HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

veave

486 karma · joined June 2, 2023

submissionscomments
veave··on Casio G-Shock time sync radio
I have one in the south of Spain and it doesn't work practically anywhere and definitely not where I sleep (since it can be set to synchronise after midnight automatically)

I bought it in part because of this feature and it was quite sad. These quartz watches are good but they still drift substantially after a few months.

Thankfully I heard of the DCF77 emulator app thanks to this thread and I will use it.

veave··on Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes
Because if you don't say what you are expected to say you are branded a shill, you are told you are repeating propaganda points, etc. All in all a toxic way of ending the discourse. That causes some people not to try.
veave··on The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction
Actually it always gets me a lot of downvotes but I will keep repeating it because it is the truth. All personal responsibility is being outsourced to the state until we have no autonomy left and it's depressing.
veave··on The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction
Nothing harder than getting parents to do some parenting
veave··on Lahaina Fire Victims Being Pressured to Sell Land
Might is right. If they couldn't defend their land how can they say it's theirs?
veave··on [dead]
Not everything deserves respect. Freedom, of course. But not respect.
veave··on Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change (1985) [video]
You are falling in the trap of thinking that ecologists argue in good faith.

They hate you, you are the carbon they want to reduce. Don't engage.

veave··on The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
You are assuming that the topics I mentioned would be posted in the shape of short slogans, but they could be posted as long comments of several paragraphs and be flagged all the same.

Also there is no left bias. There is a progressive bias. Not exactly the same

veave··on The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
A consequence of having a system of flagging is that dang can avoid having to do any work by having users remove other users' comments, keeping the site in one side of the political spectrum. (Just to be clear, I don't think he particularly cares which side wins, as long as it allows him to avoid any responsibility)
veave··on The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm
Transexuals are not women, abortion is murder, the US and/or Ukraine provoked the war, average IQ of different races and how it explains their behaviour. There you have four things that will earn you an instant flag (perhaps not in this thread for obvious reasons)
veave··on Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision
I hope they don't use tractors or any other fossil fuel vehicles. They should be mandated by the judge to reap the land by hand.
veave··on The IPv6 mess (2002)
I'm not going to defend ipv6 since I also think it's bad, but in this day and age autoconfiguration works perfectly.
veave··on The IPv6 mess (2002)
Last-Modified Sat, 02 Aug 2003 14:27:40 GMT
veave··on Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio
Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted.
veave··on Grindr Accused of Union Busting: Report
The fact that everybody either uses you or despises you should tell you something about yourself.
veave··on Far-right populist emerges as biggest vote in Argentina’s presidential primary
>Before the election, analysts had warned that a better-than-expected showing for Milei, 52, would likely upset financial markets and lead to a sharp plunge in the value of Argentina’s peso amid uncertainty about what economic policies he might implement if he became president.

They should look at how the peso has been doing thus far:

https://www.chartoasis.com/charts/usd-ars-10-years-chart-des...

veave··on Mexico’s underground vanilla economy
Someone should tell Nathaniel Parish Flannery to clean the lenses of his phone before he takes pictures with it.
veave··on Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92
You can opt out by moving to the countryside.
veave··on Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio
COPY and XCOPY are okay as long as they aren't written to intentionally bypass DRM (they aren't)
veave··on Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder
I don't see why a stupid stunt like this should give you a right to bypass immigration laws.

Anyway I was just curious.

veave··on Fourteen days across the Atlantic, perched on a ship’s rudder
So they enter the country ilegally and... get to stay? Am I missing something?
veave··on Sqlx: I'm sorry I forked you
I'd rather you apologised for not having a visible scrollbar instead.
veave··on The first messenger without user IDs
>I really, really don't understand the obsession with the server source code.

You just used "closed server source code" as an argument against telegram? I also agree that it doesn't matter at all. But then why trashtalk telegram?

veave··on The first messenger without user IDs
They are held to the standards they set to themselves.

You can't brag about your open source server code and then stop updating it for a year.

You can't spend all day on twitter writing bullshit to attract a certain political demographic and then add a crypto wallet to a chat client.

etc etc

veave··on Fedora Asahi Remix first impressions
I checked: that particular line really says "no"
veave··on Auditory illusions with examples from Daft Punk
HN discovers sampling in electronic music.
veave··on Squeeze the hell out of the system you have
>Design your application's hot path to never use joins. Storage is cheap, denormalize everything and update it all in a transaction. It's truly amazing how much faster everything is when you eliminate joins.

Anybody has documentation about this with examples?

veave··on I Fixed a 3-year-old bug in Windows Calculator and Microsoft Couldn't Care Less!
Do they have thousands of open issues? (I'm sitting myself on a VLC bug which I can't be arsed to report)
veave··on Apple TV's MLS Season Pass subscriptions doubled since Messi's arrival in US
"more than doubled" could mean from 1 to 3 subscribers :P
veave··on Feral desert donkeys are digging wells, giving water to parched wildlife (2021)
I agree with you in principle, but nowadays, every newspaper seems to try hard to cram as many puns as possible in every article and it gets boring fast.
← PreviousPage 3 of 14Next →