Hacker News: jordanreger

New comment by jordanreger in "Caniemail.com – like caniuse but for email content"

jordanreger — Tue, 07 May 2024 03:01:22 +0000

Pretty much the only credit I'll give to Amazon is that they give the option to get plaintext emails. Doesn't mask the larger problems, but still a nice thing I wish was the norm.

New comment by jordanreger in "Tyson Foods Is Dumping Millions Of Pounds Of Pollutants Into American Waterways"

jordanreger — Sat, 04 May 2024 17:17:27 +0000

I don't mean to detract from the point of the article but the phrase "according to Quora" made me wince. Even though it follows a relatively minor detail it still feels weird that people use it as a source of real information.

New comment by jordanreger in "Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin"

jordanreger — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:46:06 +0000

Interesting. Good to know!

New comment by jordanreger in "Package management on macOS with Nix-Darwin"

jordanreger — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:08:45 +0000

Have you tried using the Determinate Systems installer? This (supposedly) helps to not break everything on system updates. As far as I can tell, it works.

New comment by jordanreger in "Lolita: A tagless, dependently typed, self-aware programming language"

jordanreger — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 19:17:16 +0000

Nah with a good SEO team it'll be the first result on Google

New comment by jordanreger in "The case against caffeine"

jordanreger — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:10:07 +0000

And chances are the roasters actually care about making it taste good. It's rare but you can find great decaf coffee if you look for it.

To me, it is weird that all coffee revolves around caffeine; I find the complex tastes way more rewarding than the milligrams of caffeine I get from it.

New comment by jordanreger in "Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?"

jordanreger — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 05:30:31 +0000

> we're also not allergic to complexity the way we should be.

Very well put. I think the majority of why performance isn't a goal anymore can be attributed to this. So much software today is written like it's running on a supercomputer (and in comparison to computers even just 10 years ago, it is). Libraries have become crutches rather than tools.

New comment by jordanreger in "Ratatui"

jordanreger — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 19:18:18 +0000

Extra points for the awesome demo GIF!

New comment by jordanreger in "Google is embedding inaudible watermarks into its AI generated music"

jordanreger — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 17:09:35 +0000

i've heard a ton of aphex twin and disasterpeace, one of my favorite songs being compass, and i've never even thought about this. cool to see it's hidden in such a beautiful song

New comment by jordanreger in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

jordanreger — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:00:48 +0000

I proudly use an M1 Mac Mini but the fact that they're so full of themselves constantly makes me laugh(?)

New comment by jordanreger in "Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)"

jordanreger — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 19:42:48 +0000

This is a fascinating article that covers something I've thought about plenty of times! Genuinely how often do people take virtually the same photo at the same time? You'd think it'd be more often at places like Disney World but it's fascinating to hear it happened in a scenario like this.

New comment by jordanreger in "It's okay to make something nobody wants"

jordanreger — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:19:27 +0000

well said

New comment by jordanreger in "200k users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires"

jordanreger — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:28:01 +0000

As a US customer, it's the same way here.

P.S. I may be biased because I just watch Channel 4...

New comment by jordanreger in "AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs"

jordanreger — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:40:35 +0000

I'm not surprised. I input a 2FA time-based code with a 30 second refresh on it and by the time I got through the captchas, my code had expired. By ~1.5 minutes...

New comment by jordanreger in "US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022"

jordanreger — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 04:30:51 +0000

It is both. They both absolutely contribute to our mental health crisis, and I'd argue it's worse in suburb-locked North America. I, as I'm sure others have as well, have identified these two individual problems as major offenders of my mental health. When I spend time away from both, I feel magnitudes of order happier. Mix that with the dystopian job culture of "the future" (today) and you've got yourself a nightmare only 80s writers would've thought of.

New comment by jordanreger in "Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way"

jordanreger — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 22:52:37 +0000

yeah i watched this all go down - it was a nightmare lol

New comment by jordanreger in "Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way"

jordanreger — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:49:58 +0000

just a note: the owner (?) of the project has gone on some sort of archiving spree, and has hacked (?) the discord and github accounts of the real owner...

iCloud Mail Error?

jordanreger — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 01:29:32 +0000

I've just recently started receiving an iCloud Mail error and I'm not sure why as all other services work and the status page seems to disagree with me. Is anyone else seeing what I'm seeing?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36872056

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Public Benefit Jobs?

jordanreger — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:15:02 +0000

Hey all,

I am in my last year of software engineering at university. I am struggling with the idea of working for a large company, especially ones that produce things that are harmful to us all (social media being a leading issue). I don't care about making any money for myself as I live a simple life, and I want to build something useful or at the very least neutral in its effect on us.

That brings me to public benefit corporations, nonprofits, etc. However, in a lot of situations the only PBCs I see are crypto... "companies" or spinoffs from massive companies. What I'm talking about when I say "public benefit" is a group of people working to build an open source, highly reproducible weather station that could be easily and cheaply distributed to people in need.

Any ideas?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36849341

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jordanreger in "Ask HN: Why hasn’t Apple created an ad-blocker in the system level for iOS?"

jordanreger — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:05:45 +0000

i've only ever seen ads for apple music and the new devices. everything else is an exaggeration imo