Hacker News: markrages

New comment by markrages in "Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)"

markrages — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:50:48 +0000

GP is talking about seeing the string oscillations alias against the 30 Hz camera frame rate.

I've never tried it.

New comment by markrages in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

markrages — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:50:51 +0000

Why not? It's been a decade away for the past 20 years.

New comment by markrages in "Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports""

markrages — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:46:04 +0000

"defining them right before the dependency is actually used"

New comment by markrages in "Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports""

markrages — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:16:25 +0000

You have always been able to do the same thing in Python. This PEP isn't needed for that functionality.

New comment by markrages in "The scariest "user support" email I've received"

markrages — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:38:14 +0000

ChatGPT doesn't run commands, does it?

New comment by markrages in "Why does a fire truck cost $2m"

markrages — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:51:32 +0000

Vacuum people have been trying to normalize high prices for a long time... From the old Internet: https://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/kirby/kirby.html

New comment by markrages in "Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews"

markrages — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:43:46 +0000

I think a lot of real reviews are written by ChatGPT. People are lazy!

New comment by markrages in "How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack"

markrages — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:59:47 +0000

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt

New comment by markrages in "HDR‑Infused Emoji"

markrages — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:58:07 +0000

The Loudness War has come to Slack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

New comment by markrages in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

markrages — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:36:02 +0000

...for now.

New comment by markrages in "Electron band structure in germanium, my ass"

markrages — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:08:43 +0000

ULN2003 is not DIP8

And I would assume for pedalogical purposes a bare transistor would be preferred rather than the '2008 with its extra diodes and base resistor.

New comment by markrages in "War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged"

markrages — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:37:07 +0000

Of course the comments section is going to be full of war stories about everyone's hardest bug.

This is how humans work, and this is why I am reading the comments.

New comment by markrages in "The Lost Art of Logarithms"

markrages — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 21:49:37 +0000

Thanks. What a weird API.

New comment by markrages in "The Lost Art of Logarithms"

markrages — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:42:24 +0000

shouldn't it be

var actualSize = 1 << Integer.highestOneBit(approxSize - 1);

New comment by markrages in "Blocklist for AI Music on YouTube"

markrages — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:11:53 +0000

> The statistical likelihood is that other civilisations will arise. There will one day be lemon-soaked paper napkins.

> ‘Till then, there will be a short delay. Please return to your seats.

New comment by markrages in "BYD just launched the largest car carrier to charge up its global EV ambitions"

markrages — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 04:22:13 +0000

> Is there any precedent to car carriers dedicated to one manufacturer?

General Motors helped design the Vert-A-Pac. https://chevyvega.fandom.com/wiki/Vert-A-Pac

New comment by markrages in "The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless"

markrages — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:37:09 +0000

> I am sure is not a fundamental but is the reality for the currently available chipsets.

It is pretty fundamental. Ant has an inverted master/slave (or whatever we're calling it nowdays) relationship. In Ant, the sensor determines the timing, and can broadcast to many receivers. In Bluetooth, the central device (phone) determines the timing, and each sensor connects to one central with a one-to-one connection.

There are ways around this limitation of BLE:

1. A few bytes of data can be stuffed in BLE advertising, so the sensor can communicate without a connection in the Ant style. To my knowledge, none of the Ant+-replacing profiles support this.

2. The sensor can basically run multiple instances of bluetooth stack at the same time to connect to multiple central devices. This basically doubles the resource usage, and good luck determining if your sensor supports this without trying it.

#2 appears to be the path forward. A few sensors support it already, and the next generation of radio SOCs will make the resource requirements less onerous.

New comment by markrages in "The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless"

markrages — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 01:27:07 +0000

Ant also broadcasts a unique(-ish) identifier. This was enough to end Nike+. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike%2BiPod#Wireless_protocol_...

New comment by markrages in "The Rules of Programming (2023)"

markrages — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 22:26:59 +0000

The Amazon preview included a page advocating for systems Hungarian in naming variables.

I am no longer interested in the book.

YouTuber repairs audiophile preamp, gets copyright strike [video]

markrages — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:23:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIrCaeVtvI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343961

Points: 8

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