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acheronon Heresy (2022]

Don’t feed the trolls.

acheronon My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto

I’d prefer to pay up front to buy the product, the way everything was sold up until around 2012, and not have a “subscription” scam.

acheronon I'm a USB-C Maximalist

Unfortunately the EU has written USB-C into law, so there will never be a USB-D. I guess we should be glad they didn’t do this 30 years ago, or we’d still be using PS/2 connectors.

acheronon Just Let Me Write Digits

There were lots of very in-depth UI studies in the 90s, which were implemented in the second half of the 90s and early 00s. Then someone let “designers” in the door and it was all thrown out.

acheronon Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring

Launder Google’s reputation, I assume.

acheronon Just Pay the Subscription

One great genre of HN comment is where people insist subscriptions are the only way a software business can work, as if commercial software sprung into existence fully formed in 2012.

acheronon How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty

This is what HN is now, sadly.

acheronon FreeBSD ate my RAM

Netcraft confirms it.

acheronon I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

Yes, I remember, I had lasagna.

acheronon LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

The article is about a marketing data breach, not passwords.

acheronon The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated

It’s always great when years of medical and scientific studies are instantly debunked by HN’s top JavaScript developers. One wonders why we even bother having research universities.

acheronon Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center

Maybe you should have looked it up before posting?

acheronon Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs

TVs were unsubsidized by ad tech up until 10 years ago, and I’m pretty sure most people bought TVs back then.

acheronon Younger workers avoid phone calls and it might cost them opportunities

Pretty easy.

1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from.

2) entirely block that area code.

That takes care of 98% of it.

acheronon Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

> ununionized

Wouldn’t that just be “ionized”?

acheronon UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s

“Suddenly”? Remember all the “net neutrality” bullshit years ago that was all about begging the government to regulate the Internet? This has been going on since the early 00s probably. If you’re old enough to remember the 90s and earlier Internet then yes, it’s a strange thing to see, but that ship has sailed, circumnavigated the globe, and been decommissioned.

acheronon I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

Hope all your programs are written in machine code. Wouldn’t want to be proud of compiler output.

acheronon Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C

Wait, he didn’t have to import 237 NPM packages?

acheronon I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys

I know laptops have a bit of a different standard, but for real keyboards, IBM perfected keyboard design in 1985 and all deviations from that are a mistake.

acheronon Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?

There are several? Venues around here use AXS, Seetickets/Eventim, Opendate. I buy more non-TM tickets than TM.

acheronon Why are cells small?

There’s also the one that almost ate the Enterprise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immunity_Syndrome_(Star_Tr...

acheronon India's surprise baby bust

“So you hate waffles?”

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-bitch-dats-a-whole-new-x-w...

acheronon What I've learned about the trombone

More formally that's an "F attachment", lowering the key of the instrument (assuming a standard tenor trombone) from B♭ to F. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombone#Valve_attachments

acheronon Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

On iOS you don't have to do anything, -- gets autocorrected to an em-dash. This has been in iOS for almost 10 years IIRC.

acheronon I hated writing until I learned there’s a science to it (2024)

“I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!”

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/11

acheronon Google Hates You

Breaking news from 2005

acheronon Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps

Freenet 3.11 for Workgroups

acheronon Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart

It’s a troll. Just flag and move on.

acheronon Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

“We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?”

Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7 Activity recorded M.Y. 2302.22467 (TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED)

acheronon Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland

Feet and inches long predate imperial units, and the US has never used the imperial system, btw. “Imperial” has a specific meaning and isn’t just “anything not metric”.

Anyway, base 12 is also built into most Germanic languages which have unique names for 11 and 12 (rather than something along the lines of “one-teen” and “two-teen”, which is more common in Romance languages IIRC.