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New comment by minutillo in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

minutillo — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:57 +0000

There is (since 2023) a train that connects directly from Grand Central to JFK AirTrain.

New comment by minutillo in "Is 2026 next year?"

minutillo — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:30:04 +0000

This demonstrates three problems, in order of severity:

1) The answer is hilariously wrong.

2) The LLM doesn't (can't) know the answer is wrong - it happily spits out garbage.

3) Not one single person at google who can influence this gives a shit. Complete nonsense is now at the top of the screen on every search.

New comment by minutillo in "3,200% CPU Utilization"

minutillo — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:01:29 +0000

Step 1: get it to zero

Step 2: -Werror

Step 3: there is no step 3

New comment by minutillo in "Toyota completes phase 1 construction of futuristic city"

minutillo — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:37:52 +0000

To be fair, 'Daisuke Toyoda, an executive in charge of the project from the automaker’s founding family, stressed it’s not “a smart city.”'.

New comment by minutillo in "Sublinear Time Algorithms"

minutillo — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:06:20 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore_string-sea...

New comment by minutillo in "Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2"

minutillo — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 17:28:51 +0000

It goes back ever further, Java 1.2 was marketed by Sun as "Java 2".

https://web.archive.org/web/19991010063140/http://java.sun.c...

New comment by minutillo in "eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive"

minutillo — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:50:34 +0000

Google Twitter-bis was called Google Buzz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz

New comment by minutillo in "Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?"

minutillo — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:28:25 +0000

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/159jojs/scienti...

New comment by minutillo in "The ‘Threads’ App Is Filled with Deceptive Dark Design Patterns"

minutillo — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:45:52 +0000

On iOS you can easily check what permissions an app has in Settings. For instance I can see I have granted Instagram access to location, microphone, camera, photo album. Threads has none of those. I don't use Health and I'm not sure what financial data would mean, Apple Pay? That's approved per each use.

If threads has figured out a way to collect those things without having permissions, then yes, that would be the darkest of dark patterns.

New comment by minutillo in "The ‘Threads’ App Is Filled with Deceptive Dark Design Patterns"

minutillo — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 19:05:31 +0000

Previous discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36640720

New comment by minutillo in "The ‘Threads’ App Is Filled with Deceptive Dark Design Patterns"

minutillo — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 18:14:50 +0000

Does this link work for you?

https://www.threads.net/t/Cu2Ps0mJ4Hv/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA...

New comment by minutillo in "The ‘Threads’ App Is Filled with Deceptive Dark Design Patterns"

minutillo — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 17:21:35 +0000

Oh god, why am I about to defend zucc? Anyway this article seems to be 100% wrong.

1-5: True but not dark patterns. Yes they are using the IG user base to bootstrap the threads user base. So what? Was it a dark pattern when google came out with docs and everybody already had an account?

6: Come on, threads asks for permission to send notifications just like every other app, and sends them at a very normal frequency for a social app, in fact if anything a bit less than IG, twitter, etc. Just say no when it asks for permission. Not a dark pattern.

7: Also not a dark pattern. Yes I'm sure the app reported that I liked a picture of a prothonotary warbler to the facebook ad targeting mainframe. Senator, we run ads.

8: As far as I can tell completely wrong. Threads doesn't have access to my location, health data, or financial data?!

9: Right, you can't use threads unless you have threads. Your FOMO is not a dark pattern.

10: False, there is a read-only website. It is very limited but it supports permalinks to threads, and from there you can navigate to user profiles, other threads, etc.

11: Not even wrong, just speculation.

New comment by minutillo in "A chimpanzee brought Xerox to the masses"

minutillo — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:49:29 +0000

Some examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007385

New comment by minutillo in "US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles"

minutillo — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:36:24 +0000

The "source" of that Ben Rich quote is a MUFON article by Tom Keller, more amazing quotes: https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/opinion/editorials/201...

New comment by minutillo in "GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help"

minutillo — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:56:02 +0000

Well I have good news for you: you won't need to change your phone! Because they aren't supporting Android Auto either.

New comment by minutillo in "GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help"

minutillo — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:46:36 +0000

Also getting rid of Android Auto, according to the original source:

General Motors plans to phase out widely-used Apple CarPlay and Android Auto technologies that allow drivers to bypass a vehicle's infotainment systems, shifting instead to built-in infotainment systems developed with Google for future electric vehicles.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gm-plans-phase-apple-carplay-...

New comment by minutillo in "Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK"

minutillo — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:32:50 +0000

Yes, many cars with various levels of self-driving are available. Almost every car maker now has basic lane following and adaptive cruise control. Some add navigation, lane changing, and the ability to obey traffic signals. GM has a system called Super Cruise that allows the driver to take their hands off the wheel. Mercedes has Drive Pilot which is the first level 3 self driving system.

Google has not released anything.

New comment by minutillo in "Safest Places to Travel – 2023 (Especially for New Solo Beginners)"

minutillo — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:53:45 +0000

Based on https://www.bhtp.com/blog/safest-places-to-travel:

Berkshire Hathaway Travel Protection has a long history of asking travelers where they’re going, why they’re traveling, and what constitutes a safe destination to them. We conducted our first traveler research in 2016 and have been doing studies ever since.

In our survey, we ask people where they’ve traveled in the last five years, and only the people who have visited specific countries are allowed to rate those countries on safety.

New comment by minutillo in "Why Alexa won't wake up when hearing "Alexa" in Amazon's Super Bowl ad (2019)"

minutillo — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:02:59 +0000

And the suggestions will restart in a few days. What we did is add "stop by the way" as a custom command to our "goodnight" routine, so the thing is reminded every single night that these suggestions are unwelcome. The annoyance maximization team at amazon hasn't deployed countermeasures to this yet.

New comment by minutillo in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

minutillo — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:47:09 +0000

I worked on a project (not cars, phones) where we replaced an older model that was operated through buttons and LEDs with a newer model that was just a giant multitouch screen. Surprisingly to me, it was way, way cheaper! And cheaper in multiple dimensions: the hardware buttons and LEDs weren't just more expensive, they implied a multi-step manufacturing and testing process on every unit. The touch screen was relatively standard and just came as an integrated assembly from a supplier.

We also went through a phase where we had a hybrid interface, the most common interactions done through hardware controls, everything else on the touch screen. There was always some level of regret associated with the hardware stuff, like we had some extra LED we never actually needed or just one more button would have been nice.