Hacker News: jthrowsitaway

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?"

jthrowsitaway — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 18:34:19 +0000

Assuming you're talking about iMessage, comparing that to E-mail (GMail) is literally apples and oranges.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Jupiter CEO Quits $68B Firm to Sit at the Beach and ‘Do Nothing’"

jthrowsitaway — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:04:03 +0000

He achieved "FI" early on then.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "What the Hell Was the Microsoft Network? (2018)"

jthrowsitaway — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:12:05 +0000

That's awesome! I have very fond memories of playing 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live and was sad when they canned it.

https://youtu.be/ssWZhHBeNVQ

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children"

jthrowsitaway — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:28:20 +0000

Same. Multiple personalities?

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Physicists link two time crystals in seemingly impossible experiment"

jthrowsitaway — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 23:30:19 +0000

Thanks, but I couldn't watch more than 30 seconds of that video. The cuts every 3 seconds or when the speaker took a slight pause is maddening.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Sue Big Oil"

jthrowsitaway — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 18:24:47 +0000

My question still stands. We're near ATH of oil production and are a net exporter. Sure, the Boogeyman wants to kill oil, but has he been able to do that with great success in 1.5 years as president?

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Sue Big Oil"

jthrowsitaway — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:57:41 +0000

This is how it works in a free market economy. The incumbent (oil and gas) is directly state sponsored in the US.

> the US government alone spends $20 billion every year on direct fossil fuel subsidies. Of that figure, around $16 billion goes towards oil and gas, while the remaining $4 billion benefits the coal industry.

https://en.as.com/en/2022/03/29/latest_news/1648510535_73079...

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Sue Big Oil"

jthrowsitaway — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:36:08 +0000

How do you support your argument that the current administration is being effective in killing off oil? We are still a net exporter of oil [0] and crude oil production is about where it was at in late 2018. It took a dive during COVID-19 and has been recovering since.

0 - https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=m...

1 - https://www.macrotrends.net/2562/us-crude-oil-production-his...

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Ploopy open source thumb trackball"

jthrowsitaway — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:25:18 +0000

Same. The Logitech Cordless Optical TrackMan is my favorite device. I wish they still made them (or something like it.)

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Grafana releases OnCall open source project"

jthrowsitaway — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 23:33:18 +0000

We evaluated a bunch of solutions and came to that conclusion as well. Everything we do is in code (Terraform) and will gladly pay for something that has friendly APIs and an already existing Terraform module. Conversely, we'll not engage with or throw away anything that doesn't have friendly APIs.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Google's AI doesn't understand restaurant menus"

jthrowsitaway — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:04:19 +0000

Google likes to push you into a textual/parsed format of the menu, which is often incomplete and difficult to navigate. Just show me the pictures of the menu, please.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Reduced air pollution leads to higher crop yields"

jthrowsitaway — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 02:03:45 +0000

Pollution has a different interpretation depending on your body composition. Some microbes thrive on Nitrogen Oxide.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Google Cloud: Major packet loss between multiple regions – Europe and Asia"

jthrowsitaway — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:19:22 +0000

Indeed. Not sure why that term is misused so much. There's nothing dark about fiber that's being used.

> A dark fibre or unlit fibre is an unused optical fibre, available for use in fibre-optic communication

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API"

jthrowsitaway — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:28:30 +0000

Ah, ok. I saw the S3 URLs and assumed that's the platform you're using.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API"

jthrowsitaway — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:43:14 +0000

As an AMZN stock holder, I love that this "competition" to AWS is hosted on AWS. Amazon still wins!

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API"

jthrowsitaway — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:39:50 +0000

If you're trying to sell this product and showing text that random people from the internet have inputted, then yes this is a terrible idea. It's only a matter of time before "Hitler was right" is displayed on your site. Do you want the trollings of dorks associated with your brand?

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API"

jthrowsitaway — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:36:12 +0000

I'm a homosexual person that doesn't give a flip about pride month or anything that's "gay culture", but that's overtly hostile. That person needs mental help.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Continuous glucose monitoring on the Apple Watch"

jthrowsitaway — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 04:51:51 +0000

Wow, that's the kind of thing that makes you feel like you've "arrived" in the future.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "Bolt announces layoffs"

jthrowsitaway — Thu, 26 May 2022 14:11:35 +0000

I wasn't familiar with either and thought of the Chevy Bolt.

New comment by jthrowsitaway in "A Guide to Push Notifications for Developers"

jthrowsitaway — Thu, 26 May 2022 14:00:59 +0000

Yes, but newer versions of Android let you block categories of notifications for apps. Things like story post notifications are blocked for my apps while DMs aren't.