Hacker News: ranieuwe

New comment by ranieuwe in "Auraphone: A simple app to collect people's info at events"

ranieuwe — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:04:59 +0000

LinkedIn used to have this feature called Find Nearby. It allowed you to connect with people near you and it worked really well during large events. It used Bluetooth too.

They removed it some time in 2021 or 2022 unfortunately.

Your idea is nice, but it’d easier if tighter integrated somehow with another platform.

New comment by ranieuwe in "To make dishwashers great again? (2020)"

ranieuwe — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 05:05:35 +0000

I have a Miele dishwasher in the US. It works great, but normal clean cycle is 2h37m :( it takes forever. Comes out clean though!

I run it on sanitize (baby bottles) with just pods (and rinse aid, it helps getting the water off/dry) and everything comes out squeaky clean. No matter the gunk on it.

Had a Bosch when I lived in Germany. 1h14min for a normal cycle, pods. Came out squeaky clean too. I miss that machine. The extra time the Miele in the US takes is really annoying

New comment by ranieuwe in "A guide for people who want to self-study the basics of computer science"

ranieuwe — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 14:36:36 +0000

I have the same problem and have still not found a workable solution.

Only one there seems to be is to basically rerun 12 years of math, which is really unpleasant because I know 80% of the work making it unrewarding and slow. I don’t know what I don’t know that is super demotivating, indeed.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Are sockets the wave of the future? (1990)"

ranieuwe — Tue, 09 May 2023 02:53:14 +0000

IRCnet and EFnet still have some activity. Especially #worldchat on IRCnet for generic chat still has fair amount of activity.

ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI Service

ranieuwe — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/chatgpt-is-now-available-in-azure-openai-service/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083025

Points: 9

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New comment by ranieuwe in "Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes"

ranieuwe — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 08:39:21 +0000

Wouldn’t you be measuring the interaction with the ordering device? How can I rate the experience if I didn’t interact with the Barista yet?

One of my general problems with tipping is that I have to tip before someone makes the drink. Then end up with burned coffee I tipped for. This feels the same.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Volkswagen develops hydrogen car that can travel 2k kilometers on one tank"

ranieuwe — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 18:14:01 +0000

They sell those! They are used frequently in rescue settings. The can is basically a big cubical heavy plastic bag.

Your alternative is of course to fill some plastic bags from your local grocery store like this [1] lady did.

[1] https://twitter.com/FiendishlyYours/status/13919904872220016...

New comment by ranieuwe in "An ode to that “coffee friend”"

ranieuwe — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 06:16:19 +0000

I’ve given friends sets of Wera tools. Many people really appreciate high quality screwdrivers or hex keys.

New comment by ranieuwe in "AI-powered communication coach"

ranieuwe — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 03:45:59 +0000

This seems to focus a lot on the word usage too, which is useful.

Would be great if this combined with PowerPoint Online with Speaker Coach somehow. Then both deck, pace, clarity and word use are addressed. PowerPoint does some of it, but not to the depth that this seems to do it.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Ask HN: Why do I have to call for cancellation?"

ranieuwe — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 04:12:41 +0000

Moving abroad does it too. Often with even less questions.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive"

ranieuwe — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:11:17 +0000

Welp at least he doesn’t have any scaling issues. Scaled down to the minimal set.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Turning a 1995 IBM Aptiva, 66mhz 486DX2, into an i7 6700k"

ranieuwe — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 04:51:37 +0000

This was my first PC ever. Such nostalgia. I still remember the games it came with. Magic Theatre and Hyperman were amazing.

Cool project!

New comment by ranieuwe in "What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"

ranieuwe — Fri, 20 May 2022 15:35:43 +0000

Working for one of the hyperscalers as an architect, this is exactly my finding too. RHEL is the standard, everybody runs it. Exceptions are for SAP (SUSE) and some container workloads. RHEL for all the rest.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Microsoft Opens New HQ in Toronto"

ranieuwe — Tue, 17 May 2022 07:26:17 +0000

It is not in the TD Center, its at CIBC Square. Been there for 3 days early April, it’s a really nice office, with lots of space. Views are great too, you can see all over the city and lake.

Pics of inside at https://www.blogto.com/tech/2022/05/microsoft-new-headquarte... it doesn’t show too many of the meeting rooms and work areas though :( it is open plan, well lit, well furnished. Mirrors other recent MSFT offices.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Tell HN: Amazon's book search is gamed, keyword-stuffed, and inaccurate"

ranieuwe — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:45:09 +0000

s/book// and you are still pretty accurate.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Last Day of IKEA in Moscow"

ranieuwe — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 07:09:28 +0000

They were told to censor or be sued. They removed any postings of war after that. Novaya Gazeta is a newspaper critical of current Russian affairs.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Twitter expands downvote test worldwide"

ranieuwe — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 18:11:07 +0000

More echo chambers that we don’t need and no one is asking for.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years"

ranieuwe — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:08:28 +0000

So they should make better cars that do not have this problem. Which is what everybody else seems to do (except for Dacia).

New comment by ranieuwe in "Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years"

ranieuwe — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 17:03:41 +0000

Not all German roads are perfect. Plenty of high way that’s a bit bumpy (although they are fixing it). Especially after the snow and ice periods.

New comment by ranieuwe in "Dutch watchdog finds Apple app store payment rules anti-competitive – sources"

ranieuwe — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 16:46:52 +0000

They acted upon a complaint from dating apps and as such is scoped to those only.