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New comment by kabacha in "Introducing the next generation of Mac"

kabacha — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:12:48 +0000

You used to be able to replace/extend ThinkPad parts quite easily. We'd buy base models exclusively and just add extra stick of ram and flip the CD rom to another hard drive or battery - those were super cheap high quality laptops.

Only recently Lenovo started to solder their parts so base models lost their power :(

New comment by kabacha in "Introducing the next generation of Mac"

kabacha — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:46:03 +0000

I used t490s for a while and that has been my favorite machine since forever. In general ThinkPads are the way to go by the looks of it!

New comment by kabacha in "Introducing the next generation of Mac"

kabacha — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:42:12 +0000

My work gave me MacBook 16" 2020 and probably the worst business laptop I have ever had. The screen is smudgy and glary, the keyboard is awful, touch bar is a meme, no ports and finally it literally cuts my wrists because it was designed to be looked at not used.

It's an objectively awful laptop.

New comment by kabacha in "Introducing the next generation of Mac"

kabacha — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 01:38:06 +0000

I really don't get it. How much difference could 8 to 16gb be in terms of price? Is Apple really doing this to save 20$ per machine?

Even if you somehow could argue that 8 is all you need now, what about in few years? No one should ever buy this device.

New comment by kabacha in "An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way"

kabacha — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 04:14:05 +0000

Honestly that doesn't sound so much for a late civilization.

New comment by kabacha in "An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way"

kabacha — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 01:14:44 +0000

The instant question this title raises: how hard would it be to move a planet into close orbit of the sun?

Weirdly enough I never came up to a similar scenario in countless sci-fi books. I'd imagine it would be so expensive that if we were capable of it we would probably wouldn't need/want it as other alternatives would be much more efficient, right?

The thought of designed solar system is interesting - what if we FTL is an unbeatable barrier - we might just be stuck here and populate our system with hundreds of rogue passerby planets!

New comment by kabacha in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

kabacha — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 07:25:36 +0000

Se 2016 is 123x58

Se 2020 is 138x67

12 mini is 132x64

S10e is 142x69

So s10e is still the biggest one of "high-end small phones" though it has the best screen ratio by far. I do think mini might be just the right size! I hope this will prompt more small phones on the market!

New comment by kabacha in "iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro"

kabacha — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 03:58:20 +0000

S10e came out year and a half ago! Unfortunate despite everyone complaining no one bought it and we didnt get s20e. Seriously that has been the best smart phone I've ever used or heard of and if mine dies I'm buying the exact same one.

New comment by kabacha in "Google’s Supreme Court faceoff with Oracle was a disaster for Google"

kabacha — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 03:10:09 +0000

Seems like you've discovered the philosophy of Accelerationism!

Sometimes it does feel that embracing awful system is the best way to topple it.

New comment by kabacha in "Apple Watch momentum is building"

kabacha — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 01:40:24 +0000

I've been using various smart watches (currently on galaxy active) and I love them but I still feel that it's only slightly more than a meme.

The core functionality is just gamification like step counts, "hey get up reminders" and some rather pointless blood metrics.

What is great imho is the customizable watches and bands. The bands are like 1$ each and the are like a thousand of brilliant watch faces.

I think smart watches are much better for fashion than function.

New comment by kabacha in "Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores"

kabacha — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:10:21 +0000

I'm sure it's not a coincidence that one of the biggest western social media apps - Instagram - launched a direct clone of tiktok. So far IG reels are dead but if TikTok gets banned there's an undeniable benefit for IG, right?

New comment by kabacha in "Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke"

kabacha — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 06:16:18 +0000

> I have no problem at all with Bezos being worth $200 billion

Really? You have no problem one person owning so much money? That's around 30$ for _every_ person on the planet, can you even wrap your head around that? There's no reason why a single person should ever own this sort of wealth, none at all.

New comment by kabacha in "Remembering my father"

kabacha — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 05:49:28 +0000

> Microsoft is just selling unopinionated software to all businesses in the world

You have to be satirical right? Microsoft is notorious for lobbying everything to this day. Browser monopolies, OS monopolies, they pretty much invented EEE, made whole cities switch to their OS and the whole xbox platform is very political regarding software, gambling and IP politics.

New comment by kabacha in "When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number"

kabacha — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 05:17:01 +0000

Real question here is: should the passport number have any expectations of privacy? It seems like such an easy thing to expose as you literally put it down on every document like hotel check ins etc. AFAIK it's not even a random number and instead it's generated from basic info like birth year/place/gender.

That being said it was a really good blog!

New comment by kabacha in "Instant.page"

kabacha — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:56:46 +0000

Is shaving off 1% really justifies such a hack? The web is already so extremely implicit that even seasoned web-developers are lost in it.

New comment by kabacha in "Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B"

kabacha — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:35:32 +0000

Where are people getting the "decade" number from? Looks demand for RISC-V just went up significantly and it's not like it's broken or not-existing, RISC-V "just worked" a year ago already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19118642

New comment by kabacha in "Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B"

kabacha — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:12:52 +0000

Exactly, Apple is already straddling the line (and imho way past it) on anti-comp laws.

New comment by kabacha in "Why do so many people want us back in the office?"

kabacha — Sun, 13 Sep 2020 11:58:42 +0000

> Who's going to pay for me to upsize my apartment so I can make a home office?

Your company. Offices are pretty expensive, if the company goes remote they have extra capital to distribute during yearly review or whatever policy your company has.

New comment by kabacha in "Launch HN: Tappity (YC S20) – Keeping kids entertained with science"

kabacha — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 06:23:35 +0000

I'm not sure if this too offtopic but does anyone know similar applications for languages for young kids?

New comment by kabacha in "Async Views in Django 3.1"

kabacha — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 03:26:04 +0000

I really don't get this anti-async mentality on HN. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but async is a complete game changer for me as there just so much IO wait in every project I touch. The fact that my program has to stop and wait for something is honestly unacceptable and it's just a logical conclusion to eliminate this blockage.

I worked past 2 years with asyncio and I have to say it still kinda sucks. The syntax is overly verbose and asyncio itself can't decide what it wants to be. However it still works _good_ for the most part and there's an enormous community and effort in this!