I'd rather put foil tape over the display than go without refrigeration.
Until it streams audio
Readit Newscik commented on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/stalfosknight
cik commented on NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System nfs40.online/... · Posted by u/signa11
I still love NFS. It's a cornerstone to how I end up thinking about many problems. In my house it provides a simple NAS mount. In certain development environments, I use sshmount because of it.
But I really loved the lesser known RFS. Yes it wasn't as robust, or as elegent.. but there's nothing quite like mounting someone else's sound card and blaring music out of it, in order to drive a prank. Sigh...
Your perspective is really skewed here. 80k is easily enough to support multiple hospitals, specialist doctors, many dentists, and several multi hundred employee specialized companies.
I live in a city like this. We have muni employees, a hospital, some startups, plenty of non-tech jobs. There are doctors, lawyers, accountants, tradespeople, restaurants.. 80k is a LOT of people.
cik commented on Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging mahesh-hegde.github.io/po... · Posted by u/never_inline
> The rare ones show up maybe 1% of the time
Lucky you lol
What I've found is that as you chew through surface level issues, at one point all that's left is messy and tricky bugs.
Still have a vivid memory of moving a JS frontend to TS and just overnight losing all the "oh shucks" frontend bugs, being left with race conditions and friends.
Not to say you can't do print debugging with that (tracing is fancy print debugging!), but I've found that a project that has a lot of easy-to-debug issues tends to be at a certain level of maturity and as times goes on you start ripping your hair out way more
Absolutely. My current role involves literally chasing down all these integration point issues - and they keep changing! Not everything has the luxury of being built on a stable, well tested base.
I'm having the most fun I've had in ages. It's like being Sherlock Holmes, and construction worker all at once.
Print statements, debuggers, memory analyzers, power meters, tracers, tcpump - everything has a place, and the problem space helps dictate what and when.
cik commented on I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher teslacoilapps.com/nova/so... · Posted by u/ktosobcy
I assume you use Xiaomi or other chinese device. Those are the only ones that break navigation on purpose.
They tie essentials with the spyware so it would be nearly impossible to get rid of it without gimping the device.
I already forgot most of the details, but afaik even xiaomi apk installer has meta and bytedance trackers, in addition to like 20 more. Their mostly useless "Security" app has like 60 trackers (Includes even yandex ;) ). And you can't even really get rid of it.
Not that I'm a fan of spyware, but isn't this effectively barking at the wind. We're either getting Google's approved spyware, Samsung's approved spyware, or <insert shady> spyware. Sure, we all implement blocks, and things like blocking VPNs and the like.... but the reality is also IP (not DNS) based for tier two of getting around blocks, in applications that they solve the dns blocking issue.
Combine this with the common method of literally fetching static files with updated IPs from AWS IPs, github gists, and other "safe" static hosts... Ultimately, your device connects to the internet, and you become the product.
cik commented on Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app molecheck.info/... · Posted by u/sungam
Before that was HyperCard. It was always amazing to me the types of applications that could be written with HyperCard.
In a similar way, VBA was amazing in MS Office back in the day. If you ever saw someone who was good at Visual Basic in Excel, it’s impressive the amount of work that could get done in Excel by a motivated user who would have been hesitant to call themselves a programmer.
I wrote, and sold my first piece of software in HyperCard. It was a pretty lame Choose Your Own Adventure style game, where you clicked on buttons, having read the text. 7 year old me was pretty chuffed, to buy some baseball cards out of his hobby. I really, really miss that world.
cik commented on Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses jfloren.net/b/2025/8/28/0... · Posted by u/floren
How are you looking at a map with a $40 smart watch while riding a bike?
Sure, the high end options from apple and garmin can show maps, but you are always going to have to take a hand off the handlebar to have a good look at that tiny screen (that's why cyclists spend up to 1000$ on garmin bike computers).
There's certainly a market for a lightweight HUD and i am pretty sure some company like xreal will eventually have another shot at it.
I don't look at a map whilst riding a bike period. I don't have that want. Differently people use tech differently.
cik commented on Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses jfloren.net/b/2025/8/28/0... · Posted by u/floren
This is the first time I've seen the product, and I was immediately excited.. until I saw the product.
Now, I don't know what it does that my $40 smart watch doesn't do, by passing my voice to google / alexa / <choice>. I like where this is going, I just don't think that this generation has even the same features, as what I carry on my wrist, sadly.
The best person I ever worked with, understood that their soft skills were infinitely more important then their technical skills. They brought brilliant coding, architectural, and system design skills to the table. They were an amazing mentor - none of that was important.
This individual, inherently understood that the method with which they communicate, could be different for different individuals. As a result they changed their messaging, their body language, their wording, depending on with whom they communicated. They still said the same thing(s), but it was how.
cik commented on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3
My personal security tolerance means that I have multiple levels of firewalls and blockers: network, dns, device, and browser. It's also why I find myself scanning my DNS traffic (pihole), and running OpenSnitch.
Whether malicious or not, to me isn't the point. The point is that I, as an individual deserve the illusion of control over my data and communication. I have neither the time, nor inclination to read all release notes. Furthermore, as someone who has spent enough time writing code - I recognize that humans make mistakes and don't always update them with salient details. All the automation in the world, and AI (yes, I've tried AI for release notes) just doesn't help.