Hacker News: kingosticks

New comment by kingosticks in "Ask HN: Why is MS Teams so slow, do devs test Teams on less powerful machines?"

kingosticks — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 22:21:08 +0000

The code formatting is so badly broken now. It simply cannot have been tested. i just can't believe they want it to work like that. i also really hate that copy and pasting into a chat preserves the styling/formatting of the original. why would i want that? and the search... oh the search!

New comment by kingosticks in "Event-driven access to my home after a run"

kingosticks — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:39:41 +0000

If you are taking an NFC fob out with you just take a spare key. It doesn't even need power.

New comment by kingosticks in "Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max"

kingosticks — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 08:32:46 +0000

OK, yes there's often correlation but that's it. A longer pipeline doesn't affect max circuit frequency.

The other sibling comment regarding distance isn't true. regardless of how insane your feedbacks are. Physical placement tools have always handled this in my experience (as a chip designer for 10+ years).

New comment by kingosticks in "Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max"

kingosticks — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 05:49:49 +0000

How is pipeline length related to max frequency?

New comment by kingosticks in "No Place to Hide – U.K. campaign against end-to-encryption encryption"

kingosticks — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:50:51 +0000

> let's assume it's accurate.

This article tries to understand where that number comes from (and fails to do so): https://alecmuffett.com/article/15902

New comment by kingosticks in "Make an internet radio station with one line of bash"

kingosticks — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 21:21:07 +0000

I don't see why latency matters here.

New comment by kingosticks in "Make an internet radio station with one line of bash"

kingosticks — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 21:12:13 +0000

Doesn't an icecast server already do what broadcast-server does? You post an audio stream to it and it relays that to clients. What am I missing?

New comment by kingosticks in "Give me /events, not webhooks"

kingosticks — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 20:43:29 +0000

In terms of GDPR/privacy, is there any issue when posting private data to a 3rd-party server (i.e. webhooks) vs having that 3rd-party query your server? Or can you just say that once a secure webhook subscription is established you are off the hook (pun not intentional)?

New comment by kingosticks in "Give me /events, not webhooks"

kingosticks — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 20:27:48 +0000

Strava has an API like that but combines it with an insanely low daily rate-limit which makes retrieving the changed data difficult for anything other than personal apps. But that's totally an issue with their brain-dead policy rather than the idea.

New comment by kingosticks in "Airbus Beluga"

kingosticks — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:52:06 +0000

Thanks so much for the tip. I looked at it but it's all folded on the mobile view and I totally missed it. However, the beluga xl article holds no information regarding this that I can see.

Other than other vehicles and containers, this is pretty cool:

> In 1999, a Beluga carried a large painting, Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix,[20] which had hung in the Louvre in Paris since 1874

New comment by kingosticks in "Airbus Beluga"

kingosticks — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 16:14:45 +0000

There are also now 6 Beluga XLs with approx 30% larger cargo hold than original Beluga.

I'm curious if Airbus ever lease them out to others for transporting big things other than wings.

New comment by kingosticks in "Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost"

kingosticks — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 15:22:31 +0000

Looks like I did misunderstand, I thought they actually meant the silicon technology itself which is now available to the others and they all have designs coming using it.

New comment by kingosticks in "Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost"

kingosticks — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 08:20:08 +0000

That would make sense in the context of Intel but anyone with money has access to TSMC 5nm (in 2021-2022). Do I misunderstand?

New comment by kingosticks in "Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku"

kingosticks — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 08:35:57 +0000

Do these community supported SDK/APIs ever work? In my experience (Strava and Spotify APIs) it's an excuse for the company to release a load of half-baked crap and then wash their hands of supporting it. Allowing them to tick the box that they offer a public API and make themselves look better. Despite members of the public donating their time to help each other, without participation from the company itself it's all trial and error development with everyone running into the same bugs that never get fixed.

It's great that some companies have finally recognised the value in providing public SDK/APIs but they should be investing in supporting them also.

New comment by kingosticks in "Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis"

kingosticks — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:41:06 +0000

Will the airflow "work" with all the gaps?

New comment by kingosticks in "Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)"

kingosticks — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:49:04 +0000

Sure, but that's normally the sort of adverting that goes along with a big advertising spend. I had imagined almost all their advertising exposure is from giving product away for people to review, and of course the charity aspect got headlines originally. I suppose you might say the silly low price of the pi zero was a form of advertising. I don't think they'll do a stunt like that again.

New comment by kingosticks in "Rust on Espressif chips"

kingosticks — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:07:17 +0000

i agree it can be done but it's a fragile balancing act. What I don't agree with is that Rust provides anything particularly special allowing you to do this.

New comment by kingosticks in "Rust on Espressif chips"

kingosticks — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:46:26 +0000

"low-latency processing of IO input" may well be talking about hard realtime stuff, for which threads/async on a single core doesn't help you.

New comment by kingosticks in "Rust on Espressif chips"

kingosticks — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:43:58 +0000

They asked for dual core. The C3 is single core.

> ESP32-C3 is a single-core, 32-bit, RISC-V-based MCU with 400KB of SRAM, which is capable of running at 160MHz

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32_C3

New comment by kingosticks in "Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)"

kingosticks — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 22:38:32 +0000

I wish I could transfer my incredible raspberry pi luck to the actual lottery. I'd have won so many times.

In reality, fully working raspberry pi boards are normal. I must have at least 10. I admit I no longer use the original model (so slow) but last time I tried it worked just fine. I think that's pretty great for the money, especially considering the state of the market before they came along which I think you might be forgetting.