<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: yyy3</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yyy3</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:39:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yyy3" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yyy3 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Phone manufacturers should be able to seal their phones to prevent unwanted substance egress and to compete on aesthetics. They should also make the seal breachable with consumer-grade hand tools like a hairdryer, suction cup, and plastic wedges.<p>The inside of the phone should use standard screws and securing mechanisms, and batteries should not be glued to the phone.<p>I actually really like what Apple's been doing with its new batteries by sealing them in metal. That way if a user is being careless and accidentally slips a screwdriver under the back of their phone, the risk that they puncture their battery and start a fire is greatly reduced.<p>It secures the most dangerous component of your device in a way that makes it easy for anyone to remove and replace safely. I'm sure Apple has a robot to rip the battery out of its case at its recycling plant, and if the phone gets dropped in a lake or something, if that battery eventually catastrophically fails, at least it's wrapped in a suit of armor.</p>
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<p>Everyone communicates differently. The only way to communicate effectively is to know your audience. In some contexts, uber-precision is the best method. In others, a spoken meeting would be better.<p>We all have preferences to what kind of communication best suits how we pay attention.<p>What we don't have to fight about is that it is wrong to take somebody else's words, modify them, and present them as unmodified. That is gross, and whoever does it is a gross person.<p>I'm sorry your manager is a cunt. I'd have given him a fucking earful if he'd done that to me. I don't tolerate that bullshit because as soon as people think that they can walk all over you, they will.<p>Even if you had written something impossible to parse, there is no reason why your manager should have ever impersonated you. He should have come to you, asked questions, given feedback, and had you "fix" your statement. It sounds like he is a really bad manager. Maybe he'd be better bagging groceries?</p>
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<p>>Writing has always been a great burden. It should not be elevated to, nor equivocated with, some great utility or intellectual practice. That was for an era where sound was harder to record and transmit than words; and where meetings required moving around the world.<p>Okay Socrates[1]. Obviously writing has not been a "great burden" because it's 5000 years later and we're still all doing it. It hasn't been enough of a burden for you to avoid this place after 14 years and 12331 karma.<p>The way you've carried yourself on this thread indicates to me that you either don't understand other people's relationship to writing and why it is better than speech for them, or you are simply unempathetic.<p>> Speaking to people in a meeting allows them to emote, express difficulty of understanding, understand the sentiment and priority of what they're hearing -- and most of all, it allows them to listen rather than read. People speak at a much lower information density, and this is a less taxing form of communication.<p>Unless you have an intellectual disability, you can pay enough attention to the written word to get what you need out of it. Speaking is just as much a skill as writing. Who hasn't been in a meeting where the speaker is so boring, dull, or just bad at communicating that we zone off, go to another tab, and end up missing details? At least with writing I can go back and see what I missed. I can check myself.<p>I have ADD and a speech impediment. It is harder for me to pay attention to someone speaking, especially if they are boring, than it is for me to pay attention to a document. If I skim a document and miss something, it's all still right there in front of me. I can buckle down and read the whole thing. I can't replay a conversation. And vice-versa. With writing, I can gather my thoughts, think through what I'm trying to say, and present everything at once as a complete package that can stand on its own. Who hasn't lost a train of thought... or forgotten the word for something... or has a foggy brain and can't seem to remember an important detail?
With writing, all of those things happen in the process of creation and get pruned out and fixed in the process of publishing (I use this word loosely).<p>---<p>The other thing I really wanted to comment on is the wild idea that is somehow okay for your manager to take your work, pass it through an LLM, and then present it to others as if it was your work. Like, what?!?!<p>I don't know what model you're using but AI lies. It lies all the time. It has no understanding. OP shows that because the AI generated overview of his work was full of hallucinations. The fact his manager didn't come back to him and talk to him about his documentation and offer feedback is crazy. AI came and gave everyone a taste of a lighter workload and instantly adults with 20+ years of experience unloaded their minds and started acting like vessels.<p>If I was that manager, I would be deeply embarrassed and ashamed.<p>[1] <a href="https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/" rel="nofollow">https://fs.blog/an-old-argument-against-writing/</a></p>
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