Hacker News: ugexe

New comment by ugexe in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

ugexe — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:27:49 +0000

The pro cyclist mayor in the city I live in didn’t do that. I guess our personal anecdotes cancel out.

New comment by ugexe in "Orcas are bringing humans gifts"

ugexe — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:55:04 +0000

Only on the internet, where most of us (maybe even yourself) have the majority of our discussions?

New comment by ugexe in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

ugexe — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 16:45:56 +0000

What audits?

New comment by ugexe in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

ugexe — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:07:23 +0000

How does that make it improbable?

New comment by ugexe in "Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract"

ugexe — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 01:43:23 +0000

But why did you code it to fetch stars at all? You would have had to go out of your way to do that. If AI has written most of this I suspect people will be less inclined to contribute.

New comment by ugexe in "I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate"

ugexe — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:36:28 +0000

MTGO does not use the same shuffler as MTGA

New comment by ugexe in "I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate"

ugexe — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 11:29:04 +0000

The AI player just casts the first card it has the mana to cast, regardless of if any normal player would do it. As an example Sparky will gladly cast a kill spell on their own creature if the opponent has none, or cast protection spells on the opponents creatures if it has no creatures itself. This is far different than duels of the planewalkers.

New comment by ugexe in "XCurl"

ugexe — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:09:57 +0000

Do you have any evidence of this? IIRC it is completely expected for users to consume it — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/community/t...

New comment by ugexe in "Judge rules Google trial documents can be posted by U.S. online"

ugexe — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:28:06 +0000

Thanks Jerry, you’ve managed to finally get me to switch off google search for good! It seemed quite a difficult thing to do in the past, but finally something has clicked that made it feel like the natural thing to do.

New comment by ugexe in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

ugexe — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 13:44:48 +0000

Are you sure its a tarnished lead? Lots of lightning cables have one tarnished lead (often on each side) from arcing. If I remember correctly using such a cable in a new iPhone could even damage the matching pin inside the phone, leading to the situation where it would start arcing on a non-broken cable (damaging the same leads on the new cable).

New comment by ugexe in "Blue-light glasses may not reduce eyestrain from screens, study says"

ugexe — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:26:21 +0000

It is possible that some pairs of said glasses were flawed -- and as such detrimental -- while other benign pairs were not.

New comment by ugexe in "Entire school board resigns after accidental public livestream"

ugexe — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:36:58 +0000

Saying “the evidence” without supplying any evidence isn’t going to further your point

New comment by ugexe in "Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?"

ugexe — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 17:17:45 +0000

On the other side of the coin I hate looking at git blame to find a bunch of now irrelevant stuff, like fixes to code that were only ever in your branch. I don’t generally care about the discoveries you made along the way (at least not in commit form) unless I’m doing the review for it to go in the main branch, and even then it’s more of a curiosity than anything particularly relevant to software quality.

New comment by ugexe in "Lego won't make modern war machines, but others are picking up the pieces"

ugexe — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 14:05:40 +0000

Is it that hard to believe lego might not market one of their products towards boys?

New comment by ugexe in "India protests: Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi"

ugexe — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 13:37:13 +0000

Why do you think rumor mongering is a valid reason for a country to disable people’s internet?

New comment by ugexe in "How Much YouTube Paid Me in 2020 (with a million subscribers)"

ugexe — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 02:20:42 +0000

Rare? Half the videos I watch have those ads for Raid Shadow Legends, some random vpn, and a bunch of others that are totally disconnected from the general topics discussed on the channel containing the ad

New comment by ugexe in "72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings"

ugexe — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 13:04:47 +0000

So if every single piece of hardware or software followed this one crazy trick the world would be better because some people at a tech company wouldn’t have to field as many support questions?

New comment by ugexe in "Microsoft patents tech to score meetings with body language, facial expressions"

ugexe — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:09:26 +0000

Just because they don’t require it doesn’t mean it isn’t being considered a negative or positive thing against you in the future.

New comment by ugexe in "Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads"

ugexe — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:29:58 +0000

There are block lists for DoH servers and other DNS queries can be forwarded to your own resolver.

New comment by ugexe in "Violating the Benford's Law"

ugexe — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 18:00:42 +0000

Because trump told his followers to not submit mail in ballots. Since this has been pointed out to you multiple times I’m curious why you think his supporters would mail in ballots despite their candidates plea not to?