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New comment by Ecco in "Pentagon forbids export of Apple computers"

Ecco — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:58:23 +0000

Yes, the joke is that this was back in 1999, but it’s funny how history repeats itself. And this gives an interesting perspective to the recent Anthropic export ban : in a way, that’s free advertising.

I wonder what commercial Anthropic could build out of this!

Pentagon forbids export of Apple computers

Ecco — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:58:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxvLq0dFvw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516853

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by Ecco in "Dav2d"

Ecco — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:03:06 +0000

Using raw uncompressed bitrate is a bit disingenuous. How about comparing an older, widely supported codec like H.264 as a baseline?

New comment by Ecco in "World's biggest RC A380 [video]"

Ecco — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:43:44 +0000

It sounds like it's electric powered. As much as I love brushless motors, I think a model of that scale and quality would have deserved actual jet engines.

New comment by Ecco in "Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly"

Ecco — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:19:00 +0000

How about using a format that has actually been designed to be a compressed read-only filesystem? Something like a SquashFS or cramfs disk image?

New comment by Ecco in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

Ecco — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:36:15 +0000

Reading the article is what made him say that.

New comment by Ecco in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

Ecco — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:45:45 +0000

Kinda ironic that standardebooks.org refuses non-English books but will happily promote a French ranking... I mean none of those books are actually available on standardebooks.org - at least not in their original French version.

New comment by Ecco in "ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds"

Ecco — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:36:28 +0000

That is really cool. I wish it had an animated video to display the result, that'd be even easier to follow and therefore even more impressive.

New comment by Ecco in "Spherical Snake"

Ecco — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:01:01 +0000

Really cool game, but please please fix the viewport to prevent accidentaly zooming on the page on a mobile device!

New comment by Ecco in "Ruby Symbols"

Ecco — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:38:54 +0000

I think the whole article is super confusing.

A Symbol is really just a string!

Well, it's a string that will guarantee unique allocations (two identical strings are guaranteed to be allocated at the same address), which makes equality checks super fast (compare pointers directly). But pretty much just a string nonetheless...

New comment by Ecco in "Hello-World iOS App in Assembly"

Ecco — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:45:53 +0000

Feels like a disassembly of a boilerplate app, as opposed to handcrafted, minimal assembly code.

For instance I’m pretty sure the autorelease pool is unnecessary as long as you don’t use the autorelease mechanism of Objective-C, which you’re most likely not going to do if you’re writing assembly in the first place.

New comment by Ecco in "Hello-World iOS App in Assembly"

Ecco — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:43:30 +0000

How would that impact the App Store approval? AFAIK they review binaries anyway…

New comment by Ecco in "JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool"

Ecco — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:35:46 +0000

Because of a lack of features? It doesn't even have IK so I would argue Blender is in fact easier to use (as in, will get you to the result faster even if you need a bit more time to learn the interface).

New comment by Ecco in "JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool"

Ecco — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:14:31 +0000

How is this any better than a Blender file with a rigged human model?

New comment by Ecco in "Ohno Type School: A (2020)"

Ecco — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:24:50 +0000

Great content, terrible form.

New comment by Ecco in "OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse"

Ecco — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:34:30 +0000

Thanks. Does it make a big difference in practice?

New comment by Ecco in "OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse"

Ecco — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:33:28 +0000

Well, that’s my point exactly: mainline kernel is what all distros eventually use.

As a matter of fact I’m currently running an OrangePi 5 as a server using an unmodified Debian Trixie and hardware support is nearly perfect.

New comment by Ecco in "OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse"

Ecco — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:31:35 +0000

I looked it up rapidly and couldn't figure out the difference with the original OrangePi 5.

By the way, the OrangePi 5 is a pretty good SBC. Much better bang/bucks than RPi, and the mainline kernel support is pretty good and getting better with every release thanks to the folks at Collabora.

https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-35...

New comment by Ecco in "macOS Tahoe"

Ecco — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:20:29 +0000

I feel like we’ve gone full circle. For decades Apple hardware sucked and was badly overpriced, but you paid the price to enjoy running Mac OS X. Now Apple makes amazing hardware (especially laptops) but the drawback is that you have to run macOS on them.

I really wish Asahi Linux had more support, I would have bought a couple M4 Minis.

New comment by Ecco in "iOS Elegantbouncer: When you can't get samples but still need to catch threats"

Ecco — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:15:29 +0000

The background on that page is so distracting…