Hacker News: markus92

New comment by markus92 in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

markus92 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:18:20 +0000

It is. We still run quite a few of them in prod and with 580 drivers they run just fine. Very useful GPUs still.

New comment by markus92 in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

markus92 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:02:07 +0000

I think OP means more why politics hasn't changed this. Even at state level there's plenty of stuff that can be done about this but seemingly no one cares enough.

New comment by markus92 in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"

markus92 — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:51:36 +0000

Temu has EU warehouses they appear to ship from: all return addresses I've seen are EU addresses.

New comment by markus92 in "Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities"

markus92 — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:20:41 +0000

They absolutely suck in HPC environments. Bunch of users running all types of code that can just LPE themselves to root, not a good scenario.

New comment by markus92 in "Testing UPS Output Waveforms"

markus92 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:42:03 +0000

Capacitive touch screens when plugged in with cheap chargers to crappy waveforms, behave weird.

New comment by markus92 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

markus92 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:49:16 +0000

Samsung Galaxy S5 is the first one to cross my mind.

New comment by markus92 in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

markus92 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:05:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_Coalition

New comment by markus92 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

markus92 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:52:28 +0000

Better than expected as it's mixing userlands. We didn't put the entire /usr/lib of the old system in LD_LIBRARY_PATH but just some stuff like old libpng, libjpeg and the shebang. Taking an image of an old compute node still on RHEL 7 and then dumping it a container naturally worked, but at that point it's only the kernel interface you have to worry about, not different glibc, gtk, qt and that kind of stuff.

New comment by markus92 in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

markus92 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:11:34 +0000

This looks like Rotterdam ten years ago

New comment by markus92 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

markus92 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:31:06 +0000

We (small HPC system) just upgraded our OS from RHEL 7 to RHEL 9. Most user apps are dynamically linked, too.

You don't want to believe how many old binaries broke. Lot of ABI upgrades like libpng, ncurses, heck even stuff like readline and libtiff all changed just enough for linker errors to occur.

Ironically all the statically compiled stuff was fine. Some small things like you mention only linking to glibc and X11 was fine too. Funnily enough grabbing some old .so files from the RHEL 7 install and dumping them into LD_LIBRARY_PATH also worked better than expected.

But yeah, now that I'm writing this out, glibc was never the problem in terms of forwards compatibility. Now running stuff compiled on modern Ubuntu or RHEL 10 on the older OS, now that's a whole different story...

New comment by markus92 in "Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics"

markus92 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:40:20 +0000

Your capacity drops dramatically, by at least an order of magnitude if not more. The Jubilee line can do 30 trains per hour, 875 people per train is 26250 people per hour. Say an average minibus can hold 26 people, you'll literally need a thousand busses an hour to move everyone. And yes it all runs at capacity especially during rush hour.

New comment by markus92 in "EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars"

markus92 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:00:57 +0000

Hit by A/C is negligible in most EVs. What you're saying is more that there is a current charger shortage, supply/demand will take care of that in the future.

New comment by markus92 in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

markus92 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:57:14 +0000

Exactly, they can’t just pay the 5 million and call it a day.

New comment by markus92 in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

markus92 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:19:25 +0000

Na, but under the Dutch legal you can go back to the court if they pay the 5 million without changing anything and ask if they can increase it cus it clearly wasn’t enough. They’ll just keep tacking zeroes on.

New comment by markus92 in "Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20"

markus92 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:09:32 +0000

Per dollar sure but they’re quite a bit off per watt. Plus the software ecosystem is still not there.

New comment by markus92 in "Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux"

markus92 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:33:02 +0000

Luckily they’re still compatible with each others containers. Can use Apptainer to build the container then run it on Singularity and vice-versa.

New comment by markus92 in ""Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B"

markus92 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:19:48 +0000

I can see the California or maybe even Texas AG go after them, wouldn’t be the first time.

New comment by markus92 in "Moderna's Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works–Now Politics Could Sink It"

markus92 — Sun, 11 May 2025 18:29:09 +0000

USA is where the money is..

New comment by markus92 in "Can you lose your native tongue? (2024)"

markus92 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:36:43 +0000

Languages need a lot of upkeep if you want to keep speaking them fluently. On the other hand, just like muscle, once you've had it it's a lot easier to get back than having to put it on for the first time.

New comment by markus92 in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

markus92 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:55:22 +0000

Nope, used a Samsung CPU with PowerVR GPU.