potato's comments

potato | 2 years ago | on: Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals

* some driving schools in Norway banned newer Tesla models due to their unconventional force touch turn signals as some people claim they cause loss of focus in roundabouts

potato | 2 years ago | on: Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper

The “HP Tuned“ version of Windows may be the issue. Would expect that to have a ton of bloatware.

potato | 4 years ago | on: YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results

> She raised specific complaints regarding the process, but never suggested that they invalidated the results.

She proclaims the election was stolen.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trum...

potato | 4 years ago | on: World War III has already started – Gary Kasparov

Direct military confrontation between the two largest nuclear powers in the world is when World War III starts.

potato | 4 years ago | on: More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’

Just eat less and exercise more. It's free _and_ no walk-in appointment needed.

potato | 5 years ago | on: Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and YouTube

Turns out all you need for a coup is about 70 lightly armed boomers and a few zip ties.

potato | 7 years ago | on: Amazon Ring is hiring editors to push local crime news to its users

That paranoia dies down quickly once you realize how boring your neighborhood is. At least it did for me. In fact, I recently had an item stolen, and didn't even know it until my neighbor told me about a strange man in her backyard (I had missed the notification entirely).

I do agree with the article, however. It makes sense that a constant drip-feed of local crime news can have a detrimental effect on perceived security and danger.

potato | 8 years ago | on: Google ends major OS support for Nexus phones and Pixel tablet

More info on this support page:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208387

> For iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, and iPhone 7 Plus, iOS dynamically manages performance peaks to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down so that the iPhone can still be used.

potato | 8 years ago | on: No more MVC

> However it does not describe well how (server-side!) web-app architecture looks like.

Does it need to?

potato | 10 years ago | on: Why I Left the .NET Framework (2013)

Outdated. Microsoft has clearly embraced open source, and is facilitating cross-platform .NET development (OmniSharp, ASP.NET 5). Async is a thing. SQL Server is not a con, switch to something else. Mono is reason to leave mono, not .NET.

potato | 10 years ago | on: Reddit’s Plan to Recover from Its Meltdown

> I just don't like hanging out with racists and sexists

Then don't?

potato | 10 years ago | on: SSD Prices in a Free Fall

> Additionally, wear-out isn’t an issue with SSDs. Those two node uplifts in the manufacturing process add literally years to the device life, and the economics of 3D NAND allow for extra over-provisioning, making the write life of the drive well beyond its time in a data center. This is especially true for archived storage, where writing is at a much lower rate.

potato | 11 years ago | on: Google announces Android for Work

Rarely, as it will feed empty data. It doesn't deny permissions.

potato | 11 years ago | on: PC Drivers for the Xbox One Controller

Major Nelson is well regarded in the Xbox community.

potato | 12 years ago | on: Model M keyboard

Just the weekly jerk.

https://www.google.com/#newwindow=1&q=site:news.ycombinator....

potato | 12 years ago | on: Dropbox Webhooks

The Packrat feature is also nice.

https://www.dropbox.com/help/113/en

potato | 12 years ago | on: Google+ names policy discriminates against American Native Indians

This happened to my coworker, last name Tower. It sucks, but it wasn't too difficult to clear up the issue.

potato | 12 years ago | on: Flappy Bird Typing Tutor

Is it just me or is the recorded score incorrect? Pretty sure I scored 8 but it shows 9. Then again I haven't played the original so maybe I'm missing something :p

potato | 12 years ago | on: Put.io

Happy not to see Big Buck Bunny though.

potato | 13 years ago | on: Nexus 4 Review: Beautifully Crafted, Premium Android Phone

I think you'll find that most people were unimpressed when the specs leaked. Then the price was revealed ...