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ewagsjr··on US sues eBay for allowing sale of emissions defeat devices
Oh my gosh, I've had to run a new wire for an O2 sensor because mine gave out and it was a PITA but I couldn't afford the labor at the time and it was putting my car in limp mode which disabled cruise control. so not only was it $150 sensor, but also 5 freaking hours of me watching youtube and get cuts on my hands underneath a car.
ewagsjr··on Americans Are Drinking Less
Haha, ya except for Wisconsin probably https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2021/05/...
ewagsjr··on Equifax coding error may have resulted in errors to consumer credit scores
Did it make the credit scores better or worse?
ewagsjr··on Is big tech’s red-hot jobs market about to cool?
I think this might support your point unless you dont consider this as high profit.

I currently work on a monolith customer service application that did $2.8bn in sales last year (we are a high margin company but sales $ amount is the only data available to me - projected to do ~$3.8bn this year). It's built using Eclipse RCP and a microservice architecture that consumes from a mix of DB2 LUW and AS400(IBM I) lol. It's about 13 years old.

ewagsjr··on Ask HN: What Browser Extensions are you using?
1password, Grammarly, Redux DevTools, uBlock Origin
ewagsjr··on Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing?
Sign up for a Chick Fil A account and try to unsubscribe from their marketing emails. It's totally not a dark pattern that it fails or anything.
ewagsjr··on Poll: Why are you staying at your job?
Full-time job to look for another job...while you work your full-time job might I add. I get home and gag a little when I look at my computer. The last thing I want to do is paperwork when I get home from slave labor. cough I mean work*...
ewagsjr··on Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU
As cool as this is, I will never EVER hack/jailbreak car steering. I can't put my faith in unsupported (non-OEM may be a better term for it) software keeping me safe. I watch the tesla autopilot videos of them totally messing up and that is fully supported but still failing too much.

But cool POC for sure.

ewagsjr··on Ask HN: Switching Teams Internally?
If he is toxic towards you, he's toxic towards others. You're doing you and your coworkers a favor if he gets canned.

YOU didnt get him fired. HE got himself fired.

ewagsjr··on Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
I feel like any linter would complain about line length before you needed to worry about line length on the monitor lol..but hey if it works for you!
ewagsjr··on The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
They put the answer in quotes right after they ask if you can find it. Highlight it and hit control + f.
ewagsjr··on Gmail’s fake loading indicator (2020)
more importantly, why does it take so long to load my email...
ewagsjr··on Bitcoin Killed the King and Now Network Effects Will Determine Its Future
Bitcoin Killed Elvis huh? Weird...
ewagsjr··on Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
Ya, if I interpreted this right, also really convenient that they seem to be dragging their feet on a $100,000 bounty.
ewagsjr··on Ask HN: Ever lost your love for coding? How did you get it back?
The company I interned at did timer and wall din switches which were pretty interesting. They were timid letting me do much programming because it was freshman -> sophomore summer so I basically tackled a counter on one of their wall outlet timers that adjusted with a knob on the front and realized the embedded world was not for me haha. It is REALLY cool to hold your code in your hands, though.
ewagsjr··on Ask HN: Ever lost your love for coding? How did you get it back?
Isn't a majority of the industry Electrical Engineers who know how to code? You also have a lot more physical hardware constraints to work around unlike standard computers where the lowest baseline is still quite a bit for standard app dev.
ewagsjr··on The iPhones 13
So according to their comparison of video between the 12 pro max and the 13 pro max.. you see battery life for video playback go from 20 hours of playback to 28 hours of playback but streamed video playback go from 12 hours to 25 hours of playback. This is telling me that the idle battery drain issue was real and due to that snazzy new 5G cellular modem. It doesn't even help if you turn 5G off. https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/02/iphone-12-battery-draining-un...
ewagsjr··on Show HN: Safari Web Extension that redirects AMP
I have an issue with Reddit not allowing me to scroll in Safari since AMP was first implemented. This should be siiiick.
ewagsjr··on Runescape devs shut down HD fan mod just before release sparking in-game protest
Some additional context: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/pjo5mt/runelite_...

https://reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/pjnnyl/thirdparty_hd...

Current Update: https://reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/pkf18p/we_have_been_...

ewagsjr··on 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
So I am not saying you are wrong, but there is the extra circumstance of not being able to fly a train into skyscrapers.
ewagsjr··on 20 years after 9/11: Will we ever stop taking our shoes off at airports?
I mean you can do TSA PreCheck and then only 10% of the time you have to take your shoes off.
ewagsjr··on Your Daily Coffee Habit Is About to Get More Expensive
I will never pay for news sites knowing I can just look at the comments for heroes like you haha.