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orev commented on iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited   macrumors.com/2025/12/12/... · Posted by u/akyuu
0cf8612b2e1e · 2 days ago
Reduce Motion does give you the unfortunate side effect of realizing how much dead time there is between processing buttons. Many actions have a visible pause without apparent activity. I assume the software has a hardcoded delay for the animation or the program literally takes noticeable amount of time to process the action.
orev · a day ago
In the days of jailbreaking, a popular tweak was to reduce the animation delay, so this is definitely a thing iOS does.
orev commented on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products   windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari
orev · 8 days ago
It doesn’t matter. Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop, and they have no qualms using it to displace competing products. They did it with Teams, and they’ll keep doing it because they know there’s no appetite for anti-trust prosecution anymore (or maybe they feel comfortable arguing they’re no longer a monopoly because they have no presence in mobile).

Every procurement team is going to point to copilot, saying it’s included with the other Microsoft services a company is already paying for, so duplicate AI products won’t be approved for purchase.

Microsoft is laying claim to the desktop real estate, so in a few more generations of the technology, they’ll have the customers and competitors will already be starved out.

orev commented on Stop talking   gurkan.in/2025/12/stop-ta... · Posted by u/npstr
orev · 13 days ago
In many companies (especially in non-tech departments) there’s a culture where the first person to speak up is given credit for an idea as the “visionary”, even if they have no skills to actually implement it. In those environments, speaking loudly and often allows one to “lay claim” to an idea. This can be beneficial as a way to control workload, if you “claim” the idea first, you can control people’s expectations and timelines around building it.
orev commented on Show HN: I built a 1.8MB native app with self-built UI, vision and AI libraries   github.com/Okery/Aivition... · Posted by u/jaramy
salviati · 15 days ago
I think the name "app" is quite universally recognized as "mobile application", i.e. application for iOS or Android.

I think you should call it "application" to avoid confusion. Windows application would be even clearer.

orev · 15 days ago
No, that ship sailed long ago. “App” has universally been a synonym for “application”, “program”, etc. for quite a number of years now. Even Windows 10 called them “apps” in the settings screen.
orev commented on It's Always the Process, Stupid   its.promp.td/its-always-t... · Posted by u/DocIsInDaHouse
Spooky23 · 17 days ago
Well, that’s a pretty powerful capability.

I recently did a pilot project where we reduced the time for a high friction IT Request process from 4 day fulfillment to about 6 business hours. By “handing text and unstructured data”, the process was able to determine user intent, identify key areas of ambiguity that would delay the request, and eliminate the ambiguity based on data we have (90%) or by asking a yes/no question to someone.

All using GCP tools integrating with a service platform, our ERP and other data sources. Total time ~3 weeks, although we cheated because we understood both the problem and process.

orev · 17 days ago
I suspect that could have also been accomplished without any kind of AI. Most processes are inefficient simply because nobody has taken the time to optimize them (and rightly so if they’re not used often enough to justify the time; premature optimization and all that). The act of simply deciding to optimize something, and then looking at it, usually results in significant gains just because of that, regardless of what tools were used.
orev commented on Show HN: Whole-home VPN router with hardware kill switch (OpenWrt and WireGuard)   github.com/yoloshii/priva... · Posted by u/yoloshii
yoloshii · 18 days ago
Its done, but too late to edit the title of this submission. One of the unfortunate things about churning out AI slop is that the AI doesn't always catch all of its turds in one go.
orev · 18 days ago
The human in the loop should be acting as an editor of the slop before it gets posted.
orev commented on Show HN: Whole-home VPN router with hardware kill switch (OpenWrt and WireGuard)   github.com/yoloshii/priva... · Posted by u/yoloshii
yoloshii · 19 days ago
You're right that iptables rules execute in kernel space, not dedicated hardware. "Hardware kill switch" in VPN contexts typically means the protection is implemented at the network appliance level (router) rather than a software client on each device. The distinction matters because a) client-side kill switch: App crashes → traffic leaks until you notice, and b) router-level kill switch :Default DROP policy persists regardless of client state. Also, the project is for non-techies and vibe coders, so simple explanations help. For their agents, there's the juice in other docs.
orev · 18 days ago
No, it does not. Please stop responding with AI slop. A hardware kill switch always means a hardware (i.e. physical) mechanism. ALWAYS.

You might have something interesting here, but arguing this point is burying anything else of value you might have. Just take the feedback and remove it.

orev commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels   bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
nlh · 19 days ago
I’ve never understood this - it’s maddening. I grew up in the US and the bare minimum was always at least a shower curtain (inner and outer), and if not that, a proper door.

Why on earth did this half-pane of glass become standard in so many places. It’s completely ineffective and ends up with water everywhere.

orev · 19 days ago
The half pane of glass is appropriate in warm parts of the world where you want the heat to be removed as quickly as possible. I suspect some hotel executive thought it looked cool in Miami, then made it the standard for the whole chain.
orev commented on A year without caffeine (2013)   bryanalexander.org/person... · Posted by u/andsoitis
whynotminot · 23 days ago
where did you work where this was a thing?

I know lots of people who joke about it -- "haha not human until I've had my cup" -- but I've never been anywhere where people treat it like a competition.

orev · 23 days ago
Did you read the article? The opening statement points directly to this type of culture (not specifically at work, but in society in general), and your example of people joking about needing their first cup is part of the same. Other commenters in this thread allude to similar.

I’m a little surprised you haven’t been exposed to this type of bragging. (It’s very similar to people who brag about how much alcohol they can drink, which is a very common type of contest people have).

orev commented on A year without caffeine (2013)   bryanalexander.org/person... · Posted by u/andsoitis
orev · 23 days ago
I stopped caffeine in large part because of the culture around it. So many people treat it like a competition: who needs more before they can get started in the morning. Like some kind of perverse contest over who’s more addicted, as if that’s something to be proud of. Even this article starts the same way—a brag over how many pots they needed.

I adopted the perspective of treating it like a drug, and to use it for its benefits when appropriate.

u/orev

KarmaCake day6898March 19, 2010View Original