdalgetty — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:31:23 +0000

Magna tiles are easy to clean up in the they stick to each other sense, but I still find them all over the house.

New comment by jdalgetty in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

jdalgetty — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:11:37 +0000

Yea, I was pretty happy to move from tapes to cds.

New comment by jdalgetty in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

jdalgetty — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:29:02 +0000

The other side of it - why can't parents set up screen time and app limits, especially during school hours? No kid needs access to clash royale or snapchat during the school day. The phone should be locked down to "essentials" like the calculator, etc.

New comment by jdalgetty in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

jdalgetty — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:50:40 +0000

When parents themselves also became addicted and decided it was easier to give their kids phones than to parent them.

New comment by jdalgetty in "Sued by Nintendo"

jdalgetty — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:46:22 +0000

Yea, that messed with my eyes.

New comment by jdalgetty in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

jdalgetty — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:58:16 +0000

I've used calc every day for years. It works well.

New comment by jdalgetty in "After the AI boom: what might we be left with?"

jdalgetty — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:22:46 +0000

Yikes

New comment by jdalgetty in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime"

jdalgetty — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 18:10:00 +0000

20 years hopefully

New comment by jdalgetty in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime"

jdalgetty — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:28:54 +0000

So as someone investing for hopefully an eventual retirement, what am I supposed to do?

New comment by jdalgetty in "Hey, Let's Undermine America's Technology, Education and Research"

jdalgetty — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:49:02 +0000

It's kinda like make America worse again.

New comment by jdalgetty in "Cassette Logic: technology that never dies but is already dead"

jdalgetty — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:10:33 +0000

I use the paid version, I still feel like my downloaded mp3s sound better than the same spotify version.

New comment by jdalgetty in "Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads"

jdalgetty — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:46:31 +0000

If there's a screen, there will be ads.

New comment by jdalgetty in "In 1979 one of the best guitar solos recorded was cut for radio time"

jdalgetty — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:32:56 +0000

I'm too young to know the radio version but I've definitely enjoyed the solo for many years listening to the mp3 version.