Hacker News: trav4225

New comment by trav4225 in "FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge–as long as they end DEI programs"

trav4225 — Tue, 20 May 2025 03:54:27 +0000

Please be kind and rewind!

New comment by trav4225 in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"

trav4225 — Mon, 12 May 2025 05:09:13 +0000

But just wait until all consumer image display and capture devices start using invisible-to-the-naked-eye watermarking and content protection, only allowing you to photograph sources which have explicitly granted permission to be photographed. :-)

New comment by trav4225 in "Rust Solves the Issues with Exceptions"

trav4225 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:19:56 +0000

Click the triangle icon next to that question to see the answer. :-)

New comment by trav4225 in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"

trav4225 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:31:11 +0000

Appreciate the feedback. For some reason I feel like I dismissed this as an option at one point, but that was long ago. I'll take another look!

New comment by trav4225 in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"

trav4225 — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:30:32 +0000

Thanks for the info. I haven't looked at this in a while. I'll take another look!

New comment by trav4225 in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"

trav4225 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:04:38 +0000

Same. I wish there were an alternative (a practical pocket computer), but there really isn't. So I too gave up on fighting my phone, and have also completely stopped doing mobile development. I now treat my phone essentially as an untrusted, prepackaged walled garden with limited utility. :-/

New comment by trav4225 in "Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?"

trav4225 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:49:57 +0000

Hah! This resonated with me. Maybe I'm just "getting old", but I fail to understand the value of 99% of this stuff...

New comment by trav4225 in "Our audit of Homebrew"

trav4225 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:35:32 +0000

Hah! IIRC, it was a binary tree of some sort.

New comment by trav4225 in "Ask HN: It's 2024, why are voice assistants still so buggy?"

trav4225 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:58:56 +0000

Because everything is buggy these days. ;-)

New comment by trav4225 in "A daddy-longlegs possesses six eyes, including two vestigial pairs"

trav4225 — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:22:22 +0000

Factory()

New comment by trav4225 in "A Senior Engineer's Check-List (2019)"

trav4225 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:01:40 +0000

Apologies for the late reply (too busy!), but thank you for your response. I appreciate it!

New comment by trav4225 in "A Senior Engineer's Check-List (2019)"

trav4225 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:00:58 +0000

Sorry for the late reply (I have been too busy!), but I appreciate your helpful response. Thanks!

New comment by trav4225 in "A Senior Engineer's Check-List (2019)"

trav4225 — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:59:18 +0000

I always find advice like this a little confusing. A lot of these things seem (to me) to be none of the engineers' business.

To me, engineers receive specs from management and implement solutions that meet those specs. And that's it.

I suppose my personal experience must not be how things work elsewhere! Kind of fascinating, and it makes me wonder if people enjoy all this extra responsibility and how things go when engineers disagree with management.

New comment by trav4225 in "Food rations in communist Poland, early 1980s"

trav4225 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 23:57:55 +0000

"The central planning system, while intended to ensure equitable distribution, was riddled with inefficiencies and mismanagement."

I'm shocked. *Shocked*, I say!

New comment by trav4225 in "Food rations in communist Poland, early 1980s"

trav4225 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 23:57:51 +0000

"The central planning system, while intended to ensure equitable distribution, was riddled with inefficiencies and mismanagement."

I'm shocked. Shocked, I say!

New comment by trav4225 in "Silicon, Silica, Silicates and Silicone (1998) [pdf]"

trav4225 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 04:55:52 +0000

My impression was always that this was an east/west-coast thing. I could be wrong!

New comment by trav4225 in "On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language"

trav4225 — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 22:51:38 +0000

Probably. Everyone has also long since forgotten the original purpose of HTML! ;-)

New comment by trav4225 in "Gren – an Elm fork"

trav4225 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:53:07 +0000

I keep clicking on Elm stories, thinking they're going to be about Elm the email client... :-)

New comment by trav4225 in "Why Men Are Hard to Help"

trav4225 — Sat, 01 Oct 2022 21:40:21 +0000

No.

New comment by trav4225 in "Ask HN: Which Linux terminal emulator do you prefer and why?"

trav4225 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:06:20 +0000

yup, same here.