miked85

2,642 karma · joined February 11, 2020

miked85··on Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

miked85··on A look inside a Sharia Courtroom

Very true. Checks and balances do help, but the don't solve the issue of corrupt politicians.

miked85··on Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern

For me at least, it seems fairly unintuitive and primitive vs Slack or even various open source options (Mattermost, Zulip). It feels like a product where Microsoft just did the bare minimum to claim they have a competitor in this area.

miked85··on Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern

> I like Teams

I believe this may be the first time I've heard anyone say that.

miked85··on Announcing the Pollen API

I wonder how long this offering will last before being shutdown?

miked85··on Duo Outage

Wow, never heard of this one - how many messaging/chat applications has Google created now?

miked85··on Chrome was delivered without any sprints at all (2021)

I'm not a big fan of agile, but right off the bat it seems clear that the author doesn't know what sprints are.

miked85··on My Overkill Home Network

Funny, just seems like a hobby to me.

miked85··on Archive of novelty answering machine recordings

That was the first one I looked for on this site!

miked85··on Seeking gender balance, selective schools giving men a leg up in admission

Nobody should get a "bit of a push". Affirmative action is a negative thing no matter who is the beneficiary.

miked85··on FCC fines robocaller a record $300M after blocking billions of their scam calls

Mobile doesn't help very much - I ended up just silencing calls not from contacts, which I get at least 5 or 6 a day

miked85··on Driver says he was 'trapped' in hot Tesla after battery died

The odd door handle design is almost enough to trap many.

miked85··on Amazon is giving all of your personal information to courier companies

Yeah, I've had this happen a few times and the call is from a Seattle area code.

miked85··on Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

Oh yeah, might as well do it anyways just to see what you get from it. The amount of time is pretty crazy though, at least in my experience.

miked85··on Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

It usually takes years to get paid anything for these class actions, and then you might get a check for $5

miked85··on How the new Threads app is made

They have all been doing this from the start.

miked85··on Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours

It seems just a bit premature to call it a success.

miked85··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off

> it should be possible for software to be done

Not if you ask product managers

miked85··on Serverless to monolith – Should serverless lovers be worried?

PoCs turning into full blown production systems happens quite often, even if not planned.

miked85··on Is ORM still an anti-pattern?

ORM doesn't seem like an anti-pattern in my experience; sometimes they are very useful for certain applications, other times they aren't. This applies to all tools.

miked85··on Fark redesign is now live (2007)

It was impressive how quickly Digg killed itself with the terrible redesign. Back then, Reddit was mostly considered a knockoff. It actually was to a large degree, but everyone moved to it very quickly.

miked85··on Reddit Strike Has Started

I have a feeling that once they turn off the old reddit UI option, it will be even much worse.

miked85··on Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging

You may be correct, but I doubt there is a high enough profit for such a cheap supplement to be counterfeited and sold 3rd party.

miked85··on Google cuts office space in Bay Area by more than a million square feet

Which also makes one wonder why the 2 days in office are even needed.

miked85··on The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)

- Two bungee cords (free).

- Tape (free).

- Two pieces of packaging foam (free).

Not that those are expensive, but I'm not sure why the link says they are free.

miked85··on Firefox 114 Released

> Pocket Recommended content can now be seen in France, Italy, and Spain.

I'm curious if anyone wants Pocket at all

miked85··on High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students

I had many courses where I was told to buy a high priced textbook, coincidentally authored by the professor, which was never even referenced or used.

miked85··on High prices make textbook ‘piracy’ acceptable to most students

Totally agree. I only had one professor who had any idea how things work in the industry, and she went back to it within a couple years. I'm not saying there's no value at a university, but most of it is a waste of time and money.

miked85··on California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working

> The drug use is a symptom that also exacerbates the problem.

Drug use may be a symptom in some cases, but very often is the cause. Either way, it isn't good.

miked85··on US military AI drone simulation kills operator, then takes out control tower

The title and contents of the article indicate it was a simulation.

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