Hacker News: fsuts

New comment by fsuts in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

fsuts — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:06:47 +0000

Which paragraph?

New comment by fsuts in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

fsuts — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:01:56 +0000

Exactly, otherwise LG legal would be threatening the authors to publish an apology or be sued.

New comment by fsuts in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

fsuts — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:33:22 +0000

Vs2022 is a $1k a year product

Mainly purchased by companies not individuals and will be run on workstation pcs with a decent amount of RAM

So your complaints about 2gb are in the minority I would say, as most users don’t care. So it’s not a Microsoft priority.

After all, they are stupid enough to pay $1k a year for an IDE per seat!!!

New comment by fsuts in "Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory"

fsuts — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:41:10 +0000

Depends on your use case

If running models then Apple is fine, if training or tuning or large number of users then Nvidia is king

New comment by fsuts in "Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory"

fsuts — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:38:47 +0000

Speaking of AMD CPU’s, how is Strix Halo coming along?

As that’s unified memory à la Apple and I think up to 128gb

New comment by fsuts in "Neki – Sharded Postgres"

fsuts — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:22:20 +0000

Kinda ironic that Planetscale built their company on open source Vitess that google built

And now planetscale have made a Vitess like equivalent for Postgres which they have made proprietary

New comment by fsuts in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

fsuts — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:46:26 +0000

Uk law gives significantly more protection on credit card purchases than debit card. As it’s treated as a finance product so the lender is has responsibilities.

New comment by fsuts in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

fsuts — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:44:12 +0000

USA is currently trying to bully Brazil who introduced their own PIX system.

I think USA has been behind the visa and Mastercard dominance as it gives them nearly every financial transaction globally and their intelligence has that data in realtime.

Not to mention the tax take and ensuring max use of US dollar as reserve currency

New comment by fsuts in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

fsuts — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:48:20 +0000

Yes longer battery life if the main benefit nearly every user experiences and appreciates

New comment by fsuts in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

fsuts — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:43:40 +0000

But why?

What’s the commercial argument for shopify buying a css library. What’s the synergy and business benefits.

Is it just the hire of the tailwind devs with some fanfare?

New comment by fsuts in "iPhone Duo"

fsuts — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:37:37 +0000

It’s a status symbol

Think how much some people spend for the watch on their wrist or on jewellery.

New comment by fsuts in "iPhone Duo"

fsuts — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:35:29 +0000

It’s not their first attempt though? It’s their first public release.

Imagine they have 100 previous versions as it’s been mooted to have been in development for years

New comment by fsuts in "iPhone Duo"

fsuts — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:33:25 +0000

RIP iPad mini?

New comment by fsuts in "EasyEffects can improve laptop speaker sound quality"

fsuts — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:29:50 +0000

Laptop Manufacturers fail to appreciate how much better their product would be with good speakers. Particularly in today’s age where everyone is streaming music or watching videos much more than before.

MacBook Pro 16’s are great but most others suck.

New comment by fsuts in "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight"

fsuts — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:26:00 +0000

It’s not unified ram? I.e VRAM so it will struggle

New comment by fsuts in "GLM-5.3 is now open-weight"

fsuts — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:24:25 +0000

OpenAI have only just announced it and have every reason to hype it up.

Could be a long time till gets released

New comment by fsuts in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

fsuts — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:40:45 +0000

Are you one of those religious Bible loons who believes couples need to stay together even if it’s a disaster relationship.

As you are wrong if you are. Children suffer more in bad parent relationships

New comment by fsuts in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

fsuts — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:02:31 +0000

Most of the problems I would say are related to the modern isolated Nuclear family.

See that programmer sat next to you that is not a nice person? Well some kid had no choice but to have him as a parent.

Throw in a society that doesn’t value teachers and pays them below many other jobs and the kid spends all his day and evenings with no one to guide and nurture him or her.

New comment by fsuts in "BYD installed 10,000 hyper-fast 1,500kW chargers in just 5 months"

fsuts — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:55:42 +0000

It’s going to be interesting to see how USA’s hostile approach to Chinese cars is going to play out.

As rest of the world is allowing Chinese cars on their standard tariffs so their sales growth potential is enormous, and USA is effectively just 1 man holding a carrier bag in front of a platoon of battery powered.

New comment by fsuts in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

fsuts — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:08:09 +0000

PayPal originally took off as it was convenient and fast, saving you from filling in card details each time and it also allowed sending payments for private transactions using only an email address

Since then Apple Pay/Google pay/browser wallets have taken a big chunk of its fast checkout advantage

And mobile banking apps/instant transfer have taken out chunks of the private transactions, and more so as consumer to consumer transactions often had the parties using PayPal gift mode to avoid fees but that then had zero protection.

The 2020’s is much more crowded than 1990’s and 2020’s decades

Also it was its partnership with eBay that made it dominant and eBay no longer promote PayPal as preferred payment method.