siegfried-en

24 karma · joined April 29, 2017

siegfried-en··on Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook

Has Chinese propaganda made it to hacker news?

siegfried-en··on Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

It's exactly the same in Portugal.

siegfried-en··on Gmail password first character is case insensitive on mobile device

This has been like this for at least a couple years now. Struck me as bit odd in the beginning but it doesn't really improve the chances of brute forcing too much (which is hard on Google login anyways). And potentially saves so much time and server resources

siegfried-en··on The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it

You can't really measure solar energy in weight, right?

siegfried-en··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

Well that's a pretty simplistic view.

siegfried-en··on The Incredibly Stupid One

That was an incredible fun ride! Thanks for sharing

siegfried-en··on Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare

Yeah, that's probably it!

siegfried-en··on Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare

It'd be around 80 billion dollars, actually

siegfried-en··on Launch HN: Art in Res (YC W20) – Buy art directly from artists

Love the idea! Just some small feedback on your website: When I try to go back from your website, it keeps asking me to login. It's probably due to the fact that it automatically sends me to the /artworks page and when I try to go back it sends me to the / one, triggering the login popup. Anyway, good luck!

siegfried-en··on Thoughts on Rust, a few thousand lines in

You have a point, but he never said he programmed exclusively in C++, so I don’t really see the issue here...