Hacker News: bitserf

New comment by bitserf in "Mastering Bash and Terminal"

bitserf — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 23:48:35 +0000

Or, it could just switch the default shell to Z shell. First thing I do on a new Mac, is chsh -> zsh. Ships with an up to date (enough) version of that.

New comment by bitserf in "Moody's: U.S. Telecoms are underinvesting in broadband"

bitserf — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 00:42:57 +0000

NZ's UFB network has always been FTTH (meaning it terminates inside your house), there is no copper in this picture.

This is why, for example, last month people who qualified for 200MB can now get gigabit plans.

New comment by bitserf in "2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats"

bitserf — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:14:23 +0000

I beg to differ. I had an encrypted USB HDD hooked up to Thunderbolt display, and lost all data on it because it does indeed power down its USB hub :)

New comment by bitserf in "2016 Retina MacBook Pro Caveats"

bitserf — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 04:12:10 +0000

I have a Thunderbolt display from Apple, it also powers off the USB devices when it goes to sleep.

New comment by bitserf in "How Dropbox Hacks Your Mac"

bitserf — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 21:09:09 +0000

Uh, nope. You've just ensured Dropbox will never be installed again on any of my machines or devices. Ever. You fuck up like this, you never earn that trust back.

New comment by bitserf in "iPhone 7"

bitserf — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:50:26 +0000

With non-stock headphones? I'm not so sure.

New comment by bitserf in "Apple should stop selling four-year-old computers"

bitserf — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 19:47:42 +0000

You forget how much Apple likes to nickel & dime people on storage and memory, it's where a lot of margin comes from. Expect to pay a few times market rate for 1TB SSD.

New comment by bitserf in "Dutch men confirmed as world's tallest"

bitserf — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:02:07 +0000

I am of Dutch descent, but I have never set foot in the Netherlands. Somehow, though, I am much taller (6'1) than my dad and his father, who were both pretty short (5'2).

New comment by bitserf in "Google and LinkedIn announce massive land swap"

bitserf — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 20:54:56 +0000

Some of your neighbours' rights may include not having a 100 floor tower go up next to them blocking all their sun, as an example.

New comment by bitserf in "How do police handle violence in countries where officers don’t carry guns?"

bitserf — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 09:40:00 +0000

Well, you can still pick up an AR-15 online in NZ if you have a valid firearms license, difference is the police are going to know you have one, and will do a background check as well as have an interview with you.

New comment by bitserf in "US Customs wants to collect social media account names at the border"

bitserf — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:20:04 +0000

I've transited through the USA a few times. Might be coincidence, but every time I complained on Twitter beforehand about the security theatre, I was "randomly selected" for special treatment.

New comment by bitserf in "Apple launches coding camps for kids in its retail stores"

bitserf — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:29:52 +0000

It will be interesting to see if Swift Playgrounds on iPad changes the landscape here.

Simple intro courses, but it's got real Swift compiler + runtime, and you can call straight into all the native APIs if you jump out of the guided tour.

New comment by bitserf in "Space Mono"

bitserf — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 20:00:48 +0000

Have you tried Iosevka (the Slab variant is serif)?

Not a bitmap font, but pretty customisable. With hints of PragmataPro, it's my go-to font at the moment. Looks especially nice with OS X font hinting.

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

My command-line for building is:

$ make STYLE_COMMON='v-tilde-low v-asterisk-low v-underscore-low'

This gives the vertically centered asterisk and tilde, and puts the underscore below the baseline.

New comment by bitserf in "Apple Starts to Woo Its App Developers"

bitserf — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 09:21:42 +0000

$99 is when you want to distribute via App Store. You don't need that to do the development or use the tools.

New comment by bitserf in "How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M"

bitserf — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 03:39:07 +0000

A similar deal was Naspers buying 45% of Tencent for $34 million (current size of stake is around 34%), worth roughly $70 billion.

New comment by bitserf in "Atom 1.8 and 1.9 beta"

bitserf — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:57:06 +0000

Open a file with everything on one line in Atom, and you can bring it to its knees, even if the file is only a couple of kilobytes.

New comment by bitserf in "Apple's plan to sell used iPhones in India officially gets rejected"

bitserf — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 20:33:07 +0000

Ask people from Brasil how much they enjoy the high prices they pay for consumer electronics some time.

New comment by bitserf in "Ask HN: How do you encrypt your laptops?"

bitserf — Wed, 25 May 2016 04:59:52 +0000

how is an Apple service provider able to bypass this? if they can, so can an adversary, no?

New comment by bitserf in "We need a conversation about the future of human genetic enhancement"

bitserf — Tue, 03 May 2016 18:38:06 +0000

In the US, perhaps.

New comment by bitserf in "Microsoft is ending Xbox 360 production more than 10 years after its debut"

bitserf — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:37:55 +0000

After having had my original XBox fail once and XBox 360 needing to be replaced three times, and eventually still dying, with Microsoft refusing to replace the third, I switched to PS3, and now PS4.

I will never buy Microsoft hardware again, ever.

So, yeah, that is definitely a factor in my case.