Hacker News: mindok

New comment by mindok in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

mindok — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:51:32 +0000

50mm/2” PVC pipe with a bit of beeswax on the end to protect your lips is a quick way to test out whether you want to spend the time to track down a proper didgeridoo.

New comment by mindok in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

mindok — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:12:39 +0000

I’m convinced that 70% of the workforce of some large organisations is just white collar welfare / adult day care already. Maybe that goes to 80+% as a result of “AI” but doesn’t fundamentally change the model.

New comment by mindok in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

mindok — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:07:34 +0000

Not quite 1000 on Codex as of last day or two!

New comment by mindok in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

mindok — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:19:51 +0000

Does it fully replicate XCode preview and torch your CPU for a full 5 minutes?

New comment by mindok in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

mindok — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:38:25 +0000

I may be wrong, but the simulators seem to be Intel binaries which mess with audio since the last macOS update I did, so no zoom calls with XCode open for me.

New comment by mindok in "San Francisco to offer free childcare to people making up to $230k"

mindok — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:53:03 +0000

“Free”. Presumably tax payer funded in actuality.

New comment by mindok in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

mindok — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:44:34 +0000

And the title bars of the windows. On a 13” screen, that’s a fair percentage of available screen real estate down the toilet

New comment by mindok in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

mindok — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:42:00 +0000

From a company that spent decades harping on about taste, usability, human interface guidelines etc, it’s a train wreck. If Microsoft did it you’d just shrug your shoulders and carry on with life because good taste and usability was never a core promise.

New comment by mindok in "Swift on FreeBSD Preview"

mindok — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:51:18 +0000

Let’s be honest. It’s a mess targeting iOS. It’s like the old days with VB - first 80% done in no time, last 20% takes forever, requiring ever more elaborate hacks to get around stupid restrictions (eg try hiding the keyboard associated with a TextField when you tap on a Picker).

New comment by mindok in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

mindok — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:27:30 +0000

If the objective is to put files where you can’t find them again, I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better alternative.

New comment by mindok in "Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years"

mindok — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:23:28 +0000

Indeed. That was the very company I was thinking of! The Mincom EAM product (Ellipse) now sits with Hitachi and their technical mining products found their way to Datamine after ABB acquired Mincom, then divested the acquired assets a few years later. The resources sector has a gazillion lines of FORTRAN, some of it freshly coded (new codebase) within the last 10 years, believe it or not.

New comment by mindok in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

mindok — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 03:09:57 +0000

Hope you just overlooked the auto-playing video ads due to the pressure of the interview. When can you start?

New comment by mindok in "Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years"

mindok — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:59:16 +0000

ERPs supporting complex asset maintenance (eg mineral processing plants in the middle of nowhere) have a different flavour of complexity, although you could argue they are EAMs.

New comment by mindok in "Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions"

mindok — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:33:06 +0000

Cow poo and periodic trampling are an incredibly important part of topsoil development in a number of ecosystems - eg prairies.

New comment by mindok in "The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history"

mindok — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:44:28 +0000

Not in Australia. Our dollar has taken a beating too. I guess digging holes and selling property to each other at ever higher prices isn’t that interesting to the rest of the economic world.

New comment by mindok in "The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering"

mindok — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:10:06 +0000

“Actually - curly braces help save space in the context while making meaning clearer”

New comment by mindok in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

mindok — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 08:26:57 +0000

Not the original commenter, but it regularly fails to update emails unless it is restarted. Last 2 major iOS versions have had the same problem for me. That’s a fundamental functionality failure in my book.

New comment by mindok in "Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2021)"

mindok — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 08:36:36 +0000

Is it still like the archeological dig that was Windows 10 settings?

New comment by mindok in "Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times"

mindok — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:59:35 +0000

Yeah - next door didn’t enjoy the arrival of the rock breaker!

New comment by mindok in "GUIs are built at least 2.5 times"

mindok — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:58:31 +0000

100%. Designers in love with white space should not design UIs for engineers (or anyone who lives their professional life in Excel). Lots of margin, padding, drop shadows, ‘round-lg’ etc might look pretty, but when you can only fit two numbers on a page it doesn’t help.