Dardania's comments

Dardania | 2 years ago | on: The Failed Commodification of Technical Work

to bounce on your point, there's the distinction between creative & non creative work. Sure, tools might help the creativity, but it can't replace it, and their article discusses how it can make it worse. Accurate requirements gathering requires a spark of creativity...

Dardania | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Apple products come with ungrounded plug in India

Maybe the Mac is the straw that breaks the camels back. You might have other leakages elsewhere (water heating is always a good one) that just fall below the threshold…and the Mac tips it over the GFCI? Way to check would be to disconnect / isolate earthing downstream of GFCI and try with Mac then.. also to measure the GFCI leakage current (electricians usually have the instrumentation to do so)

Dardania | 3 years ago | on: Why America can’t build

If it’s the case in Athenry, that individual had a competing data centre project shovel ready in Wicklow.

Dardania | 3 years ago | on: How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPods Pro

Agreed. Also, to cite AirPods Pro as breaking the mould on a secrecy culture…it was pretty obvious that the airpod product would develop to have noise cancelling. The stakes for secrecy were much lower.

Dardania | 4 years ago | on: Americans Will Need to Register to Travel to Europe in 2023

I (citizen of EU country) don’t recall my fingerprints being taken when entering Russia…)

Dardania | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

I am building Miasma (https://miasma.app); a little toolbar app for macOS that shows air quality readings based on either public sensors nearby or you can choose your own from PurpleAir or SmartCitizen. Also shows some metrics of potential pollution sources like traffic, aviations, power generation, and lately I added some global warming stats and calcs.

I am far from being able to program competently, so this was a stretch goal for me (using up all that lovely creative energy people had early in the pandemic) on a topic I care about. Code is horrible (with my minimal knowledge now even I can see that) but there wasn’t anything reliable enough in the App Store at the time. There’s no way I can monetise it (albeit on the even worse iOS app I did I show ads, as much to learn how to integrate them rather than derive any income) so it is purely a passion project. There have been over 1000 downloads, and based on the numbers using one of the data feeds I can see there are regularly 20 people using it throughout the day when their devices are on. Small wins.

Dardania | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there any accreditation body or credential for online news sites?

Possibly by reverting to the newspaper of record?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_of_record