Hacker News: cerberusss

New comment by cerberusss in "Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second"

cerberusss — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:57:11 +0000

The author has given a talk last month, which can be viewed on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6X8BGSrR9w

New comment by cerberusss in "27-inch iMac gets a major update"

cerberusss — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:14:36 +0000

As for the nano glass, I ordered an anti reflective screen protector from a local Dutch supplier. It works fantastic on my 16". I do programming though, no color-sensitive photo or video work.

New comment by cerberusss in "Wakaresaseya: private agents hired to end relationships"

cerberusss — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:00:17 +0000

On one hand, I agree because it seems there's a host of very deceptive things going on.

But I see some positive things as well, from the article: "assistance with romantic reconciliation", "preventing revenge porn", "help a wronged spouse collect consolation money" and "obtain evidence of adultery".

New comment by cerberusss in "MNT Reform open source laptop with trackball"

cerberusss — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 11:38:23 +0000

The whole project sounds fantastic, I hadn't heard about it yet. The casing looks boxy but that makes it hackable of course.

New comment by cerberusss in "Stepping away from open source"

cerberusss — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 07:19:11 +0000

YouTube tracks you regardless, if I understand correctly. For instance, if you search on DuckDuckGo and there's a YouTube video in the results, you can play it right there. However, DuckDuckGo warns you that you'll be tracked.

New comment by cerberusss in "[dead]"

cerberusss — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 05:50:03 +0000

Who's the original author? Does it say @manekinekko or something in the top left, next to the title?

New comment by cerberusss in "Five Buck Fatigue"

cerberusss — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 06:55:15 +0000

I broke down and started paying for YouTube. Another 12 bucks :) On the laptop, I block ads, but on the tablet, I like to use the official app.

New comment by cerberusss in "Ask HN: Why Do You Downvote?"

cerberusss — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:36:44 +0000

Or stuff straight against the guidelines. Like shallow dismissals, or comments that try and pull people into arguments.

New comment by cerberusss in "How popular media portrays the employability of older software developers"

cerberusss — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:13:21 +0000

> because employee turnover in the software industry is much higher than for most professions

I wonder if that's actually true, and if so, to which degree. On what basis are you saying this?

New comment by cerberusss in "The Electric Car Atop Europe’s Sales Charts Isn’t a Tesla or VW"

cerberusss — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 12:04:20 +0000

That's with the 40 kWh version. I believe the 50 kWh version has the same charge curve, but obviously gets you farther.

You can get much faster there if you charge more often and stop around 60-70%. On long trips, I take a lot of margin, which isn't necessary if you drive to somewhere you know really well (say, a second home) and which has plenty of chargers.

I have to admit, I'm a bit in love with this car. So I'm perhaps overly positive.

New comment by cerberusss in "The Electric Car Atop Europe’s Sales Charts Isn’t a Tesla or VW"

cerberusss — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:38:21 +0000

I've driven the Zoe on a daily commute that's 160 km (100 mi). It's a fantastic car.

I've also driven it from The Netherlands to France, 1000 km (621 mi). Then you get into a problem that the charging time from 10-80% takes a full hour, and it's necessary about 5 times for that distance. I personally still thought it was a fun trip.

New comment by cerberusss in "The Electric Car Atop Europe’s Sales Charts Isn’t a Tesla or VW"

cerberusss — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:21:33 +0000

I think you guys are richer, to be honest.

Edit: I replied too fast. I looked it up on Wikipedia and the "purchasing power parity" isn't all that different between, say, Netherlands and Norway. So I can't really explain it.

New comment by cerberusss in "Ask HN: Random glitches of color in macOS 11 / Big Sur"

cerberusss — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 19:01:51 +0000

I've seen disappearing menubars and color glitches of the desktop in the top-right quadrant, this is on an external monitor connected to a 15" 2016 MacBook Pro. It's not in public beta yet, and it shows.

New comment by cerberusss in "A Surprise AWS Bill"

cerberusss — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:05:35 +0000

It would perhaps legally be more acceptable, and more efficient in bandwidth, to create a binary patch that makes an official virtual machine image into what the author offered ("fully patched with all necessary drivers and VM extensions").

New comment by cerberusss in "Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund"

cerberusss — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 06:06:54 +0000

Yup, me too. I set up the iPad, tap recording and then unpack the ordered item. It's zero hassle and potentially saves a lot of discussion.

New comment by cerberusss in "Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?"

cerberusss — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 05:40:00 +0000

You're downvoted because you post a shallow dismissal. Look it up in the guidelines, link at the bottom of the page.

New comment by cerberusss in "Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi"

cerberusss — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 14:43:33 +0000

Fantastic project. Amazing how you overcame each obstacle, and very well written to boot. Kudos.

Quite funny how you brought 1000 ms latency down to 200 ms. I wonder how this compares to iDRAC and that Raritan device.

New comment by cerberusss in "Central Banks Have Become Irrelevant"

cerberusss — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:02:13 +0000

> The investor class aren't owed anything

I don't know about your country, but in my country, you would be generalizing. There isn't a specific "investor class" because a large percentage of the population invests due to industry-wide organized pension funds.

New comment by cerberusss in "Show HN: Oops I deleted my bin/ dir"

cerberusss — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:37:17 +0000

Yeah that sounds clear. Awesome puzzle game, very educational.

New comment by cerberusss in "Show HN: Oops I deleted my bin/ dir"

cerberusss — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:15:50 +0000

Great fun! As a non-native speaker, I was confused by the "Print its contents" exercise. I tried things involving /dev/lpr.