Hacker News: ddp

New comment by ddp in "Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?"

ddp — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:18:13 +0000

1112+, plus 25 in Microsoft Authenticator w/ cloud backup enabled, and a Yubikey 5c FIPS for every device I care about.

New comment by ddp in "nvALT 2 (2021)"

ddp — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:56:29 +0000

Thanks for positing this, I was using nvALT, I love this app.

New comment by ddp in "A synthetic origin of SARS-CoV-2: What we know, and what we don't"

ddp — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:41:48 +0000

New comment by ddp in "Ask HN: Which books can help one become a better programmer in any paradigm?"

ddp — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 23:50:57 +0000

After SICP, I would recommend The Little Schemer https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780262560993

New comment by ddp in "Amazon is discontinuing the Kindle Cloud Reader"

ddp — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 15:38:38 +0000

Mine works fine too (Windows/Chrome).

New comment by ddp in "Most tech content is bullshit"

ddp — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 17:46:02 +0000

This site is one of the reasons.

New comment by ddp in "A list of computer languages with release year and category"

ddp — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 21:20:36 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by ddp in "What are good linux laptops for 2018?"

ddp — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 21:38:46 +0000

I haven't used it enough to know what its limits are but there's a lot to like with Windows Subsystem for Linux running either Ubuntu or Debian. Compared with macOS, it's current (apt-get to your heart's content), as opposed to macOS' terminal environment, which is hopelessly out of date. I really like what Microsoft is doing here.

New comment by ddp in "Zuckerberg defends Facebook users' right to be wrong – even Holocaust deniers"

ddp — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 03:32:13 +0000

There is a perfectly good reason why it is against the law to deny the Holocaust in Germany. Can anyone guess what it is?

New comment by ddp in "Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?"

ddp — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:15:55 +0000

I switched to this: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Now, if I could just find something as brilliant for this Surface Book 2.

New comment by ddp in "Apple planning 11″ iPad Pro, Mac mini, 1.57″ and 1.78″ Apple Watch, AirPower"

ddp — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 21:51:50 +0000

Well, when it shipped it didn't support Fusion Drives, which were the default when High Sierra shipped. Time Machine backups fell over and quit working (somewhat different issue, agreed) and before I got them working again, FileVault 2 ate both of the disks on both of my MacBook Pros causing me substantial data loss.

I also had two macOS Servers running on mac minis and they announced that they're discontinuing it, leaving Apple with no server offering. I also removed the discontinued Apple Airports from my network.

I plan to stay on iOS and Watch for now, though I only use my iPad Pro for music synthesizers and basic chat/browsing.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm being absolutely harrassed typing in my iCloud password on all my i-devices. In contrast, I think I've typed my Microsoft password less than 10 times in the last year.

New comment by ddp in "Apple planning 11″ iPad Pro, Mac mini, 1.57″ and 1.78″ Apple Watch, AirPower"

ddp — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:53:03 +0000

I helped build Apple 1's. I had a Lisa. I've owned nearly every generation of PowerBook and MacBook and I've had enough. I bought a loaded Surface Pro tablet last summer and I ordered a new 15" Surface Book 2 w/ Nvidia GTX 1060 to replace my MacBook Pro. Not the new one with TouchBar, that one was so bad I sold it back to Apple for a substantial loss. It was a good run.

New comment by ddp in "8th-Gen Intel Core I7 CPUs Are Quite a Bit Faster"

ddp — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 01:08:52 +0000

I'm sure they're just as bad as every other Intel chip has ever been.

New comment by ddp in "Apple Looks to Expand Advertising Business with New Network for Apps"

ddp — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 18:50:01 +0000

was

They also used to make stuff that was fun to use and had a great UI.

New comment by ddp in "Alan Bean, 4th Person to Walk on the Moon, Dies at 86"

ddp — Sun, 27 May 2018 03:45:18 +0000

My dad ran into him on a plane once. I still have my dad's business card that he signed along with a coffee table book of his artwork. What a live he lived!

New comment by ddp in "Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones"

ddp — Fri, 25 May 2018 20:21:34 +0000

I love my AirPods too but I'm still waiting for the wireless charging mat that works with the iPhone 8 and Apple Watch. Remember that? They announced it a year ago...

New comment by ddp in "Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with a massive new funding round"

ddp — Sun, 13 May 2018 04:24:46 +0000

Oh, that's nice. Can it land on a barge?

New comment by ddp in "Trump signs bill to shut down websites that facilitate prostitution"

ddp — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:52:15 +0000

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/stop-sesta-section-230...

New comment by ddp in "Why Does “=” Mean Assignment?"

ddp — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:23:26 +0000

The point is that ':=' evolved in Algol 68 to solve the ambiguity inherent in '='. C is simply from a less thoughtful and primitive language family and modern languages still seem to be copying C's horrible syntax. It's also probably why technical papers are written in Algol-like pseudocode using the '<-' symbol in LaTeX for assignment.

New comment by ddp in "[dead]"

ddp — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:27:05 +0000

reminder that she has a legal defense fund here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stormy/