Hacker News: whydid

New comment by whydid in "M5 MacBook Pro"

whydid — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:11:58 +0000

The EU requires a 1 year warranty on electronics, where in the US it's only 90 days. The higher cost of electronics reflects this.

New comment by whydid in "AWS Service Availability Updates"

whydid — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:37:49 +0000

Read the header here for an explanation, it's not going away.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/introdu...

New comment by whydid in "Bitwig Studio 6 details revealed, and editing gets a big boost"

whydid — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:56:21 +0000

When the founders are also the lead engineers, incentives are aligned. I asked the Ableton CEO at multiple events and expos to fix repeatable bugs, and add proper PDC, and he mocked me.

New comment by whydid in "How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment"

whydid — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:48:18 +0000

This is an example of the False Equivalency logical fallacy.

New comment by whydid in "A type-safe, intuitive Go SDK for building MCP servers with ease and confidence"

whydid — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:06:01 +0000

Whenever I see this many emojis in a readme, I assume the entire project was written by AI.

New comment by whydid in "Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative"

whydid — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:55:14 +0000

Because businesses always support their software better than individuals?

New comment by whydid in "Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us""

whydid — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 03:22:02 +0000

I can imagine a possible future of 100% Rust takeover of the kernel.

New comment by whydid in "A better build system for OCaml"

whydid — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:29:53 +0000

Grass is always greener my friend.

Many jobs in finance are updating 20 year old Java code, or figuring out new ways to load data in and out of Excel files for custom reporting.

New comment by whydid in "OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program"

whydid — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:32:22 +0000

Recording good audio remains more difficult than artificial intelligence.

New comment by whydid in "Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner"

whydid — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:19:05 +0000

Why do JavaScript programmers call ini files "environment variables" ?

New comment by whydid in "Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons?"

whydid — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:15:06 +0000

Anyone else getting some Elden Ring vibes on this?

New comment by whydid in "Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents"

whydid — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 02:49:15 +0000

A heuristic that I use when judging code quality is a search for "datas" or "metadatas".

New comment by whydid in "Priced out of home ownership"

whydid — Mon, 27 May 2024 21:22:11 +0000

Rare perspective, and I totally agree. Building more homes is like expanding roads. It doesn't solve the root problem.

New comment by whydid in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

whydid — Fri, 10 May 2024 15:24:08 +0000

It has the vibe of something made by a team who have never created only for the pure love of art.

New comment by whydid in "Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces"

whydid — Fri, 10 May 2024 11:02:29 +0000

I'm a mix/master engineer, and I just skimmed the paper to look for attenuation potential of this new material. It looks like they only tested above 100 HZ, which is still alright for conversation, but not for professional recording studios.

As you can imagine, the low frequency attenuation isn't great. But the performance of higher frequency attenuation is pretty good. I think this material would work well for meeting rooms, and perhaps restaurants. Not for recording studios.

New comment by whydid in "Why US renters are taking corporate landlords to court"

whydid — Sun, 05 May 2024 15:22:04 +0000

De-Incentivize the landlord market

New comment by whydid in "YouTube's Legal Team sent me a letter [video]"

whydid — Thu, 02 May 2024 23:01:32 +0000

Louis is great at everything except brevity.

Not my app, here's a summary: https://www.summarize.tech/youtu.be/dqTYg6vnQvw?si=PLdzW5-ew...

New comment by whydid in "Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos"

whydid — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:53:21 +0000

Is it possible to process my own videos with this? Is there a python/cuda API?

New comment by whydid in "Four Stars for Peeling Paint and Broken Doors? What’s Behind High Airbnb Ratings"

whydid — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 07:45:37 +0000

The best Airbnb advice is to never use it.

New comment by whydid in "Consultancies know less than they claim and cost more than they seem to"

whydid — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:13:24 +0000

Sundar Pichai was working at Google via McKinsey