Hacker News: peregren

New comment by peregren in "Ask HN: If you can't find a job(in tech), why not create one"

peregren — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:30:05 +0000

I think you should link the YouTune video!

New comment by peregren in "AirPods Pro case converted from Lightning to USB-C with open-source PCB"

peregren — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:27:45 +0000

You mean you get different earphones entirely that are clones of Airpods Pro from china?

New comment by peregren in "Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)"

peregren — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 16:29:44 +0000

Can you explain the relationship between the penalty and geopolitics?

New comment by peregren in "Xbox Series X|S Has Outsold PS5 in Japan Again"

peregren — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:08:17 +0000

The weekly figures are also much much better for switch, so the gap in cumulative scales is only growing right now.

New comment by peregren in "Wild turtles age slowly, and some basically don’t age at all"

peregren — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 14:51:59 +0000

Yes the coin of death remembers how lucky you were in your eighties and skews towards tails in your 90s. Still 50/50 as its a coin.

New comment by peregren in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

peregren — Tue, 17 May 2022 19:57:39 +0000

That’s splitting hairs. Premium ≠ Best in all components. And the iPhone 12 and 13 have sold pretty well by all reports so the screen size is the only differentiator feature wise. (And battery which is unavoidable)

New comment by peregren in "Europe Is Building an International Facial Recognition System"

peregren — Sun, 10 Apr 2022 13:21:58 +0000

In Ireland the legislation enabling government restrictions for covid expired, and the government who enacted that legislation have to desire to renew it. So it's not always extended ad infinitum.

New comment by peregren in "The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996"

peregren — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:41:10 +0000

You also get to live in the house which is a pretty good return.

New comment by peregren in "Does the EU's ban on RT also ban Tor?"

peregren — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:42:19 +0000

Do you think Russia are being unfairly demonised by western countries right now? Is the invasion of Ukraine, + war crimes in some way just?

New comment by peregren in "Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B"

peregren — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 11:04:53 +0000

Couple of possible factors (with speculation)

— Most apps nudge you to accept tracking before the dialog comes up. Probably influences some users - A lot of people probably don’t even read the dialog properly. - a lot of people who have apps like facebook installed are either unaware of the tracking stuff or don’t care

New comment by peregren in "Apple Reports First Quarter Results"

peregren — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:12:56 +0000

Does your hope have any foundation in reality?

New comment by peregren in "Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons"

peregren — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:50:33 +0000

Too cheap for who?

There are carbon taxes being implemented and on the whole i think they are good. But combined with the current spike in energy prices, they are hammering some people.

New comment by peregren in "BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen"

peregren — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 12:42:38 +0000

You are giving this Conservative government far to much credit. Their entire track record in government is full of poorly thought out sweeping changes. (See the entire Brexit process)

New comment by peregren in "More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’"

peregren — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 18:42:36 +0000

The vaccine may have kept you out of ICU. It doesn't seem logical to change to a "let the chips fall where they may" based on this experience.

New comment by peregren in "Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test"

peregren — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 23:21:27 +0000

If the other party is 100% at fault, why should they not pay for the damage they caused?

And its not “cheap” to not get comprehensive insurance. Its a calculated risk.

New comment by peregren in "Covid-19: Runny nose, headache, and fatigue are commonest symptoms of omicron"

peregren — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:57:11 +0000

What matters is how much pressure it puts on the health system. There are 3 things to consider here:

1. how many people end up in ICU (which for Omicron we don't know yet), and at what point ICU becomes overwhelmed in a given region. Once the ICU capacity is exceeded, the mortality rates for bad cases goes way up.

2. How many illnesses unrelated to Covid go untreated due to load on the health system, and subsequently how many excess deaths this causes.

3. After 5-6 months, a lot of vaccine immunity starts dropping off. A regions capacity to get booster doses delivered makes a difference here.

New comment by peregren in "What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining"

peregren — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:25:57 +0000

The chances are, if it's inhospitable to dining outside, it's a road[1] or a stroad[2], not a street[3]. And its not snobbish to want places that are a little more friendly to people.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroad [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street

New comment by peregren in "How do you fix a stroad?"

peregren — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:46:36 +0000

I used to agree that these things take a long time, but since the pandemic my local council in Ireland has acted very quickly to build excellent bike infrastructure and curtail car access to village spaces [1]. Many roads got changed to one-way, to make way for segregated bike lanes. Pre-pandemic, there was dallying for years over building this stuff, but now its there, and the world hasn't imploded for motorists, and local businesses and residents are 99% very happy.

Of course when local government doesn't have the will it won't happen, but if they do, it can happen very quickly.

[1] https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/civic-amenities-urban-design/dlr-c...

New comment by peregren in "Renault Zoe NCAP crash rating: zero stars [pdf]"

peregren — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 16:38:27 +0000

Bough appliances this summer and there was a mix between the old and the new system all over the appliance stores!

New comment by peregren in "Ask HN: How can leave my comfortable old job for a new one?"

peregren — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 17:43:36 +0000

Thanks. I would have thought this also, but then when my team was hiring this year, the interview questions were quite closely linked to our tech stack (which wouldn't have been my preference). Even though we also can end up moving tech stack entirely, between projects.