Hacker News: lifeisgood99

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto"

lifeisgood99 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:20:09 +0000

It would be very simple to write out details but make them harder to access. Motivated users will find them.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

lifeisgood99 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:56:24 +0000

Exfiltrated to Vancouver or London where the wife and kids live most likely.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

lifeisgood99 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:49:22 +0000

The ships are already making the trip carrying cars, furniture, medical equipment, and all kinds of critical things. The drop shipped trinkets basically hitch a ride for free.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

lifeisgood99 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:05:27 +0000

What are North American people doing for replacing contactless payment? Last time I checked, the solution was to use Curve but it only works for Europe.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Show HN: Voice Age Verification"

lifeisgood99 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:33:41 +0000

ASL is literally a meme that everyone is an old male predator on the internet.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

lifeisgood99 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:57:39 +0000

Sure. And you wouldn't need phishing protections if users had brains. But then you run into real users so hand-holding solutions start to make sense.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "I want to live like Costco people"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:57:34 +0000

I shop at Costco not because of the price or the bulk formats. It's not always a good deal vs other places. The value to me is not having to worry about quality. Any product that is not satisfactory gets returned with no hassle.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "I want to live like Costco people"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:53:02 +0000

Actual specialty shops survive just fine. There's plenty of value in real expertise. Run-of-the-mill stores selling the same commodity at a higher price are simply inefficient.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Scientists are working on "everything vaccines""

lifeisgood99 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:50:38 +0000

There's no wise guiding force behind evolution. It's all guesswork.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown"

lifeisgood99 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:28:13 +0000

A better example would be requiring the mailman to obtain written permission to step on your property every day. Convenience trumps maximal security for most people.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance"

lifeisgood99 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:01:06 +0000

15 mins in. It's terrible. How is this allowed on the roads?

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Leaving the U.S. for the Netherlands"

lifeisgood99 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:59:16 +0000

If the boat is sinking, I wouldn't stay on.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:50:27 +0000

He was also pardoned by Trump.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 01 May 2025 13:39:25 +0000

Teams at Microsoft operate like their own mini companies. For example, moving to a different team usually requires doing an interview loop, with coding challenges.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025"

lifeisgood99 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:21:11 +0000

The simplest explanation would be that those shell extensions have poor performance.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

lifeisgood99 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:54:01 +0000

I'm having the same experience. On one of my packages, the sender address was a local warehouse. I suspect Ali is warehousing outside of China.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

lifeisgood99 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:42:22 +0000

Chrome is no longer available on my machine. It hasn't been for some years now but still.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning"

lifeisgood99 — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:02:10 +0000

The SVG created for the first prompt is valid but is a garbage image.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "How good are American roads?"

lifeisgood99 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:48:43 +0000

The Quebec road industry has historically been corrupt.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-roadwork-indu... and many many other reports.

New comment by lifeisgood99 in "Ford to Halt F-150 Lightning Production as EV Demand Wanes"

lifeisgood99 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:43:52 +0000

Tell your people to stop buying.