Hacker News: wdb

New comment by wdb in "Reverse Engineering SimTower"

wdb — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:00:53 +0000

Never heard of SimTower. Only knew about SimEarth, SimAnt, SimCity and SimLife

New comment by wdb in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

wdb — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:22:32 +0000

Next, are European made Apple devices?

New comment by wdb in "Macromedia Flash, from an Animator's Standpoint (2022)"

wdb — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:16:36 +0000

Good old days when you would get Adobe software like PhotoShop with flatbed scanners.

New comment by wdb in "Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US"

wdb — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:10:21 +0000

Sounds like it's working then

New comment by wdb in "Annual Production of 1/72 (22mm) scale plastic soldiers, 1958-2025"

wdb — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:41:04 +0000

You get paid in happiness of having and doing a hobby that brings peace and joy :))

New comment by wdb in "UK to rejoin EU's Erasmus student exchange programme"

wdb — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:07:16 +0000

Proof of address is the most annoying thing I encountered when I moved to the UK you can't even open a bank account when you work pays your bills.

New comment by wdb in "Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me fear for my job"

wdb — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:11:41 +0000

There are currently issues with the models. Claude Code doesn't work at all for me

New comment by wdb in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

wdb — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:25:35 +0000

What do they mean with 'dying from dementia'? As typically you don't die from dementia but something like pneumonia or something else. Personally, I wouldn't wish dementia on anyone and definitely wouldn't want to extend my life while having dementia.

New comment by wdb in "TSA Imposes $45 Fee for Travelers Without Real ID Starting February 2026"

wdb — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:37:35 +0000

You don't need an ID to travel in the USA?

New comment by wdb in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

wdb — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:46:05 +0000

Or electric bikes and cars

New comment by wdb in "Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year"

wdb — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:57:17 +0000

For some reason I have English&German, English&French keyboards and it always screws writing I just want a German or French keyboard when writing in that language. It's driving me crazy sometimes.

New comment by wdb in "Stop Paying for Kubernetes Load Balancers: Use Cloudflare Tunnel Instead"

wdb — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:18:44 +0000

Guess more reliance on CloudFlare can't hurt

New comment by wdb in "AWS deprecates two dozen services (most of which you've never heard of)"

wdb — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:55:42 +0000

Ah good old IoT Greengrass and Lambda that made me fail a job interview as it was my only AWS experience and the interviewers didn't belief it existed.

New comment by wdb in "UK full fibre availability rises to cover 81% of UK premises"

wdb — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:23:47 +0000

I live in Central London and I don’t have fibre they have been talking about for the last 6-8 years that we will get it. UK lives in the dark ages internet wise

New comment by wdb in "Affinity Studio now free"

wdb — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:29:21 +0000

Can't figure out if any new non-AI features were added?

New comment by wdb in "F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code"

wdb — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 20:19:53 +0000

I have only heard bad things about F5 XC

New comment by wdb in "EU gets what it asked for, there is no charger in the MacBook Pro box"

wdb — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:55:05 +0000

I am not sure why other laptop manufacturers still sell laptops (like Dell) that come with chargers?

Guess Apple idea is that you would return old and buy a new laptop each time the battery is empty

New comment by wdb in "Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme"

wdb — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:24:12 +0000

I think I have seen this Radioshack story on CoffeeZilla's channel ages ago?

New comment by wdb in "Are Rolex watches cheaper at an airport?"

wdb — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:48:36 +0000

Yet to find a Rolex store that let you buy models. Even Datejusts can not be bought.

New comment by wdb in "Are Rolex watches cheaper at an airport?"

wdb — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:47:17 +0000

I think it’s the only place where you can actually buy Rolex watches.