Hacker News: valleyjo

New comment by valleyjo in "Apple's Siri revamp reportedly delayed again"

valleyjo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:50:27 +0000

It’s paywalled for me. But I’m wondering if it’s apple or googles fault for the delay.

New comment by valleyjo in "New report calls for end to child marriage in the US"

valleyjo — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:37:53 +0000

If you’re not trusted to drink you shouldn’t be trusted to get married.

New comment by valleyjo in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

valleyjo — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:27:59 +0000

I strongly prefer RTO for myself personally. I can’t stand working from home. I believe the solution is have a shorter commute and live closer to the office (even though I live far away, I am trying to convince my wife to move). I have mixed feelings about forcing RTO because I know some strongly prefer WFH. Maybe 2 or 3 days is the best middle ground. Personally I miss when everyone was at the office 5 days a week.

New comment by valleyjo in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

valleyjo — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 20:52:58 +0000

Uber does this all the time to me. It’s so frustrating. I allow notifications from uber when I don’t from most apps because they are useful when a ride is incoming. Yet I get random spam notifications. I wish Apple would stand up for their own rules and do something about it but since they don’t even enforce this rule on themselves what hope is there

New comment by valleyjo in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

valleyjo — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:57:01 +0000

There’s a reduce transparency setting in accessibility. Wonderful what this will look like if that’s on. I’ve been using it for years as I don’t like frills.

New comment by valleyjo in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

valleyjo — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:03:52 +0000

I’m a us citizen and I do want this. Speak for yourself. China bans us social media. Us should ban Chinese social media.

New comment by valleyjo in "In a first, EU Court fines EU for breaching own data protection law"

valleyjo — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:22:30 +0000

At least they’re consistent? I don’t know seems like folks in the EU would be better off spending time innovating on product and technology. It’s fine to regulate but to make that your only contribution is not fine imo.

New comment by valleyjo in ""We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B""

valleyjo — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:35:17 +0000

The whole google shopping case is ridiculous. If you are “big enough” and you change (aka make improvements to) your products you get fined. Foundem could have built a direct relationship with customers but that’s not the direction they went.

New comment by valleyjo in "Security research on Private Cloud Compute"

valleyjo — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:45:02 +0000

What do we know about apples other backend services? I’ve worked in compute infra in big tech for 8 years and I don’t know anything about apple’s backend.

New comment by valleyjo in "Working from home is powering productivity"

valleyjo — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 10:11:22 +0000

I think the top comment reflects this - I have adhd too and I can’t be productive at home. I suffer a commute every day because my job performance tanked when I worked from home 8 mo strait. I’m much more productive at the office - I just wish my wife would agree to move closer to the office.

New comment by valleyjo in "Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks"

valleyjo — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:54:35 +0000

If you have a geographically centralized team (I.e everyone is in the same city) it makes sense to me to have the team be together at least one day a week. If you’re by yourself in a company office then RTO mandates makes no sense to me.

New comment by valleyjo in "Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks"

valleyjo — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 09:51:28 +0000

personally I go to the office every day even though I have a long commute. I hate working from home. Mandates for RTO don’t universally make the job worse. Of course I acknowledge it does for some people but not everyone.

New comment by valleyjo in "Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams"

valleyjo — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:51:08 +0000

Is the an EU regulation response thing? The article doesn’t mention that but I’m not very familiar with this offering so I wasn’t sure.

New comment by valleyjo in "Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it"

valleyjo — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 21:13:43 +0000

This happened to my sister. She got her phone stolen at a bar in Austin. They’ve tried to phish her multiple times and now it’s gotten to intimidation texts where they are threatening physical and sexual violence to her unless she unlocks the phone. She put it in lost mode right away and due to my assurance she knows she is safe but honestly it does make you kind of just want to unlock and get the nightmare over with.

She has tracked the iPhone via find my through a few us cities and finally it’s in China.

New comment by valleyjo in "US Senate passes TikTok divestment-or-ban bill"

valleyjo — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:54:59 +0000

What do you mean? China has banned all US social media. On the simple grounds of reciprocity (which afaik is a generally accepted foreign policy strategy) this ban seems justified.

New comment by valleyjo in "Children Need Neighborhoods Where They Can Walk and Bike"

valleyjo — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:06:31 +0000

I grew up in a suburb development where you couldn’t walk to anything. It was pretty isolated, until I had a car it was difficult for me to visit friends or do anything outside the house. I’m now living in an area that’s super walkable and has a community feel. My young kids bike every day to one of the four playgrounds nearby. They see friends every day too even if it’s just when they walk by our house. For me it highlights how lonely and isolating the suburb experience can be I don’t think I could go back to that and having experienced it the other way I would not want that for my kids.

New comment by valleyjo in "StarTech Unveils 15-in-1 Thunderbolt 4/USB4 Dock with Quad Display Support"

valleyjo — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:32:42 +0000

Assuming “it” means MacBook Pro but I thought Apple doesn’t support MST? Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253432530?sortBy=best

New comment by valleyjo in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

valleyjo — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:31:46 +0000

I want to see his parents go down too. Sounds like some criminal actions there too.

New comment by valleyjo in "AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 CPUs: Up to 96 Zen 4 Cores for Workstations"

valleyjo — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 13:50:15 +0000

For me personally this is too little too late. About 5 years ago I could have really used a super powerful multicore processor in my local desktop. But my company has since moved to the cloud and I just use ssh on a 128 core VM based on AMD Epyc.

New comment by valleyjo in "REI is Laying Off 275 Employees"

valleyjo — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:37:14 +0000

“Ultralight” backpacking favors skills rather than gear. Folks have done entire 3k mile thru hikes with 5lbs of gear. The main way you get that low is simply by not taking much with you. You carry only the essentials. I don’t know if this is what the parent poster was referring to but it’s what my mind went to.