Hacker News: stiGGG

New comment by stiGGG in "BMW Group Product Catalog–Historic Models"

stiGGG — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:44:47 +0000

According to BMW there is no E30 coupé, it’s a two-doored sedan. The first real 3-series coupé came with the E36.

New comment by stiGGG in "Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective"

stiGGG — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 13:48:59 +0000

I regularly drive an ID3 and every ten minute or so I accidentally activate a button on the left side of the steering wheel. It’s happening in roundabouts, sharp turns or sometimes even on straights when I just adjust my hand position. The buttons on the left are for the cruise control which this car doesn’t have, so it’s always only showing an error on the driver screen, which is funny on it’s own, but probably a good thing in this case. The software has a lot of unforgivable quirks, but other than that it drives very well.

New comment by stiGGG in "X is changing its algorithm to highlight smaller accounts"

stiGGG — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:23:12 +0000

Scrolling through the replies to tweets of big accounts, Musk himself is the best example, feels like we are already in a SciFi dystopia. Nearly everything is scam or other weird GPT created nonsense.

New comment by stiGGG in "Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024"

stiGGG — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 09:36:20 +0000

Yeah, didn’t they market themselves as the framework for IDEs? I can remember in the late 2000s Eclipse was very popular in the php community. The C/C++ plugin was also widely used.

New comment by stiGGG in "How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon?"

stiGGG — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 06:30:44 +0000

GCD first appeared on 10.6 Snow Leopard, which was marketed as a bug-fix only release and is due to this romanticised until today, but in reality included major changes under the hood and wasn’t very stable in his first versions.

New comment by stiGGG in "111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key (2021) [video]"

stiGGG — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:04:00 +0000

I had it in my feed and watched it some hours before this was posted here.

New comment by stiGGG in "Making macOS Apps Uninstallable"

stiGGG — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:39:01 +0000

That was quite common during the Windows 9x days, leading to that long period of time of problems later under XP with old apps only running under an admin account.

New comment by stiGGG in "A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech"

stiGGG — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 02:58:45 +0000

Roboterflegelhaftigkeiten

New comment by stiGGG in "Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'"

stiGGG — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:16:07 +0000

According to vice [1] he was using an iPhone X.

1: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74v34/saudi-arabia-hacke...

New comment by stiGGG in "BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X"

stiGGG — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:48:48 +0000

Some trivia: There was an unofficial successor of BeOS called ZETA from a german company yellowTAB (later magnussoft). I remember this because they tried selling it via a homeshopping channel in german TV which was completely hilarious.

I found a (very bad) recording of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQW-q2vp6W4

New comment by stiGGG in "An electric crate motor you can drop into your car"

stiGGG — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 15:05:39 +0000

That’s a 2nd gen leaf, it has a 40kWh battery and a range around 150 miles (240km).

New comment by stiGGG in "Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars"

stiGGG — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:37:17 +0000

This is true on the other hand. They should separate their interpretation of that quote as another article or at least paragraph if they want to be journalists.

New comment by stiGGG in "Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars"

stiGGG — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 10:26:10 +0000

I believe this is only to calm some people down. If you think about it’s like Sony would say in 2000 „We pause development on VHS, however it cannot be ruled out that we will resume development work on VHS in the future.“

New comment by stiGGG in "NULL license plate not such a bright idea"

stiGGG — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 21:07:26 +0000

It’s not only that. YAML also interprets on / off as boolean.

New comment by stiGGG in "iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone"

stiGGG — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 14:44:56 +0000

I've seen this popup, too. It will send a silent SMS from your device on activation. Depending on your plan this could cost you money.

New comment by stiGGG in "Show HN: Browser Extension to Refine the HN Experience"

stiGGG — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:05:05 +0000

>Highlight new, unread comments on subsequent visits

sold!

New comment by stiGGG in "Microsoft’s Edge for Mac browser now available in preview"

stiGGG — Tue, 21 May 2019 00:24:13 +0000

AFAIK keychain access is only allowed for apps distributed through the Mac AppStore since a while. This is why Chrome removed the feature.

New comment by stiGGG in "Internet Explorer Browser Collection"

stiGGG — Thu, 09 May 2019 14:37:40 +0000

I remember the most famous techno club from my nearest city used that to provide a virtual room tour on their website. I was too young then to get past the bouncers and liked that feature :)

New comment by stiGGG in "A Conspiracy to Kill IE6"

stiGGG — Wed, 01 May 2019 21:50:42 +0000

I remember that day this banner showed up. My team at the company I was working for at that time was trying to do bleeding edge web development and we desperately tried to convince management to drop IE6 support too. This helped a lot. It’s amazing to read this story and I only can say thank you OldYoutubers!

New comment by stiGGG in "VW’s Former CEO Charged in Germany Over Diesel Rigging"

stiGGG — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 20:05:44 +0000

>I would hope VW puts into production some of their claimed Year 2020 EV models, if so, they will have restored my faith in the company.

As someone who already owned a couple cars out of the Volkswagen brands, currently is seeing them still very critical but following their news closely I am sure they will do. The first ID model will maybe delayed, maybe not better than a Tesla in many points, but I see VW is going full in to EVs and this is something that would never happened so fast if there wasn’t this Dieselgate story. The other german car manufactors are way more conservative with their transition and VW will push a So this is maybe the happy end of all this.