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New comment by ThreePinkApples in "We all need subtitles now"

ThreePinkApples — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:54:05 +0000

I'm a non-native English speaker so I grew up with subtitles, and I still use them today, even though I use the English subs now and not in my native language.

I don't agree with the premise that it has become harder to hear dialogue. In some movies yes, and in some of them that is deliberate. But most of them time I can perfectly hear what they say, but I find that subtitles help me to remember certain details, such as names. It also helps when the talking is going really fast in intense scenes.

Weirdly enough I have experienced audio issues at cinemas where the voices are difficult to hear, but everything else is fine. Watching those same movies at home and it's all good. Probably just an issue at my local cinema though.

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "The CSS at w3.org is gone"

ThreePinkApples — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:32:50 +0000

And the size difference appears to be only 0.2kB? 6.1kB from the zipped version and 6.3kB for the unzipped one

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "Bitwarden design flaw: Server side iterations"

ThreePinkApples — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:48:41 +0000

The current (and very recently updated) OWASP recommendation[1] is a minimum of 600 000 iterations

[1] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Password_Stor...

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "Python 2 removed from Debian"

ThreePinkApples — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:22:10 +0000

If this was a frequent event then yes that would be an issue. But Python 3 released in 2008, more than 14 years ago now, and since then there have been no sign of such a new big change. While the core developers briefly talked about making Python 3.10 into 4.0 that was scrapped, and currently the plan is just to continue with Python 3.x "forever".

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "Python 3.12.0 is to remove long-deprecated items"

ThreePinkApples — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:47:11 +0000

I should maybe test out pyenv again. I tried it several years ago but I ran into some limitations. Or at least I thought I did, I might just have used it wrong. My main usecase, back then at least, was to have just one global-like environment for every Python version I was working with. And sometimes and additional one for debugging/testing some different packagecombinations. Back then it seemed like, to me, that pyenv only worked on a per-project basis, but I might just have followed incomplete guides and not looked into it deep enough.

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "Show HN: I built a site that lets users find playlists by songs they contain"

ThreePinkApples — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 12:55:33 +0000

Lol, the first song I searched for game 0 results. (Searched for "More With You").

Oh and a bug: If I first search for something and get a result, then enter a new search and scroll down before this new search has completed, it starts searching for page 2-7 of this new search term. Even better if you've already triggered the search for page 2-7 on that first term. If you then scroll down after updating the search, it is now searching for page 8-11 of that new search term :)

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "Dump these small-biz routers, says Cisco, we won't patch their flawed VPN"

ThreePinkApples — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:38:08 +0000

It's 5 years from End of Sale, and not just 5 years from the initial sale date. It sucks for those that bought the router close to End of Sale, of course.

Don't know for how long these routers have been around, but for one of them I found a overview document dated 2011.

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "Dump these small-biz routers, says Cisco, we won't patch their flawed VPN"

ThreePinkApples — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 11:33:59 +0000

> Apple supports iPhones for 7 years

That's 7 years from launch, not 7 years from end of sale.

Not defending Cisco here, but looking up the RV110W I can find documents for it dating back to 2011, so that's 11 years of support.

For the RV130 I can find an administrators guide that was revised in Aug 2014, so at least 8 years there. probably more given that it's a revision.

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page"

ThreePinkApples — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 07:15:29 +0000

A fresh load of the page (according to Chrome) is 21.5kB transmitted, 59.1kB uncompressed. That's when loading with nothing cached. The HTML is just 7.9kB, but then the CSS is 2.2kB, JS is 2.3kB, and the favicon is 7.9kB which is a bit funny (but it's of course irrelevant for the actual page).

HN could put the CSS and JS into the generated HTML file and still stay under 14kB for the initial load, which then would give you almost everything needed to render the page except a few gifs.

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "USB Cheat Sheet"

ThreePinkApples — Thu, 05 May 2022 11:20:10 +0000

In marketing and on cables they've chosen to use the terms USB4 20Gbps and USB4 40Gbps, so at least that's explicit. There's also officials ways to mark cables as being 100W or 240W capable.

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "You Should Compile Your Python and Here’s Why"

ThreePinkApples — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:21:00 +0000

There is currently a "Faster CPython"[1] project going on that seek to improve the speed of Python. With Python 3.11 later this year there will be several speed improvements targeting common uses of Python, which might make some of these existing speedup tricks irrelevant. Or at least less relevant.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#faster-cpyth...

New comment by ThreePinkApples in "Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display"

ThreePinkApples — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:55:53 +0000

That's how data cables/ports work. There is a DisplayPort "protocol", then there are DisplayPort physical connectors and cables. Then there are other types of physical connectors and cables that also can be used with DisplayPort "protocol". Same thing for USB, or HDMI etc.

Yes, it's confusing. But it's also a good thing as you can carry lots of stuff over the same cable and connector. A USB-C type cable and connector can carry USB, Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, HDMI, even analogue audio.

Before USB-C, Thunderbolt was using mini-DisplaPort connector and cables.