Hacker News: throwaway4pp24

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Every company should be owned by its employees"

throwaway4pp24 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 06:51:00 +0000

Why does everyone else need to live in a desirable metro area? That sounds infeasible with so few of them. If there was more desirable metro areas, the prices of those few wouldn't be so high.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Ask HN: Got my first iPhone. What should I know?"

throwaway4pp24 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:51:35 +0000

Better - and necessary for my use case - is the first word. I just type whatever I want and it suggests/tries both languages at the same time. Few words is too late since I want to use 1-3 words in the other language only.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Google is the only search engine that works on Reddit now, thanks to AI deal"

throwaway4pp24 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 04:49:33 +0000

Yes, right in the law - "fair use"

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Ask HN: Got my first iPhone. What should I know?"

throwaway4pp24 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:23:33 +0000

I'm an iPhone user since last year and I wasn't able to use it for more than a day. Hard to explain, but it really is terrible to someone who is used to have a big choice of very good keyboards. It's just too basic and doesn't ever type what I want to type.

The most important missing feature is multi language support - I frequently combine multiple languages in one sentence. Switching languages every time I need to say a word or two in the other one is tiring.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]"

throwaway4pp24 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:21:28 +0000

Many people are saying it's all about the Zeiss machines and TSMC isn't actually bringing much over that. Usually as an argument about EU tech competitiveness.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice"

throwaway4pp24 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:06:12 +0000

Why does that matter at all? If I go and create a bunch of legitimate .top domains, is it suddenly better somehow? No, it's still the first of the list, and .com is still second.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows"

throwaway4pp24 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:38:02 +0000

Yes indeed, it's expected - that confirms what I'm saying.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Is Steve Ballmer the Most Underrated CEO of the 21st Century?"

throwaway4pp24 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 12:36:41 +0000

Vista was good, just slow on the older contemporary computers. I bought a new properly specced machine when it was released and it was a significant improvement over XP.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows"

throwaway4pp24 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:44:24 +0000

That enabling competition in kernel mode antivirus is the actual problem, and that a more widely used product (which isn't true anyways, the MS product is used more) doesn't imply a better product.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Siblings miss crucial life-extending treatment because of CrowdStrike outage"

throwaway4pp24 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:43:01 +0000

GDPR

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows"

throwaway4pp24 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:25:25 +0000

A widely installed product doesn't imply a more successful product, and a more successful product doesn't imply a better product.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows"

throwaway4pp24 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:22:53 +0000

I really don't think so. Crashing the system is still a long way from controlling the system - no implication there.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Microsoft points finger at the EU for not being able to lock down Windows"

throwaway4pp24 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:19:19 +0000

Perhaps they are trying to do the same thing as Apple and are claiming Windows on Arm is a separate product that this doesn't apply to.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

throwaway4pp24 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:36:21 +0000

Show me the average startup engineer who has the time to be overemployed please...

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

throwaway4pp24 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:35:01 +0000

All of these are very significant at a FAANG and generally not as great elsewhere.

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Ask HN: Vertical SaaS for Airlines?"

throwaway4pp24 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:54:53 +0000

That's a lot of words to say nothing about the issue at hand. World is complex - we know.

Aviation industry software is outdated and based on the necessities and limits of 1980s computers. There indeed is a huge opportunity to bring something better and well integrated, especially if you can reliably connect the different businesses that need to cooperate to transport a passenger from A to B - air operators, aircraft owners, ground handling operators, charter brokers, airports, maintenance providers, etc. This all runs on humans and email now. Go for it.

- a software engineer in aviation industry

New comment by throwaway4pp24 in "Microsoft Blames European Commission for Major Worldwide Outage"

throwaway4pp24 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:48:15 +0000

How do they close the kernel and provide API at the same time?