Hacker News: knifie_spoonie

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?"

knifie_spoonie — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:21:03 +0000

I'm curious which devices did you need to replace the port on?

I've had to replace a few cables, but have never had issues with USB-C sockets.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins"

knifie_spoonie — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:02:57 +0000

It's interesting how different people's perception of what is ancient or not.

From the title I was assuming something around about 0 BCE, but it turns out to be a 17th century factory.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Show HN: Flutter_compositions: Vue-inspired reactive building blocks for Flutter"

knifie_spoonie — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:33:38 +0000

Why not? I'm a Flutter dev, and this might actually be useful for me.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses"

knifie_spoonie — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:48:58 +0000

Wearing sunglasses apparently helps. You just need to make sure they have a proper UV rating, a lot of the cheap ones you get online don't do a good job of blocking UV.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

knifie_spoonie — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:03:38 +0000

I get that too. I was wondering if it was just me.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock"

knifie_spoonie — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:22:26 +0000

It was Bush who signed the bailout bill, not Obama.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups"

knifie_spoonie — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:08:06 +0000

Developers getting paid better is a good thing, surely?

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips"

knifie_spoonie — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:30:58 +0000

I don't think they're referring at all to any similarities in how they're produced.

It's more to do with similarities in the consequences of not have any local supply in times of emergency.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Indian Sign Painting: A typeface designer's take on the craft"

knifie_spoonie — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:29:24 +0000

Do you have any links that we can check out? I'm curious to see what they look like now.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Intel CEO Letter to Employees"

knifie_spoonie — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:43:13 +0000

You left out the best part at the end "...before tape-out"

So, he's going to wait until the tape out stage of a major new chip design before he reviews it? Bold move.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

knifie_spoonie — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 04:08:36 +0000

Commercial aircraft pilots are also much better trained than car drivers.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Australians to face age checks from search engines"

knifie_spoonie — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:26:22 +0000

Education.

I really wish all this time, effort, and money was spent on educating our kids to safely navigate the online world.

It's not like they'll magically figure it out for themselves once they turn 17.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Touching the back wall of the Apple store"

knifie_spoonie — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:50:23 +0000

Just to be clear, you never actually spoke to one of the staff and said you'd like to purchase something?

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard"

knifie_spoonie — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:23:15 +0000

Indeed. There were survivors from that horrific Korean flight that crashed into the concrete wall.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe"

knifie_spoonie — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:57:25 +0000

Probably, but I doubt there'd be much flavour

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war"

knifie_spoonie — Mon, 12 May 2025 09:17:23 +0000

I've driven many cars over the years. Not once has a vent ever broken.

Which cars are you driving where they break often?

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Oracle engineers caused five days software outage at U.S. hospitals"

knifie_spoonie — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 09:25:02 +0000

I was at Uni in Australia well before Oracle bought Sun. Java was used quite extensively then too.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "Recall going back into Windows"

knifie_spoonie — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:46:23 +0000

Not at the operating system level, but there is a Mac app called ScreenMemory which does mostly the same thing.

I used to use it as a convenient way to find websites that I had read something about in the recent past but couldn't remember exactly where.

I mainly stopped using it because it was causing performance problems.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "US Marines to get high-speed, radar-evading electric seagliders for rescue ops"

knifie_spoonie — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:18:24 +0000

I'm guessing modern sensors and fly-by-wire systems might at least handle the last part.

New comment by knifie_spoonie in "What to Do"

knifie_spoonie — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 07:34:52 +0000

> With his multiple endorsements of MAGA

Do you have a source for this that I can read up on?