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New comment by spyke112 in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

spyke112 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:21:54 +0000

Anecdotal data coming in hot.

I use Siri daily for controlling HomeKit devices. She's not always on point though. I've named a light basically "Radiohouse", because that's what the designer called it, but 25% of the time she insists of playing radio instead of turning on the light. I'm not a native english speaker and communicate with Siri in Danish, but still. Siri is definitely not useless and I would love for her to become a lot better.

You may be right that the majority probably doesn't use Siri, but that's because it doesn't really make sense to use Siri on the phone. I rely on HomePod speakers to interface with it, that makes a lot more sense for me.

Linus Torvalds rejects MMC changes for Linux 7.0 cycle

spyke112 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:05:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-No-MMC-Changes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986490

Points: 4

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New comment by spyke112 in "Apple Exclaves"

spyke112 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:56:50 +0000

Well, I may be an oddball, but I never really find myself having the need for snapshots, I have a tendency to not really delete files. Once upon a time i recall Dropbox having versions?

New comment by spyke112 in "Apple Exclaves"

spyke112 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:06:17 +0000

I don’t know, it’s my workstation so everything is in Dropbox/Onedrive/Github/Gitlab, making the machine itself ephemeral… Come to think of it I should probably get a NAS and mirror Dropbox/Onedrive onto, just in case.

New comment by spyke112 in "Apple Exclaves"

spyke112 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:55:32 +0000

Fedora is really good though. I’ve daily driven Windows, MacOS and Linux, Fedora is by far the best developer experience I’ve had so far. But then again, I tend to setup my devbox quite spartan, so that it just works.

New comment by spyke112 in "European Cloud Computing Platforms"

spyke112 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:29:02 +0000

Well, I once got a notice from Hetzner, that I needed to either stop running or harden some random open service I wasn't aware of running on my dedi box (I may have forgotten to install a firewall...). If i recall correctly, they were bound by German law, to monitor their network for suspecious activity, and if the customers didn't comply, they could close down your box. Now, it was a while back, my memory is a bit fuzzy and I don't have the time to look through old emails. Consider this anecdata.

New comment by spyke112 in "Thank You Bootstrap 1"

spyke112 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:02:46 +0000

Sooooo mixins? You can do that with Bootstrap as well.

New comment by spyke112 in "Seeing Like a Programmer: Resiliency, Limits, and Moral Hazards"

spyke112 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:16:54 +0000

Maybe it’s not the engineers that need to grow up, but the indecisive product people incapable of sticking to their principles for more than a week at a time.

That statement may be a bit much, but working in organizations unable to, well, organize around ideas leads to the state we’re in today, where most developers has to run around like headless chickens and put out fires. There’s exceptions, but from my point of view they are pretty rare.

New comment by spyke112 in "AWS CEO tells workers to quit if they don't want to come back to the office"

spyke112 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:06:45 +0000

Presumably a job.

New comment by spyke112 in "Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]"

spyke112 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 11:53:23 +0000

So in your opinion what's wrong with that code? To me it seems to be nicely documented and everything.

New comment by spyke112 in "State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant"

spyke112 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:57:35 +0000

Hibernate is not just for laptops though. I have a workstation with 128G of memory, and it’s annoying that the file allocates the full 128G even though i may only be using like 32G. I mean SSD’s have become cheaper but still..

New comment by spyke112 in "State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant"

spyke112 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:47:05 +0000

Pretty anoying when you have more than 64G of memory though.

New comment by spyke112 in "Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview"

spyke112 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 04:47:39 +0000

Automattic: The company behind Wordpress. https://automattic.com/

37signals: The company behind Basecamp and Hey. With a founder being the Ruby on Rails creator. https://37signals.com/

New comment by spyke112 in "Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%"

spyke112 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:10:28 +0000

I think you’re right, and even though it scares me a lot seeing my portfoilio down like this, I still try to see it as an opportunity to buy at a discount. It means I have to hold onto some more liquid funds, but i think it can turn out to be well worth it if you’re long term.

New comment by spyke112 in "Ultrasonic Coffee"

spyke112 — Thu, 30 May 2024 08:56:24 +0000

Fun fact: there’s less caffeine in espresso than in filter coffee. [1]

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etnMr8oUSDo

New comment by spyke112 in "Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern"

spyke112 — Sun, 12 May 2024 19:26:17 +0000

No one ever got fired for implementing soft delete.

New comment by spyke112 in "Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?"

spyke112 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 11:20:33 +0000

Wow, had not read that before. It seems really offensive to ordinary programmers that just want to get stuff done. I also find my peak productivity when using the .NET ecosystem, which after all is good for business.

New comment by spyke112 in "Is .NET just miles ahead or am I delusional?"

spyke112 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:36:02 +0000

Building without VS is actually really easy with the dotnet cli, and msbuild was also doable. But now a days you get a long way just doing a: dotnet build

New comment by spyke112 in "Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat"

spyke112 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:06:32 +0000

Even smaller nit: Isn't it basically two sides of the same coin in this context? I'm not sure what the intent was in the previous post, but it could just as well be from the perspective of someone living in a desirable country worried about a lot of immigration of less fortunate people.

New comment by spyke112 in "Money bubble"

spyke112 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:10:42 +0000

I’m not saying my insurer uses AI, but I recently had two dental claims processed entirely automatically by just providing invoices, and answering some questions online. This is in Denmark. Really nice experience.