Hacker News: fdm

A spoiler for the future – Bitcoin (2013)

fdm — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:15:58 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.gardeviance.org/2013/11/a-spoiler-for-future-bitcoin.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24491478

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fdm in "Apple Rumors Point to 31.6-inch 6K Display, All-New 16-inch MacBook Pro for 2019"

fdm — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 14:55:21 +0000

11.6" MacBook Air was called MacBook Air 11, so I doubt that.

New comment by fdm in "New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available"

fdm — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:02:57 +0000

MBP with no Touch Bar only has two USB ports. More importantly though, the XPS13 has a quad-core CPU, while the others are only dual-core.

New comment by fdm in "Hacking with private APIs on iPad"

fdm — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 13:07:27 +0000

All 13" MacBooks are actually 13.3", 15" are 15.4”.

New side-channel vulnerability on Intel CPUs with SMT/Hyper-Threading

fdm — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 09:07:51 +0000

Article URL: https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/123

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18361577

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Dust Is Still Breaking Apple’s Improved MacBook Pro Keyboards

fdm — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:27:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/278896-dust-is-still-breaking-apples-improved-macbook-pro-keyboards

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18303274

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

10M text-only 4chan threads dating from 2006-2008

fdm — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 15:28:57 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/4chan_threads_archive_10_billion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176717

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Arch Linux AUR Repository Found to Contain Malware

fdm — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:38:02 +0000

Article URL: https://sensorstechforum.com/arch-linux-aur-repository-found-contain-malware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17501379

Points: 152

# Comments: 136

If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living?

fdm — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 07:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/ideas/if-work-dominated-your-every-moment-would-life-be-worth-living

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16050416

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Opera to sell its business to Chinese consortium for $600M

fdm — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:53:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.neowin.net/news/opera-to-sell-its-business-to-chinese-consortium-for-600-million

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12122118

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Social Media Is Redefining 'Depression' (2013)

fdm — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 16:41:18 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/social-media-is-redefining-depression/280818/?single_page=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037688

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Undervolting the Radeon RX480 to make it PCIe compliant improves performance

fdm — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:32:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/amd-radeon-rx-480-undervolting-performance_183699

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037108

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Bandcamp Is Doing a Lot Better Than the Rest of the Music Industry

fdm — Sun, 22 May 2016 14:54:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.tonedeaf.com.au/479844/bandcamp-is-actually-doing-better-than-the-entire-music-industry.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11748793

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Review

fdm — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:29:17 +0000

Article URL: http://anandtech.com/show/8077/microsoft-surface-pro-3-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7931295

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Intel to deliver $399 4K monitors in partnership with Samsung

fdm — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:42:10 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/03/intel_and_samsung_in_4k_monitor_price_cut_pact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7854747

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Microsoft addresses N-Trig concerns in Reddit response

fdm — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:23:46 +0000

Article URL: http://surfaceproartist.com/blog/2014/5/27/microsoft-addresses-n-trig-concerns-in-reddit-response

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7834620

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fdm in "Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?"

fdm — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:19:42 +0000

I find the MBA vs Surface Pro 2 comparison to be more than slightly misleading:

>The screen is somewhat lower resolution

No, 1920x1080 isn't only somewhat higher than 1366x768, it's 1.97 times the number of pixels and the panel is PLS unlike the TN in the MBA. The display is the component that eats up the battery the most when doing things like Wi-Fi browsing, even the battery life of the MBA scales heavily with the level of brightness.

>not touch capable

It also has an another, separate layer for the Wacom digitizer, it has to be constantly emitting an electromagnetic field, which does take its toll on power consumption.

>i5-4200u CPU

It's i5-4250U, with a considerably lower base clock (1.3GHz vs 1.6GHz).

Another fact that all the recent articles about the Surface Pro 2 fail to mention, but isn't really relevant to the what the article is about, is that, with the Power Cover that was announced at the Surface keynote, it should be able to get 11.45 hours of Wi-Fi browsing if you extrapolate the results from the Anandtech benchmark, or about 12.9 hours if you do it with the 7:33 hours it got on The Verge review. This does bring the weight and thickness of the device above the MBA though.

Hi, I’m Panos Panay, Corporate VP of Surface at Microsoft. Ask me Anything

fdm — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 19:22:30 +0000

Article URL: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mz20e/hi_im_panos_panay_corporate_vp_of_surface_at/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6433532

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors

fdm — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:21:58 +0000

Article URL: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/google-and-samsung-soar-into-list-of-top-10-linux-contributors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6393381

Points: 139

# Comments: 50

New comment by fdm in "Specifications of the planned solar-powered Ubuntu laptop"

fdm — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:14:59 +0000

GMA 3600 sounds like a weird choice for a laptop running GNU/Linux, the drivers for it are abysmal. The CPU is a weird choice altogether, considering it has a 10W TDP. I think a Celeron 807UE would be a better choice, the TDP is the same and the performance should be close to double, with a significantly better GPU that also has a much better GNU/Linux drivers. The built-in 4G LTE and GPS are nice features though.