Hacker News: n6242

New comment by n6242 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

n6242 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:11:36 +0000

> The football league would rather not have pirates livestream their ~90 minute games.

Funny enough, I work in IT and I've had to use a VPN to be able to do my job when soccer is on, but my two non-tech-savy family members that do watch soccer using pirate livestreams say that they've never had any issues with blocked streams.

New comment by n6242 in "The MacBook Neo"

n6242 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:48:28 +0000

It's last year's. I read a few weeks ago that they ditched the "Pro Premium" madness naming scheme and they're back to just XPS .

New comment by n6242 in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

n6242 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:41:03 +0000

> I think it is just us getting old.

I don't think it's that. I've used Linux since high school as well and use Mac occasionally and I get the same feeling that Mac is weird and nonsensical.

The reason I'm pretty sure it's something intrinsical to Mac and not age, is that is that I also use Windows now and then and while I don't like it and I have lots of complaints about it, I find Windows in general does make more sense to me then Mac. It's just crappy and clunky and closed, but it's generally pretty straightforward.

And I've had people tell me that since Mac is unix compliant it's very similar to Linux but I've never found that to be the case. Mac in general is obtuse, poorly documented, rarely configurable, and I always get the impression they like to do everything based on some weird sense of aesthetic that they've cultivated over the years that seems to work for people fully invested in the Apple ecosystem but just makes no sense to anybody else.

New comment by n6242 in "Japan's Nikkei surpasses 1989 all-time high"

n6242 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:06:01 +0000

thank you for clarifying, the grandparent comment made no sense

New comment by n6242 in "Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games"

n6242 — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:26:00 +0000

To me at least, I liked Kingdom Hearts as a kid despite the Disney stuff, not thanks to it. I played it after Final Fantasy IX and X so I really enjoyed the change from turn-based combat.

New comment by n6242 in "Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not"

n6242 — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 09:26:53 +0000

But VR has been going on for a while now. I have a VR headset, I use it occasionally and I love it because it allows things that wouldn't be possible in any other platform. But strapping something on my face is not something I'd want to ever use as my main system. It's like a racing wheel, you use it for some games but it doesn't replace a controller so it's just a very niche product.

New comment by n6242 in "Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down"

n6242 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:57:13 +0000

They need more data to verify that the camera isn't also upside down.

New comment by n6242 in "Culture Change at Google"

n6242 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 12:14:56 +0000

Language should be adequate to the context of a conversation. If you were writing a legal document, or some policy for a kindergarten it might make sense to make that distinction, but this is a public forum with many non-native speakers. Parents is a concept pretty much all of us are familiar with and if you say parents we'll understand you mean people using the service because they care for young kids.

New comment by n6242 in "Comics I Loved in 2023"

n6242 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 13:28:20 +0000

Just yesterday I was looking at a list of American films released in 2023 and there were more than three hundred [1]. Considering that a movie takes a whole team of people to make but a comic only one or two, they're much easier to distribute especially digitally, and comics are popular also in Asia and Europe, I would say there's at least several thousands of them published every year (without even counting that many have monthly issues).

Edit: Another interesting data point, there were more than 14000 games released just on Steam last year [2]. So I think it's not crazy to assume there's also several thousands of comics.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2023

2: https://gamerant.com/games-released-steam-2023-record-number...

New comment by n6242 in "Lessons on building business value"

n6242 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:48:34 +0000

> And they get selected based on their track record of effective allocation of those resources.

I've seen too many managers fail upwards to truly believe that is true in general. In plenty of companies connections are just as or more important than being effective at allocating resources.

New comment by n6242 in "Why if TYPE_CHECKING?"

n6242 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:39:20 +0000

I've had to work on a PHP project recently and it's horrible. Mypy has many pitfalls and it's not great, but at least it's entirely optional, so you can work around the issues or ignore some types until you can fix it or do some refactoring. Typescript might be a different language but it's the best implementation of adding types to a language I've seen so far.

New comment by n6242 in "Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?"

n6242 — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 09:39:34 +0000

Started using Obsidian a couple months back but the default line-spacing was really bothering me, I'm pretty sure I found your theme looking for something with better line spacing and I've been using it since, so thank you.

New comment by n6242 in "Unity Software with a 'company reset' walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal"

n6242 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:37:33 +0000

> If they had bought Unity they wouldn't have needed Lumberyard.

As far as I know, there have been many attempts to make a non-mobile MMORPG in Unity and they've all ended in failure.

New comment by n6242 in "GIMP 3.0 has a release schedule"

n6242 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:07:13 +0000

As someone who's used gimp for more than 10 years because it covers all my needs without issues, and I can work reasonable efficiently because I've already memorised its UI and quirks...

Yes, the frustration most people have is because Gimp has made actually bad choices about placement and design of its features, not just that they took a different path.

At this point I've got muscle memory for many things, but I still sometimes find myself frustrated about the UI being so bad.

New comment by n6242 in "Developer account removed by Apple"

n6242 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 18:48:03 +0000

Having a warranty or a return policy is not a human right either, yet companies are obligated by law to do it (at least here in Europe) because otherwise companies would just say "you knew what you were getting when you bought it" and not give a damn as long as they profit from it, just like apple is doing here.

New comment by n6242 in "OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster"

n6242 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:46:04 +0000

Not saying the kid can't be a genius, but grandparent discussing math with the kid and incentivising him to learn is probably a massive boost to his development. It's not the same as having to go to the library and teach yourself. Still, props to the kid though.

New comment by n6242 in "The evolution of expert communities"

n6242 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:39:43 +0000

While I personally really enjoy jokes I agree that they can add a lot of noise in online communities. I'd love to find a bunch of other "serious only" communities for other topics I enjoy, I'd then read the no-jokes ones during breakfast and the joke-filled ones in the evening. But it seems quite unlikely, unless I build an extension that filters content based on sentiment analysis or something similar.

New comment by n6242 in "'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps"

n6242 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:21:49 +0000

Years ago there was this elephant at the zoo pacing at his enclosure. I spent 30 minutes watching, and while it didn't explicitly mention anything about feeling existential dread or despair, it certainly looked like it did.

New comment by n6242 in "The killer features of the Steam Deck"

n6242 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:00:49 +0000

At least for me, reading requires significantly more concentration, comprehension and imagination than watching a movie, which is completely passive. Especially when reading/watching in English which is my second language.

Games are harder to compare as they're pretty active, it probably depends on the game.

New comment by n6242 in "US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells"

n6242 — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 09:13:13 +0000

I was thinking you could cover the moon in rotating mirrors to redirect the light to solar panels. And if they can be controlled independently, you can tweak them and basically use the surface of the moon as a giant display, who wouldn't want the moon to look like a giant Apple logo?