Hacker News: jurip

New comment by jurip in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

jurip — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:35:55 +0000

Yeah, agreed. I liked the idea of Mercurial branches better than git's — in principle I prefer more rather than less metadata in history — but they genuinely had a scaling problem. I can't recall the numbers, this being more than a decade ago, but I tested with a realistic number of branches for a team of developers using short-lived branches for a while and you could easily see Mercurial slowing down.

Back when I was testing bookmarks were available, but Bitbucket was pretty much the only forge that supported Mercurial and their tooling didn't support bookmarks, so that made them a non-starter for many users.

New comment by jurip in "Swift 6.3"

jurip — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:06:15 +0000

Yeah, it seems something is still happening, they keep posting updates every now and then: https://forums.swift.org/t/differentiable-swift-feb-2026-upd...

New comment by jurip in "The MacBook Neo"

jurip — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:52:27 +0000

It might be helpful to have a modifier on all the models. It's a bit awkward (not that the naming geniuses at Apple have ever cared about how awkward it's to talk about their products, witness "Apple Watch Edition" and Max Macs) to talk about iPads, because one of them lacks a modifier. "Which iPad" "The iPad iPad", etc.

New comment by jurip in "The Science of Fermentation [audio]"

jurip — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:34:47 +0000

Gochujang and doenjang are two fermented pastes that are used a lot.

New comment by jurip in "High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39"

jurip — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:03:59 +0000

That's a serious overgeneralization. It's true for some people, but trains mostly don't bump and swerve enough for that to be a significant problem. Finnish trains have lots of seats facing backwards and while they're not anywhere as fast as something like a TGV, they're still often going 200+ km/h. People seem to be just fine. I just spent 1 hour 40 minutes yesterday sitting backwards, mostly reading a book, with no ill effects.

New comment by jurip in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

jurip — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:04:00 +0000

They could do it, but I wonder if it makes sense financially. It's probably easier for a neutral foundry like TSMC to recoup the costs by selling the capacity to whomever for years to come. Apple probably isn't interested in getting in the foundry business, so they'd be the ones who'd have to use all the capacity a production line has as long as it's running.

New comment by jurip in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

jurip — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:23:08 +0000

And we can again enjoy horrible keyboards and gold watches.

New comment by jurip in "China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990"

jurip — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:04:50 +0000

EU isn't a country, it's a union of 27 countries with their separate legislatures. I live in Finland, a country of five million people. According to your math I think I'm allowed to basically burn a lake of oil every day, right?

New comment by jurip in "VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT"

jurip — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:47:30 +0000

I love Yamaha Motor using the tuning forks as their logo. It's a proper beautiful old-timey logo (well, from 1967, apparently, but anyway) and it's just so weird seeing them on a motorcycle.

https://www.yamaha.com/en/about/history/logo/

New comment by jurip in "LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain"

jurip — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 02:59:12 +0000

It's (hopefully) unscripted drama. People enjoy drama.

Swift 6.2 Released

jurip — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:36:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-6.2-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260052

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Outsourcing of IT and cybersecurity functions risks UK economic security

jurip — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://doublepulsar.com/the-elephant-in-the-biz-outsourcing-of-critical-it-and-cybersecurity-functions-risks-uk-economic-96205e0585bf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45259608

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jurip in "Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured"

jurip — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:29:03 +0000

The parliament seats are also apportioned by state. I don't find that a bad idea, living in a small country, and I don't see why the council seats being divided by country is a worse idea than the system in the parliament.

New comment by jurip in "CocoaPods trunk read-only plan"

jurip — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:57:47 +0000

I preferred Carthage in theory, but every time I tried using it in anger I hit enormous stumbling blocks with projects not actually living up to its exacting standards, then spent hours faffing about before going back to CocoaPods.

I'm happy to see the back of CocoaPods, but it kickstarted the library package ecosystem on the Apple platforms, where there was nothing like it before.

New comment by jurip in "macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons"

jurip — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:17:16 +0000

A public beta period is for receiving feedback from developers and customers.

New comment by jurip in "Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux"

jurip — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:38:44 +0000

Also Emacs keybindings. Being able to use your text editor muscle memory for editing in every text field of every native app is fantastic.

New comment by jurip in "Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers"

jurip — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:20:03 +0000

Yeah, and Germany is expensive compared to the Nordics. 6.35 c/kWh right now in Finland, 2.54 c/kWh average over the last 30 days.

(clarification: that's euro cent, so 0.0635€ etc)

New comment by jurip in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

jurip — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:13:09 +0000

For what it’s worth, they offer subs via IAP in the iOS App Store. If you subscribe that way, unsubscribing is just a couple of taps.

That €349 per year is pretty steep, though.

New comment by jurip in "Beyond Meat fights for survival"

jurip — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 08:09:09 +0000

Cheese uses lots and lots of milk. There are questions of ethics (the treatment of dairy cows is often less than stellar) and carbon footprint (cheese is worse than pork, for example.)

I'd really love to see some good alternatives, too. I don't really expect to give up all cheese anytime soon, but having a substitute for at least some of it would be helpful.

New comment by jurip in "XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web"

jurip — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:28:25 +0000

Yeah I don't get it. I had to stop reading after a couple of sentences, I just can't deal with that.