Hacker News: madwolf

New comment by madwolf in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

madwolf — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:32:29 +0000

Not necessarily. I’m over 40 now and had a total of 3 cigarettes in my life, all of them in my twenties, parties, hanging out with people smoking etc. Every time it was a terrible experience and I was amazed why people do this to themselves…

New comment by madwolf in "The case against JPEG XL"

madwolf — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:53:52 +0000

Perhaps the clue is in the past tense "supported". Nowadays browsers support many formats, but in the "olden days" gif was the only way to get animations in browsers without plugins like Macromedia Flash...

New comment by madwolf in "My server is a phone now"

madwolf — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:18:29 +0000

any way to find those rackable phone kvm things? My quick search came up empty. I might get someone interested in that. However, we're a very big European corporation, so "let's use social media fraud farms" and "hire talent from scam malls to build them" might not fly in a meeting :P

New comment by madwolf in "My server is a phone now"

madwolf — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:05:37 +0000

I work in a place where we have about 100 phones in a server room that we use for automated testing of mobile apps. A few phones get chucked out every year due to bloated batteries. We’ve even had one or two explosions. We have them well cooled now and in fireproof containers. We try to do some power management like automatically discharging them every once in a while etc…

New comment by madwolf in "Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026"

madwolf — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:36:54 +0000

Soo... 12 TWh? Isn't that why we have metric prefixes? So we don't have to say that there's 12 billion of something...

New comment by madwolf in "Amiga Graphics Archive"

madwolf — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:57:06 +0000

Was it so rare? I had A1200 and I think they were quite popular here in Europe. Don’t have any stats, though. My parents bought it used for me and the seller also threw in Monkey Island 2 on 11 floppies and that started my great love for point and click adventure games :) Later I’ve even added a hdd and cd-rom drive to it.

New comment by madwolf in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

madwolf — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:25:23 +0000

Is a Chinese robot vacuuming and mopping my floor every day? Yes it is. Could I do it better manually? Absolutely. I still prefer the robot to do an ok job than to do it myself.

New comment by madwolf in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

madwolf — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:10:06 +0000

Most of my thinking is non-verbal. I don't think in sentences. I CAN think in sentences and internally rationalize my actions and explain them and sometimes that's beneficial (rubber duck debuggin, sometimes it's good to verbalize and explain something) but usually I don't do it

New comment by madwolf in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

madwolf — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:27:47 +0000

yeah, it's probably turtles all the way.

New comment by madwolf in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

madwolf — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:48:53 +0000

Living through all mobile phone history, from non-existant when I was a child to today's smartphones, I would hesitate to use such absolute phrases like "X on the phone is never going to make sense". How many things we're doing on a phone today that we wouldn't dream of 20 years ago? Local models on phones don't make sense today but in 5 years? who knows...

New comment by madwolf in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

madwolf — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:24:53 +0000

If the isp doesn’t go down with the power outage you could probably get a big enough ups to keep the router and voip phone going for at least a couple of hours. Those things don’t use much power

New comment by madwolf in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

madwolf — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:22:04 +0000

Bad comparison. Lambos are regularly plowing fields and they're quite good at it. https://www.lamborghini-tractors.com/en-eu/

New comment by madwolf in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

madwolf — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 07:47:26 +0000

Did the new Leaf get dumber? I have an old 2019 model and it’s connected. In the mobile app I see its location, turn on AC etc.

New comment by madwolf in "European Alternatives"

madwolf — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:23:23 +0000

What are global alternatives? Every company is connected to some country, there are no global alternatives. I live in EU and want to use EU services mainly because I want this part of the world to prosper. I want to leave my money and incentivise innovation in this part of the world because this is where I live and I want a better life here for me and my kids. And alternatives are always good, especially that they’re not closed. People in the US can use services from EU companies as well :) why not?

New comment by madwolf in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

madwolf — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:37:52 +0000

Not calling other software engineers 'losers' is not about political correctness. They're "losers" because they take their product on a path you don't like? Come on. Linus can be emotional in his posts because Linux is his "child".

New comment by madwolf in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

madwolf — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:38:41 +0000

The same way they're at version 26 of iOS and MacOS

New comment by madwolf in "IBM Intellistation 185 AIX workstation (2016)"

madwolf — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:53:15 +0000

Yes and no. Performancewise, the iconic Ferrari Testarossa from 80s/90s does 0-62mph in 5.8sec. That's in the ballpark of today's family SUV EV, like the Tesla Model Y (standard version, 'Performance' does 3.3sec) or Hyundai Ioniq 5 (again standard version, performance 'N' does 3.4sec).

But I'm sure the "fun factor" in a Ferrari is much greater and of course there's a nostalgia factor as well... it was "THE" supercar when I was a kid. I would love to drive one today and it would be much cooler than a Tesla Y or Ioniq 5 :-)

New comment by madwolf in "Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?"

madwolf — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:42:37 +0000

and perhaps you've never used a good motorized screwdriver with torque control.

New comment by madwolf in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

madwolf — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:39:20 +0000

Yes, that's true. I think Matter doesn't support yet many of additional configuration stuff. Hopefully that will change as the technology matures. As I use it with HomeKit as well I can do some user management through Apple Home. However, full config with all options only through BT and Aqara app, as you say. At least for now.

New comment by madwolf in "IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes"

madwolf — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:36:12 +0000

You just need a Thread border router and Matter devices connect to your HA without problems. I use Apple TV as a border router.