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rrrhyson Show HN: Autism Simulator

> I can often smell the people around me. Generally, they don’t smell good. I can often hear conversations that are on the other side of the office. (Have you ever tried to add up numbers while someone else says other random numbers at you? It’s like that.) When people walk past my field of vision, I can’t focus on my screen. When I try to tune out all of these distractions, it consumes a lot of energy. Doing it hour after hour, day after day would leave me depleted, exhausted, unable to focus.

I always just thought putting up with this was what I got paid for. Like isn't this why working on-site sucks?

rrrhyson JavaScript decided my day starts at 9am

I have always followed the same, but also found calendar events are a good carve out to this.

The user doesn't care about the timezone change yesterday (and shouldn't..), they just need to see their meeting at 10am.

rrrhyson Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain

Company: "Use the app" / cut back front line staff

People: "ugh, I will use the app"

Company: "Look, nobody uses the front line staff"

rrrhyson John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned

Answer: Let's do neither!

rrrhyson Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps

My last interaction with it they started showing dialogs telling me I was using the wrong chat tool now.

So I clicked through, and the core functionality of "chat via IM and then spill out to video chat" was nowhere to be found*

*I'm sure it was there somewehere, but I was trying to join a damn meeting not learn a new UI

rrrhyson Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?

The people are removed from the ordering experience at all McDonalds in my local area (Sydney Australia-ish)

The registers are hidden behind a counter and there's no obvious place to order, unless you use the kiosk.

If you stand at the empty counter for ~5 minutes, a staff member will eventually appear for something else (e.g. to give out an order) and serve you reluctantly - it's awful.

rrrhyson Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)

We don't have this scam.

We get the car parked in the shopping centre with big "WIN THIS CAR" signs. Entry is $5-10 per ticket though, so it seems feasible there's actually a winner somewhere along the way (My assumption is a Mustang appears in a few shopping centres at once and one is ultimately given away, for example).

rrrhyson Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

Worth it.

rrrhyson Australia ranked 61/63 countries for entrepreneurship

You forgot "The Boats" from the super important stuff list.

rrrhyson VC Meltdown

> I don't think we're in for a "correction"

> Housing will take a 30% haircut, and we'll probably see some of the over-extended corporate debt come to roost as well

What, then, is a correction?

rrrhyson What Is JSON Patch?

Null could imply the field was present and a value not entered or not necessary. Missing could imply the field was never known about at all. The context is important.

Null != missing.

rrrhyson A few things to know before stealing my 914

I used to have to hit my starter motor with a long pry-bar to get it going.

Now that I've finally got a reliable car and the money for the $20 solenoid we have a saying about cars in general:

Used to have the time but no money, now got the money but no time.

rrrhyson US Destroyer can’t deploy because CO won’t get Covid vaccine, Navy says

Opens comments section

Closes comments section

rrrhyson SPAs Were a Mistake

> Your arguments seem to be assuming a particularly bad implementation of a traditional backend.

These weekly SPA complaint threads always assume a particularly bad implementation of a SPA as well though.

rrrhyson Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online

Why are you intentionally spelling his name wrong? It certainly doesn't add credibility to your argument.

rrrhyson Did I just lose half a million dollars?

- If it's complex and not automated, make a checklist, print it, check it off line by line.

rrrhyson Ask HN: Gmail account security

> This is relatively new - a few years ago Authenticator did not support this.

Thanks, this was around when my device went for a swim.

rrrhyson Ask HN: Gmail account security

1. In a thread about being locked out of google services because of AI black box, it makes sense to reduce dependence anywhere possible

2. If you get a new device, you need to un-enrol and re-enrol in all 2fa providers with g authenticator - it's a nightmare. Very hard if the old device got fatally dropped in a pool! I know at least with Authy you can carry the tokens to a new device.

rrrhyson 2021-22 Tesla Model Y earns highest IIHS accolade

"locked in" suggests "locked in at original price"

rrrhyson Are 14 people really looking at that product? (2020)

These dark plugins really do work, short term at least.

When marketing enables them, the conversion rates increase by a significant fraction straight away.

Looking at increase in real dollars it becomes a hard sell to turn them back off again.

rrrhyson macOS Monterey

Photopea is an excellent, free web app photoshop clone that is worth a try.

https://www.photopea.com/

rrrhyson Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

I've got a pre-CarPlay OEM infotainment and can confirm, they are pretty shit.

The screen is hard to get it to register a tap, the corners are dead, and the UI is very 2013 (It's a 2013 toyota, so I guess more like 2009 UI).

rrrhyson Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

> capable of Apple CarPlay.

E.g. you care plenty.

rrrhyson Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

They starved out any other provider who could offer photo storage with their free storage. Now they discover they need to charge for it.

rrrhyson Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts

Whole implementation? It's probably the edge cache catching a cookie on the way out, a toggle box somewhere.

rrrhyson How to leave Google and why

1. Make photo storage free, forever!

2. Kill all competitors

3. "It's not cost effective for this to be free, new captive google users."

rrrhyson Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu

xcode.

rrrhyson Hyundai Motor says it is in early talks with Apple

I was intending to argue back 'yes but who started that in Australia' - and on a quick look it appears that was Kia.

I know Hyundai and Kia have a crazy amount of engineering overlap, but regardless you are correct.