Hacker News: tamrix

New comment by tamrix in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

tamrix — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 01:58:04 +0000

I wish people had this same enthusiasm for ios and andriod.

New comment by tamrix in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

tamrix — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:05:17 +0000

Which raises the question. If the government really cared about kids why couldn't they fund the ISPs to have an opt in service to ban social media or implement these controls?

New comment by tamrix in "Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?"

tamrix — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:07:29 +0000

LLM is just a hypervised search engine. You still need to know what to ask, what you can get away with and what you can't.

New comment by tamrix in "Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots"

tamrix — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:08:00 +0000

Haha nice idea.

New comment by tamrix in "Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud"

tamrix — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:04:44 +0000

I don't mind the new outlook. The meeting notifications are far less intrusive. You can update a meeting without spamming new emails. The simplified views do 95%of what I use it for. The calendar view is easier to read.

Everyone will hate this but whatever, internal company email is dead. It causes more issues than solutions. Phishing, spam, malware, etc. It's legacy tech.

The new outlook client is linking it with more modern medium specific communication such as loop, teams, sharepoint online, one drive etc.

New comment by tamrix in "Kanban vs. Scrum: What's the difference?"

tamrix — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:25:01 +0000

Scrum is iterative and incremental. While you plan a sprint, you loosely plan an increment and using the estimates and velocity, project where you will land.

It can be useful to know you're not going to make the 6 month project 3 months in. So you can readjust expectations or abandon the project entirely.

People will listen if you have evidence and the team on your side. Arguably this all depends on your project, culture and product.

New comment by tamrix in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

tamrix — Wed, 08 May 2024 05:45:25 +0000

Fine just doesn't cut it for a premium machine you expect to last a few years at least. It's honestly just marketed so you want to spend extra and upgrade. Let's be real.

New comment by tamrix in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

tamrix — Wed, 08 May 2024 05:43:52 +0000

Why can't they just make it 12gb? It will sell far easier. It's all soldered on anyway.

New comment by tamrix in "My 25-year engineering career retrospective"

tamrix — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:29:54 +0000

So you need the app to read this on mobile?

New comment by tamrix in "Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing"

tamrix — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 09:45:43 +0000

The worst thing reporting an IP can do is increase your ranking on scamalitics.

Cgnat is becoming common on home internet. You can share an IP with up to 128 other people.

New comment by tamrix in "Writing Gnome Apps with Swift"

tamrix — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:45:38 +0000

You may have started with Vala. An object oriented language inspired by C# complied in straight C.

New comment by tamrix in "Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification"

tamrix — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:45:35 +0000

What about faile?

New comment by tamrix in "Unicomp's "New" Model M Keyboard"

tamrix — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:22:10 +0000

Used a unicomp Model M 8+ years ago. Spilled coffee on it and it was dead dead.

It's a very loud keyboard. You couldn't use one today if you had to type during a zoom or teams meeting.

New comment by tamrix in "Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)"

tamrix — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:40:11 +0000

How about the ultimate programming challenge. Make a project that makes real money.

New comment by tamrix in "Powering AI could use as much electricity as a small country"

tamrix — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 01:50:44 +0000

That's funny. I asked ChatGPT if crypto produced anything of value and it seems to disagree with you.

New comment by tamrix in "AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B"

tamrix — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 23:32:12 +0000

I can promise you no one is paying $35 per IPv4 address.

New comment by tamrix in "Skip the API, ship your database"

tamrix — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:58:17 +0000

Skip the database. Pass a gaint json document back and forth.

New comment by tamrix in "Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)"

tamrix — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 02:56:31 +0000

Sounds like a bigger problem with your society than the job.

New comment by tamrix in "AMD's 7900 XTX achieves better value for Stable Diffusion than Nvidia RTX 4080"

tamrix — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 06:00:02 +0000

How does it compare to nvidias Jetson Orin?

New comment by tamrix in "Microsoft is trying too hard with Edge"

tamrix — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:44:58 +0000

I'll be honest. I use bing. Found myself going to google less and less since ChatGPT filled most of the void.