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New comment by hughrr in "AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks"

hughrr — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 07:42:40 +0000

Also you can run x86-64 and arm64 VMs side by side with UTM on the M1’s. That’s what I am doing. Although I don’t need to use the x86-64 one these days as Debian/arm64 is fine for my needs.

New comment by hughrr in "AWS Graviton vs. M1 vs. M1 Pro Node.js Benchmarks"

hughrr — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 07:39:53 +0000

Just a heads up with this. If you want one, make sure you get an off the shelf config if you can. The turnaround times for replacements and repair is likely to be bad on non stock configurations.

This pushed me to the 14” MBP with 16GB and 1TB. You can literally get it swapped out same day at apple stores if anything goes wonky.

New comment by hughrr in "Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 23:42:26 +0000

No please do. You’re on the mark there. I was waiting for someone to make this point.

The weirdness comes from the social disparity and disconnectedness from peers their own age due to different social attitudes from parents.

The generalisation comes from the observation that older parents tend to lead to less progressive attitudes.

New comment by hughrr in "The pop and rock greats who love model railways"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 23:37:15 +0000

Great hobby. Combines many disciplines from carpentry, electronics, engineering and even civil engineering to some degree.

New comment by hughrr in "Madeleine Albright has died"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:48:55 +0000

Yeah felt a little dirty writing that.

New comment by hughrr in "Madeleine Albright has died"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:00:51 +0000

Indeed it’s about honesty in the face of death. The speaker speaks both of the good and the bad things.

Obituaries tend not to.

New comment by hughrr in "Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:21:15 +0000

If this was Spotify vs Google I’d take Spotify.

If this was anything vs Apple I’d take Apple.

That’s the ranking of trust I have as far as customer support goes. It’ll be a crap fest when match.com or some other atomic level shyster markets their way into sounding more reputable than they are.

New comment by hughrr in "Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:15:49 +0000

This. I had kids in my early 20s. It’s great because I still have a connection with them even though two are adults.

Kids from much older parents (40+) are also almost completely weird.

New comment by hughrr in "Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:53:26 +0000

Having screwed this up in my 30s and spent the first half of my 40s doing a desperate low budget TV montage, I agree with this entirely. Some things you can't undo and I regret that. Learn from my mistake :)

New comment by hughrr in "Madeleine Albright has died"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:49:12 +0000

I'm buying a cake tomorrow to celebrate.

I think Orson Scott Card, despite being a complete loon, raised an interesting concept in the book Speaker For The Dead. Obituaries should be spoken honestly to all. Not speaking ill of the dead is morally wrong.

New comment by hughrr in "Nvidia Grace CPU"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 09:13:52 +0000

Yes and no. Look at some of the loop optimisations possible on ARM compared to x86-64. I've had x86-64 run 8 instructions that ARM does in 1 instruction.

New comment by hughrr in "Nvidia Grace CPU"

hughrr — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 06:54:01 +0000

Spend some time looking at optimised compiler output on godbolt on both architectures. ARM has some really nice tricks up its sleeves.

I’ve been using ARM since about 1992 though so I may be biased.

New comment by hughrr in "“The Apple Studio Display Is a Bad Deal” [video]"

hughrr — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:39:47 +0000

I know. I still bought one.

New comment by hughrr in "Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$"

hughrr — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:35:15 +0000

Having just paid for Lightroom for a year this one really annoys the shit out of me.

New comment by hughrr in "Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$"

hughrr — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:17:07 +0000

Usually a mass exodus to a similar service with the same guarantees resulting in months of capacity problems as they try and scale out from customer influx.

There are no winners.

New comment by hughrr in "Ask HN: Technical or coding projects that offer more than just 'practice?'"

hughrr — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:15:22 +0000

I usually find something that I use that already exists that pisses me off and make my own version that doesn't piss me off.

I've done this with a couple of things which have worked out usable over time and are part of my daily workflow. Most recent is a simplified browser-based replacement for GnuCash which is based on Sqlite and Go. I will publish it on github when I am happy with it.

New comment by hughrr in "Nvidia Grace CPU"

hughrr — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:07:29 +0000

No. Intel worked out it needs to open its production capacity to other vendors. They will end up another ARM fab with a legacy x86-64 business strapped on the side. That's probably not a bad place to be really. I think x86-64 will fizzle out in about a decade.

New comment by hughrr in "Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$"

hughrr — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:04:03 +0000

They sound like they're running the organisation like a dating site.

More reasons to look elsewhere.

New comment by hughrr in "Ask HN: Google has locked me out of the account"

hughrr — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:01:52 +0000

To be fair half of the people I know can't even remember their email address or password for more than about an hour after creating it so that's exactly what they do regularly.

My sister in law is on her 11th email address in the last 3 years.

I have had my domain and email address for 25 years...

New comment by hughrr in "Updated Okta Statement on Lapsus$"

hughrr — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 20:59:24 +0000

Sounds about right. Here there will be a staff security training symposium that runs everyone through a training course bought in from the lowest bidder that is tangentially related to the issue followed by a self-congratulatory management meeting and that will be the whole issue resolved to satisfaction.