Hacker News: ripply

New comment by ripply in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

ripply — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:05:32 +0000

It appears inexpensive because raising prices is the only visibility you have into what the restaurant is paying these services for their order flows (~10-30%).

New comment by ripply in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

ripply — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:01:13 +0000

I was also an early adopter (batch 2) I ended up buying a m2 macbook air to replace it because the thing overheated and down clocked to 200Mhz (yes megahertz, not gigahertz) constantly and it was unusable. It sits around unused, I can't even give it away to family because I don't want to hear complaints about it being unusable. I just don't trust framework to not have issues.

New comment by ripply in "Ozempic and Wegovy are selected for Medicare's price negotiations"

ripply — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:25:40 +0000

There is private (non ACA) insurance you can purchase without an open enrollment period in the states. However they get around it by being able to deny you coverage for preexisting conditions.

New comment by ripply in "General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years"

ripply — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:56:14 +0000

Tesla states a lot of things, like that their second generation 2020 roadster is going to be ready next year (tm). I wouldn't put a lot of faith in anything they say, all it takes is Musk changing his mind down the line and then anything goes.

New comment by ripply in "US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from stores Jan. 19"

ripply — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:51:43 +0000

I think they mean that those should also be banned, but this ban isn't about addictive technology, it's about China owning the addictive technology and being able to exert control over it if they wanted. I also am of the opinion that this addictive technology should be regulated, including domestic.

New comment by ripply in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

ripply — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:13:38 +0000

You don’t place any blame on the people that marketed and created that diet? Or the regulators who allowed that to happen? At a certain point people’s well being and health should come before a mega corporation’s profits. The whole world would be better off if unhealthy food was more strictly regulated. Children grow up not learning healthy eating habits that last into adult hood and some never learn them.

New comment by ripply in "GLP-1 pills are coming, and they could revolutionize weight-loss treatment"

ripply — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:48:14 +0000

It may take another 10-20 years but I think this will eventually happen. I agree it’s criminal to permit marketing of this stuff. It took a very long time to get to this point with cigarettes but also realize that in other countries smoking is still a normal thing particularly Europe. Right now there is still a lot of money being made on producing super addictive junk food and therefore strong lobbying.

New comment by ripply in "Support for U.S. TikTok ban continues to decline"

ripply — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:01:12 +0000

Popularity will definitely wane, the social media rise and fall cycle will repeat

New comment by ripply in "AltStore PAL receives Epic Games MegaGrant, will no longer require subscription"

ripply — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:26:48 +0000

They publish there because they aren't allowed to publish their app on the app store, which is the whole point of the legislation that precipitated this.

New comment by ripply in "German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement"

ripply — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 02:37:27 +0000

Adding to this in Windows 2000 days WinRar had error correcting bits you could enable and make the compressed rar file bigger. I ended up only using that when I would save something to a floppy it was so unreliable.

New comment by ripply in "Framework Laptop 16, six months later"

ripply — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:44:53 +0000

Mine overheats and throttles to 200MHz (yes… MHz), I no longer use it and I have to throttle the cpu in windows for it to be functional so it doesn’t overheat from web browsing and become nonfunctional.

New comment by ripply in "Microsoft should accept and give up Windows 11, throw everything at Windows 12"

ripply — Wed, 29 May 2024 13:39:19 +0000

It’s funny peering into the windows cosmos after leaving it when things started to get bad. To me it seems like a bunch of tech people disillusioned with their OS grasping at straws hoping Microsoft rights the course knowing full well it will never happen, RIP Windows I for one am glad you are dead.

New comment by ripply in "Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules"

ripply — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 16:57:36 +0000

I think that’s a little disingenuous, it already works for the rest of the world so of course they had time to implement it, grabbing where you live via an internal API and disabling functionality is easier to do than implementing a browser selection prompt and exposing possibly new APIs to new browsers.

New comment by ripply in "Never Retire"

ripply — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:24:52 +0000

Some people just never learned how to enjoy life and just exist, be it because of their demanding job or responsibilities or the toxic work cultures they spent decades in.

New comment by ripply in "Notion Calendar"

ripply — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:54:20 +0000

The example calendar they show makes me anxious and realize that even though I run my life from a calendar, I don’t want to micromanage my time to that extent. Even if I became incredibly productive through use of the product, I never want that kind of life.

New comment by ripply in "U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums"

ripply — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 17:02:25 +0000

This is step 1 of reversing car centricity in these areas. Believe it or not some people in Europe in their 30s don’t even know how to drive because it’s just not needed. When you require parking spots for housing you increase the distance between everything. Going places requires transport because you have all these god forsaken parking lots you have to traverse to get to your destination.

New comment by ripply in "Beeper vs. Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation"

ripply — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:52:55 +0000

The server is matrix, you can host your own opensource official beeper bridges on your own matrix server and use your own matrix application. The official beeper cloud applications only talk to their matrix server, but everything the bridges do are end to end encrypted to your device via matrix so as long as you trust they do not log your messages or you run your own bridges they can’t read any of your messages.

New comment by ripply in "Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking"

ripply — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:22:27 +0000

It’s not a single layer, it is designed the same way apples service runs. This is addressed in the article.

New comment by ripply in "A Zoomer explains her generation's malaise to older generations"

ripply — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 17:30:30 +0000

I disagree, having properly densely designed cities means you don’t need that car. I stayed in a slum in Paris for a week, I was able to walk to the grocer and take the bus to the train station to go into downtown Paris. Car ownership doesn’t work in Paris because it’s designed to be walkable which necessitates less parking lots. Parking lots and parking spaces are things you have to walk past/through and are a big reason car dependent cities in America don’t work.

New comment by ripply in "Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek"

ripply — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 13:51:13 +0000

This is the one thing I really hate about American work culture. It really is pervasive throughout the economy, capitalism here optimizes for money over happiness and there just aren’t many companies that are willing to release their grip on you. My employer is now trying to transition to three days a week in the office and the reasoning is totally capitalistic even though it will most likely reduce overall happiness, they also will not approve a month off PTO even though it’s apparently unlimited, the reasoning was basically “we don’t work that way”.

So many things are wrong with American work culture and there’s nothing most people can do about it.