Hacker News: cypress66

New comment by cypress66 in "What does it mean that MP3 is free?"

cypress66 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:48:48 +0000

Not him, but I use lossy because phones have small capacities and I can't be bothered to have lossless on pc + lossy on phone.

New comment by cypress66 in "CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins"

cypress66 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:47:46 +0000

Ok. But I'm saying it's almost impossible that no one knows, as the parent comment suggests.

Edit: my original comment was not intended to be a reply to you, but to the parent.

New comment by cypress66 in "CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins"

cypress66 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:25:04 +0000

It would be trivial for the Chinese to determine if covid 19 matches with what they were investigating in the lab, and if the people in the lab were among the first infected.

New comment by cypress66 in "Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO"

cypress66 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:06:22 +0000

Idk, I use cursor which is a proprietary commercial VS code fork and it just works. So clearly the license/OSS situation is very workable.

New comment by cypress66 in "Making an atomic trampoline [video]"

cypress66 — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 07:50:31 +0000

In nileblue he doesn't talk like this. So clearly intentional.

New comment by cypress66 in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

cypress66 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:54:31 +0000

I always use showdead. There's not a lot of dead comments, but I often (maybe 1 every 4) have to vouch for them.

New comment by cypress66 in "Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport"

cypress66 — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 22:25:59 +0000

What you call moderation is also a tool dictatorships use to censor people. It goes both ways.

New comment by cypress66 in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

cypress66 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:44:09 +0000

It should be up to the legislators and justice to limit cops power, and punish them when appropriate.

New comment by cypress66 in "Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player"

cypress66 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:55:34 +0000

VLC is only praised in "normie" places. It is hated in places like anime forums, 4chan, etc.

New comment by cypress66 in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

cypress66 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:18:59 +0000

> It's pretty much always email > standard user > administrator

What does this mean?

New comment by cypress66 in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

cypress66 — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:02:57 +0000

Windows is high reliability. The problem here is what's basically a third party backdoor.

New comment by cypress66 in "Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from Windows 11 guide"

cypress66 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:19:34 +0000

It's so far behind though. Linux still doesn't support VRR or HDR.

New comment by cypress66 in "Microsoft Issues New Warning for 70% of All Windows Users"

cypress66 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:26:04 +0000

My mom's PC is plenty fast, and works flawlessly. She has an i7 4790k.

She probably wouldn't mind upgrading to windows 11, but she can't because MS decided that you must have TPM.

Windows 10 will be EOL in a year.

These companies will bs you about how eco friendly they are, but they expect you to throw a perfectly fine computer into the trash.

New comment by cypress66 in "Microsoft's full-screen reminders – upgrade to Windows 11 are back"

cypress66 — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:53:02 +0000

Most distros can't even recover from a shutdown while updating (windows handles it since Vista).

New comment by cypress66 in "Super Mario 64's unopenable door has been opened [video]"

cypress66 — Sun, 12 May 2024 18:13:30 +0000

It's a joke referencing a quote in the video.

New comment by cypress66 in "Express 5.0 – Last Push"

cypress66 — Wed, 01 May 2024 04:14:33 +0000

You can fix async await with express by just installing a package.

New comment by cypress66 in "Bitcoin Block 840000"

cypress66 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 01:15:07 +0000

Gold was used as a currency for ages, and it's similar to bitcoin (limited amount with a bit of gold being mined every year)

New comment by cypress66 in "The $10k BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry"

cypress66 — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:11:43 +0000

It should worry the EU industry more. People in the US don't buy city or compact cars. They buy bigger and more premium ones.

New comment by cypress66 in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

cypress66 — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:28:09 +0000

If you are this deep into it, it doesn't matter.

New comment by cypress66 in "LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge"

cypress66 — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:14:36 +0000

Is it? Every user profile in every website is a page. Every single tweet is a page.