Hacker News: rcbdev

New comment by rcbdev in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

rcbdev — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:51:04 +0000

Only because anglo-style curb cuts are designed horribly. In Austria, they are unobtrusive add-ons to the sidewalk instead of literally obstructing the sidewalk.

My conclusion, as always, is that U.S.-Americans and Brits do not walk. Otherwise these design choices do not make any sense.

New comment by rcbdev in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

rcbdev — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:47:08 +0000

Who is "we"? Do you work somewhere that specialises in the curb cut effect? Would love to hear more about your organization.

New comment by rcbdev in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

rcbdev — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:45:25 +0000

Yeah. In many countries, EMS is also heavily volunteer-based.

New comment by rcbdev in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

rcbdev — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:25:39 +0000

> [...] but only if my boss and the company decided to be real jerks about it. Another reason not to work for jerks if you can avoid it.

Worker protection rights in the U.S.A. truly are seen as a joke.

New comment by rcbdev in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

rcbdev — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:15:49 +0000

This is a lie. Joseph Biden pardoned Francis W. Biden, James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, John T. Owens and Valerie Biden Owens among many, many other dubious choices.

The U.S.A. is the embodiment of crony capitalism.

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-jos...

New comment by rcbdev in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

rcbdev — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:08:22 +0000

I never understood why you can't just take any random European country where ones company also has a presence and stick to the (government mandated) vacation time there, usually 5-6 weeks p.a. - is this considered unacceptable in the U.S.A.?

New comment by rcbdev in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

rcbdev — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:02:21 +0000

I think this is just materially incorrect.

New comment by rcbdev in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"

rcbdev — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:48:05 +0000

Have you ever tried publishing a paper to an IEEE Section 8 conference? The page limits are ruthless. TELFOR 2026 has a 4 - 8 pages maximum.

New comment by rcbdev in "One million passports leaked online"

rcbdev — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:11:33 +0000

Working with tape storage was part of my high school education. So was mainframe job scheduling...

Europe is as much ahead as it is behind.

New comment by rcbdev in "Too many R packages: CRAN is inundated with submissions"

rcbdev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:02:34 +0000

This reads like a Markov Chain's output.

New comment by rcbdev in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

rcbdev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:57:44 +0000

Is Vienna the place to be for security researchers in their 30s starting to doubt their life choices?

New comment by rcbdev in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

rcbdev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:07:30 +0000

The future will belong to China. The U.S. has fallen.

Articles like this are just further proof.

New comment by rcbdev in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

rcbdev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:45:40 +0000

He worked for devrel under Osmani. These guidelines and processes do not apply to them, last I checked.

New comment by rcbdev in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

rcbdev — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:56:22 +0000

Adore it! Why did you not become an auto mechanic, then?

New comment by rcbdev in "Oracle workforce shrinks by about 21,000 employees amid AI adoption"

rcbdev — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:54:01 +0000

This vendor claims that they can service their customers with 21k less employees... in the same quality?

Our economy is a fraud.

New comment by rcbdev in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

rcbdev — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:44:12 +0000

Funny, I celebrated Father's Day on June 14th. I thought there was a globally agreed upon date, but alas I have been proven wrong.

Happy Father's day, most of the world!

New comment by rcbdev in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

rcbdev — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 05:44:46 +0000

Please read Directive (EU) 2022/2557 and then tell me how a disgruntled office worker is supposed to do anything they aren't supposed to, given full compliance with the directive. I've seen some preliminary national implementation efforts and it's really serious stuff physical security wise.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

New comment by rcbdev in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

rcbdev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:30:36 +0000

Google has historically always sucked at being a product company. Despite this, they're quite successful at it.

New comment by rcbdev in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

rcbdev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:55:32 +0000

You need to legislate effectively.

This is something U.S.-Americans often do not (want to) understand. The misconception often is that just because their legislative efforts are an ineffective, lobby-ridden crapshoot, that the free market is automatically the best answer to everything.

You can affect really good and positive change through lawmaking, the entire point of it is to regulate and intervene when the wellbeing of the populous and fair competition is in jeopardy.

New comment by rcbdev in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

rcbdev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:36:28 +0000

This kind of support should be mandated for any digital utilities company such as Google.

The difference between small business success and insolvency was based on the shier luck of being graced with the presence of someone in contact with the priesthood of Google, where no real contact from the plebian citizenry is allowed.

Exactly this kind of thing is why the EU feels the need to regulate the shit out of U.S. big tech.