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New comment by diggernet in "Framework Laptop 16"

diggernet — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:38:52 +0000

My fantasy for the Laptop 16 keyboard: Optional taller hinges and thicker bezel.

Think about it... Replacement hinges that separate the upper and lower shell by an extra 1/8-1/4" plus a thicker bezel to fill that gap. Suddenly (at the cost of a thicker laptop, for those of us who don't mind) you have extra space under the screen for longer key throw, contoured key caps, trackpoint, arrow keys that overlap the lower deck to allow a proper inverted-T layout, etc. Maybe even possible to retrofit old ThinkPad keyboards in there.

Hey, I can dream, can't I?

New comment by diggernet in "Ne Zha II is the biggest movie in the world"

diggernet — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:44:48 +0000

> when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one?

Three Body Problem

New comment by diggernet in "FFmpeg 8.0"

diggernet — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:22:42 +0000

Good point. And if I remember right, tar allows longer paths than zip.

New comment by diggernet in "FFmpeg 8.0"

diggernet — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:13:40 +0000

A tar of gzip or zip files doesn't make sense. But gzipping or zipping a tar does.

Gzip only compresses a single file, so .tar.gz lets you bundle multiple files. You can do the same thing with zip, of course, but...

Zip compresses individual files separately in the container, ignoring redundancies between files. But .tar.gz (and .tar.zip, though I've rarely seen that combination) bundles the files together and then compresses them, so can get better compression than .zip alone.

New comment by diggernet in "A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut"

diggernet — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:13:04 +0000

Yeah, annoying.

This one is better:

https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-S...

New comment by diggernet in "Map of Wales and Pronunciation from Wikipedia"

diggernet — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:39:23 +0000

Poking around the map, it looks like red=towns, blue=water, grey=mountains. Not sure what yellow is.

New comment by diggernet in "Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants"

diggernet — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:00:26 +0000

Having HS grades count 100% is a really bad idea. Not because of anything about the schools, but because HS age isn't representative of people's abilities. I had terrible HS grades due to a complete lack of interest. After growing up a little and getting my act together, I got A's in college. Thank goodness they didn't base my admission on HS grades.

New comment by diggernet in "Scientists have recreated the Universe's first molecule"

diggernet — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:15:47 +0000

Looking forward to Derek Lowe's take on this.

New comment by diggernet in "Tamiya chairman Shunsaku Tamiya dies at 90"

diggernet — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:17:04 +0000

I've got their R/C Flakpanzer Gepard in a box somewhere. It was great fun to build and run, except maybe the part where you had to assemble the tracks piece by piece.

Of course the old NiCad battery is long since dead. And R/C frequencies have changed since then, so the controller and receiver are probably useless. But from time to time I wonder about what it would take to modernize and revive it.

https://tamiyabase.com/tamiya-models/56003

New comment by diggernet in "Solving a Childhood Mystery: How BASIC Games Learned to Win"

diggernet — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:35:57 +0000

> As an aside, line 511 is entered when it fails to find matching values with the current game state for all 19 boards and flipped boards. It seems like it was originally intended to be a comment using the REM command like 511 REM REMEMBER THE TERMINATION OF THIS LOOP IS IMPOSSIBLE, but perhaps that part was omitted during editing, so it just starts with REMEMBER.

Actually, that line does start with "511 REM". There was no requirement for REM to be followed by a space.

New comment by diggernet in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

diggernet — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:32:47 +0000

Yep, those are pretty nice. It's on/off that's really hard to find. Discrete on, specifically, since with Flirc you can handle off in software.

New comment by diggernet in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

diggernet — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:23:17 +0000

That is one big reason, yes, but not the only one. I prefer hardware where I can install the OS I choose, and to avoid Amazon gadgets.

New comment by diggernet in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

diggernet — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:12:02 +0000

I've been thinking about replacing an RPi4 running Kodi, and N100/N150 seems with looking at. But one requirement is support for remote control support, including power on and off (preferably with discrete on/off commands). Anyone have suggestions?

New comment by diggernet in "Breaking WebAuthn, FIDO2, and Forging Passkeys"

diggernet — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:42:18 +0000

Interesting. If the counter can be zero, does that mean passkeys can be non-resident keys? And which party gets to decide the counter value?

New comment by diggernet in "Coming to Apple OSes: A seamless, secure way to import and export passkeys"

diggernet — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:55:16 +0000

> So what exactly is being transferred with this new cross platform mechanism? Isn’t it the same private key, except that it’s a direct device-to-device transfer?

The sentence you quote is describing passkeys, not this new transfer mechanism. I assume this does transfer the private key.

Oh the other hand, while the article is short on details, it sure sounds like this only supports a move operation, where the passkey is removed from the first device and installed on the second. Which means it'll so nothing for disaster recovery, because they are still assuming your one passkey device will always be present and functional. For example, say your iPhone is smashed and you decide to buy an Android replacement. Nope, sorry, first you need to buy an iPhone to restore from iCloud, then you can transfer to Android.

It really needs to be possible to back up passkeys, no matter how much the advocates say we shouldn't be allowed to do that.

OpenTaxSolver

diggernet — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:18:21 +0000

Article URL: https://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137084

Points: 1

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New comment by diggernet in "Show HN: JavaFactory – IntelliJ plugin to generate Java code"

diggernet — Thu, 29 May 2025 23:11:21 +0000

Or, maybe just retire.

I don't know how they measure it, but I assume they have some management dashboard they can view. The requirement is exposed to us in multiple performance objectives with phrases about x% of team making active use of gen ai, use gen ai to increase velocity y%, automate z% of tasks with gen ai, and so on.

New comment by diggernet in "Show HN: JavaFactory – IntelliJ plugin to generate Java code"

diggernet — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:25:01 +0000

And I work for an organization that does everything they can think of to make it virtually impossible for anyone to leak code outside, but is now mandating Copilot use to the point of including it in personal performance goals.

New comment by diggernet in "Show HN: JavaFactory – IntelliJ plugin to generate Java code"

diggernet — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:14:57 +0000

Related to this, consider that when an LLM writes tests for code, it's writing them based on what the code actually does, not what it's supposed to do. This is equally true when the code itself was written by the LLM. Sure the tests pass, but that doesn't prove the code is correct.

New comment by diggernet in "Real ID now required in US after nearly 20 years of delays"

diggernet — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:21:18 +0000

Friendly reminder that despite articles constantly saying "Real ID is required" as if no other option exists, the Real ID requirement only applies to using a driver's license or state issued photo ID. There is a long list of other acceptable forms of ID[1].

In particular, a passport remains the ultimate form of ID, usable for anything.

[1] https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification