<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: emp_</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=emp_</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:19:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=emp_" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "They're made out of meat (1991)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It was incredible man. Mold on a rock that got to think. Ha, it was amazing while it lasted</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:06:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690418</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Apple M3 Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>eGPU has a ton of issues on MacOS - I've used it for years, but now on Silicon its prob much worse - but let me give a shout out to the amazing (somewhat new) High Performance screen sharing mode added in Sonoma.<p>When I connect to my Mac Studio via Macbook I can select that mode, then change the Displays setting to Dynamic Resolution and then my 'thin client':<p>- Is fullscreen using the entire 16:10 Macbook screen<p>- Gets 60 fps low latency performance (including on actual games)<p>- Transfers audio, I can attend meetings in this mode<p>- Blanks the host Mac Studio screen<p>All things that were impossible via VNC - RDP is much better but this new High Performance Screen Share is even more powerful.<p>The thin lightweight laptop that remotes into a loaded machine has always been my idea of high mobility instead of suffering a laptop running everything locally. This works via LTE as well with some firewall setup.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://skiplabs.io/">https://skiplabs.io/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729435">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729435</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:03:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://skiplabs.io/</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42729435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "M4 Mac mini's efficiency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Studio being the GPU-centric model, I can't wait for all these M4 Mini performance improvements to make to the Studio line.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 23:03:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42120866</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42120866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42120866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Stop Acting Like You're Famous"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> daydream about how you can make money off of it.<p>I do this but mostly from trauma of having to kill things due to hosting costs (happened before), as long as its cheap/self sufficient enough the fun part dominates.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 06:49:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40061275</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40061275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40061275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Titanosaurs were the biggest land animals Earth's ever seen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember one day many years ago just snapping wondering what had been the the biggest animal to ever exist on earth, and after a few searches it seems like the consensus was *NOT* a dinosaur but the Blue Whale which still exists today, still think about it from time to time. The article only discusses land animals but I wonder if the blue whale still reigns after more modern discoveries.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv1EDIqHkY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv1EDIqHkY</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676462">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676462</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 05:28:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv1EDIqHkY</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676462</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39676462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every time I hit back on an Ars
article Linus is giving me the middle finger</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:00:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39379878</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39379878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39379878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Show HN: Visit the front page of Hacker News on a random day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spotty memory but the two posts that made me check HN daily were:<p>- How do you store data to last more than 50 years (diamonds and titanium were mentioned)<p>- The announcement that bitcoin reached 1 USD, a great party story (TL;DR I tried buying 100, had issues w/ payment, got pissed, bought 200 instead, lost wallet a few months later, would have sold it super early tho)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:02:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39267129</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39267129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39267129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Had a very similar experience hosting e-sports events and buying probably the cheapest sponsor slot ever: the badge lanyards, every single interview had our logo right there around the neck of every single person at the venue, while the TV crews were trying to frame the giant master sponsor logos in the background</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:53:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084771</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39084771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK | Canada | Remote Only<p>Frontend Architect / Full Stack Dev, passionate about GraphQL / React / NextJS, accompanying tooling and similar platforms, been helping companies implement MACH architecture and extend their capabilities with BFFs and modernizing frontend codebases.<p>Available 32 hours/week<p>Contact: thewelk[at]gmail.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 16:27:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958246</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Your Organization should run its own Mastodon server"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You see it meme'd relentlessly about the concept of having "fuck you money" and the crazy things one could do.<p>Well, it finally happened in a undisputable, greatest possible example kinda way, and now everyone is scrambling to adjust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:37:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33510101</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33510101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33510101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Quordle: Four Wordles in One"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>16 :) <a href="http://www.sedecordle.com/?mode=daily" rel="nofollow">http://www.sedecordle.com/?mode=daily</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:43:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376916</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "TransferWise changes name to Wise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Going to try Xoom next, looking at conversion rates plus the big name behind (Paypal) which is not short of horror stories themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26226137</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26226137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26226137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "TransferWise changes name to Wise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great Timing! USERS BEWARE, my story<p>I used the service for two years and just had the most surreal disastrous experience since the year flipped. I religiously send a the same (about 5k USD) to my home country every month so I can pay my mortgage and other bills I left when moved to NA.<p>2021 arrives, I start a transfer on January 27, days pass, nothing. I contact support 10 days later (of something that in the past 24 months took 3 days), they say I need to prove I’m the recipient so I ask them to cancel the transfer so I can start it from my personal account instead so both accounts match and no documentation is needed, another 10 days go by, still nothing.<p>I contact support again and found out that they withheld my deposit because they needed me to give, bear with me, POWER OF ATTORNEY among tons of other more resonable  documentation to the destination country bank, so instead of signing my life away I cancel the transfer again: 26 days an counting TransferWise held my money which I will NEVER deal with again and tell this tale whenever I get a chance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 05:40:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26221258</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26221258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26221258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "I am seriously considering going back to desktop computers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Around 2015/6 I went full laptop (Razer Blade 15) with an eGPU and multiple monitors after trying the same with a MacBook Pro (poor nvidia integration) and after years of crashes, overheating laptop shells and weird Wi-Fi issues when returning from sleep with the eGPU, I just gave up.<p>A couple months ago I got full ATX case with the 16 core AMD CPU, the best GPU out there and it runs cool, quiet and I just RPD to it when needed (prob less than twice a year)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 02:57:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24892451</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24892451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24892451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just pasted a few conversations from whatsapp in portuguese and at least for that language google translate was 10x more accurate on the meaning of the very colloquial words used, mixed with English etc.<p>Edit: thanks for the link though, I'm saving it and trying from time to time, we use translation a ton in my household (everyone is learning English after moving abroad)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:38:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629171</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23629171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "Relearn CSS layout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree with this smaller pain point in the vast peace of mind that CSS Modules bring.<p>I try to simplify as much as possible to a single word and repeat them a lot since there’s no collision, so you can usually expect a .container, .items, .item in most components, all top level but SASS helping with other annoyances like pseudo selectors, parents and nesting where it makes sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:37:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200200</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your comment made me remember that every cell had a blank gif so the dimensions would be exact! Even found a wiki about it <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacer_GIF" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacer_GIF</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2019 17:21:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116733</link><dc:creator>emp_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20116733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by emp_ in "CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Used to draw round corners [the biggest design trend request circa 2002] using tables with cells of one pixel, painting every cell mimicking a perfect anti-aliased curve in a photoshop rectangle, a mere 32 cell table per corner, lol.</p>
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