petemc_'s comments

On: The Impact of the Kaspersky Ban

[petemc_]

Perhaps Augury.

On: MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5

[petemc_]

In case you haven't read it - https://folklore.org/Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.html

[efreak → petemc_]

Desktop browser might be smoothing things over here, but I tried to load this on my android tablet and had to add www to get the domain to resolve.

[jakey_bakey → petemc_]

This is brilliant, thanks!

On: Revenue is easy, profit is harder

[petemc_]

Unless you have some information you're not sharing, this is a pretty horrible thing to say.

[tnel77 → petemc_]

I don’t feel like it’s horrible. If one of your founding members is focused on getting rich quick while the rest are trying to invest in the company long-term, then his departure very well could have helped the company ultimately succeed.

[anonymous_sorry → petemc_]

Is it horrible to suppose that someone might not be well-suited to the task of driving a business from nothing to a national concern? Because I personally suspect that of most people, including myself, and don't think of myself as particularly mean-spirited.

Also, the offspring of the man in question identifies an aspect of his temperament that led to things turning out the way they did.

On: Tether ownership and company weaknesses revealed i...

[petemc_]

Coffeezilla is great but Bitfinex’ed [0] has been calling out tether for longer.

[0] https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed

[dreadlordbone → petemc_]

Coffeezilla actually points this out in his video at 18:45.

On: Why Northern Ireland has no flag

[petemc_]

That, or they are avoiding debt collectors by not being on the electoral register.

On: Citrix to be acquired for $16.5B, will be merged w...

[petemc_]

Worked for a company that Citrix acquired a few years ago. They seemed to have went all in on something called Kepner-Tregoe. I left shortly after my week long training course, which I didn't get much out of other than a stay in a nice hotel. As I was leaving they were downsizing and one of their techniques was to match 2 people together and say "We will be comparing your performance against each other for the next 6 weeks, after that, the worst performer will be fired". Pretty awful.

On: Tell HN: Full macOS reinstall because Apple ID

[petemc_]

I had a Ship of Theseus moment after getting my laptop repaired by Apple. They pretty much had to replace everything except for the bottom case, so when I went to sign in with my apple id I got a message saying "we have sent a message to your other device". But there was no other device. Took over a month to resolve and I also kept getting the annoying pop up message asking me to check the ID.

[glacials → petemc_]

Another problem Apple engineers can be blind to -- only having one Apple device.

[throwoutway → petemc_]

How did you resolve it?

On: The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead...

[petemc_]

Sounds the same as what Dell call a flea power drain.

On: The Culture War: Iain M. Banks’s Billionaire Fans

[petemc_]

Been a while since I read both books, but other than a vaguely similar shape, what makes the Affront clearly a juvenile version of the dwellers? I read the wiki you mentioned and there is a story suggesting an early version of contact rescued them from dweller hunts, but no mention of where this idea came from. I'm a huge fan and believe I have read everything Banks has written and do not recall the story.

[matthewdgreen → petemc_]

This is probably right and very saddening. Oh well, I guess we can still assume that Against a Dark Background is set in the Culture universe, just very far away.

[pas → matthewdgreen]

Or it's a simulated world! After all it has things like the Lazy Gun.

[messe → petemc_]

Just checked out the wiki myself. That reads like fanfiction.

On: On Repl-Driven Programming

[petemc_]

Not a keystroke and I'm probably being captain obvious, but I use pythons execfile for this.