Hacker News: Polylactic_acid

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Is there still somebody in the Cairo community who is able to make a release?"

Polylactic_acid — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:35:13 +0000

The problem is people only pay for the cool and fancy stuff. Thats why projects like blender and krita are killing it while bluetooth audio and gui libraries are in such a dire state.

Competitors have an advantage where you buy a macbook and the profits go to every single part and not just the eye catching features.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates"

Polylactic_acid — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:06:33 +0000

It would also cover 100% of legal speeds in my state. More than good enough for me and pretty much everyone assuming it works well at its top speed.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates"

Polylactic_acid — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:05:37 +0000

For all we know there is a software limiter meaning its top speed is well within the safe range. It would be pretty poor to sell a car that would fail quickly under normal usage.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Your Computer Isn't Yours"

Polylactic_acid — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:02:45 +0000

What kind of source are you looking for. This is about hundreds of changes that all build up to a more locked down experience.

iOS has always been locked down.

MacOS now won't run unsigned software. Mac Pros will brick if you replace the SSD with another genuine SSD.

Safety net on android makes it harder to use root. There is an API to block screenshots. Security changes in Android 11 break termux and all other bash apps.

Windows tried RT and the S version but it doesn't seem to be replacing the regular one yet.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon"

Polylactic_acid — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:07:06 +0000

Not at all. Docker on a raspberry pi is a massive pain in the ass. Half the images are not compiled for ARM.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA"

Polylactic_acid — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:04:51 +0000

Yes movie DRM does seem completely pointless. Game DRM on the other hand does seem to hold up for the first few months which is where most of the sales happen. It would be nice if devs dropped the DRM once it is cracked though.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA"

Polylactic_acid — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:02:59 +0000

I'm guessing that the people who have this cracked keep it a secret so only their inner group has the method which lets them leak all of the new content and Google has no idea which key or process has been cracked.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro"

Polylactic_acid — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 06:20:49 +0000

Its likely the end of the days of installing an alternative OS. Bootcamp support has been dropped and Linux support will likely not exist.

And then there is the OS which is getting more and more locked down so that you can not run unsigned software without increasingly difficult workarounds.

On one hand, alternative OS support on macbooks has gotten worse and worse over the last few years but it is sad to see the final nail in the coffin.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers"

Polylactic_acid — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:24:54 +0000

Its not a choice because not a single item on that list can be closed and let me do my job. So rather than petitioning to replace 10 years of existing software development, I'll ask for a 32gb laptop.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation"

Polylactic_acid — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 05:03:31 +0000

Basically. What are you going to do? Not release your app on apple devices? No, you will do whatever it takes to work it out yourself.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection"

Polylactic_acid — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:13:53 +0000

Victoria had an exploding case count that was set to match the rest of the world before the government did a hard lockdown. And not just the feel good ones they do in the US, the lockdown meant you could only leave the house for 1 hour a day for exercise within a 5km radius and anyone who absolutely had to leave the house had to show proof and wear a mask. The case count fell sharply only after these measures were put in place.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers"

Polylactic_acid — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:52:09 +0000

I'm a rails dev and I constantly struggle with 16GB. Once you start up rails, background workers, webpack, vs code, MS teams, a database, plus your web browser you very quickly run out of memory.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam monitoring software"

Polylactic_acid — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:27:24 +0000

The problem is less that students can look up answers online, its that they could hand the laptop to someone experienced and have them complete the exam for the student.

An ideal situation would be allowing students to use online resources but not to communicate with other people during the exam.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection"

Polylactic_acid — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:00:30 +0000

Victoria, Australia had a lockdown that lasted for only 3 months and completely eradicated covid from the state.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "McDonald's is adding plant-based burgers to the menu"

Polylactic_acid — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 05:19:18 +0000

Likely the same reason as always. Mass production. Everything about cow milk is mass produced and hyper competitive. Its a wonder that your milk costs so little and not that the oat milk costs $4.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Start with pen and paper"

Polylactic_acid — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 05:31:37 +0000

We used to use slack and now we use teams. Just mentioned both because its not specific to any one tool.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "Start with pen and paper"

Polylactic_acid — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 05:24:54 +0000

My favourite is to start typing the question in to MS teams/slack and often I have the answer before I finish typing.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices"

Polylactic_acid — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 04:39:34 +0000

I use apple devices because I like receiving security updates after the first year, I also like not having my phone loaded with google spyware. I do not like the inability to sideload apps which makes this tool useful to me.

The app store has almost everything I want but its missing stuff I used to sideload on android like an ad free youtube app and the app to send the payload to boot my nintendo switch with homebrew.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices"

Polylactic_acid — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 04:36:37 +0000

Because people don't want just another android phone. They want their desktop on a phone. They want to use desktop GUI toolkits, desktop package managers and all the rest. Android also contains a mountain of anti features that are hard to remove. Its also missing a lot of critical features without the GApps so maintaining a fork of android is almost as much work as making GTK work on a phone.

New comment by Polylactic_acid in "AltStore: An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices"

Polylactic_acid — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 04:33:23 +0000

Apps are sandboxed already. The security of your OS and other apps is still protected even while sideloading. The only possible benefit is preventing sideloaded apps from using dodgy payment processors but thats hardly more of a risk than apps telling you to pay via their website which they currently do.