jamaicahest

6 ms·

1.
by jamaicahest 1mo ago
As long as retry is cheap enough..
2.
by jamaicahest 11mo ago
Could personhood be applied to autonomous cars, potentially absolving manufacturers of all liability, if a car they built, kills a human being?
3.
by jamaicahest 1y ago
Shokz
4.
by jamaicahest 1y ago
I think the reason AirTag works is because Apple turns it on-by-default on i-devices and people can't be bothered to go turn it off. For a chat to work on the same scale it would literally need Apple or Google to ship it as enabled-by-
5.
by jamaicahest 2y ago
20+ years as a professional developer and I still have to argue with coworkers on why MongoDb is a terrible fit for their data, which is clearly relational, just because said coworkers can't be bothered to learn SQL.
6.
by jamaicahest 2y ago
> High currents, often resulting from rapid charging, quick acceleration, or high-speed driving, can negatively affect the battery’s state of health. So to preserve battery health I need to spend 8 hours charging the battery at opposed t
7.
by jamaicahest 2y ago
> then that has to be replaced by finding the perfect candidate who can immediately be productive. We're called freelance consultants. And we charge a high price for that service.
8.
by jamaicahest 2y ago
> (which AFAIK you only need for NVIDIA GPUs). Which is what a lot of users have.
9.
by jamaicahest 2y ago
An alternative in sitautions where OTP-only is allowed. E.g. I work as a freelance contractor and every single customer requires MFA with GPS tracking. Some also require accessing Bluetooth on the phone.
10.
by jamaicahest 2y ago
GrapheneOS is nice for people using Google Pixel phones. And useless for anyone else.
11.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
How is this something "every programmer should know" ? I mean 95% of us work with software that is not performance critical, where security/auditing/monitoring/stability/maintainability/etc. is more import
12.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
I was under the impression that hacker news was not a place for sharing personal anecdotes, but rather a place for factual debate.
13.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
Why are the top comments in this thread all personal anecdotes? Is this reddit now?
14.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
One downside to pirated content is: 99% of the time it only has English audio track and the majority of the world's population does not have English as their native language. I have small children and they don't understand one wor
15.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
> Btw. Ads in front of streaming content I just selected, to tell me about other streaming content on the same service I did NOT select should also be on the NO list. I'm looking at you, Apple TV+.
16.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software) is driving Steam running windows games on Linux
17.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
So because I think it is ok that smoking cigarettes is legal, therefore I am perfectly happy if my wife or child started smoking?
18.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
How is this any different from any job? I need money to eat and pay rent and I am forced to offer my body as a tool for an employer in exchange for payment, regardless if that job entails sex or laying bricks, if I don't offer my body
19.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
> LLMs in particular can be a very fast, surprisingly decent (but, as you mention, very fallible) replacement for Stack Overflow I think that sentence nails it. For the people who consider "searching stackoverflow and copy/past
20.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
So what you're saying is Twitter/X works the same way as every other human communication medium, i.e. provocative statements get more attention. On the other hand, if zero people retweet your "substantive Tweet", maybe i
21.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
Or just pay the $10/month to Kagi, for search results that aren't garbage.
22.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
> For minimal system requirements, the Tube Archivist stack needs around 2GB of available memory for a small testing setup and around 4GB of available memory for a mid to large sized installation. Minimal with dual core with 4 threads, b
23.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
Did you read the article? > We believe that making people invest time, commit to a trial, and put skin in the game will help you build a more engaged user base. This friction weeds out the people who aren’t serious and creates a sense of
24.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
The original Settlers 1 game, released in 1993, had ingenious copy protection built in. It had multiple levels of copy protection, that would activate, if the copy protection was attempted circumvented, i.e. cracked. It would not let you co
25.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
> - use an open source version of Android on your phone, without the Google services Having tried this many times over the last 10 years, I have never encountered a stable, non-vendor Android distribution for any of my phones. Oh there a
26.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=animatedknots.com this has been posted many times now.
27.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
I'm a consultant in Denmark and I charge approximately €100/hour. When I used to be an FTE, my salary would be around €33/hour. And I use an agency for finding clients, they add approximately 20% on top of the bill, before th
28.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
I imagine it is the same for any elite level sport. Except perhaps chess.
29.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
> Developers really need to stop bringing their religion into open source. Says the person complaining "why isn't my language supported"
30.
by jamaicahest 3y ago
And thus, Reddit holds all the power. If the mods are so attached to their community, that Reddit can dictate whatever terms they want, then the mods have no leverage.

More ›