Hacker News: chrnola

New comment by chrnola in "Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale"

chrnola — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 02:37:35 +0000

Guaranteeing order has its tradeoffs.

There is work happening currently to make Kafka behave more like a queue: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-932%3A...

New comment by chrnola in "Just Eat Is Selling Grubhub to Marc Lore's Wonder for $650M"

chrnola — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:09:22 +0000

Miss you all dearly.

New comment by chrnola in "New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike"

chrnola — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 18:39:32 +0000

This book[1] was a great read on the topic.

[1]: https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/

New comment by chrnola in "Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care"

chrnola — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:02:25 +0000

Same. I would rather put up with being burnt out than subject myself to interviewing. Ridiculous.

New comment by chrnola in "I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen"

chrnola — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:57:25 +0000

ManicTime was a lifesaver when I was working as a consultant and had to attribute every hour of my week to one of several clients.

New comment by chrnola in "IrfanView"

chrnola — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 22:09:47 +0000

Sometimes, but the differences in performance between the two were quite vast if I recall correctly.

New comment by chrnola in "Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro Requires Same Apple ID"

chrnola — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:33:55 +0000

Oh interesting. Might explain why Apple employees aren’t feeling this same pressure. Do you know if Apple’s MDM is the same for their retail and corporate employees?

Also - I’m not super well versed in MDMs, but they seem to come in two general flavors/deployment strategies: bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and manage a fleet of employer-owned hardware.

In my experience, I’ve only ever seen BYOD policies for employee-owned _smartphones_ (e.g. for access to an intranet mail server). I’ve never worked anywhere that permitted employees to use their own _workstations_.

New comment by chrnola in "Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro Requires Same Apple ID"

chrnola — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 03:32:08 +0000

For the record, I did not return my (4x cheaper) iPad. I didn’t ever buy a Vision Pro. Because of the Apple ID issue. I’m trying to convince Apple that they should care because they lost a sale.

New comment by chrnola in "Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro Requires Same Apple ID"

chrnola — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:51:02 +0000

This is an incredible point that I had not considered.

New comment by chrnola in "Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro Requires Same Apple ID"

chrnola — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:45:55 +0000

Employers could be free to restrict use of such devices via MDM policy if they wanted.

Also, how many of us have purchased keyboards, mice, displays, headphones, etc with our own money that we happily use with employer owned computers because it’s safe to do so?

New comment by chrnola in "Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro Requires Same Apple ID"

chrnola — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:43:03 +0000

Consider the setup process for the Apple TV. The TV shows a unique one-time-use QR code-like pattern that you can scan with the camera of an iOS device. Surely something like this would be sufficient for pairing a Vision Pro with a Mac.

Also the security implications of encouraging people to add their personal Apple ID to devices they don’t own are, IMO, worse.

New comment by chrnola in "Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro Requires Same Apple ID"

chrnola — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 02:38:48 +0000

> I bet Apple’s own employee issued macs are managed

I thought so too. The Apple retail employee that gave me the demo of the Vision Pro confirmed this. He said the manager at his store had a Vision Pro and wanted to use it with his Apple-issued Mac, which was managed via MDM.

Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro Requires Same Apple ID

chrnola — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:42:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.pinola.co/blog/apple-has-been-augmenting-reality-for-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39425085

Points: 42

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New comment by chrnola in "Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard"

chrnola — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 05:41:52 +0000

underrated comment

New comment by chrnola in "Web browser as GUI, with your preferred language in the backend"

chrnola — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 19:13:36 +0000

Hmmm I thought it ran its own web server instead.

New comment by chrnola in "Git Branches: Intuition and Reality"

chrnola — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:00:34 +0000

There’s some special handling for FETCH_HEAD too (i.e. which branch on a remote is considered the default).

New comment by chrnola in "Large pull requests slow down development"

chrnola — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:59:43 +0000

Maybe I’m just hopelessly cynical, but I suspect that this is representative of the average developer’s experience.

New comment by chrnola in "Large pull requests slow down development"

chrnola — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:54:09 +0000

Also it’s (indirectly) an ad for a product that they’re selling to help devs achieve this.

New comment by chrnola in "A coder considers the waning days of the craft"

chrnola — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:43:02 +0000

That’s quite the assumption! You’d also have to know that your shell maintains a history and know how to search it. None of these things are obvious to those who do not already know them. We all had to learn at some point.

New comment by chrnola in "A coder considers the waning days of the craft"

chrnola — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:37:31 +0000

As the parent comment says, the specifics of the example are irrelevant. Pretend you didn’t know that the dictionary file existed, or where it was stored, or that cat/shuf/head existed, or even how to compose programs in your shell.