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New comment by rikkus in "AirPods Max: An Audiophile Review"

rikkus — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:28:52 +0000

Not often, no, and for that reason. If you do a web search for the terms 'audiophile' and 'ABX' you'll find quite a few reports which are quite fun to read.

New comment by rikkus in "WebAssembly Studio"

rikkus — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 16:56:51 +0000

Yes I can't look at it. It should be interesting though so I've bookmarked it to come back to. I'll use a browser plugin to 'fix' it if necessary.

New comment by rikkus in "Why some people suffer from a stutter"

rikkus — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:53:26 +0000

Oh the agony of not being able to say the next thing when everyone’s waiting for you to speak. Right in the middle of what was supposed to be a great point - in my mind, at least.

And yes it feels like the perception is going to be you’re thinking slowly or forgot what you were saying, but no, miles ahead in my brain here with a huge amount to say, busy processing it as I speak so I can get it across succinctly and appropriately for the audience - then ... blockage.

New comment by rikkus in "Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?"

rikkus — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 10:19:22 +0000

Try finding stuff. In a large org, even with as much careful organisation and attempting to make things searchable, it just gets impossible. That doesn't mean Confluence is bad of course - it may just be a hard problem.

New comment by rikkus in "Who’s Watching Your Porch?"

rikkus — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:16:35 +0000

The Office for National Statistics shows a continual fall in the long term rate of theft for the UK since 1995. From around 11k incidents per year to around 4K. A steady decrease.

New comment by rikkus in "What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?"

rikkus — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:41:19 +0000

Apple Maps has replaced Google Maps for me. I’ve been trying to move away from Google and this has been an easy one. I don’t notice the difference most of the time. When I do, it’s because I’ve pulled up Google Maps by accident and it’s cluttered and spammy.

New comment by rikkus in "What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?"

rikkus — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:39:15 +0000

First result for me on DDG is that very thing on Amazon.co.uk

New comment by rikkus in "How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server"

rikkus — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:18:30 +0000

If you use your own VPN to home then you can access everything on your home network without setting up port forwarding, if you have stuff like that. I used to but not these days.

You could also have the PI run a VPN client and connect to a privacy-promising VPN service, effectively ‘bouncing’ off home.

Not sure if that is even technically possible without pain, or why you wouldn’t connect directly to the privacy-promising VPN.

New comment by rikkus in "Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work"

rikkus — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 20:40:25 +0000

Newer Tiles have replaceable batteries. Also the app shows how close you are to the Tile and it seems to work. Also I seem to be able to find these, where with the older ones I had the same issue as you where I couldn’t find them when I wanted to.

I still press the button from my pocket and call my phone though. Grr.

New comment by rikkus in "Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B"

rikkus — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 23:03:24 +0000

Google Drive isn't a backup system.

New comment by rikkus in "Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?"

rikkus — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:17:19 +0000

I'm currently teaching my child binary search. She thinks we're just having fun playing "Guess Who?"

New comment by rikkus in "16-inch MacBook Pro"

rikkus — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 20:48:49 +0000

Except that doesn’t work in every other app that doesn’t understand vi keys.

New comment by rikkus in "The Misunderstood Roots of FRP"

rikkus — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:05:05 +0000

When working on GUIs that used callbacks like this, I’d have a method for setting the value of the second component which didn’t raise a ’changed’ event, or I’d turn off raising events for the second component before telling it to change then tell it to continue.

They weren’t beautiful, but both methods worked fine for the rare cases they proved necessary.

New comment by rikkus in "Tcl: Everything Is a String"

rikkus — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:09:22 +0000

And modern software that does the same. Cisco AnyConnect VPN thing, for example. You can feed it a command file, but that doesn’t give you any error handling or logic to handle dynamic responses. Expect to the rescue!

New comment by rikkus in "Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911"

rikkus — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 08:24:23 +0000

When do you charge it?

New comment by rikkus in "iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max"

rikkus — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 19:27:41 +0000

Sync to local storage, drag and drop, sync happens to other cloud.

New comment by rikkus in "Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)"

rikkus — Sat, 03 Aug 2019 12:47:03 +0000

There is always going to be major flux as new architectures are evolved until they are stable. If this was hidden, there would have been little input from outside Microsoft.

While there have been legitimate problems with this process - for example, the explicit ‘go live’ given by Microsoft before things were truly stable, there was a choice made to develop in public and the net result (sorry) seems positive to me.

New comment by rikkus in "Ask HN: Has anyone got a job by contributing to open source projects?"

rikkus — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:56:28 +0000

I worked on KDE apps and some of the core bits for a while and hung around on IRC, where I found some Qt work. I did some short term gigs and some permanent (making Zaurus apps, among other things), all entirely remote. This was in the early 2000s.

New comment by rikkus in "Ten Years of Erlang"

rikkus — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:02:07 +0000

LiveView was always going to have this limitation. Its design makes it suitable for low latency links - such as local network.

It’s not going to fail to ‘work’ because of this. It just has a niche and isn’t a general purpose web framework.

I’m looking forward to building some admin tools with it, reducing the complexity required when having to deal with server and client separately.

New comment by rikkus in "Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook"

rikkus — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:54:06 +0000

I had a loaner Touchbar-equipped MBP as my daily driver for a couple of months.

I already had Caps Lock mapped to Ctrl. I used Karabiner Elements to map a Caps Lock press to Escape. It took about a day to get used to.

I’ve managed to get a 2015 model back now, but I’m sticking with Caps Lock press = Escape.

I miss the fingerprint reader!