Hacker News: cmgbhm

New comment by cmgbhm in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

cmgbhm — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:04:07 +0000

A local model on my m2 made me come to that conclusion but I definitely was having “that config is $2k more” regret. Thanks for posting this!

New comment by cmgbhm in "Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency"

cmgbhm — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:47:39 +0000

That’s likely just the side effect of supporting mtls. Mutual TLS came around at the same time as Microsoft did implicit network auth. Seemed magical at the time and so hare brained for eons of problems. The user side tls never caught on in most circles and still has the ancient sharp edges

New comment by cmgbhm in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

cmgbhm — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:00:20 +0000

Apple has very much been wanted absolute flexibility to adopt major technology changes so much they’ve tried hard to not be the sole customer of a supplier and deal with political ramifications (source: Apple in China/Patrick McGee)

New comment by cmgbhm in "ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests"

cmgbhm — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:55:34 +0000

I did this planning with Gemini and track in Google Sheets (really stinks for mobile)

Cardio goals, current FTP, days to train, injuries to avoid

3 lift day programs with tracking 8w progressive Loop my PT into warm ups

Alternate suggestions.

Use whole sheet to get an overview of how the last 8w went and then change things up

New comment by cmgbhm in "Economics of Orbital vs. Terrestrial Data Centers"

cmgbhm — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:40:15 +0000

Doing like an 8xh200 server (https://docs.nvidia.com/dgx/dgxh100-user-guide/introduction-...) is 10.2kW.

Let’s say you need 50m^2 solar panels to run it, then just a ton of surface area to dissipate. I’d love to be proven wrong but space data centers just seem like large 2d impact targets.

New comment by cmgbhm in "Compressed music might be harmful to the ears"

cmgbhm — Fri, 16 May 2025 10:55:12 +0000

The other benefit is a remaster is a new copyrighted work. If you have a 40yo album and you can made the old copies breakdown, you’ve effectively given your heirs a longer copyright window.

New comment by cmgbhm in "Self-contained Python scripts with uv"

cmgbhm — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:51:03 +0000

You can add an intermediate sca stage that exports the uv dependencies as requirements.txt

New comment by cmgbhm in "They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video]"

cmgbhm — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:11:55 +0000

https://dialasong.com/about/

You still can

New comment by cmgbhm in "Use Long Options in Scripts"

cmgbhm — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:14:15 +0000

Where I can sometimes get burnt is busybox.

I more often get burnt in zsh to bash than that however

New comment by cmgbhm in "Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored"

cmgbhm — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:01:14 +0000

If they win, there’s a forever revenue stream to extract and they keep their TM law sharp.

New comment by cmgbhm in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel"

cmgbhm — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:36:52 +0000

The non troublesome use-case is clicking the starlink button and taking to their support.

Having bought a Subaru, I really tried to see where the consent is in the process. In my case, I think it’s the account establishment process that the dealer did.

New comment by cmgbhm in "One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack"

cmgbhm — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:45:59 +0000

It’s the author.

New comment by cmgbhm in "Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO"

cmgbhm — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:04:13 +0000

Understanding how tokens get passed around. The pattern in Gitlab seems to be much more explicit.

Protected branches and associated secrets. Much cleaner construct on gitlab.

GitHub actions defacto seems to be tracing yaml to compiled JavaScript to hopefully that right source to shell commands.

Gitlab seems to be yaml to shell commands.

Nested projects. Nice midspot between monorepo and access control management.

API. I may be out of date on it but I recall the gitlab apis as pretty sensible. The github apis for administration has a very odd rest/graphql split.

New comment by cmgbhm in "The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory"

cmgbhm — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:33:07 +0000

I have an LG about that vintage and it’s starting to black out when doing 4K content. All components before it switched out and up to date in firmware. Reatarting works, sometimes all day, sometimes 1 minute.

My other TV about the same vintage is starting to have stuck pixels in the corner.

Modern failure modes aren’t nearly as graceful.

New comment by cmgbhm in "How Apple Watch estimates VO2Max within 1.2 ml/kg/min without a treadmill test"

cmgbhm — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:43:24 +0000

The apple vo2 max calculator drives me crazy because I cycle. When I do long enough walks to trigger the calculation, it’s walking dogs with frequent stops.

The FTP calculation is also annoying because it can’t differentiate types of rides.

New comment by cmgbhm in "'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel"

cmgbhm — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 20:01:22 +0000

There’s a lot of finish in the Microsoft products.

Views are so much faster to pick settings in Excel. You can format tables and indent them (nested ledger) You can get higher information density.

It’s always amazing to me to wade through “how to x” in Google and see 100s of people asking for years.

Google docs and numbered headings is one of those.

New comment by cmgbhm in "Walking in short bursts consume 20-60% more energy than walking continuously"

cmgbhm — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:33:27 +0000

It can also be mental fatigue. Shopping is fundamentally making lots of decisions in sequence.

New comment by cmgbhm in "Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations"

cmgbhm — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:56:00 +0000

That’s 8 days of TA time. You’re going to get high variance and most likely having to boil it down to the equivalent of a multiple choice oral exam.

Hiring a n TA to delegate grading that’s hard to verify seems like will cost more than you think.

New comment by cmgbhm in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

cmgbhm — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 09:30:36 +0000

There was a podcast on history of dental insurance that explained it from US perspective.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/dental-insurance/

New comment by cmgbhm in "Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks"

cmgbhm — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:00:45 +0000

It also supports putting keyinfo into the document as well and validates it by default unless you really know to go out of your way to disable it.

Oh look, another signature issue…

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2xp3-57p7-qf4v

When googling for a SAML dependency, if a library doesn’t already have CVEs for this stuff, it’s likely never been tested.