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New comment by reorder9695 in "A scoping review of bicycling interventions’ impacts on well-being"

reorder9695 — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:17:17 +0000

In my experience as someone who rides a bike with hydraulic disc brakes and drives frequently, they really don't stop very quickly. I pretty much always am more confident I can stop my car faster. The bike may have a lot less mass but it also has a lot less traction and it's much easier to lock up a wheel and skid instead of stopping quickly, especially in poor conditions/on road paint. I do cycle fairly fast, but this is on a mountain bike on the road, certainly not fast compared to a fit person on a road bike.

I will give you that they're much more maneuverabile and accidents can often be avoided by putting the bike into a space in the road that a car couldn't go into.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

reorder9695 — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:22:13 +0000

You say it requires a little acclimatisation, but the caller may well just not know anyone with that specific accent/have never had the chance to acclimatise to it other than this phone call, there's an awful lot of accents in the world.

Additionally I find even though I can understand an Indian accent for example quite well in person, I really struggle with it over the phone due to the compression causing quite poor sound quality and lack of facial expressions to be able to read (which I would be using in person to help me understand a strong unfamiliar accent), whereas when accent is more familiar to me, the poor audio quality and lack of body language isn't nearly as much of an issue, presumably as I just have way way more exposure to the accent so can fill in gaps better.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs"

reorder9695 — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:21:29 +0000

Presumably on Linux at least apps could just expose a DBus API? The machinery for this is already in place as far as I can tell.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

reorder9695 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:40:01 +0000

The whole thing with GPL code seems like a mess and surely couldn't be set as actual precedent, right? It is totally infeasible for me to check every single GPL project on every code hosting platform to see if the code Claude etc produced is too similar. If a set of training data used for the model was released to check against that would be one thing, but you can't honestly expect someone to check every repo available from all time to see if a model (that you are not informed of what it was trained on and therefore could reproduce) might've reproduced code from it.

That's not at all like checking the dependency chain of a dependency or anything as you can just read the licence of anything you're choosing to use. Surely the precedent would have to be that a model trained on GPL code has itself been infected by GPL, and therefore must have all source/weights released too if the assumption here is that it can have embedded the code well enough to be able to reproduce it?

New comment by reorder9695 in "Period tracking app has been selling data to Meta"

reorder9695 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:53:25 +0000

It sounds like the real solution to this is to be able to control permissions at an OS level for network per app, as you would be able to do if you had root access. I have no idea why regular Android distros don't allow you to do this, it seems like a really sensible thing to expose in app settings given the permissions model of Android.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Rust Memory Management: Ownership vs. Reference Counting"

reorder9695 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:33:25 +0000

The difference I see there is any line in a C codebase could have these issues, whereas in Rust they're specifically marked as unsafe sections, with the language having a clear list of invariants it expects the programmer to uphold in an unsafe block. Additionally Rust has a culture of developers specifically justifying the unsafe block and why it's correct in comments. It's a massive reduction of the scope of the code that needs audited, that doesn't mean there can't be mistakes in it, just that it's easier to verify certain properties of the whole codebase.

New comment by reorder9695 in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

reorder9695 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:45:16 +0000

What all these breaches tell me is that personal data should not be required, and especially not stored unless absolutely necessary. I cannot verify how my data is treated once it leaves my device, so how can I possibly trust it will be treated properly and not leaked?

This is a major reason as to why I am so strongly against all this verification shit governments keep trying to push, the best way to keep data secure is not to have it in the first place, therefore my personal data should not leave my device except in the strictest of circumstances for things like my name/DOB/address/SSN.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Ban the sale of precise geolocation"

reorder9695 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:53:50 +0000

If anyone's interested in this the book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is rather revealing of the sheer scale of this.

Wikipedia Gacha

reorder9695 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://wikigacha.com/?lang=EN

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601316

Points: 2

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New comment by reorder9695 in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

reorder9695 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:44:30 +0000

A company like Anker issuing a recall actually instils confidence in me, the alternative is no recall when flaws in a product are discovered.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

reorder9695 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:34:40 +0000

I find that a lot less problematic as there's just very few shorts on my feed, I've never been able to scroll through more than 5 or so without just going into ones I've seen before.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

reorder9695 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:29:16 +0000

Don't underestimate the importance of a user not having to flash an OS. It being preinstalled unlocks a new segment of the market.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

reorder9695 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:48:05 +0000

Funny enough it's the OS and manufacturer I don't trust with my phone, with my PC I trust them a lot more as they're much more open and I can choose the OS.

New comment by reorder9695 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

reorder9695 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:05:21 +0000

What's always got me about this is when I was in school I had it absolutely drilled into me that I should never expose personal information online to anyone, I completely saw the logic in that and so heavily limit the personal data I give out. Now we're just expecting people to completely go against that and give away the most personal details possible to companies who cannot prove what they are or are not doing with it just because governments have decided that's best now?

New comment by reorder9695 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

reorder9695 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:58:09 +0000

And how do they prove to me they (and no 3rd party providers) aren't actually storing the data? I simply don't trust companies telling me they won't store something, so to me the only acceptable option is the data to never leave my device.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan"

reorder9695 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:48:59 +0000

So is this why on my laptop when I start a game after an update it starts "compiling vulkan shaders" for a few minutes? I've never understood what that was actually for but it takes 100% CPU on all cores so it's clearly doing something

New comment by reorder9695 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

reorder9695 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:46:25 +0000

Ratings aren't legally binding though are they? I bought games older rated than I was, and it's totally up to people's parents what they're allowed to play. Are you suggesting a 15 year old should be allowed to play the 16 rated game but not discuss it?

New comment by reorder9695 in "Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority""

reorder9695 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:13:25 +0000

Does that outweigh the loss of privacy involved? I really don't think it does personally, I should not have to show anyone ID to have an Instagram account, privacy and anonymity is a feature not a bug.

New comment by reorder9695 in "If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015)"

reorder9695 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:04:02 +0000

For private individuals I think it probably is, not for public companies or especially governments though as they're supposed to accountable to other people.

New comment by reorder9695 in "Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed"

reorder9695 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:15:29 +0000

I don't know about all heat pump systems, but mine at least requires the water tank to have a resistive immersion too. If the tank temperature gets below some threshold the heat pump refuses to work and turns the immersion on instead until it's warmed up enough.