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New comment by eksu in "Schedule tasks on the web"

eksu — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:31:05 +0000

This is the wrong way to see it. If a technology gets cheaper, people will use more and more and more of it. If inference costs drop, you can throw way more reasoning tokens and a combination of many many agents to increase accuracy or creativity and such.

New comment by eksu in "Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died"

eksu — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:22:57 +0000

Do the moon viewers skew slightly older as a group because the earlier missions did not include space walking, and the walkers skew slightly younger?

Could also be impacted by fame / levels of personal income from being in one of the two distinct groups.

New comment by eksu in "Studio Ghibli marks 40 years, but future looks uncertain"

eksu — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:32:32 +0000

Jungle Book - Walt Disney was involved with this, they started animating in 1965.

Rest of the films you mentioned - The Disney Renaissance the parent parent’s comment mentioned - starting with The Little Mermaid in 1989, and it seems generally accepted this lasted for 10 years?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_(1967_film)#...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Renaissance

New comment by eksu in "OpenAI for Countries"

eksu — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:06:14 +0000

Not latencies, think data privacy / keeping queries and data from leaving sovereign borders. This way, if there is some local instance / everything is local than the datacenter and service are subject to local laws and regulations (and alternatively you're not subject to foriegn the laws and regulations (and agencies).

New comment by eksu in "Native visionOS platform support"

eksu — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:39:37 +0000

macOS used to have OpenVR support (SteamVR) around 2017 for the HTC Vive, yes, but never any OpenXR runtime as no later hmds had macOS support.

New comment by eksu in "Native visionOS platform support"

eksu — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:36:10 +0000

OpenGL is quite dated for VR/AR. In the Apple ecosystem they supported OpenGL 4.1 for quite some time before moving to Metal, which was announced 2 years before Vulkan.

If you spent the time developing an in house graphics API since open standards weren’t moving forward, why would you rewrite everything a second time just a few years later? Shouldn’t you expect to get a decade or two out of your existing API and only do the massive rewrite when the benefits become more substantial?

Vulkan & OpenGL applications can translate to Metal with MoltenGL and MoltenVK, respectively.

Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor

eksu — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:35:51 +0000

Article URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/quantum/2025/02/19/microsoft-unveils-majorana-1-the-worlds-first-quantum-processor-powered-by-topological-qubits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43104071

Points: 458

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New comment by eksu in "About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States"

eksu — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:04:42 +0000

They have not done this currently. The apps are still unavailable. (6AM EST 1/20/25)

New comment by eksu in "FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI"

eksu — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 04:51:28 +0000

This risk could be mitigated by publishing the test.

New comment by eksu in "EU asks for views on plan to force Apple to open up iOS"

eksu — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 17:17:20 +0000

I don’t think it’s quite there yet, but the iOS Assistive Access mode is a step in the right direction. Eventually phones will have to have an “old people” mode, right? I especially worry how my grandparents will comply with 2FA requirements, passkeys, etc.

New comment by eksu in "Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency"

eksu — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:06:27 +0000

No need for OCR as it has access to the compositor as they explained at the Build conference.

New comment by eksu in "Can't change security policy or disable SIP with macOS 15 Sequoia"

eksu — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:16:01 +0000

I did a .ipsw restore of my M1 Mac mini to 15 Sequoia RC last week and have since gone in and lowered the Security Policy to install ZFS kexts. I wonder if your issue is a bug relating to your multi MacOS boot setup? Have you posted this on MacRumors or elsewhere?

New comment by eksu in "Zed AI"

eksu — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 23:19:20 +0000

excited to use zed, but the AI chat panel does not work on a Mac host connected to a Linux guest.

New comment by eksu in "Janky Apple ID Security"

eksu — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:06:57 +0000

This is not true.

New comment by eksu in "Janky Apple ID Security"

eksu — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:06:38 +0000

I had this issue with my third party email provider as username for account, others are reporting iCloud.

New comment by eksu in "Home Screen Advantage"

eksu — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 07:30:50 +0000

I don’t use any PWA’s and I am not so sympathetic from claims of harm from removing/deprecating PWA’s without some data on the size and impact of this change.

Xbox Gamepass presumably would be the largest one/best example, is that how they ask people on iOS to stream games?

New comment by eksu in "Early Apple Vision Pro adopters alarmed to learn VR porn doesn't work"

eksu — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 05:34:46 +0000

I am very curious about MV-HEVC. Why is the quality better, isn’t it just a container?

How does compression work vs say a side by side as a single stream in HEVC? Does either format allow them to compress based off of redundant information from the views being so similar?

New comment by eksu in "12VO power standard appears to be gaining steam, will reduce PC cabling, costs"

eksu — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:25:40 +0000

this is a computer not a car, 48v seems overkill and dangerous.

components use 12v, 5v, or 3.3v in pcs currently. why do the step down from 48->12 instead of running 12v naturally? 12v is also what is used by the most power hungry components of a PC (GPU).

New comment by eksu in "QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices"

eksu — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:54:06 +0000

You are probably not allowed to contribute to the open source private servers for Minecraft Earth and .ipa mods for people who still want to play?

https://github.com/Project-Earth-Team

ASA (which I worked on for Minecraft Earth) is also end of life in the next year, not sure how that will impact this.

New comment by eksu in "Apple begins blocking M1 Mac users from side loading iOS applications"

eksu — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:22:41 +0000

This is a bummer, the whole reason I bought my M1 Mac Mini was so I could side load apps like Discord and use native versions instead of running electron.

I think I’m past my return window but might see if I can return mine or not.