Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275003

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271937

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160947

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There is a real chance he caused needless pain, with long draw out procedure with insufficient anesthetic.

I don't think once this is established in enterprises it is going to stop there.

Heck, many websites I visit on the web cannot understand why I, a Ghanaian living in Ghana, might be interested in the service offered or the information therein. I am sometimes blocked for no good reason.

If you are in a third world country, the web is extra hostile. This is going make things worse.

Consciousness does not necessarily arise from computation, just as simulating snowfall on the computer does not make it cold

One more example: Whenever I navigate to the Hacker News login page in the mobile browsers on my old iPad, I see: “Sorry”, just that, no other explanation. So I am unable to login, but all other HM pages seem to display fine.

In particular its crazy how connections and cables of all sorts are unreliable now, especially stuff that has to be plugged in and unplugged: USB, Bluetooth, etc.

Forget the ridiculous AI hype, forget about the lack of ethics and a moral compass; What's getting to me right now is the unreliability of it all. It seems like everything is held together with duct tape, and the tape is falling off.

Just in the last few months, all these have happened:

- My Macbook Air M1 has been acting up, refusing to charge in a stable manner. The audio jack is dead because apparently it is linked to the charging circuit. The screen sometimes shows a tint on a whim. Now it is dead and not charging at all. Granted, it has otherwise been a fine machine so far, and I've knocked it over a few times, but still. Even my old trusty 2014 Macbook Pro is still going strong, and I've abused that one much more.

- I also can't use my old Macbook Pro well, because the replacement Transcend 256GB SSD I put in it around 2020 is now failing, causing the machine to unpredictably become very slow. Also, the HP business keyboard I bought some years ago is suddenly now emitting spurious key signals, which MacOS (curse its over-reliance on weird key combinations and gestures) is interpreting to do wild things, like repeatedly showing the desktop while I'm working, or zooming in and out repeatedly.

- I thought I could use my old iPad in the meantime, but it can't connect to the WiFi hotspot on my iPhone, only a normal WiFi. I thought WiFi was just WiFi?

- The Dell travel hub I bought a few years ago seems to not work on a whim when I try to use it to make an HDMI connection between my Macbook and my Samsung monitor. About 50% of the time, it simply does not work, no matter what I do. I tried using my Roku ox to cast my screen, but the Roku remote suddenly does not work. I also tried my old Apple TV; its remote was also not working properly. After somehow getting to work to connect to WiFi, the Apple TV also does not work, giving some cryptic error messages.

- A few days ago, my iPhone 12 mini simply refused to charge from my USB-C to lightning cable, no matter what I did, for hours. I borrowed a similar cable from a friend, it also did not work. So my phone died when I needed it. When I got home, I was able to charge with a USB-A to lightning cable.

- Whenever I plug in the external Crucial SSD I bought a few years ago and partitioned, it does not show up in Finder on macOS. I almost always have to go in the Disk Utility to mount the partitions.

- My Sony Bravia TV died suddenly after like 7 years. I took it to some repairers; they said the entire screen is kaput.

All these have happened in the last three months. At this point I'm ready to give up; I plan to be very minimalist with my tech purchases (including Apple stuff), only getting the minimal stuff I need mostly for work, and keeping in mind that most of what I buy is throwaway, likely to stop working in a few years at most, and when you least expect that.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056900

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050134

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My experience was kind of opposite, but still bad nonetheless. I lost domains I had with them simply because I lost the phone I used for 2FA. After several calls to them, they requested some info. I supplied all they wanted, but it took them more than a year to get back to me, by which time I had lost all interest in maintaining domains with them.

Luckily these were not critical domains; I had bought them in anticipation of building a business on them.

I am moving my domains to CloudFlare.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022181

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From TFA:

> “Francesco and Giovanni, a young member of the family, both traveled 25 years apart to areas of Tuscany which were known for malaria,” Giuffra said.

“The court physicians tried to discourage some members of the Medici family from doing these trips, especially in autumn, which was a season particularly favorable for malaria...”

As I understand it, some malaria parasites can remain dormant in the body for a long time. Clinical symptoms develop once the parasite burden and immune response become sufficient to cause illness.

Not sure if the couple had made trips to Tuscany before the last one, but it is interesting they found two species of malaria pathogens.

I thought that was also an interesting angle to consider.

If Cape Coast Castle is described as "world renowned", then Elmina should be as well. I live in Ghana their popularity is almost evenly matched.

Also Elmina castle is the oldest and largest European building in existence in sub-Saharan Africa.

One more thing, it is kind of hard to click on specific dots when they are so clustered together. I had to zoom in a lot to see and be able to click on some of the castles I knew were there.

I'd rather trust the Nytimes and the UK intelligence who have confirmed these losses, than some random website pushing an agenda.

By hey, if it makes you happy to create you own reality, you do you.