Hacker News: smegel

New comment by smegel in "As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do"

smegel — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 18:03:07 +0000

Not if you browse with javascript disabled by default.

New comment by smegel in "We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change"

smegel — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:49:39 +0000

Acting like a jerk then engaging in a self-serving and grovelling apology only when your customers start walking away deserves scorn and rejection.

New comment by smegel in "We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change"

smegel — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:34:43 +0000

The fact you didn't engage with the community initially or ask for feedback speaks far more about your arrogance, incompetence and mendacity that the nature of the change itself. If I was using Patreon I would be looking for alternatives anyway...how long until the next "surprise"?

New comment by smegel in "A difficult experience with Autopilot in the mountains of Canada"

smegel — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 02:55:45 +0000

I am not sure I would want to discover an edge case anywhere.

New comment by smegel in "Debugging an evil Go runtime bug"

smegel — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 19:49:36 +0000

Don't forget about this one, similar but affects BSD and still open:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15658

New comment by smegel in "About the apps that Apple censored in China"

smegel — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 22:51:30 +0000

What about the argument that Apple won't be able to take it's cut of apps sold and installed outside of the App store?

New comment by smegel in "My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community"

smegel — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 23:47:01 +0000

That Twitter page is NSFW. Although the username should have warned me.

New comment by smegel in "NoScript Not Available for Latest Firefox"

smegel — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 20:10:42 +0000

> NoScript's unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach

Is that unique apart from what Chrome has built in by default? (obviously you still need to opt-in).

New comment by smegel in "The Xerox Alto Struts Its Stuff on Its 40th Birthday"

smegel — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:52:50 +0000

> The Xerox Alto, widely recognized as the first modern personal computer

It it wasn't available for personal use, this is a delusional claim. Maybe the first prototype of a personal computer. But that's all it was - a (impressive) technical prototype.

New comment by smegel in "Google Docs are offline"

smegel — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 21:20:36 +0000

Yup came here to find this. Can open Drive, but not individual documents. Which is a real pain as there is something in one I need right now. And I have offline installed but no dice...

(Australia)

Edit: I was using it fine at around 7:20AM (AEST) but it was down when I got to work at 8AM.

New comment by smegel in "USB 3.0* Radio Frequency Interference on 2.4 GHz Devices (2012)"

smegel — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:57:39 +0000

Yep, this bit me hard with my NVidia Shield TV. Plug in the portable USB HDD and the remote stopped worked.

Thankfully Kodi streams from SMB shares extremely well.

New comment by smegel in "How to break into 100k+ Euro salary in EU/EEA?"

smegel — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 00:51:01 +0000

> Should I must move into management role for this?

Do you want to be a manager? If not, you will be trading a life of misery for a modest pay raise.

New comment by smegel in "Is it illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland unless you're a magician?"

smegel — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 18:34:30 +0000

Is it illegal to bring a dog into Australia unless you are Johnny Depp?

Answer: Australia has very strict bio-security laws.

New comment by smegel in "Why the trial by ordeal was actually an effective test of guilt"

smegel — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:40:44 +0000

> It's an asymmetric system

I thought it was an adversarial system and the judge was the umpire.

> They are convinced the subject is guilty

Is they believed that why wouldn't they "charge guilty" the accused? Or am I misunderstanding what "been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor" means?

New comment by smegel in "[dead]"

smegel — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 21:37:16 +0000

I thought he meant in the browser, where it is actually a real problem.

New comment by smegel in "Why the trial by ordeal was actually an effective test of guilt"

smegel — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:24:05 +0000

> or has he been charged guilty by an overzealous prosecutor?

Isn't that the point of a prosecutor?

New comment by smegel in "Why we switched from Python to Go"

smegel — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 02:08:58 +0000

Productivity.

New comment by smegel in "Training crows to pick up cigarette butts for food"

smegel — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:34:56 +0000

I take it this hasn't be proven or demonstrated yet?

New comment by smegel in "DragonflyBSD 5.0"

smegel — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:16:17 +0000

> Hammer has always looked cool on paper but it's a hard sell to switch away from the battle-tested options like ZFS for a v1.0 codebase

It is strange. Linux users would do anything for ZFS and BSDs are moving away from it.

New comment by smegel in "Unbalanced reads from SSDs in software RAID mirrors in Linux"

smegel — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:28:50 +0000

Does it matter? Do reads affect lifetime of SSDs? It can't be affecting performance, as if the drives were busy then it would be balanced much more evenly.