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New comment by Godel_unicode in "What happened to the US machine tool industry?"

Godel_unicode — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:12:13 +0000

It’s an uncommon take that a diverse market with no single sector even close to a majority is a problem.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect"

Godel_unicode — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:35:43 +0000

Clips work by observing transmission of light through the finger being absorbed by oxygen-carrying blood as opposed to the single chip wearable which depends on measuring reflected light. Different techniques, different patents.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256"

Godel_unicode — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:03:19 +0000

I don’t understand why people use sha256 when sha512 is often significantly faster:

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/26336/sha-512-fas...

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data"

Godel_unicode — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 08:04:14 +0000

> there's no way to make your data anonymous and usable by the third party at the same time. The

This is absurd hyperbole, here’s a trivial proof. The US population is 51.1% female. If you live in the US your gender information is included in this data point, but it cannot be de-anonymized. It is however useful for determining TAM for many products.

Anonymity is a spectrum, and there are many points along that spectrum which are solutions to usable data which also respects privacy.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD (2008)"

Godel_unicode — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:13:58 +0000

Plenty of those people are present in this thread.

The FTC Hits the Brakes on Xbox's Activision Blizzard Merger Trial for August

Godel_unicode — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 00:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/the-ftc-hits-the-brakes-on-xboxs-activision-blizzard-merger-trial-set-for-august

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36822014

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New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:18:39 +0000

We were talking about open Wi-Fi networks.

This paranoid alternate reality where tv companies are paying every ISP for backdoor access is very, very far away from flipping the “opportunistically join open networks” bit. It’s also not borne out by either research or logic.

> at all costs

Nothing works like that. They don’t care about you, beyond the pennies they can make. If it costs (and it would) they won’t do it.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Apple’s plunge in PC shipments is steepest among major computer makers"

Godel_unicode — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 01:24:30 +0000

> wouldn't be that hard.

What are you basing that on? They’ve spent a lot of time talking about how optimized the hardware and software are for each other, why are you so sure that getting equivalent performance and efficiency would be easy? Consider how trash MoltenVK is compared to Metal. About the best you can say is that it technically works.

> not giving up anything they currently earn

That’s not how Apple thinks. If they cut someone else in, especially a behemoth like Steam, they’re signing away their ability to do Apple Arcade for MacOS in the future. Look at the whole Kindle vs Apple Books fiasco, they’re never going to let someone else in the pool again. They won’t even let the XCloud game streaming app on.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'"

Godel_unicode — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 23:14:35 +0000

The irony of demonstrating a lack of critical thinking ability by claiming to be the great teachers of it has always been extremely amusing to me.

Don’t correct them, it’s honestly better this way.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Apple’s plunge in PC shipments is steepest among major computer makers"

Godel_unicode — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 14:15:34 +0000

> It would not require a lot of changes.

It would require Apple to stop being Apple. Give up their App Store revenue (Steam) and give up their proprietary 3D API in favor of a standard? Might as well ask for a Start button.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 15:28:34 +0000

That’s moving the goalpost pretty far, don’t you think?

New comment by Godel_unicode in "GNU+Linux laptops with Libreboot preinstalled, based on coreboot"

Godel_unicode — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 04:15:44 +0000

> The average user doesn't know about drive enryption.

Nor should they. Good news though, it’s on by default in any recent Windows which supports it. So a great many millions of users are using it without needing to know or care.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 19:42:18 +0000

I don’t understand the point you’re making. Someone might eventually start doing something they’re not currently doing?

New comment by Godel_unicode in "How to Stop Ruminating"

Godel_unicode — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 16:17:50 +0000

You might want to read the Wilson et al paper on mindfulness significantly increasing susceptibility to false memories, that’s quite the downside.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 03:46:33 +0000

There’s also nothing stopping any of them from including an Iridium modem in their sets. Or using aircrack to try and break into a nearby network. Or any other tinfoil hat thing we can come up with.

There are literally thousands of paranoid security researchers who would love to post about something like this (hi), and none of them have. That’s hardly conclusive, but if it’s not good enough for you then maybe you should reconsider whether society is the place for you.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 03:38:44 +0000

Ask 4 people and you’ll get at least 5 answers, I recommend reading rtings reviews and buying whatever they recommend for whatever kind of viewer you are. If you’re asking this kind of question here then that’ll be good enough.

Edit: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/best/tvs-on-the-market

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 03:35:51 +0000

Go into your router and block the MAC address. Even most ISP routers have an option for this, sometimes in the Parental Controls section. Much easier than changing the password or resetting the TV.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 03:31:48 +0000

Tl;dr, as anyone’s who has researched this extensively knows, buy a projector or something that’s over 15 years old.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 03:24:05 +0000

Can you connect to it and get internet without hitting a captive portal that requires your ISP creds? That’s usually how it happens in the US.

New comment by Godel_unicode in "Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?"

Godel_unicode — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 03:21:45 +0000

Which ISPs are giving out APs with no key needed and no captive portal? Every one that I’m aware of requires some manner of secret to login to the shared AP.