Hacker News: fotta

New comment by fotta in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

fotta — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:28:45 +0000

annoyingly, AMT still requires me to have a dummy HDMI dongle plugged in to work

New comment by fotta in "Retiring Test-Ipv6.com"

fotta — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:28:35 +0000

Wow I saw jfesler on the page and instantly knew who. I never knew either! Awesome guy.

New comment by fotta in "1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70"

fotta — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:03:42 +0000

I actually love the bumper. Solves a nitpick I have when tinkering.

New comment by fotta in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

fotta — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 01:05:37 +0000

Hmm I granted access to my photos then selected an album but it says "No photos found" after. It also says "PhotoManager has 0 photos" and "DisplayedPhotos has 0 photos". I chose a shared album, if it matters.

edit: okay yeah it doesn’t work with a shared album

New comment by fotta in "Coventry Very Light Rail"

fotta — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:05:57 +0000

> Ironically, this steep grade saved the J-Church line from being replaced by buses. After World War II, San Francisco began replacing the streetcar lines with buses, but the Church Street hill proved too steep.

Little bit of columns A and B

https://www.opensfhistory.org/osfhcrucible/2019/08/10/the-j-...

New comment by fotta in "Coventry Very Light Rail"

fotta — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:43:03 +0000

The J Church line on Muni is still a train in part because back when they were converting lines to buses, the hill on Church St was too steep for buses.

New comment by fotta in "Bill Atkinson has died"

fotta — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 17:01:37 +0000

Wow. Rest in peace Bill. I think he is deserving of a black stripe up top.

New comment by fotta in "Migrating Away from Rust"

fotta — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:55:27 +0000

Same on mobile safari

New comment by fotta in "McLaren Invented New Carbon Fiber Tape to Build Even More Complex Parts"

fotta — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 01:20:17 +0000

Fingers crossed for Cadillac/Andretti!

New comment by fotta in "DeepGEMM: clean and efficient FP8 GEMM kernels with fine-grained scaling"

fotta — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:54:03 +0000

They should call the warp that is yielded to the weft.

New comment by fotta in "Apple Ordered by UK to Create Global iCloud Encryption Backdoor"

fotta — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:07:23 +0000

Cryptomator does this and it's on the App Store. And it's open source! https://github.com/cryptomator/ios

New comment by fotta in "Macrodata Refinement"

fotta — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 16:32:21 +0000

Counterpart was so good and I was so sad to see it cancelled.

New comment by fotta in "Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Scrubbed After Delta Air Flies into Restricted Airspace"

fotta — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:35:34 +0000

The comments from the VASAviation video [0] seem to indicate that it wasn’t the DL but instead the WN plane that caused the scrub. The DL was routed north of the zone and the WN was routed south of the zone. The launch path is southerly, so it seems like the WN was the more likely offender, but I guess we won’t know specifically until we hear from the RSO.

[0] https://youtu.be/4RMhf0YELrA

New comment by fotta in "TCL's bet on screens that look like paper"

fotta — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:10:34 +0000

I would add the nano-texture display option on the M4 iPad Pros (1TB+ SKUs only) and the newest MacBook Pros. I recently bought an iPad Pro with the option and it’s been really nice. I can read outside in direct sunlight with it. The downside is a slight loss in contrast and very small loss in crispness but frankly for my use cases it still looks really good. My next MBP I’ll be getting this option.

New comment by fotta in "Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy [video]"

fotta — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:59:54 +0000

Sure this criticism is totally fair, and I suspected as much (as a non controls engineer), but that's also why I said breadth and not depth :)

New comment by fotta in "Servo vs. steppers: Speed, Torque and Accuracy [video]"

fotta — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:17:30 +0000

His breadth of knowledge constantly amazes me

New comment by fotta in "Understanding Round Robin DNS"

fotta — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 02:55:56 +0000

> but typical APIs for name resolution such as gethostbyname / getaddrinfo don't return the TTL

Oh wow I didn’t know this but I looked it up and you’re right. Interesting.

New comment by fotta in "Understanding Round Robin DNS"

fotta — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:31:33 +0000

> Golang HTTP2 clients will reuse the first server they can connect to over and over and the DNS is never re-resolved.

I’m not a DNS expert but shouldn’t it re-resolve when the TTL expires?

New comment by fotta in "Bay Area cops are getting a new Siri-type tool for fighting sideshows"

fotta — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:37:24 +0000

I don't really know why they need this when a lot of these sideshows are advertised on social media in advance.

New comment by fotta in "How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds [video]"

fotta — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:36:19 +0000

Anyone know what the BART FOTF trains use? I’m guessing it’s IGBTs but they sound more like fixed PWM switching to pattern mode with pulse drops.