Hacker News: bestham

New comment by bestham in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

bestham — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:09:24 +0000

The asymmetry between the drones and the F16 neutralising them quickly makes this financially unsustainable.

New comment by bestham in "Eight facts about air conditioning amid an overheated global debate"

bestham — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:13:34 +0000

In the Nordic’s heap pumps are very common, approximately 48, 52 and 63 % of households in Sweden, Finland and Norway have heat pumps installed. [1]

[1] : https://ehpa.org/news-and-resources/press-releases/heat-pump...

New comment by bestham in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

bestham — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:15:30 +0000

I believe that Notebookcheck is natively written in German and translated.

New comment by bestham in "CarPlay Is Additive"

bestham — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:08:43 +0000

The wheel in an Enyaq before the facelift is the same haptic one-button shitshow. They have some buttons that act like shortcuts below the infotainment. But it the screen is still essentialistisk for managing crucial functions.

New comment by bestham in "Long Wave radio era set to end with switch-off"

bestham — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:46:30 +0000

> DAB was implemented using the old MPEG2 audio codec. No, it was MPEG 1 layer 2 often at 192 kbps. Later they switched to HE-AAC with DAB+.

New comment by bestham in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

bestham — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:17:36 +0000

If they can override sudo, they can override which.

New comment by bestham in "Digital Identity Management in Norway Is a Catastrophe"

bestham — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:45:44 +0000

The proper terminology is Level of Assurance (LoA) for an eID as opposed to “secure” or “highly secure”.

eIDAS (EU Regulation No 910/2014) derives the LoA definition from ISO/IEC 29115:2013 LoA 2,3,4 to LoA “Low”, “Substantial” and “High” (LoA 1 is not mapped in eIDAS). eIDAS article 8 refers to the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1502 and it refers to ISO/IEC 29115:2013.

New comment by bestham in "Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol for Linux – Opening Up Some Nifty Uses for USB4"

bestham — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:42:40 +0000

It sounds like we are inventing the DSSD D5 again? But why would one use volatile DDR5 if the bandwidth constraints it? Better to rely on cheaper nonvolatile flash.

New comment by bestham in "Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes"

bestham — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:41:56 +0000

That is just a side effect of Russia attacking Ukraine.

New comment by bestham in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

bestham — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:53:46 +0000

Good then that there is very little need for emissions control in EV. No barrier for giving the owner of the vehicle more access to its innards.

New comment by bestham in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

bestham — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:50:26 +0000

I think you are mistaking hatred toward the Kremlin for hatred toward the Russian people.

New comment by bestham in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

bestham — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:04:07 +0000

Congratulations, you’ve encountered someone with passion. It lives in people all over the world, but Japanese craft has a particular gift for making it visible in every detail, every material, and every decision pushed to its absolute perfection. Toyotas quality, Grand Seikos polish and accuracy and Jiros sushi just to mention a few of the exported ones.

New comment by bestham in "The smelly baby problem"

bestham — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:17:38 +0000

I can 2nd this. As a parent of a level II autistic son and then 6 years later a now 1 year old girl that does not appear to have any autistic traits. We delayed having the 2nd child by years because the first was so draining. They are night and day. During parental leave I found it hard to play with my son in ways where he acknowledged that it was fun. He mostly did repetitive activities alone like flexing a folding rule or similar. My daughter is completely different. As parents our son Ahmad thought us a lot about not projecting our expectations onto the children and meeting them where they are.

New comment by bestham in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

bestham — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:31:27 +0000

Oh yes. Samsung 9100 Pro does 14800/13400 MiB/s over PCIe 5x4.

New comment by bestham in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

bestham — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:42:02 +0000

They sold it to you, with a limit.

New comment by bestham in "Byte Interviews Chuck Peddle, Father of the MOS 6502 and Commodore PET (1982)"

bestham — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:55:50 +0000

Chuck was also a guest at The Amphour in 2015 (four years before his passing in 2019). It is a really good listen. https://theamphour.com/241-an-interview-with-chuck-peddle-ch...

New comment by bestham in "Kldload 1.0 – ZFS on root for Linux"

bestham — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:45:00 +0000

Yes, we should rename the kernel to cernel or qernel to avoid confusion. Snark aside I do not think that the letter k is too overloaded. There is room for KDE and the kernel.

New comment by bestham in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

bestham — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:25:30 +0000

Like the cube user switcher in MacOS?

New comment by bestham in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

bestham — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:04:01 +0000

“Well actually” in System 1 and later Classic macOS the puzzle and the calculator are ”Desk Accessories” that is applications that can run simultaneously as other apps, even though the operating system does not support multitasking. The rounded corners are there to distinguish them from the current running application.

New comment by bestham in "iPhone 17e"

bestham — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:50:39 +0000

I recently switched from an iPhone 16 to an Air and my experience is the opposite. I type way more accurate on the Air (even when both dictionaries are reset and have no screen protector what could make the touch less sensitive). I do not know why.