Hacker News: mikewhy

New comment by mikewhy in "Subscriptions and external links help drive users to extremist YouTube channels"

mikewhy — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 23:06:34 +0000

Would you prefer "labelled as by the US Department of Homeland Security"?

New comment by mikewhy in "Subscriptions and external links help drive users to extremist YouTube channels"

mikewhy — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:08:52 +0000

Are any of them associated with domestic terrorism?

New comment by mikewhy in "Subscriptions and external links help drive users to extremist YouTube channels"

mikewhy — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:05:59 +0000

The "caucasian" there is redundant.

Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?

mikewhy — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 01:59:29 +0000

The recent threads regarding KF have made me realize this site is not one I'd like to associate with.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32719700

Points: 35

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New comment by mikewhy in "Questions to ask a prospective employer during a job interview"

mikewhy — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 23:52:43 +0000

If it's not in your power to resolve an issue with your machine by the end of the work day, you should feel no pressure to stay late and fix it.

New comment by mikewhy in "Johnny Mnemonic in Black-and-White"

mikewhy — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:06:11 +0000

It recently released on bluray

New comment by mikewhy in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

mikewhy — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:05:48 +0000

So you've verified the person in the screenshot saying they've arranged for bombs to be planted has been banned?

New comment by mikewhy in "USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps"

mikewhy — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 00:33:32 +0000

So that measures transfer speeds, but what about the rest of the things USB carries?

Here's an example of the data that cable testers can give you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFbJD6RE4EY

New comment by mikewhy in "Learn PWA"

mikewhy — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 20:00:31 +0000

> > dramatically improving security

> How so? That seems pretty dubious to me

With an electron app, I have access to your file system and can start deleting things. Yes, some operating systems might gate access but it's not standard or granular enough.

While the file system api in browsers requires your approval.

New comment by mikewhy in "The silent majority in software"

mikewhy — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:31:10 +0000

Threads like these are why I don't pay attention to HN anymore.

New comment by mikewhy in "An Introduction to PipeWire"

mikewhy — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 22:16:01 +0000

Hmm, I suppose that could work, didn't think about targeting the Pipewire api.

I didn't play around with it much, but the controller did appear as a 5.1 (or was it 7.1?) in Linux.

Oh, and I forgot, the controller itself also has a headphone jack. The controller itself can take 3 audio streams, two of which can be used for sound.

New comment by mikewhy in "An Introduction to PipeWire"

mikewhy — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:47:17 +0000

I was playing Spider-Man with a dual sense and got wondering. That game puts out audio to your speakers, a separate audio stream to the speaker in the controller, and _another_ stream of audio for the haptics. Is this any bit possible with any Linux audio solution?

New comment by mikewhy in "The Travis separation a year later"

mikewhy — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:36:28 +0000

So if I was heading a project and we had one CI provider and someone suggested adding another, my response would be either "no", or try to have the benefits of this alternative service explained to me. And if it is better, would only accept the new one if we converted all old pipelines over to it. Is that wrong?

curl has 7???? I would love to understand why. The article has "reasons", but not many justifications. Load balancing is understandable. "not all eggs in the same basket" less so to me. Are they running identical suites on multiple providers? If so, what's the plan when one suite fails on one but works on another?

Just seems mad to me. "If this is stuff you like to tinker with, we could use your help" best of luck with that!

New comment by mikewhy in "One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants"

mikewhy — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 19:19:54 +0000

So we've reinvented mall food courts without the foot traffic. Kudos, technology.

New comment by mikewhy in "A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2"

mikewhy — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 18:36:50 +0000

I don't know of a site, but Taki Udon on YouTube follows them very closely.

Retro Dodo does as well.

"The best" is very subjective unfortunately. And the answer will change based on what you're looking for.

IE I've searched for "the best" and ended up with an android phone in a telescopic controller before getting a Steam Deck.

New comment by mikewhy in "Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach"

mikewhy — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:56:52 +0000

> often connecting new devices that don't access the password manager

Isn't that what plex.tv/link is for?

New comment by mikewhy in "Why is Snowflake so expensive"

mikewhy — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:52:19 +0000

I love that CircleCI flaunts it's speed compared to other providers, meanwhile we can clearly see the CircleCI steps take the longest in our builds.

Not to mention the constant failures.

New comment by mikewhy in "Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome"

mikewhy — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 17:16:51 +0000

That sounds exactly like "The client should manage the resources on the client not the server"

New comment by mikewhy in "Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade"

mikewhy — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 20:54:11 +0000

Nowadays arch install ISOs have an `archinstall` script that can get you going for basic setups.

New comment by mikewhy in "Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?"

mikewhy — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:37:07 +0000

Curious, what's the difference with this and `apt-get --fix-broken install`?