Hacker News: venzaspa

New comment by venzaspa in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

venzaspa — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:37:46 +0000

People are posting on this very website and commenting on Reddit using AI. I can't get myself into the headspace that would enable this behaviour. What exactly is the point of not engaging in conversation yourself and getting a bot to post it for you on an free platform. Crazy.

New comment by venzaspa in "Pixel Watch 5"

venzaspa — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:01:36 +0000

I've been using a Withings Steel HR for 10 years now, the battery still easily last a month, activity tracking is good and has some basic notification support. I can't imagine having another thing to charge daily.

New comment by venzaspa in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

venzaspa — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:38:35 +0000

England and Scotland are separate countries, the UK is a federation of them both.

New comment by venzaspa in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

venzaspa — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:23:43 +0000

This person is free to think this, but I don't think I agree.

Personally I'd prefer something to be done about cut/copy-jacking where you try to copy a highlighted item and your site or application decides to copy something entirely different in an effort to be 'helpful'.

If I'm copying a url, I don't want my browser prefixing it with https:// for example.

New comment by venzaspa in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

venzaspa — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:15:22 +0000

Incredible stuff, absolutely love it. The only thing I don't like is that I've got absolutely no reason to use it.

New comment by venzaspa in "Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public"

venzaspa — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:28:13 +0000

What type of crime though, the US has substantially higher rates of violent crimes and those are the ones personally I would rather not be the victim of.

New comment by venzaspa in "How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in"

venzaspa — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:25:28 +0000

To be entirely fair though, this is a policy set by the organisation and not Microsoft themselves.

New comment by venzaspa in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

venzaspa — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:13:59 +0000

As an aside, I'm always surprised how US Gov websites look like they've been made in Dreamweaver in about 2006. Not even seemingly with a emphasis on usability either.

New comment by venzaspa in "Cloudflare Drop"

venzaspa — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:08:12 +0000

Broadly speaking any organisation facilitating piracy is implicitly a criminal one. Piracy is a pretty large field though and the economics of say a streaming site are going to be very different from running a torrent tracker. The fact you can use a torrent tracker without even visiting the site (Radarr/Sonarr etc) tells me that running a tracker site, probably isn't very lucrative.

New comment by venzaspa in "Resetting Xbox"

venzaspa — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:10:24 +0000

CoD is just one title though, the deal included WoW and Candy Crush and the rest of the Activision IP.

New comment by venzaspa in "Resetting Xbox"

venzaspa — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:22:06 +0000

Depends, Tesco (the UKs largest supermarket chain - one of the largest in the world) on average net about 2.5-3% profit on a given year and they have to do a lot more than pump out a game or two every few years.

New comment by venzaspa in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

venzaspa — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:31:22 +0000

Isn't it named after the hypothetical scenario about a doorman? The doorman fallacy isn't even specifically aimed at what is more profitable, its just saying that there are softer roles that aren't well defined that aren't replicated when the role is automated away.

New comment by venzaspa in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

venzaspa — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:10:15 +0000

Sure but compared to ICE cars they are much better.

New comment by venzaspa in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

venzaspa — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:07:28 +0000

Limiting your family size has concrete outcomes, having a big family and hoping you can impart the right values so they go onto have an positive impact is no guaranteed. You can hope your child goes onto develop a fusion reactor that fits in a storage container but the likelyhood is they won't be.

In my opinion it's a way to justify your own (perfectly fine) selfish desire to have a child.

New comment by venzaspa in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

venzaspa — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:26:05 +0000

I'd assume most of the big supermarkets have a 4-5 host cluster with the small local stores having a 2-3 host cluster. You've got the software to run the tills sure, but also the loyalty card system (which seems to have a local cache at each site based on how quickly it returns your first name), VoIP, Door Access systems, BMS, Digital Signage, Scan as you shop systems, CCTV, Stock management systems..

I can see how you hit 40k pretty quickly.

New comment by venzaspa in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

venzaspa — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:14:04 +0000

I have a Sage toaster (Brevile in some markets) which does exactly this, even has a progress bar that counts down when your toast will popup.

New comment by venzaspa in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

venzaspa — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:43:57 +0000

It just goes to show that people have very different views. I think when I hear people thinking out loud (ums and ahs) it's a marker that they are actually engaging with the question, thinking through an answer and not bullshitting without thinking.

New comment by venzaspa in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

venzaspa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:02:58 +0000

Hold on, why isn't this a touchpad setting in the OS?

New comment by venzaspa in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

venzaspa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:44:01 +0000

American football originated from Rugby and Baseball originated from Rounders.

New comment by venzaspa in "Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?"

venzaspa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:38:08 +0000

I watched a game of American football once and was blown away by how many adverts there were. It's such a slow game too - so much stopping between tackles for deliberation (seemingly). Don't get it personally.