Hacker News: joeman1000

New comment by joeman1000 in "Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe, audacious reply on X"

joeman1000 — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 03:37:55 +0000

God I’m glad Apple exists

New comment by joeman1000 in "Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads"

joeman1000 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 03:08:44 +0000

You mustn’t do much walking in your life then.

New comment by joeman1000 in "Commuting time of more than 30 min one way linked to higher chance of depression"

joeman1000 — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 04:00:22 +0000

If I had to commute by car every day in traffic… that would absolutely suck. Hopping on the train always feels better though. I get to see random people, relax, listen to music, not worry about crashing…

New comment by joeman1000 in "Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data"

joeman1000 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:10:03 +0000

I’d like to see this asshole waste 2h every day in public transport and get less work done because of a noisy open-plan office.

New comment by joeman1000 in "Confessions of a Startup Founder's Wife"

joeman1000 — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 21:01:44 +0000

Truly insane

New comment by joeman1000 in "I changed my name on a food delivery app to a masculine name"

joeman1000 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:51:17 +0000

I bet if you have a female name, more drivers will actually try and bring it to the door (which may be up a flight of stairs) rather than calling you to come down and get it. There are always trade-offs.

New comment by joeman1000 in "I rewrote my CV in Typst and I'll never look back"

joeman1000 — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:08:47 +0000

I’ll bet I can tell which version is LaTeX or Word.

New comment by joeman1000 in "Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools"

joeman1000 — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:46:48 +0000

3 weeks ago my iPad got dropped in water for half a second, then stopped turning on the next day. I booked it in for ‘repair’ at apple, only to be told “sorry, you don’t have applecare, so a replacement will be ~$1300aud. We don’t actually repair any ipad, and offer no genuine parts for any iPad repair”. This was not an old ipad, mind you, but a 2021 M1!

Here’s what I think of Apples right to repair support: bullshit

New comment by joeman1000 in "We have used too many levels of abstractions"

joeman1000 — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:01:51 +0000

What else can you do but look at files and code to figure out problems? And why use a monospace font for prose? I agree otherwise though, it can bite you in the arse if you don’t understand the layers of abstraction you’re dealing with. It’s the reason I sort of don’t like browser-based stuff. We already have a full OS stack for doing stuff, why add another on top of it?

New comment by joeman1000 in "The iOS option to charge battery to "80% Limit" shouldn't just be for iPhone 15"

joeman1000 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:08:31 +0000

AlDente has a new competitor with less paywalling: BatFi. I find it nicer to use.

https://micropixels.software/batfi

New comment by joeman1000 in "The Oracle Java Platform Extension for Visual Studio Code"

joeman1000 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:23:42 +0000

Are you able to get proper jump-to-definition for stuff in jars? Say you’ve declared an import from a jar, and you get to that import and run ‘jump-to-definition’ (or whatever it is), are you taken to the source of the import? I’m sure IntelliJ idea does this but I cannot get emacs+jdtls+eglot to do this

New comment by joeman1000 in "Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)"

joeman1000 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 23:27:36 +0000

They’re complaining about pedestrians not being vigilant. I’m saying drive slower and more carefully, fully expecting that peds will carelessly cross the road, and there will be fewer issues.

New comment by joeman1000 in "Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)"

joeman1000 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:19:19 +0000

The difference is that you’re cocooned in a tonne of steel, hurtling along at speeds which kill pedestrians. The onus is on both parties to be vigilant, but it’s more on you as a driver. As soon as you get over this entitled view, like the road is your own little go-kart track, it’s so much easier to drive safely. I used to hold the same view until I started walking regularly and could understand how much the game is tipped towards cars. Their environment is unescapable and every time you interact with a road as a ped. there’s a huge chance you might die. There’s nearly no chance you’ll die by hitting a pedestrian as you drive. Just drive slower and pay more attention. It’s just not that bloody hard at all.

New comment by joeman1000 in "Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players"

joeman1000 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 23:49:29 +0000

No bootcamp for apple silicon Macs. And virtualisation would introduce too much input lag.

New comment by joeman1000 in "Third place"

joeman1000 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:49:46 +0000

I discovered a strange third place last night: a Counter Strike Source server in my country. It had about ten different people talking over voice chat. They were all very frank and cheerful, and it seemed like they congregate there each night. I’m going to start joining regularly.

New comment by joeman1000 in "Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players"

joeman1000 — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:33:46 +0000

But how is input lag? That’s a crucial factor for counter strike.

New comment by joeman1000 in "Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players"

joeman1000 — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:31:12 +0000

This is stupid. There’s been an explosion in the number of gaming-capable Macs since the M-series chips came out. It’s remained largely untapped. The reason “there aren’t enough players” is because there aren’t enough people doing games for Mac! It used to be an issue of hardware and OS support, but it has now become an issue of (frankly) lazy/biased/unimaginative developers.

New comment by joeman1000 in "FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number"

joeman1000 — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 22:26:58 +0000

‘_get_change’ is written so poorly

New comment by joeman1000 in "Beautiful LaTeX Book with Examples"

joeman1000 — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:20:08 +0000

It is very ugly

New comment by joeman1000 in "macOS Sonoma is available today"

joeman1000 — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:59:33 +0000

Looks like it’s out now.