Hacker News: admax88q

New comment by admax88q in "Gail.com"

admax88q — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 03:08:37 +0000

If you read the comment you'd realize your mistake, no need to be snarky.

New comment by admax88q in "My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)"

admax88q — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:49:37 +0000

Tracking all those dependencies is not free either.

Unfortunately there isn't a magic bullet to code bloat.

New comment by admax88q in "OnlyFans banning sexually explicit content b/C of MasterCard rules starting Oct"

admax88q — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 12:12:04 +0000

Sounds like an opportunity for a clone using Bitcoin or some other cryrpto to launch.

New comment by admax88q in "Launch HN: Awesomic (YC S21) – Get design tasks done with 24-hour turnaround"

admax88q — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 23:49:25 +0000

I don't think the structure means that the designer is not shared. I think it means that they don't change the designer between asks, unless the original is unavailable.

Which makes sense IMO, then the designer can take on as many clients as they have bandwidth for.

New comment by admax88q in "San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene (2019)"

admax88q — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 01:05:07 +0000

Shuffling is recommended over hopping because you're less likely to fall over. Shuffle in small movements keeping your feet on the ground and close together.

New comment by admax88q in "The deceptive PR behind Apple’s “expanded protections for children”"

admax88q — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 05:34:53 +0000

Are those YouTube takedowns happening due to perceptual hashes?

I assume they are just standard ML.

New comment by admax88q in "Proposed coal plants in the United States"

admax88q — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:50:49 +0000

For what its worth, this table only goes to 2017, all are either operational or cancelled. So this doesn't suggest that there are _new_ coal plants being proposed/considered.

Not really sure why this was submitted or what makes it interesting.

New comment by admax88q in "Deno 1.13 Release"

admax88q — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:35:30 +0000

Honestly the memory cost isn't that much.

Code size has not grown as fast as memory and storage capacity has. One is constrained by manufacturing progress, the other is constrained by programmer output.

Deno is sub 50MB

For any non trivial app, your assets and working set data will likely dwarf the code size itself.

EDIT: Was looking at an old bug, deno is closer to 100MB. Starting to feel a bit large but still.

New comment by admax88q in "Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”"

admax88q — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 15:42:30 +0000

I'd take this with a grain of salt for the time being. "Google contemplated" could mean nothing more than a random exec said this in passing or as a joke once to somebody else.

Not to mention no internal and communications are cited in the article.

New comment by admax88q in "Bug in Lynx's SSL certificate validation – leaks password in clear text via SNI"

admax88q — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 03:02:07 +0000

You don't need to validate the hostnamez you can safely leave that for name resolution libraries. You just need to properly separate the user info from the host name and port. Which is pretty simply defined in the grammar.

New comment by admax88q in "A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better"

admax88q — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 00:32:29 +0000

Then then spent the next decade trying to create a viable chat platform before handing the task over to the telecoms of all people.

Just. Brutal.

New comment by admax88q in "Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Billionaire Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal"

admax88q — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 18:23:23 +0000

It's news worthy because it provides hard evidence that the Tea Party is not as "grassroots" as it markets itself as.

New comment by admax88q in "Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules"

admax88q — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:38:11 +0000

A CO2 tax and rebate is progressive. The poorest people would receive more back in a rebate than they pay. But the biggest CO2 users would pay way more than they receive back.

New comment by admax88q in "Tesla Model S garage fire follows pattern prompting warnings"

admax88q — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 21:09:23 +0000

Yep but you can call them early rather than finding your whole house in fire and then calling them.

New comment by admax88q in "NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings"

admax88q — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 21:06:24 +0000

You believe in science? Great!

What does the science tell you about the risks to vaccinated individuals when exposed to other vaccinated individuals or to non vaccinated individuals?

New comment by admax88q in "NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings"

admax88q — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:34:34 +0000

That's not the point of vaccination.

A group of people in a room all vaccinated is safer than a group of people half vaccinated.

The vaccine is not a boolean on off switch, it's a percentage wise improvement over nothing, and it compounds when those around are also vaccinated.

New comment by admax88q in "For developers, Safari is crap and outdated"

admax88q — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:10:07 +0000

There is a rush to implement stuff though. The demand for functionality continues to grow, and if the platform stagnates developers and therefore users will move to other platforms.

It needs to be thoughtful, but the firefox position appears to be that web apps have no business accessing bluetooth or usb. Which as I explained earlier leads to user installing clunky native apps to interact with their bluetooth/usb gadgets, or the gadgets being deployed with phone home functionality so that user can still access them through a web portal.

If firefox wishes to remain relevant they're going to have to implement the things that developers and users want. Nobody wants a dumb document browser anymore, that ship has sailed. Browsers are a ubiquitous application platform.

New comment by admax88q in "Daniel Hale Receives 45-Month Sentence for Releasing Drone Documents"

admax88q — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 04:56:53 +0000

Makes us think what exactly?

Don't leave thoughts unfinished, if you have something interesting to add you should share with the rest of the class.

New comment by admax88q in "Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud"

admax88q — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:33:08 +0000

Well... Tesla actually sells real cars. Nikola so far looks little different than your average kickstarter that never delivers.

New comment by admax88q in "M4 as a templating language (2020)"

admax88q — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:45:41 +0000

Neat post, but I was confused about how they said they can't use pandoc, but they never explained in the post how they convert the markdown portion of their files to HTML.

Then I read their makefile on github and they're still using pandoc...

https://github.com/chrisman/chrisman.github.io/blob/a2a949f3...