<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: drivebycomment</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drivebycomment</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:39:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=drivebycomment" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drivebycomment in "Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://craftstrom.com/how-it-works/" rel="nofollow">https://craftstrom.com/how-it-works/</a> is closest to what you want.<p>You don't need permit, and you don't even need new wiring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 04:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393784</link><dc:creator>drivebycomment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drivebycomment in "Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google or most search engines work fine with screen readers with javascript enabled. I think your understanding of how web accessibility works is likely severely outdated. There's just too many websites that use JavaScript that it would be a disservice if web didn't support accessible interface for pages with javascript.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAI-ARIA" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAI-ARIA</a><p>That said, as ARIA rule #1 says, it's better to not use javascript, as it's always less error prone. That doesn't mean websites shouldn't use javascript when they have reasons to do so, as long as they correctly follow ARIA.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:40:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720397</link><dc:creator>drivebycomment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720397</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42720397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drivebycomment in "Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Which is why I defer to my anac-data, which admittedly biased illustrates that its just not effective but is entirely moot without addressing the core of the issue and principal of the matter as a whole: body autonomy.<p>Can you explain how sugar tax is an issue about body autonomy ? As far as I can see, you are free to continue putting sugary water into your body. Is the argument that even a small increase in tax is an encroach upon bodily autonomy ? Do you consider farm subsidies (e.g. maintaining US corn production) as a bodily autonomy issue then, since it lowers the cost of corn / fructose and making them available in more food ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:46:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630022</link><dc:creator>drivebycomment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drivebycomment in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quantum computer becoming available / powerful does not mean all cryptography will get broken. People who have actual knowledge and expertise are already busy working on various aspects of PQC.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373296</link><dc:creator>drivebycomment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373296</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drivebycomment in "Tell HN: Need help, locked out of Google account with 10 years of personal data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Recovery email is good but still not the most reliable way.<p>My #1 recommendation is to setup a passkey, and also set multiple security keys as the 2nd factor. All other authentication factors are subject to some form of heuristic defense.<p>Beyond that, a few optional things you can do in addition:<p>- Use Advanced Protection.
- Use a platform that's more secure , which are iOS, ChromeOS and some  android (e.g. Pixel), in general and especially during recovery attempt.</p>
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<p>> This seems like a huge failure on the part of the NTSB.<p>This is a deep misunderstanding. NTSB is not an organization with a regulatory power - it is an "investigative" agency. It does not have any mandate or power to stop anyone from doing anything. It can investigate and issue recommendations and reports to other agencies that have the actual power - FAA, FHA, NHTSA, etc, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:46:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160614</link><dc:creator>drivebycomment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42160614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drivebycomment in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the most common API malware extensions use is what MV3 blocks, and adblock extension is one of the common malware vectors:<p><a href="https://helpcenter.getadblock.com/hc/en-us/articles/9738476845203-Concerns-about-AdBlock-and-malware" rel="nofollow">https://helpcenter.getadblock.com/hc/en-us/articles/97384768...</a><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/fake-chrome-extensions-malware/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/fake-chrome-extensions-malware/</a><p>This has been never ending.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:39:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810438</link><dc:creator>drivebycomment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drivebycomment in ""Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone jumping up and down about MV3 while using Mac or iOS are hypocrites, since MV3 is essentially doing the same thing Safari did years ago, finally matching the security and the privacy in that regard. The reduction in adblocking is so miniscule in aggregate - since declarative approach will always cover all the major advertisers - that it's not even a meaningful "trade-off".</p>
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<p>I mostly stopped reading paper books, as I do almost all book reading through Libby app on my tablet that has a high resolution display like most tablets produced in the past few years. It's a superior experience than a paper book in almost every way.<p>At work and home, with 4k monitor, it's so much easier to put multiple reading materials side by side and read / research across.<p>In 2012, even on the state of the art computer systems, the reading experience wasn't as good as it is now.</p>
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<p>From the article:<p>> Because the woman was already receiving immunosuppressants for a previous liver transplant,<p>This makes sense - this was the first trial, so doing this on a person already on immunosuppressants minimizes risk while still validating the basics of if it works at all in the first place.</p>
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<p>> its trivial to write memory safe C++.<p>Very bold claim, and as such, it needs substantial evidence, as there is practically no meaningful evidence to support this. There are some real world non-trivial c++ code that are known to have very few defects, but almost all of them required extremely significant effort to get there.</p>
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<p>Why is that relevant ? This is a classic "ad hominem" fallacy.<p>There's quite a few extremely callous statements in some of the comments and I agree that they deserved to be called out.</p>
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<p><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/famines">https://ourworldindata.org/famines</a><p>Humanity has reduced famine dramatically over the past 100+ years. If Sudan famine ends up having the higher end of the estimate for deaths, it will likely reverse the clear downward trend, which should be alarming.</p>
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<p>This "why" is more "what are the underlying economics that enable the development of the better chip". Economics doesn't guarantee you'll get a better CPU. It still takes a cutting-edge engineering team with a good CPU architect to build that best chip. e.g. Intel didn't fall behind because of lack of money.</p>
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<p>It's not a counter-point you think it is.
ARM is not a primary reason why Apple's M series are so much better. If it is, other ARM should be able to match, but they don't. Simply put, Apple built a good microarchitecture and a pipeline - e.g. M1 has, e.g. 600 reorder buffer. Back then, this was 2x of most other CPUs, regardless of ISA. This is not something you can just throw more transistors at it - you need all the other parts of the processor optimized in order to make that useful, and Apple did. Simply, M-series are one of the best out-of-order pipelines ever built.</p>
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<p>The variable-length instructions make very little difference in building a compiler at this point, that it's practically negligible. If you look at GCC or LLVM, while there is some extra code to deal with the variable length encoding, it's not anywhere near big enough of a challenge for them.<p>> I once extended a Common Lisp compiler to emit machine code for SSE4.2 instructions (specifically minss and maxss). The experience was a bit bad due to subtle differences in prefixes and specific fields needing to be set to activate some mode for SSE4.2 instructions.<p>I assume this was some toy compiler or a non-optimizing compiler. LLVM or GCC (or any other industrial strength optimizing compilers) have no trouble whatsoever dealing with any of those. The difficulty with more complex instructions like vector instructions is in optimization / being able to find the code pattern that can take advantage of the complex instructions, and that has nothing whatsoever to do with them being variable length encoding or prefixes or knowledge about instruction set themselves. If the program is already written for it - e.g. using intrinsics - emitting and mapping to the machine code is trivial, regardless of how complex the instruction encoding rule is.</p>
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<p>> There's plenty of ways where missing the payment date means you lose your deposit which can be tens of thousands of dollars.<p>Please elaborate. Which one requires 1-day turn-around ?</p>
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<p>Nobody buys a house with a one day notice. You have multiple days and weeks to prepare.</p>
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<p>What realistic scenario do you envision that you would need / want to move a large amount of money with a 24h notice ? And what would be the reasons why that can't wait one more day if the transfer doesn't work out ?</p>
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<p>Per uBO FAQ: <a href="https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions-(FAQ)#if-i-install-ubol-will-i-see-a-difference-with-ubo">https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...</a><p>> It's very possible that the sites you visit do not require any of the filtering capabilities specific to uBO, in which case you won't see a difference.<p>The best way to find that out would be to try uBO lite. I personally haven't noticed any difference, but my browsing, in terms of variety of sites I visit, is fairly limited compared to many folks.<p>Edit: another thing is if you are happy with adblocking on Safari, you won't notice much difference with uBO lite, since Safari only supports effectively the same API as MV3. uBO has never  been available on Safari since Safari 13, because Safari already did the equivalent of MV3 in 2019 with their version 13 release.</p>
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