Hacker News: timcederman

New comment by timcederman in "Exploring EXIF (2023)"

timcederman — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 06:38:11 +0000

Not meaning to be obtuse, but to what end, and how is this related to the linked post?

New comment by timcederman in "Wild pigs' flesh turning neon blue in California"

timcederman — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:42:44 +0000

Venous blood isn't blue.

New comment by timcederman in "Tin Can – The landline, reinvented for kids"

timcederman — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 03:06:38 +0000

Has been true for as long as I've had a cell phone (coming up to 30 years).

New comment by timcederman in "Apple must pay 13B euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules"

timcederman — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:54:39 +0000

Expats are absolutely double taxed, just less so (and to be clear - majority cases not at all) when a DTA is in effect.

New comment by timcederman in "Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones"

timcederman — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:07:37 +0000

Funny you're showing up as downvoted, but this is absolutely right. Apple is testing their search abilities with URL autocomplete and it's surprisingly good. It's gotten much better in the last 6 months in particular.

New comment by timcederman in "The case for not sanitising fairy tales"

timcederman — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:12:41 +0000

I'm answering the musing from the person I replied to:

> It is hard to me to understand how much this revisionist tendency is just a recent invention and to what extent it has been present throughout the history.

New comment by timcederman in "The case for not sanitising fairy tales"

timcederman — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:17:03 +0000

It's not new. Books have been getting revised for decades now for newer sensibilities. (e.g. even the Hardy Boys was revised more than 60 years ago to sanitise it - https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/re...)

There was recent controversy about Roald Dahl's books getting revised (and he said himself 'change one word [in my books] and deal with my crocodile'), yet he also made revisions in his own lifetime for the same reason (https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2023/02/21/woke-w...)

New comment by timcederman in "A disk so full, it couldn't be restored"

timcederman — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:07:34 +0000

Or boot it into Target Disk Mode using another machine.

New comment by timcederman in "Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right"

timcederman — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 05:35:51 +0000

> Has Apple ever put out a "Pro" version of a product before the "normal" version?

HomePod is another one.

New comment by timcederman in "A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)"

timcederman — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 08:27:06 +0000

I highly recommend following Ken Shirriff on Twitter, some great threads on the work he does to keep machines running at the Computer History Museum. https://twitter.com/kenshirriff

New comment by timcederman in "Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not"

timcederman — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:25:45 +0000

Do you not feel Apple has been successful with the Watch and AirPods? Their wearables revenue dwarfs the revnue of most top tech companies.

New comment by timcederman in "Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content"

timcederman — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 19:51:04 +0000

I contacted support about a missing TV show and they apologised and gave 5 free rentals.

New comment by timcederman in "How Australians made the early internet their own"

timcederman — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 16:55:29 +0000

I was reading the comment, thinking "this sounds like someone I know", and then saw the username - hi Tom! :)

New comment by timcederman in "NYPD will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend"

timcederman — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:10:02 +0000

It's always fun to ask people how much they think the annual budget for the NYPD might be, and learn they're off by several orders of magnitude.

New comment by timcederman in "Commander Keen's adaptive tile refresh"

timcederman — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:20:00 +0000

Maybe it's explained in Doom Guy, but why does the author use "ATS" as the TLA for "Adaptive Tile Refresh"? I can't find any references other than this article.

New comment by timcederman in "In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)"

timcederman — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:45:58 +0000

I get that for whatever reason folks like yourself don't want to believe it, but trust me, masks work. Just ask anyone who works in asbestos abatement or BSL-2+ facilities.

New comment by timcederman in "In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)"

timcederman — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 23:42:58 +0000

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm

> Consistent use of a face mask or respirator in indoor public settings was associated with lower odds of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result (adjusted odds ratio = 0.44). Use of respirators with higher filtration capacity was associated with the most protection, compared with no mask use.

I'll take a reduced risk, even if it's not perfect. Would you prefer to get covid one time, or five times? It's like arguing "why bother wearing a seatbelt, when it doesn't prevent injuries in accidents?"

Also, are you suggesting masking does not help with preventing influenza infection?

New comment by timcederman in "In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)"

timcederman — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:11:16 +0000

Exactly. Look at New Zealand's low excess death rate by allowing almost the entire population to get vaccinated before infection.

New comment by timcederman in "In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)"

timcederman — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 21:09:28 +0000

Are you suggesting N95 masks provide no protection against airborne viruses?

New comment by timcederman in "The Homepage of the Oldternet"

timcederman — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:55:02 +0000

fyi - there's an option in Gmail to change it back to text instead of icons.