Hacker News: magoon

New comment by magoon in "Learn Makefiles with the Tastiest Examples"

magoon — Tue, 16 May 2023 10:46:00 +0000

I always include Makefiles as a way of documenting useful (short) tasks for developers that are onboarding to projects. It gives them confidence in their ability to pick things up quickly. Whether or not they want to actually use make is up to them, but it’s one more thing they can reference.

New comment by magoon in "Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System"

magoon — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:17:38 +0000

Plex focuses on having a server component that transcodes and their “Plex Pass” service for better connectivity, enabling lightweight native players for all of your devices. This way you can watch any of your content on anything even over cellular, even if it’s a weird format that the device wouldn’t easily support.

This is a departure from the traditional XBMC-on-device that also acts as the client trying to play any format of content.

Kodi is amazing and I’d use it if it weren’t for the fact that I don’t want a new interface, I simply want my “owned” content to show up as Yet Another App on my stream boxes and phones. Plex fits that bill.

New comment by magoon in "Apple Will Not Reinstate Epic’s Fortnite Developer Account"

magoon — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 12:25:59 +0000

Is it possible this graph also reflects that his readers are more likely to employ Safari’s tracker-blocking?

New comment by magoon in "Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews"

magoon — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 11:45:40 +0000

Amazon appears to allow this, judging from their inaction every time I report it.

New comment by magoon in "New in Git: switch and restore"

magoon — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:43:36 +0000

Commands are explicit and shareable. If you’ve mastered then good on you, but it makes you an island.

New comment by magoon in "Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal"

magoon — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 18:01:56 +0000

I’m surprised to hear that bluetooth, GPS, and cellular don’t work in water. I wonder what’s the science behind this.

New comment by magoon in "Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM"

magoon — Sun, 02 May 2021 14:15:44 +0000

While it comes across as an obvious cash grab, the cassette is a compelling feature if you consider that it does 30 washes and has its own memory of how many each has left. While it is 2x-3x the cost of traditional dishwasher pods, they are focusing on convenience — all the way down to automatic delivery and return — which deserves to be recognized as innovation in end-to-end product design, service, fulfillment, and product lifecycle.

New comment by magoon in "Ignoring Docker updates is a paid feature now?"

magoon — Sun, 02 May 2021 12:19:17 +0000

Having been blocked on a customer’s locked-down Windows machine where the security software breaks the update process, this isn’t a welcome change.

New comment by magoon in "Lets talk about changelogs (how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements)"

magoon — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 13:51:44 +0000

What it takes to get through app review

New comment by magoon in "Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed"

magoon — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 06:01:23 +0000

Looking beyond the obvious problem here, just curious why the admin ran chkdsk /f for no reason, then did it on 6 more systems after observing it caused ntfs failure.

New comment by magoon in "Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal"

magoon — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:08:52 +0000

I find it hard to move from vim because of its ubiquity. Same with bash.

New comment by magoon in "A Guy Walks into an Apple Store"

magoon — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:30:21 +0000

By removing the charger from the package, you may have to buy a charger that comes in its own packaging. Net new waste.

Including the charger in the package was actually the best way to prevent additional waste.

Moreover, an iPhone box is potentially an item people will not throw out, while the charger packaging is.

New comment by magoon in "The Oldschool PC Font Pack v2.0"

magoon — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:13:24 +0000

A trip down memory lane, bringing back so much just looking at the fonts. It’s amazing how much I associate each company’s historical fonts with their brand.

New comment by magoon in "Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate phone calls"

magoon — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 22:12:09 +0000

I never call until I’ve exhausted all self service options.

I don’t need to be told every time “Did you know...you can find us online to X, Y, and Z?”

Verizon customers are paying more because they expect more, so this move by them is disappointing.

New comment by magoon in "Heat Pump Water Heaters"

magoon — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:28:25 +0000

My electric bill has gone down over 30% per month after getting one of these. Replaced a super old electric unit. Many states have rebates that an installer can have applied when getting the part from the supplier. For me this cut the whole cost in half. It paid for itself in less than a year. And now my basement is dry and cool in the summer without running a dehumidifier.

You might ask, if these are so great then why aren’t people yelling it from the hilltops? They are, but nobody’s listening.

New comment by magoon in "Why does gigabit internet via coax cable not offer symmetrical speed like fiber?"

magoon — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 06:40:22 +0000

Not mentioned, they don’t want to support residential customers serving web sites (or anything else)

New comment by magoon in "Half an operating system: The triumph and tragedy of OS/2 (2013)"

magoon — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:33:45 +0000

Little-known fact: Windows of today is an entirely different OS than early DOS-based Windows because Microsoft took ownership of the 386-based “OS/2 3.0” codebase it jointly developed with IBM, forming the foundation for Windows NT 3 which all modern Windows is based on. This gave them the huge head start in having a modern enterprise-grade operating system that allowed them to dominate the market.

New comment by magoon in "History of Fidonet (1993)"

magoon — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:26:58 +0000

Running a FidoNet-connected BBS meant I had direct access to read every EchoMail group I could subscribe my BBS to. At the time it was a great source of real, insightful written conversation. Because the readers were text-based, and it was all on my hard drive, I could consume postings at such great speed. (spacebar, spacebar, spacebar...)

The memories.

New comment by magoon in "Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day"

magoon — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:51:10 +0000

This is overblown.

Disney+ was mostly fine all day for everybody I know. I consider it a successful launch by any measure.

New comment by magoon in "A 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out Rockets"

magoon — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:11:11 +0000

When this technology can exist in space, earth will have orbiting shipyards building space craft.