Hacker News: MyFedora

New comment by MyFedora in "How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes"

MyFedora — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 10:18:51 +0000

We simplify the big O notation in computer science. This is standard practice.

New comment by MyFedora in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

MyFedora — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:42:46 +0000

I think this change came from the UX team.

Relevant articles:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/simplicity-vs-choice/

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/short-term-memory-and-web-u...

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/working-memory-external-mem...

New comment by MyFedora in "How new US tariffs are forcing Europe to rethink its entire tech stack"

MyFedora — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:14:28 +0000

Probably Bunny CDN with Edge Scripting.

New comment by MyFedora in "The average college student today"

MyFedora — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:34:29 +0000

Don't worry, professors do it too.

I had one such professor in accounting. Typos, numbers from wrong year, copy/paste mistakes, forgot to turn on precision as displayed, mismatching account numbers, etc.

The textbook (written by someone else) also had mistakes. At least not in every exercise, but enough to be annoying.

Exams were also graded based on an incorrect solution, so you always had to fight for a revised grade.

New comment by MyFedora in "A phishing attack involving g.co, Google's URL shortener"

MyFedora — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:46:22 +0000

They do support if you spend enough money with them. At least with GCP. Access to in-house cloud architects level of support, even.

Biden to Further Limit Nvidia AI Chip Exports in Final Push

MyFedora — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 01:33:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-08/biden-to-further-limit-nvidia-amd-ai-chip-exports-in-final-push

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42640615

Points: 4

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New comment by MyFedora in "Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs"

MyFedora — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:18:56 +0000

It seems like they're entirely different units?

TOPS means Tera Operations Per Second.

Petaflops means Peta Floating Point Operations Per Second.

... which, at least to my uneducated mind here, doesn't sound comparable.

New comment by MyFedora in "Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions"

MyFedora — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:47:53 +0000

> He can't prevent WP Engine from getting access to Automattic services, so he acts out his revenge on the rest of the world instead?

Not a fan of Mullenweg either, but let's be realistic. For anyone who isn't completely detached from reality, dealing with lawsuits is draining, emotionally and mentally.

It's easy to point fingers and assume motives, but unless you're in the trenches, it's hard to truly know what's going on in someone's head. Given the circumstances, his decision to take a break isn't exactly out of the ordinary.

Most people would probably do the same if they were in his shoes.

New comment by MyFedora in "A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles"

MyFedora — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:28:07 +0000

Ah, the classics:

"Pedestrian involved in accident"

"Cyclist collides with car"

"Car brushes against cyclist"

"Vehicle loses control"

Amazing how responsibility shifts when a two-ton machine is involved.

New comment by MyFedora in "65% of employees bypass cybersecurity measures, new study finds"

MyFedora — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:09:55 +0000

Study finds that 65 % of employees bypass cybersecurity measures in companies with terrible cybersecurity practices? Shocking.

New comment by MyFedora in "Telegram U-turns and joins child safety scheme"

MyFedora — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:44:05 +0000

That's what's usually called a lie of omission.

New comment by MyFedora in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

MyFedora — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 11:32:05 +0000

Netflix won't take a hit here.

Most people pay Netflix to watch movies and tv shows, not sports. If I hadn't checked Hacker News today, I wouldn't even know they streamed sports, let alone that they had issues with it. Even now that I do, it doesn't affect how I see their core offering, which is their library of on-demand content.

Netflix's infrastructure is clearly built for static content, not live events, so it's no shock they aren't as polished in this area. Streaming anything live over the internet is a tough technical challenge compared to traditional cable.

New comment by MyFedora in "Learning not to trust the All-In podcast"

MyFedora — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:19:22 +0000

I'm having a hard time understanding your comment. I'm not American, but can someone explain why it wouldn't make sense to lose confidence in elections when gerrymandering and the electoral college skew the results so much? Sure, votes are technically counted, but if the system is set up so that those votes don't really impact the outcome the way you'd expect, isn't that a pretty valid reason to feel disillusioned?

New comment by MyFedora in "Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE"

MyFedora — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:06:05 +0000

This is literally a totally different piece of software with a completely unrelated use case. Changing the name would make as much sense as renaming a hammer because someone invented a screwdriver.

New comment by MyFedora in "iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos"

MyFedora — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:15:38 +0000

Probably not, but in that case, the U.S. would fill that void instead. It's a wonderful symbiotic relationship where countries don't give a shit about other countries' pet companies. God forbid if the EU would actually be strict with the automotive industry of Germany. God forbid if the U.S. would actually be strict with their tech industry.

New comment by MyFedora in "AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT"

MyFedora — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:52:50 +0000

If you dig into the article, it's evident that AWS is just trying to appease the UK's Competition and Markets Authority. To claim there's no competition would be a monumental blunder, like a government declaring there's no need for a military during a war. They don't really believe that on-prem is serious competition, but they pretend to in order to avoid litigation.

New comment by MyFedora in "AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT"

MyFedora — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:29:15 +0000

AWS claiming that on-prem solutions are competition to UK regulators is like Apple insisting the App Store isn't a monopoly to EU regulators, Google asserting that Chrome isn't dominating the web to the DoJ, or Microsoft denying its omnipresence over the workplace. It's laughable. Seriously, did anyone here actually bother to read beyond the headline?

New comment by MyFedora in "Please stop inventing new software licences (2020)"

MyFedora — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:16:20 +0000

There is no legal meaning behind and no legal protection for the term open source. A proprietary software license can use the term open source in the license and define it as the source code is available. Legal systems don't care about what some random organization like the OSI thinks open source stands for.

New comment by MyFedora in "Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'"

MyFedora — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 18:10:25 +0000

All of these problems are Windows problems too. I don't get why Linux gets all the hate for it.

> I had 2 Linux Dell laptops in a row that either had Wifi OR bluetooth, never both. I swapped the radio in the second one and things were okay for awhile.

I had a Windows laptop that came with broken wifi and bluetooth as well as a BIOS-enforced wifi card whitelist that prevented me from swapping out the wifi card.

> Neither of these, nor the Asus laptop I later purchased supported sleep/hibernate when the lid closes.

Yes, so does my Windows laptop. It's why I always shut it down completely before going anywhere.

> My current workstation that runs Ubuntu 22.04 and now 24.04 was going great until I got some update that swapped me back from Wayland to X11. Now things are weird and I've got to make time to fuck with it to figure out how to make this RTX 4080 work with Wayland.

An NVIDIA update gave people with my laptop model a blackscreen. NVIDIA only fixed this half a year or so later.

New comment by MyFedora in "Brazilian court orders suspension of X"

MyFedora — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:54:25 +0000

The Court of Justice of the European Union clarified that the operator of a search engine is not required to carry out a de-referencing on all versions of its search engine. So, it's a bit bold of you to say that Europe is trying to control the entire internet when they explicitly told Google they're allowed to limit the impact to Europe alone.

Also, the "right to be forgotten" suggests more rights of the data subject than the text of the article provides for. The title is often understood by data subjects to be an absolute right to have personal data deleted - however if the controller has a legal basis for the processing of personal data, the exercise of Article 17 GDPR has usually no effect.