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New comment by waiwai933 in "The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up"

waiwai933 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:03:45 +0000

The author seems to just assume the hot dog has stayed exactly the same size at 8"; I suppose it's unlikely it'd have gotten larger, but that seems a big assumption to base the entire analysis on.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now"

waiwai933 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:00:02 +0000

The High Court judgment referred to is available at https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Wikimedi...

I'm not sure if Ofcom's subsequent notification to WMF is publicly available anywhere.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

waiwai933 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:04:20 +0000

Newer fleets will have GPS units on board that report back to Control, but it's not universal and I don't believe there are industry-wide standards or APIs. Signalbox is definitely extrapolating from TD/TRUST/Darwin, not GPS reports.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Killed by Apple"

waiwai933 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:21:42 +0000

Why is Apple Watch series 0 even listed? I can _sort of_ see the argument for discontinued form factors generally even though I'd disagree with it being useful to show, but series 0 wasn't a different form factor even.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

waiwai933 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:42:47 +0000

I think it may help to clarify that there are two Regulations which seem to have been muddled in the comments:

* Regulation 2023/1670 provides, inter alia, that smartphone manufacturers must make replacement batteries available to consumers, except where the 80%/1000 cycle criteria is met, in which case replacement batteries can be made only available to professional repairers. There is also a requirement for it being able to replace the battery but this does permit use of non-trivial tools under certain circumstances.

* Regulation 2023/1542 provides that portable batteries (not limited to smartphones) must be readily end-user replaceable if they meet certain criteria unless the strict waterproofing/medical industry criteria are met.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Tell HN: An app is silently installing itself on my iPhone every day"

waiwai933 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:56:26 +0000

Those articles don't seem to support what you're saying? Russia's apps aren't preinstalled, they're just offered as suggestions, and India never got their app installed. I certainly don't see anything that mentions background processes in either article either.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

waiwai933 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:51:35 +0000

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ suggests that their combined uptime doesn't even meet 1 nine, let alone 2.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"

waiwai933 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:19:15 +0000

I'm struggling with deciphering the punctuation symbol between the £ and the |. Any help? (Possibly the @ symbol but my reading of the text suggests there isn't a glyph for it, but maybe I'm wrong there)

New comment by waiwai933 in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

waiwai933 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:45:21 +0000

Looks like it's been moved to https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA26MA024%20P...

New comment by waiwai933 in "Questions for Cloudflare"

waiwai933 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:24:07 +0000

> Maybe some of these questions are obviously answered in a Cloudflare control panel or help document. I’m not in the market right now so I won’t do that research.

I don't love piling on, but it still shocks me that people write without first reading.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Near mid-air collision at LAX between American Airlines and ITA [video]"

waiwai933 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:26:59 +0000

I can't speak to the first question, but as to the second, correct, US air traffic controllers are not currently being paid.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/travel/shutdown-air-traff....

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/us/politics/shutdown-air-....

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/28/air-traffic-...

New comment by waiwai933 in "More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage"

waiwai933 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:02:55 +0000

You're both partially right. Some regions have random mapping for AZs; all regions since 2012 have static AZ mapping. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/global-infrastructure/latest/reg...

New comment by waiwai933 in "Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement"

waiwai933 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:41:49 +0000

I believe I read somewhere that announcing new emoji drives noticeably more OS upgrades compared to more boring security and stability update release notes.

New comment by waiwai933 in "iFixit iPhone Air teardown"

waiwai933 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:08:27 +0000

I don’t own any AirPods, so this may be incredibly obvious to anyone who does, but what’s the moving part in them?

New comment by waiwai933 in "Apple introduces AppleCare One"

waiwai933 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:54:34 +0000

The pricing on that page is From pricing; more expensive models have more expensive premiums - see e.g. https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/applecare/applecar... says iPhone AppleCare+ costs between $7.99 and $13.99 on a monthly plan.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Japan Post launches 'digital address' system"

waiwai933 — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:35:56 +0000

But now you only need to notify the post office, rather than every company who sends you physical mail.

New comment by waiwai933 in "Try Switching to Kagi"

waiwai933 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:12:41 +0000

I did a free 30 day Kagi trial a month ago, and while I'm not sure I'm convinced the search results are better, they're definitely not worse. I've only fallen back to Google thrice, and in every case, Google didn't find anything useful either.

That said, the most astonishing thing was that I apparently do 100 searches a day, so 3k a month... I'm a bit sad that Kagi doesn't offer opt-in search history because I want to know what it is I'm searching for! (it's across three devices so looking at browser history is just above the threshold of how much effort I want to put in)

New comment by waiwai933 in "Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi"

waiwai933 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 01:03:53 +0000

I'm surprised - simply because I never get Pinterest results on Google. Now admittedly most of my searches aren't the kind where Pinterest is likely to have relevant results, but even then, surely I'd at least see them _sometimes_. But I literally can't remember the last time I saw a Pinterest search result.

Unless, as you suggest, they take over Google Images but not text search results? I could believe that I use Image search sufficiently rarely that I wouldn't have seen a Pinterest result.

New comment by waiwai933 in "In S3 simplicity is table stakes"

waiwai933 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:05:16 +0000

S3 is great for being able to stick files somewhere and not have to think about any of the surrounding infrastructure on an ongoing basis [1]. You don't have to worry about keeping a RAID server, swapping out disks when one fails, etc.

For static hosting, it's fine, but as you say, it's not necessarily the cheapest, though you can bring the cost down by sticking a CDN (Cloudflare/CloudFront) in front of it. There are other use cases where it really shines though.

[1]: I say ongoing basis because you will need to figure out your security controls, etc. at the beginning so it's not totally no-thought.

New comment by waiwai933 in "In S3 simplicity is table stakes"

waiwai933 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:38:11 +0000

> I’ve seen other examples where customers guess at new APIs they hope that S3 will launch, and have scripts that run in the background probing them for years! When we launch new features that introduce new REST verbs, we typically have a dashboard to report the call frequency of requests to it, and it’s often the case that the team is surprised that the dashboard starts posting traffic as soon as it’s up, even before the feature launches, and they discover that it’s exactly these customer probes, guessing at a new feature.

This surprises me; has anyone done something similar and benefitted from it? It's the sort of thing where I feel like you'd maybe get a result 1% of the time if that, and then only years later when everyone has moved on from the problem they were facing at the time...