octagonal (u/octagonal)

octagonal commented on Europe's Banks Launch Wero Payments to Dislodge Visa, Mastercard bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew

yapyap · a year ago

Lovely initiative, really.

But they need to change that name, Wero sounds lame.

octagonal · a year ago

It's not easy coming up with a name that sounds at least somewhat OK in >24 languages.

octagonal commented on Microsoft Launches Surface Laptop 6 for Business and Surface Pro 10 blogs.windows.com/devices... · Posted by u/denistaran

dannyw · 2 years ago

I can confirm. I’ve had two surfaces and both have had serious failures about 1-2 years into medium usage with no physical damage.

Meanwhile, all my Thinkpads and MacBooks still work today.

octagonal · 2 years ago

I'm still waiting on my current, 60 hours of use a week, mid-2019 MacBook Pro to die or have any sort of malfunction so I can justify buying a new one. Its battery life has seen better days but that's basically it.

octagonal commented on The Last Linotype Newspaper (2022) koaa.com/news/news5-origi... · Posted by u/lqet

octagonal · 2 years ago

Linotype machines are marvellous and I'd highly recommend seeing them in action should you ever get the chance. They are the perfect intersection between a rube goldberg machine and a mechanical marvel to excite a part of my brain that I can't even properly put into words.

octagonal commented on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? · Posted by u/imadkhan

iExploder · 2 years ago

as a rule of thumb I ignore all UK agents, they have the attention span of a coked up butterfly. from my experience they try extract as much information out of you (your salary, last company, are they hiring, give me phone number to their manager or hr) and never call even if they scheduled a call. they never update you if the role you applied for have been filled in meantime, you simply get ghosted and your email gets spammed with offers.

I would suggest to email directly to a company hr or apply directly through company's job portal. Apply to companies that don't advertise on linkedin or similar portals. This is how I got essentially all of my jobs and this is how I get leads even now.

octagonal · 2 years ago

I won't resort to naming and shaming here but if you ever get contacted by a UK agency that 'resources vividly', immediately request a removal of your contact info per GDPR or you will get phoned daily for months on end.

octagonal commented on Yahoo Pipes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yah... · Posted by u/elsewhen

naikrovek · 3 years ago

How well does Node-Red compare against this today? They seem comparable on the surface.

octagonal · 3 years ago

Node-RED is much more focused on IoT as far as I can tell, although the UIs look comparable.

octagonal commented on Yahoo Pipes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yah... · Posted by u/elsewhen

jsjohnst · 3 years ago

I miss YQL much more than Yahoo! Pipes. My memory is hazy, but I think YQL is what ultimately killed Pipes actually, then YQL died because everything that didn’t generate revenue at Yahoo! died.

octagonal · 3 years ago

You might enjoy https://pypi.org/project/htmlq/

octagonal commented on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2... · Posted by u/BXWPU

SamBam · 3 years ago

Agreed. If the first bug was

> I did something weird after putting in a new PIN, and I was able to access my home screen without my password, but I'm not sure of the exact steps I did

then that's not really a duplicate. If the original bug report doesn't have enough information to recreate the steps, the second one is the only real bug report.

octagonal · 3 years ago

Yes. The first one is more like a user complaint than an actual reproducible bug report.

octagonal commented on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2... · Posted by u/BXWPU

izacus · 3 years ago

Thing is, most phone manufacturers will customize the lockscreen quite a bit, so it's possible (but not necessary!) it affects others.

octagonal · 3 years ago

I don't think many phone OEMs will actually take the effort to muck around in the lock screen mechanisms.

octagonal commented on French mayor demands €15,000 fee to climb Mont Blanc bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro... · Posted by u/LinuxBender

ozim · 3 years ago

There is no insurance company that will insure you on doing that. Unless I don't know something - for which I would be glad to hear back that I am wrong.

Any travel insurance I have seen always excluded all kinds of sports which is also mountain climbing. They exclude everything that requires specialistic gear.

I also work in insurance industry as a software dev - nothing that I have seen would let insure someone who would go under-prepared. One could fill in form that he goes fully prepared but once lied insurance company won't pay anything.

Basically they will sell you insurance if you are fully prepared and basically you don't have any chance of claiming insurance.

octagonal · 3 years ago

Not true at all. I've done work for insurance companies in the past as well. While it's true most of them will not diverge from their standard contracts, some are very open to clients suggesting 'custom' insurance no matter how obscure the clauses. The only caveat of course being that it will cost you substantial amounts.

> I also work in insurance industry as a software dev - nothing that I have seen would let insure someone who would go under-prepared. One could fill in form that he goes fully prepared but once lied insurance company won't pay anything.

If you break the terms of the contracts you won't get covered of course. Same as with car insurance where you won't get coverage if you were DUI.

octagonal commented on From August 1: Cash transactions above NIS 6k illegal israelnationalnews.com/ne... · Posted by u/walterbell

radiKal07 · 3 years ago

> they hate paying taxes. So they want to shift some of the taxation burden on to the middle class and the poor.

I don't understand how making middle/poor class pay more taxes spares the rich from taxes.

octagonal · 3 years ago

It acts as a "pre-emptive" tax shift. If more people pay taxes there's going to be less pressure on the government to set an ever higher tax rate, because now they receive more money while levying the same amount.