Hacker News: mkonecny

New comment by mkonecny in "The Nightmare Bicycle"

mkonecny — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:16:37 +0000

On this note, I used to make android apps on the oldest slowest phone I could find. Was always complimented how snappy my apps felt since most users had a modern phone

New comment by mkonecny in "Man ran 700 miles to make 'insanely impressive' art on GPS fitness app"

mkonecny — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:17:23 +0000

For the diagonal lines the runner turned his GPS off at some points, and turned back on at another, causing Strava to fill in the missing data with a diagonal line

New comment by mkonecny in "Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance"

mkonecny — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:32:40 +0000

All Samsung Galaxy phones have a built in desktop OS called Dex. I remember plugging my monitor usb-c cable to charge my phone and being blown away when a desktop UI appeared on the monitor

New comment by mkonecny in "Is the world really running out of sand?"

mkonecny — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:14:36 +0000

A coincidence is not ironic

New comment by mkonecny in "I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate"

mkonecny — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:23:48 +0000

The author explicitly mentions this is how the game is implemented in the first 1/3 of the article

New comment by mkonecny in "Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts"

mkonecny — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:27:55 +0000

Curious which part of this uses AI. Doesnt it just track mouse / keyboard events across the session?

New comment by mkonecny in "ASK HN: What’s a small thing you’ve purchased which has made your life better?"

mkonecny — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:41:31 +0000

From what I understand, you need to use an third party app "Athlytic" to access your HRV data

New comment by mkonecny in "ASK HN: What’s a small thing you’ve purchased which has made your life better?"

mkonecny — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:26:02 +0000

An HRV monitor (whoop, oura, garmin watch) that let me see how much stress I was putting my body when eating unwell / drinking. Has changed me to a much cleaner diet

New comment by mkonecny in "Microwaved plastic containers release microplastics into food"

mkonecny — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 14:56:01 +0000

It's a bit of a misnomer. Steel is literally Iron + Carbon.

So the carbon in carbon steel is redundant

New comment by mkonecny in "Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system"

mkonecny — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:24:32 +0000

How does this work if you run a database insert query from the command line? Or to a remote database?

New comment by mkonecny in "Why isn't Titan classed? (2019)"

mkonecny — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 21:27:49 +0000

And yet they allowed passengers to control the sub. Theres a video out there where one of the passengers hit the ground with a loud thud while at the controls

New comment by mkonecny in "Why does zsh start so slowly?"

mkonecny — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 02:23:24 +0000

You may as well have said "Im glad im not the only one who noticed Linux/Mac OS is slow" or Intel/AMD is slow or bash/fish/ksh is slow

My working understanding is that a program is common to run on these OS'es/hardware/shells :/

New comment by mkonecny in "Lufthansa bans AirTags in checked luggage"

mkonecny — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 22:35:50 +0000

These devices beacon every few seconds to announce their location.

New comment by mkonecny in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)"

mkonecny — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:24:55 +0000

NownPOS | Toronto | Full-Stack Developer | Full Time | https://www.nownpos.com Shape the future of commerce.

NownPOS is an emerging technology company with clients across North America specializing in next generation in-store Point Of Sale (POS) systems.

You will work on strengthening and enhancing our platform with the following

* Mobile app pre-ordering

* Web based pre-ordering

* Digital and physical gift cards

* Native loyalty program

* Bluetooth technology to enable customer recognition once they'be entered a Merchant location

* Real-time reports

* Delivery driver mobile app for assisting and optimizing delivery routes

* Multiple technology stacks on a cloud based platform

* Integration with many third parties service and platforms

Our vision is to bring technology, data and people together to enhance and personalize the human -experience of commerce. Our tools allow brands to personalize each unique experience and interact with their customers like never before. We turn each and every transaction into a meaningful customer interaction.

https://www.nownpos.com

Apply directly at martin@nownpos.com

New comment by mkonecny in "Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available"

mkonecny — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:50:22 +0000

The article mentions you cannot use the app until its been updated

New comment by mkonecny in "Vancouver seaplane company to resume test flights with electric plane"

mkonecny — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:44:42 +0000

Not saying you're wrong, but go read the criticisms of Tesla when it first started, and your comment mirrors those.

Of course there are difficult hurdles to overcome, otherwise everyone would be doing it

New comment by mkonecny in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)"

mkonecny — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:31:01 +0000

NownPOS | Toronto | Full-Stack Developer | Full Time | https://www.nownpos.com

Shape the future of commerce.

NownPOS is an emerging technology company with clients across North America specializing in next generation in-store Point Of Sale (POS) systems.

You will work on strengthening and enhancing our platform with the following

* Mobile app pre-ordering

* Web based pre-ordering

* Digital and physical gift cards

* Native loyalty program

* Bluetooth technology to enable customer recognition once they'be entered a Merchant location

* Real-time reports

* Delivery driver mobile app for assisting and optimizing delivery routes

* Multiple technology stacks on a cloud based platform

* Integration with many third parties service and platforms

https://www.nownpos.com

Apply at careers@nownpos.com

New comment by mkonecny in "Humans Not Invited"

mkonecny — Tue, 05 May 2020 21:12:51 +0000

I dont get it. How would a computer solve this?

New comment by mkonecny in "How to monitor MySQL / MariaDB query progress"

mkonecny — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 01:38:32 +0000

Are you sure? This was the case in mysql 5.5 but 5.6 and up will not take the table offline anymore.

> Several ALTER TABLE operations can be performed without copying the table, without blocking inserts, updates, and deletes to the table, or both. These enhancements are known collectively as online DDL. See Section 14.13, “InnoDB and Online DDL” for details.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/mysql-nutshell.html

New comment by mkonecny in "New, slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, saves water"

mkonecny — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:00:41 +0000

Are we sure this is not a step backwards? We woild benuaing.less water, but filling our lakes with lubricant?