Hacker News: MarkyC4

New comment by MarkyC4 in "The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub"

MarkyC4 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:17:44 +0000

Isn't this to combat abuse? People using github as a file storage site?

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit"

MarkyC4 — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 21:51:42 +0000

(not to be demeaning, but) Why? Halo 2 is playable, with first party support, via The Master Chief Collection today. They've even kept the button combinations (BXR, RRX, etc)

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Cisco Acquires Splunk"

MarkyC4 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:48:14 +0000

Why? I haven't used AppD in ~7 years, but I remember it being one of the most pleasurable APMs (but also ridiculously expensive)

It seems to me the marriage between APM and logging would be a home run.

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” synth sounds"

MarkyC4 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 22:16:36 +0000

One of the (or maybe both) Nirvana ones are pretty good. He goes into how Cobain uses upper extensions/suspensions to give a melancholic feel. I think one of the Pearl Jam ones he throes the vocal chart on there too.

He's at his best when he's analyzing the vocal melody against the chord harmony (ie: they're using the #4 on the F for a Lydian feel to the 3rd on the Am)

New comment by MarkyC4 in "TikTok exec said companies 'shouldn’t offer maternity leave'"

MarkyC4 — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 05:54:27 +0000

You've described how it works in Canada!

https://www.canada.ca/en/services/benefits/ei/ei-maternity-p...

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?"

MarkyC4 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:32:07 +0000

They fixed the esc key on the 2019 models.

I like the key travel of my (personal) 2015 MBP compared to the 2019 MBP I have for work. I put a keyboard cover on the 2019 and it feels less bad.

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Intel becomes the first to offer full AV1 support with its new Arc GPUs"

MarkyC4 — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 17:08:25 +0000

You can't on iOS. All browsers (including Firefox!) on iOS are wrappers around Safari, which is lagging behind on many HTML5 features

New comment by MarkyC4 in "HTML Data List Element"

MarkyC4 — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:31:52 +0000

Browsers have Autocomplete for previously inputted things, but many websites want Autocomplete for partial queries that the user hasn't typed before

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Apple Now Selling More M1 Macs Than Intel-Based Models, Says Tim Cook"

MarkyC4 — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 15:36:48 +0000

Another 2015MBP stalwart here. I wasn't planning on upgrading to an ARM Mac.

I use BootCamp (daily lately, since we're in lockdown and it's snowing) for gaming on Windows with an eGPU. Neither of which are supported on the M1.

I'm considering selling my eGPU and just building a gaming PC (the M3 will likely be out by the time I pull trig though :/), but it was nice to have 1 machine do it all (work + play), especially since I didn't need the eGPU to play some couch co-op games (Cuphead, Castle Crashers, very cottage-friendly!)

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Gnome 40"

MarkyC4 — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 19:51:26 +0000

Probably something like[1]:

Because of the release of GNOME $next, and the lack of interest in maintainership of GNOME $prev, the gnome-core product is being closed. If you feel your bug is still of relevance to GNOME $next, please reopen it and refile it against a more appropriate component. Thanks...

[1] adapted from: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System"

MarkyC4 — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:56:29 +0000

Android Studio is better in this regard, there's an SDK manager so I don't need to have watchOS/tvOS installed when my apps don't target it

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Homebrew 3.0"

MarkyC4 — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:26:01 +0000

Homebrew (and CocoaPods, perhaps famously) uses github as a CDN for their package listings, syncing the git repos likely takes the most time here

New comment by MarkyC4 in "M1 Macs cannot support dual Extended displays through their Thunderbolt 3 ports"

MarkyC4 — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 15:28:08 +0000

> this does not seem to present itself in all current 15/16” chassis models

I think they're referring to the thermal throttling, and not the MBP forcing the discrete card when an external monitor is connected. As far as I know, there is no way around using the discrete card for external monitors (on my 2015MBP at least, I'm pretty sure the HDMI port is wired direct to the M370X).

I've solved the thermal issues by using an eGPU (like GP suggests)

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Coffee Crisp candy rarely ventures beyond Canada's borders"

MarkyC4 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:33:28 +0000

Bite off both ends and use it to slurp up coffee like a straw. The heat of the coffee melts the insides of the Coffee Crisp and its delicious

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years"

MarkyC4 — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:18:56 +0000

I've used their IRC channel in the past (#stripe on Freenode IIRC)

New comment by MarkyC4 in "DoorDash S-1"

MarkyC4 — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:21:43 +0000

Disclaimer: I haven't read the article.

My understanding is sometimes companies fudge the numbers though. If a $40 order has a $5 discount, they might consider $40 as revenue and put the $5 discount under a marketing expense

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux"

MarkyC4 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:38:40 +0000

seems fixed now!

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux"

MarkyC4 — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:19:28 +0000

uado isn't quite "pixel-perfect" on Firefox (82.0.2, Mac): https://i.imgur.com/EYFzTv3.png

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML"

MarkyC4 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:55:08 +0000

Also: Consider another shortcut for mute/unmute (cmd + d or ctrl + d is the bookmark shortcut in like every browser... maybe this is intentional?)

New comment by MarkyC4 in "Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML"

MarkyC4 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:46:20 +0000

not just Ubuntu, Firefox 82.0.2 on Mac doesn't show the option