Hacker News: rafael_c

New comment by rafael_c in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

rafael_c — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:09:15 +0000

Have you tried Chromecast 4k, though? I’ve bought one, as my LG TV’s webOS became so sluggish that it became pretty much unusable.

I have an Apple TV 4k in the living room and it’s great, but I find myself drawn to the Chromecast experience way more. Apple TV is more refined, but Chromecast’s remote is far better than ATV’s (1st gen, at least) and Google’s voice assistant is obviously far smarter (especially if you’re multilingual).

New comment by rafael_c in "The rise of lonely, single men"

rafael_c — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:08:27 +0000

Weird to see such a poorly-written article on the front-page of HN. Full of dubious and unsourced claims, weird choice of terminology, etc.

It reads as if written by an undergrad.

New comment by rafael_c in "Incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, bad journalism"

rafael_c — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 03:52:49 +0000

Is there any way to omit web sites such as forbes.com, Buzzfeed and Business Insider from my google searches?

New comment by rafael_c in "Jony Ive on What He Misses Most About Steve Jobs"

rafael_c — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:42:44 +0000

Try this link: https://onlineteachingjobs.site/2021/10/04/jony-ive-talks-ab...

New comment by rafael_c in "Tell HN: You can block YouTube ads on iOS 15 using Safari Extensions"

rafael_c — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 19:46:15 +0000

Videos are all capped at 720p, though, right?

New comment by rafael_c in "Telling the Bees"

rafael_c — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 04:17:18 +0000

Well-wishes to you and your family.

New comment by rafael_c in "Noam Chomsky on the cruelty of American imperialism"

rafael_c — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:39:07 +0000

Wow, never thought I'd see a Chomsky essay on the Economist, of all magazines.

New comment by rafael_c in "Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image"

rafael_c — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 18:27:46 +0000

Can Quora still be described as locus for intelligence discussion? A few years ago it'd be the place to go for in-depth yet concise explanations from experts in all different kinds of fields, and for some very interesting perspectives on different subjects.

Lately I've visisted Quora only to find a series of inane replies and silly questions dominating the website.

New comment by rafael_c in "A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design"

rafael_c — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:04:24 +0000

I liked this one... I searched for 'George Harrison' and among the first results there was a page with interesting comments about Harrison's solo career; someone reminiscing about the time they got to talk to him about guitars for half an hour at a bar at the airport; a transcript for an interview he gave on TV... Whereas on GOOGLE: an instrusive 'People also ask' which I was not interested; thumbnails for videos on youtube that I was not looking for; previews to garbage clickbaity news articles; and then finally for the search items: a bunch of websites for lyrics; his Instagram (!) and fb pages; his imdb page; some more news articles I was not looking for...

Granted, google's web results above are perhaps what people are looking for 75% of the time, but how limiting and boring.

I'm also a sucker for the simplistic text-centric, information-laden pages from the pre-facebook era.

For 'global warming', however - since Marginalia excludes modern web-design pages - the results are of dubious relevance and interest, since they are, well, 'old'.

I see myself using this engine a lot.

New comment by rafael_c in "PalmOS on Raspberry Pi"

rafael_c — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 23:27:48 +0000

Palm... I just remember, as a 12-year old, being fascinated by my older cousin's Palm Pilot Professional. The thought that you could have a tiny computer in your pocket, with all sorts of programs, read articles and books, play games... Two years later I would buy my beautiful Palm Vx, while staying in Montana as a foreign exchange student (and be made fun of because of it by my farmer American father hahah). I actually though Graffitti was extremely intuitive and I was able to write faster on the palm device than with a pen on paper. I think I read five or six books on that tiny screen as well - and I thought it was great.

Different times.

New comment by rafael_c in "Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet"

rafael_c — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 04:23:44 +0000

What a creep... People will often abuse any little power they have. You should have reported the guy, anonymously if possible.

As for the problem at hand, ideally we should be able to 'lock' the device on a certain screen or while using a certain app whenever we wanted. Notifications disabled as well.

New comment by rafael_c in "Apple announces first states to adopt driver’s licenses and IDs in Apple Wallet"

rafael_c — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 04:18:29 +0000

In Brazil the government has its own app, through which you can produce both your driver's license (it's a national license) and the registration for you vehicle when required. A QR Code is generated along with a fac-simile of the paper-version of the document.

New comment by rafael_c in "The most underused browser feature: reader mode"

rafael_c — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 16:11:26 +0000

You can do similar on the Kindle or any other ereader. There's a chrome extension called 'send2kindle' that sends a simplified version of the webpage you have open directly to your device.

I'll just open tabs on the browser of whichever articles or texts will consist of my morning reading diet that day and send them all to my Kindle. Very practical device to read and no more falling in a trap of continuous clicking on more and more links, while lending a crappy level of attention to the actual reading.

New comment by rafael_c in "If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999"

rafael_c — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:43:01 +0000

"On the other hand, conducting those experiments over wider demographics and in different points in time means that the study wants to build "universal" models of how each single person in the whole world acts, which is utterly dismissive of the specific local environment around people."

I don't think building "universal models" or observing recurring patterns through analysis of 'experiments over wider demographics and in different points in time' require the ambition to predict a single individual behavior or actions as a corollary.

The problem lies - like you said - with the policymaker. And well more generally with people who extrapolate the results of a paper inadequately.