Hacker News: warning26

New comment by warning26 in "Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts"

warning26 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:40:11 +0000

Can you elaborate? I’m not familiar with why android fans would make those particular arguments.

New comment by warning26 in "Fixing Penn Station"

warning26 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 03:15:43 +0000

It's mentioned briefly in the article, but I really think the Rebuild Penn Station project has the right idea:

https://www.rebuildpennstation.org/

All these various other proposals ignore the main problem: the original station never should have been demolished in the first place. The only proper solution is rebuilding the original, not designing some new thing that is slightly more acceptable than what's there now.

New comment by warning26 in "Tokyo Achieves Affordable Housing"

warning26 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:59:25 +0000

What's particularly amazing is that it's the free market at work -- the privately run railways have an incentive to develop the land near stations to get more people to ride the train.

Draconian zoning laws and car-dependence have really screwed over the US when it comes to housing policy.

New comment by warning26 in "Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea temps & extreme weather"

warning26 — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 18:33:23 +0000

This was basically the plot of that movie Snowpiercer; we accidentally geoengineer a second ice age.

New comment by warning26 in "iOS 17 sideloading support is coming, and Apple can’t stop it"

warning26 — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:40:54 +0000

I'd love to sideload on my iPad, but let's be realistic, Apple will do everything in their power to sidestep the spirit of the law. Here are some guesses:

- Sideloading only works with an EU Apple Account, on a device purchased in the EU, while you are physically in the EU

- Enabling "sideloading mode" will disable a bunch of other features for [IMPORTANT_SOUNDING_REASON]

New comment by warning26 in "Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries"

warning26 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:07:20 +0000

Not to fully excuse Google's behavior, but baking that behavior into an operating system seems far worse than putting nags on a website.

Google's prompts weren't that different than those "Get Firefox!" badges people used to put up in the 2000s.

New comment by warning26 in "Elon Musk claims Twitter has lost ~40 billion dollars in value"

warning26 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:38:02 +0000

Who would have thought that laying off most of your staff, implementing poorly conceived product changes, and alienating your advertisers with edgy hot takes would cause your company to lose value?

New comment by warning26 in "VSCode Removes Twitter Integration"

warning26 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:09:03 +0000

It's kind of unfortunate that Twitter has become so politicized that people will downvote you for pointing out that Twitter has bugs.

I suppose if it agrees with one's politics, it therefore cannot possibly have bugs, and if anyone reports a bug, that person is obviously just faking it for political points.

New comment by warning26 in "VSCode Removes Twitter Integration"

warning26 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:26:31 +0000

Have you used Twitter lately? About 25% of the time I open it, random content fails to load and I have to refresh the page.

I assume the lack of remaining software engineers probably has something to do with it.

New comment by warning26 in "The HN UI is terrible"

warning26 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:21:35 +0000

> I read HN on my phone I have to zoom to be able to reliably click a link.

Overall I like the HN UI and wouldn't want it changed, but I do largely agree with this particular criticism; a lot of the click targets are too small IMO. (In particular, the upvote/downvote buttons' 13x13px targets stand out as way too tiny on mobile.)

However, saying that the click targets are too small means the whole UI is terrible seems a bit on the hyperbolic side. You could maintain pretty much the exact same UI with slightly larger click targets and it would fix your issue.

New comment by warning26 in "Hacking the Timex m851"

warning26 — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 17:13:25 +0000

The James-Bond-like part is doing it from your watch specifically. (Consider the various wrist-gadgets found in the movies over the years.)

New comment by warning26 in "A fresh example of how zoning has become a micromanaging busybody"

warning26 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 23:22:01 +0000

My hot take is that all zoning should be abolished. It serves no legitimate purpose whatsoever.

New comment by warning26 in "[dead]"

warning26 — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 04:19:03 +0000

"CO2 is not a pollutant. It is essential to all life on Earth. More CO2 is favorable for nature, greening our planet. Additional CO2 in the air has promoted growth in global plant biomass. It is also profitable for agriculture, increasing the yields of crops worldwide."

Wow, amazing! Let's all move to Venus, the greenest planet of all!

New comment by warning26 in "USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage"

warning26 — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 01:19:23 +0000

In theory, but I think the problem you'd find in practice is that reviewing 100s of nearly-identical AI-written articles gets very boring very quickly, and a lot of errors would slip through.

New comment by warning26 in "X officially takes on LinkedIn with its new job posting feature"

warning26 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:10:30 +0000

Eh, seems like it's basically a random new stab at becoming The Everything App.

Job posting is a pretty saturated space already (see also: the fate of Google and Facebook's job listing products), so it's not necessarily an easy space to break into. Having already alienated a lot of his potential advertisers probably doesn't help either.

New comment by warning26 in "X officially takes on LinkedIn with its new job posting feature"

warning26 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:07:42 +0000

Considering they changed their name to X like two weeks ago and still haven't figured out how to change their base domain, somehow I feel like they're a just a bit understaffed.

Not to mention their various downtime problems.

New comment by warning26 in "Ukraine uses Australian drones made of cardboard"

warning26 — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 21:03:37 +0000

I find this movie fascinating -- I wonder how far we are from building the hypothetical autonomous drone swarms in the movie.

New comment by warning26 in "Giving up the iPad-only travel dream"

warning26 — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 21:16:01 +0000

It really is -- my iPad has the same CPU as my Mac, and it highlights just how much iPadOS lets the hardware go to waste. MacOS is better in essentially every possible way -- faster, can run whatever you like, better multitasking.

New comment by warning26 in "After fight to oppose, affordable housing is still coming to Sunset"

warning26 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:28:07 +0000

It is utterly baffling the lengths to which people will go to stop an abandoned parking lot from being developed.

New comment by warning26 in "Pocketbook announces their first e-note, the Pocketbook InkPad X Pro"

warning26 — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:55:14 +0000

You're right, extremely disappointing.