Hacker News: 41b696ef1113

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "GeForce RTX 40 Series"

41b696ef1113 — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:34:29 +0000

Having run an over powered desktop to enable my gaming hobby, I have been toying with putting a "thin client" on my desk and my beefy rig in the living room.

Computer performance has felt ~stagnant for the past decade. Given the number of platforms that build to be mobile friendly, there is increasingly less need to be constantly running a power hungry rig as my main configuration when I am spending most of my time browser the internet. If I want to "desktop game" I could stream from the living room to my desk in the event it is not a controller friendly experience.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "It's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++"

41b696ef1113 — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 02:25:54 +0000

The true real win of Rust. Knowing that you are incredibly likely to be able to compile it without any hoops. Random C/C++ project can still be a roll of the dice.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

41b696ef1113 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:54:01 +0000

It is a 12 year old legacy product. What specification exists other than, "Yesterday it did X when I clicked the button, but now it does not do that anymore."

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

41b696ef1113 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:49:42 +0000

Maybe there are some underlying architectural problems that need to be addressed, but it would be impossible make those changes from the current situation. It sounds like it is impossible to even know what code is live vs sitting on the server. How do you even know you have a firm grasp on the current architecture when it is unclear what code is even running the product?

A lot of low hanging fruit to be addressed that will likely lead to meaningful improvements. Once the code is in better shape and some unfortunate legacy pattern is identified, than it can be considered time to re-tool the architecture.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

41b696ef1113 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 08:41:29 +0000

The system is an enormous black box and this at least tells you what N things were being manipulated at time in point X. Easy to setup and gives just a bit of peace and mind if the thing keels over one day.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Why do all these 20-somethings have closed captions turned on?"

41b696ef1113 — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 04:17:58 +0000

But shouldn't the product be created for the typical end user and not the 1% of cinemaphiles with a blessed setup?

A pretty common complaint is that developers only test things on their latest generation i9, with unlimited ram, and 8k displays.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Head-On Crash: 2009 Chevrolet Malibu vs. 1959 Bel Air (2009)"

41b696ef1113 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:14:29 +0000

>...by not doing a offset test or picking literally anything but a GM X-frame car (notoriously bad at overlap crashed, even by 1950s standards)

So you are mad that they used a street legal car of the day to show that things have improved?

A fun historical fact I just discovered, "Ford offered seat belts as an option in 1955. These were not popular, with only 2% of Ford buyers choosing to pay for seatbelts in 1956" [0]. Which reads to me that many 1959 drivers would have been unlikely to have or use a seatbelt.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Ask HN: What are your recommended reads for bootstrapping a business?"

41b696ef1113 — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 01:23:12 +0000

What is the basic process for even starting a business?

I have been kicking around an idea, and have thought about building a site. Strictly an off-hours, hobby amount of effort. I think I would be lucky to recoup DO hosting fees. Given that I only expect this to be a learning experience, but still want to operate as if it were a real business - how do I begin?

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Living Like Nothing Matters"

41b696ef1113 — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 05:33:27 +0000

It did not seem like that was the message? More just identifying a point where needs are met?

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default"

41b696ef1113 — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 19:23:32 +0000

My only complaint with it is this half-way json vs standard config file situation in which it finds itself. The documents push you to the json system, but most of the available documents are in the config system.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "City-based soda pop taxes don’t effectively reduce sugar consumption"

41b696ef1113 — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 05:32:24 +0000

What is a y equivalent gram of sweetener?

A cursory look says a 12oz Coke Cola has 39grams of sugar while a Diet Coke has 0.2 grams of aspartame. How would you like it to be labelled?

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "CA grid: real-time status"

41b696ef1113 — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 01:45:32 +0000

How much generation capacity has been shutdown since then? With the seemingly endless installation of solar panels, I am surprised of the generation warnings.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "All poverty is energy poverty"

41b696ef1113 — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 16:34:16 +0000

The book Windup Girl [0] is a SciFi novel set in a universe where climate change has completely altered the world. Fossil fuels are no longer available, so production is limited by genetically engineered products or human/animal labor to charge in-universe batteries. Calorie cost of items becomes front and center to many activities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Google Pixel 6 still freezes when calling Emergency Services"

41b696ef1113 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:46:15 +0000

I am reminded of this article [0] on how NASA develops software. For things that absolutely must work, standard development practices do not apply. Real Engineers do not get to leave off testing for the big red emergency shut off button.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Jetbrains Space"

41b696ef1113 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:14:10 +0000

The pain of getting finance to approve recurring charges is quite real.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Ubuntu: “How are we improving Firefox snap performance?”"

41b696ef1113 — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:42:31 +0000

The forced Snap-ification of Firefox pushed me from Ubuntu into another distro (Pop OS). A decade ago, Ubuntu offered real usability improvements (working Wifi, what?!) compared to the competition. Now, the various Linux flavors all work approximately the same. If Ubuntu is looking for positive differentiation, Snap is not it.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG"

41b696ef1113 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 05:48:13 +0000

I was curious, so as a point of comparison, the latest Common Crawl [0] is 3.1 billion pages and 370 TB uncompressed. I would presume that Bing would be significantly larger given commercial interests.

[0]: https://commoncrawl.org/connect/blog/

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "GeForce Now: A Review"

41b696ef1113 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:45:16 +0000

>For example, if I try to go to stadia.com right now from this mac/safari, I'll just get a page that says "Stadia requires Chrome",

Not exactly encouraging that Googles cares about the service. Google IOT seemed like it had a lot more revenue promise (probably cheaper to host as well), and even that could not survive the graveyard.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) [pdf]"

41b696ef1113 — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 23:51:19 +0000

The typical Amazon reviewer is unqualified to differentiate between shipping delays and product quality. No way I can have any expectations for subtle health changes.

New comment by 41b696ef1113 in "Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq"

41b696ef1113 — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 23:42:45 +0000

It does not even provide a `--sort-keys` option. That's like 90% of the the reason I ever lean on jq - to standardize API output for my human brain.