Hacker News: mmm_grayons

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Show HN: Twelve70 - Men's outfit generator and closet management"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:01:53 +0000

Back in my day, we used to call "closet management" and "outfit generator" a "wife".

New comment by mmm_grayons in "16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world Rust compile"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 18:57:15 +0000

"16GB ought to be enough for anybody."

If you think it's enough, it's probably not.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Graphics for JVM"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:40:57 +0000

This is a blog post, not a product launch. It's intended to be a foundation on which a "real" GUI library can be written. The author mentions that it is one of several steps that should allow the Java community to coalesce around a better toolkit in the long term.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Graphics for JVM"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:04:13 +0000

I think an option could be GPU-accelerated drawing. It won't look native, but one can create a UI that performs well on just about any platform. Vulkan greatly improves the portability of such applications (compared to the OpenGL vs. OpenGL ES mess), and Skia has a nice set of primitives on which one could build.

It's also worth pointing out that creating a cross-platform API is better for new players than for entrenched ones.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Graphics for JVM"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:59:25 +0000

Honest question: can someone explain the focus a lot of the HN crowd seems to have on "native"-looking UI? I've used plenty of applications that don't look "native" and it doesn't bother me. Is there a reason to prefer it? I get that performance can be an advantage, but one can easily write a very performant application using something like Skia, or doing one's own GPU acceleration, without having any native look.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Graphics for JVM"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:56:40 +0000

> I think swing has since figured [HiDPI] out

I hear Java GUI has supposedly gotten better, but all of the Java GUI apps I see look awful. For instance, try telling that to Ghidra and it's butt-ugly text that shows up super thin on my hidpi display. I like Ghidra, but for a graphical RE tool, Cutter is so much prettier with its QT interface. Of course, r2 is great and works from CLI.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "macOS Icons"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 15:50:41 +0000

Interesting project. I'm curious about his mention of server costs in the sponsor request - it looks like he's serving downloads of the icon pack from github, so that shouldn't be a big bandwidth cost. It appears that he's using vercel serverless; the free tier appears quite generous, and the $20 paid tier should be affordable. I understand asking for donations, more just curious why it is expensive to run this.

Edit: never mind; seems he's using firebase storage, which could get pricey. Maybe it would make sense to serve over github pages or similar to keep costs down. Or even an el cheapo VPS, which should have more than enough space to store the images and plenty of bandwidth to serve them. Cache the number of icons and run a cronjob every ten minutes that scans the directory and updates the number.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "“You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:37:49 +0000

Not to mention that there are lots of things we should have precisely because they are a threat to the state: encryption that the government cannot break, automatic weapons, individual autonomy, etc. These things all can be abused by "the bad guys", and will be, but we accept those risks because they are inherent to being free.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Git is too hard"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:03:07 +0000

This clearly isn't a popular opinion, but I may as well add it here: I like git. It's not that bad and not that hard to use. Occasionally I have to look up how to do something, usually involving git-filter-branch. But that's no surprise, because what I'm trying to do is usually inherently complex. I don't think a different interface would solve that. For most other stuff, git is simple and easy to use. It was a bit slow to learn, but most really good tools are (e.g. vim).

New comment by mmm_grayons in "YouTube-dl's repository has been restored"

mmm_grayons — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:36:33 +0000

Some guy wrote a tool to intercept the keys for level three on windows. Most streaming services offer only low-quality streams with level three, but big G dmca'ed the repo and most forks. Mirrors are still up all over, though; here's one: https://github.com/kipyegonmark/widevine-l3-decryptor

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Researchers fear that vaccines might not be as effective in people who are obese"

mmm_grayons — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:39:41 +0000

You're right, though I think the unappreciated difficulty will be getting people to take it. I think it might be one of those things where people say they're willing to take it because they don't want to say otherwise, but may not actually go and get it. If the risks are primarily in the old and at-risk and the young and healthy are the ones who are supposed to be vaccinated, those incentives just don't align.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, trials show"

mmm_grayons — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:15:58 +0000

This may also be because the Pfizer shot needs to be stored at nearly a hundred degrees below zero, while the Moderna one needs to be stored at only a few degrees below zero. This makes Moderna's option much better for distribution.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "The Largest Gypsy Ghetto in Europe – Stolipinovo, Bulgaria (2016)"

mmm_grayons — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 20:03:25 +0000

There is a whole subset of memes focused on the "political compass", which maps one's position from liberal to conservative and from authoritarian to libertarian. Right-wing authoritarian is where people like nazis are typically placed; left-wing libertarian is where progressives or green party type people are typically placed. The joke is that some Europeans will say, "We should treat everyone equally; hon hon, look at silly American being racist!" then go treat gypsies poorly (moving from bottom-left to top-right).

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Conservatives flock to Parler, claiming censorship on Facebook and Twitter"

mmm_grayons — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 18:42:01 +0000

That's the frustrating thing. I was convinced to try using a twitter account by a friend who talked about how great it is to follow interesting tech people. For some cases, I guess it could be. But the problem is, everyone seems to also tweet about current political stuff, and I have no interest in seeing that at every turn. I know "stop talking about politics everywhere" is trite, but stop talking about politics everywhere.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Software development: should we stop? Maybe we should"

mmm_grayons — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:57:59 +0000

Wow, what an awful manager. That's the business equivalent of flipping over the gameboard because one is losing.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Google Widevine Content Decryption Module DMCA"

mmm_grayons — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 04:10:46 +0000

I remember cheap chinese hdmi splitters used to inadvertently strip hdcp; is that still current?

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Bias in radiology resident selection against the obese and unattractive?"

mmm_grayons — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:14:24 +0000

There are also high-functioning drug addicts. Nevertheless I probably wouldn't want one for a doctor.

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers"

mmm_grayons — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:51:51 +0000

Can anyone who knows about machine learning hardware comment on how much faster dedicated hardware is as opposed to, say, a vulkan compute shader?

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches"

mmm_grayons — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 21:32:42 +0000

This may be a dopey question, but my understanding was that gun ownership basically didn't exist in China. The one instance of going shooting in China of which I've heard involved going to a special range in a major city in which rifles were chained to the table at the firing line. How do boats get away with this?

New comment by mmm_grayons in "Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches"

mmm_grayons — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 20:59:30 +0000

Which is a great theory, but if you're a small island being stared down by Red China, are you really going to take her on over fish?