Hacker News: koksik202

New comment by koksik202 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

koksik202 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:44:29 +0000

if you pay for service you should receive some guarantees it is your money, it is crazy that there is no cool-off period where you get banned like this even by mistake or by Apple deciding they do not want to offer a service anymore and allow you to take out your stuff before fully shutting down.

New comment by koksik202 in "Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem"

koksik202 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:05:06 +0000

I just use my smart tv as tv and use PS5 as media box avoids all this hassle. There is nothing on cable/satellite tv other than ads anyway

New comment by koksik202 in "I built an ADHD app with interactive coping tools, noise mixer and self-test"

koksik202 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:04:42 +0000

Make the website version when open doesn’t dim the screen

New comment by koksik202 in "McDonald's posts biggest US sales drop since 2020"

koksik202 — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:13:09 +0000

They switched from having grills and some sort of food preparation to pulling stuff from plastic drawers the cooks don’t anymore cook anything they just pull in the food into reheat oven stale cold food goes in stale hot food comes out. It lost all the taste, you can go to Burger King and get a taste of the grilled patties

New comment by koksik202 in "A transport protocol's view of Starlink"

koksik202 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:35:41 +0000

Retransmission and packet loss not shown?

New comment by koksik202 in "BYD EV teardown in Japan reveals secrets to its affordability"

koksik202 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:44:01 +0000

The reason we went with 4y old leaf and not brand new e-up was that it looked like a coffin made out of matchbox. Compared to leaf which is still simple and conventional but has much more space to absorb impact and full of safety features.

New comment by koksik202 in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

koksik202 — Wed, 08 May 2024 08:27:12 +0000

Give me Mac OS bootup on iPad and I am in

Don’t get the hype of the performance and being locked to iPad ecosystem

New comment by koksik202 in "Toyota Patented an EV Manual Transmission That Stalls, so It Feels Real"

koksik202 — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:43:32 +0000

I think they have it figured out and they are just stalling the introduction not because they lack technology but they still own a lot of stake in conventional solutions, they will probably peel away a line of cars soon for western markets that are EV and reduce sales of Corollas/Yaris with petrol engines but they will continue providing pickups/suvs for other markets. It is just they cannot slot a line of EV on top of all of the existing models and variants as they can still reap the reward of the investment they made for conventional cars. They would spread themselves too thin with a line of EVs on top of current portfolio

New comment by koksik202 in "Antarctic sea-ice at 'mind-blowing' low alarms experts"

koksik202 — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 09:54:24 +0000

more area to spread the suburbs to if not covered by ice

New comment by koksik202 in "My smart home almost saved my vacation"

koksik202 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 21:21:19 +0000

This shows how bad we are at wasting resources running AC smart appliances things even when we are not home, I remember going on holiday and parents switching entire house off - electricity, gas, water. We would plan to eat stuff from fridge and freezer and whatever was left give it to relatives. When we came back after a week or two we had spotless freezer ready to go for another year till we do the same thing next summer. We weren’t around there was no waste of running appliances. First world problems like this just make you realize those aren’t real problems

New comment by koksik202 in "How Does a TLS Handshake Work?"

koksik202 — Tue, 16 May 2023 21:21:16 +0000

"by facilitating facilitates" was it just me or does this article reads really badly when it comes to grammar? Feels more like a tech snippet than tech article. It looks like bunch of details thrown together to just generate content.

New comment by koksik202 in "My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account"

koksik202 — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:26:37 +0000

Not this guy again

New comment by koksik202 in "The Cameral Glass on the Google Pixel 7 Shatters Spontaneously"

koksik202 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:45:18 +0000

Hackerman

New comment by koksik202 in "Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine"

koksik202 — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:08:30 +0000

this just bring whole load of new expenses on staffing physical locations creates more problem than it solves

New comment by koksik202 in "Toyota suffered a data breach by accidentally exposing a secret key on GitHub"

koksik202 — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:44:26 +0000

My access got revoked for MyT app and then few days later I was able to bind my vehicle again to profile I wonder if that was caused by this

New comment by koksik202 in "Wizz Air now charging some travellers a strange extra fee (2020)"

koksik202 — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 07:49:37 +0000

I remember using vpn for wizz air bookings as flight I looked at increased 40euro with second search, then I cleared caches and switched vpn on, sure enough same flight didn’t have 40euro increase anymore. This was around 2011-2012 haven’t used them since then.

New comment by koksik202 in "Study finds link between 'forever chemicals' in cookware and liver cancer"

koksik202 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 18:21:01 +0000

Can you recommend a brand?

New comment by koksik202 in "Toyota RAV4 Prime hybrid SUV now selling for 48% over MSRP"

koksik202 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:31:25 +0000

The PHEV in Ireland was €52k when it released in Jan 2022, I ordered it 5 months in advance seems like this model was way cheaper in US and now reaches same price as in Europe?

New comment by koksik202 in "I'm quitting my PhD"

koksik202 — Mon, 23 May 2022 15:15:39 +0000

The opening line about not having prior exposure before PhD is something that makes me wonder if author did have industry experience prior to this undertaking, there are application and network security hands-on problems that can be solved with quantum computing. I have zero practical experience with quantum computing myself but I can count at least 2-3 practical projects I could work on before starting PhD in that field. I wonder if the problem here is author going after PhD in the field without having an idea of what problem author can solve by using quantum computing experiments/projects. (instead of finding solution to problem, looking for problems and having time to experiment/research solutions.)

New comment by koksik202 in "Microplastics found in live human lung tissue"

koksik202 — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 16:29:47 +0000

this website has so many cancer ads hard to trust it...