Hacker News: rrrhys

New comment by rrrhys in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

rrrhys — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:05:53 +0000

The book is from 1992.

New comment by rrrhys in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

rrrhys — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 04:24:38 +0000

> I can often smell the people around me. Generally, they don’t smell good. I can often hear conversations that are on the other side of the office. (Have you ever tried to add up numbers while someone else says other random numbers at you? It’s like that.) When people walk past my field of vision, I can’t focus on my screen. When I try to tune out all of these distractions, it consumes a lot of energy. Doing it hour after hour, day after day would leave me depleted, exhausted, unable to focus.

I always just thought putting up with this was what I got paid for. Like isn't this why working on-site sucks?

New comment by rrrhys in "JavaScript decided my day starts at 9am"

rrrhys — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:51:52 +0000

I have always followed the same, but also found calendar events are a good carve out to this.

The user doesn't care about the timezone change yesterday (and shouldn't..), they just need to see their meeting at 10am.

New comment by rrrhys in "Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain"

rrrhys — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:24:42 +0000

Company: "Use the app" / cut back front line staff

People: "ugh, I will use the app"

Company: "Look, nobody uses the front line staff"

New comment by rrrhys in "John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned"

rrrhys — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 21:32:40 +0000

Answer: Let's do neither!

New comment by rrrhys in "Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps"

rrrhys — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 21:42:09 +0000

My last interaction with it they started showing dialogs telling me I was using the wrong chat tool now.

So I clicked through, and the core functionality of "chat via IM and then spill out to video chat" was nowhere to be found*

*I'm sure it was there somewehere, but I was trying to join a damn meeting not learn a new UI

New comment by rrrhys in "Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?"

rrrhys — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 05:46:04 +0000

The people are removed from the ordering experience at all McDonalds in my local area (Sydney Australia-ish)

The registers are hidden behind a counter and there's no obvious place to order, unless you use the kiosk.

If you stand at the empty counter for ~5 minutes, a staff member will eventually appear for something else (e.g. to give out an order) and serve you reluctantly - it's awful.

New comment by rrrhys in "Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)"

rrrhys — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 02:33:03 +0000

We don't have this scam.

We get the car parked in the shopping centre with big "WIN THIS CAR" signs. Entry is $5-10 per ticket though, so it seems feasible there's actually a winner somewhere along the way (My assumption is a Mustang appears in a few shopping centres at once and one is ultimately given away, for example).

New comment by rrrhys in "Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds"

rrrhys — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 06:27:22 +0000

Worth it.

New comment by rrrhys in "Australia ranked 61/63 countries for entrepreneurship"

rrrhys — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 01:49:22 +0000

You forgot "The Boats" from the super important stuff list.

New comment by rrrhys in "VC Meltdown"

rrrhys — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 03:47:13 +0000

> I don't think we're in for a "correction"

> Housing will take a 30% haircut, and we'll probably see some of the over-extended corporate debt come to roost as well

What, then, is a correction?

New comment by rrrhys in "What Is JSON Patch?"

rrrhys — Tue, 10 May 2022 08:57:30 +0000

Null could imply the field was present and a value not entered or not necessary. Missing could imply the field was never known about at all. The context is important.

Null != missing.

New comment by rrrhys in "A few things to know before stealing my 914"

rrrhys — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 22:27:31 +0000

I used to have to hit my starter motor with a long pry-bar to get it going.

Now that I've finally got a reliable car and the money for the $20 solenoid we have a saying about cars in general:

Used to have the time but no money, now got the money but no time.

New comment by rrrhys in "US Destroyer can’t deploy because CO won’t get Covid vaccine, Navy says"

rrrhys — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:19:31 +0000

Opens comments section

Closes comments section

New comment by rrrhys in "SPAs Were a Mistake"

rrrhys — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 04:15:26 +0000

> Your arguments seem to be assuming a particularly bad implementation of a traditional backend.

These weekly SPA complaint threads always assume a particularly bad implementation of a SPA as well though.

New comment by rrrhys in "Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online"

rrrhys — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:35:51 +0000

Why are you intentionally spelling his name wrong? It certainly doesn't add credibility to your argument.

New comment by rrrhys in "Did I just lose half a million dollars?"

rrrhys — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 22:34:01 +0000

- If it's complex and not automated, make a checklist, print it, check it off line by line.

New comment by rrrhys in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

rrrhys — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 03:53:33 +0000

> This is relatively new - a few years ago Authenticator did not support this.

Thanks, this was around when my device went for a swim.

New comment by rrrhys in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

rrrhys — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 23:14:09 +0000

1. In a thread about being locked out of google services because of AI black box, it makes sense to reduce dependence anywhere possible

2. If you get a new device, you need to un-enrol and re-enrol in all 2fa providers with g authenticator - it's a nightmare. Very hard if the old device got fatally dropped in a pool! I know at least with Authy you can carry the tokens to a new device.

New comment by rrrhys in "2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade"

rrrhys — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:43:20 +0000

"locked in" suggests "locked in at original price"