<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alias_neo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alias_neo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:04:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alias_neo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alias_neo in "Has_not_been_viewed_much"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I opened this and thought hoooooooold on, I know that; I have a framed A2 print of it on the wall to my left.<p>One of my favourite parts of my trip to Japan (only been once so far), the tide was out at the time so I stood under that Torii gate and have a few photos of it of my own that I use as wallpapers.</p>
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<p>Interesting, that's not been my experience in various places around the world (not US), and I've often been able to access HDMI ports.<p>In the UK, they'll often put a plate in the wall with hdmi for easy connection, literally to make it easier for you to do.</p>
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<p>> It is very tiring to hold back the shot in a position like that. In real life you just wouldn’t do that<p>That makes a lot of sense, and is kind of obvious when you think about it. They'd just be wasting energy.<p>I suppose the way we see it portrayed in film (for some reason it's always LoTR that comes to mind), is for dramatic effect, with scores of arrows flying through the sky at once. But I was always mildly irritated (though without knowing why) by the fact that despite so many arrows flying, the vast majority would miss any target.</p>
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<p>I think it's just typical that this is allowed because it maximises profits; let's be real, a big fat touch screen and nothing else, is significantly cheaper than all of those expensive buttons, knobs, dials and switches that have been engineered and tested to perfection.<p>Did cars get cheaper when they took all of those out? I certainly didn't notice.</p>
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<p>> Can't usually be fucked to login for two nights so I just watch TV on my laptop<p>I recently had the idea of taking the FireStick 4K Max that I bought ~1year ago for the living room smart OLED TV which is getting a little older, I had gotten ready to take it on a few trips I'm doing this year, thought I was being clever, unfortunately it died a literal week after the warranty, boot looping constantly.<p>I won't buy another Firestick again, it was atrociously add-riddled and often showing things inappropriate for the kids in the middle of the day, but if  generic Android TV stick like that was available with good performance and all the necessary DRM levels, I'd probably use that.<p>For now, I will just carry an HDMI cable and use my laptop.</p>
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<p>What's the correct term? Loose? I'm sure I've heard that before.<p>I know nothing about arrows except to identify the pointy end.</p>
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<p>Interesting you found this funny. I didn't find it funny at all, my response at the end was somewhere between a sigh and a gasp.<p>- Mario</p>
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<p>$449</p>
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<p>The screen size isn't really an issue for font sizes. Just put fewer words on the screen.<p>There are e-readers that put a single word on the screen, this can fit plenty in a decent font size, you'll have to switch pages more often, but I haven't found that to be an issue, the button is very light to press and the page transition (with Crosspoint) is fast.</p>
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<p>Music memories are the best.<p>I booted up my old PS3 from my uni days (20 years ago?) and found all of the music I had on it because I used it for everything at the time. Some seriously nostalgic music I'd completely forgotten about.</p>
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<p>This isn't some random dipshit, this is Simon Willison[1]. He has a bit more cred than some "AI influencer".<p>[1]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison</a></p>
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<p>I wonder if something like this could work for thumbnails in the terminal; I prefer to browse my filesystem from a terminal rather than the point and click file manager typically, and it would be really useful if I could have a grid-style `ls` with terminal based renders of the 3d models (thinking STL/STEP, 3D printing) in that directory. Bonus points if I could preview/rotate the model to inspect it.</p>
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<p>> Why not?<p>It seems like you weren't really asking, but I'll answer anyway.<p>It's bad security practice, and opens up your network to attack and/or compromise, you're massively increasing the attack surface, and a compromise of one of those components leaves the attacker sat on your edge router, at which point your entire network is fair game.<p>Generally speaking you shouldn't expose anything on your edge router / firewall, it's a safety barrier.<p>You can sit things behind it in a "DMZ" and port-forward and isolate them etc so that there's no packets terminating on the actual edge device itself.m, that lowers the risk of a full network level compromise.<p>Chances are you might be fine and never have a problem, but it's still recommended against.</p>
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<p>I was looking at that RAC chart this morning. Given it's Sunday, and I was reading before my morning coffee, I'm not ashamed to say it took me a good few seconds of zooming in and out to realise they'd used a decimal point where a comma should have been.<p>Easy type to make, but seriously, does no one even take a cursory look at the charts when publishing articles like this? The chart looks _obviously_ wrong, so imagine how many are only slightly wrong and are missed.<p>The fuel prices one could surely be solved with a tiny bit of validation; are the coordinates even within a reasonable range? Fortunately, in the UK, it's really easy to tell which is latitude and which is longitude due to one of them being within a digit or two of zero on either side.</p>
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<p>Ouch, were you not willing to RMA for that ethernet port? I wouldn't be too pleased after only a week if parts of the board stopped working.<p>I don't really want to run my RAM that slow which is why I'll probably stick with two sticks.</p>
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<p>In January I upgraded my desktop, 9950X3D £600, 64GB DDR5-6000 £600, MSI MAG Tomahawk X870E £300, Samsung 990 Pro 4TB £350, Asus Prime 9070XT £580. I spent a another £250 on PSU and cooler and reused my case (Phanteks Evolv Enthoo TG, beautiful case but horrible cooling. Will cut some holes in it and if it doesnt work out look for something with more airflow).<p>The RAM price was already inflated at that time, and the same kit is now £800, but in October or earlier last year I'd have saved possibly the cost of the CPU/GPU on the whole thing, but now it's be about the cost of a CPU/GPU more expensive.<p>On a side note for anyone not aware, 9950X3D isn't the best choice for pure gaming, 9850X3D is cheaper and marginally better, also I went with 2 sticks of RAM kit, 4 sticks is much harder to run at the advertised speed (6000) which is actually an overclock.<p>Im a dev and a linux user/gamer hence my choice of CPU/GPU.</p>
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<p>I think I remember reading something about that at the time, the accelerometer thing, maybe it was in the manual.<p>Sounds quality was great and I loved the dock too.</p>
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<p>>  are you really under the impression that Chuck Norris is the only man who can factually slam a revolving door? :)<p><i>Face palm</i> I hadn't realised we weren't talking about _actual_ facts about him, this makes a lot more sense now.</p>
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<p>Nice! I loved that phone, was one of my favourites. One of the only, if not the only phone I ever owned that had a metal shell that I an recall.<p>I had most of the N range, and was particularly interested in music ones, N95 was love/hate because the music button/reverse slide was so slow sometimes, and generally it just wasn't as good as N91 for music listening with its proper headphone jack placement, and always accessible controls.<p>What kind of magic did that HDD have that it could be thrown around like a phone typically is without the issues we would see if we'd handled a laptop with HDD the same way?</p>
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<p>Interesting. I get the likeness thing, but surely one could publish jokes about anyone they wish and that would be satire or fair use or something?<p>Facts and copyright is an interesting one, because I'm surprised a fact can be copyrighted, unless it's the wording specifically.</p>
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