Hacker News: nardi

New comment by nardi in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

nardi — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 06:07:41 +0000

Having worked in many languages and debuggers across many kinds of backend and front end systems, I think what some folks miss here is that some debuggers are great and fast, and some suck and are extremely slow. For example, using LLDB with Swift is hot garbage. It lies to you and frequently takes 30 seconds or more to evaluate statements or show you local variable values. But e.g. JavaScript debuggers tend to be fantastic and very fast. In addition, some kinds of systems are very easy to exercise in a debugger, and some are very difficult. Some bugs resist debugging, and must be printf’d.

In short, which is better? It depends, and varies wildly by domain.

New comment by nardi in "Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally"

nardi — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:12:45 +0000

Whats your prompt processing speed? That’s more important in this situation than output TPS. If you have to wait minutes to start getting an answer, that makes it much worse than a cloud-hosted version.

New comment by nardi in "Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency"

nardi — Tue, 06 May 2025 04:34:59 +0000

I don't know what I'm talking about, but could you use distillation techniques?

New comment by nardi in ""Frost crack" sounds may come from sky, not trees"

nardi — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 15:58:08 +0000

I think you missed the last bit:

> scientists have found no evidence this phenomenon might make sounds that are audible to the human ear.

Which I take to mean they’ve measured ultrasounds but no audible sounds.

New comment by nardi in "No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead"

nardi — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 02:21:00 +0000

Meta: Can someone with Linux/bootloader knowledge tell me whether most of these comments are as clueless as they seem?

New comment by nardi in "Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud"

nardi — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:15:57 +0000

Many people in this thread are extremely cynical and also ignorant of the actual security guarantees. If you don’t think Apple is doing what they say they’re doing, you can go audit the code and prove it doesn’t work. Apple is open sourcing all of it to prove it’s secure and private. If you don’t believe them, the code is right there.

New comment by nardi in "Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud"

nardi — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:11:47 +0000

This is what the “attestation” bit is supposed to take care of—if it works, which I’m assuming it will, because they’re open sourcing it for security auditing.

New comment by nardi in "A forged Apple employee badge"

nardi — Fri, 17 May 2024 01:09:37 +0000

I would agree, except the seller seems to have made a new forgery of their receipt on the fly in response to Cabel's inquiry, which leads me to believe they probably made the original forgery as well.

New comment by nardi in "Show HN: Million 3 – Optimizing compiler for React"

nardi — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 06:41:59 +0000

It means you compile-in a direct reference to the node that needs to be updated when some property changes, so instead of searching the tree of n nodes to find it, you already have the reference.

New comment by nardi in "EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals"

nardi — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:46:41 +0000

The fact that the data exists somewhere is small comfort if users cannot read the privacy implications in the app store itself when they're deciding whether to download an app.

New comment by nardi in "I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it"

nardi — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 23:56:10 +0000

I do not like working with people like this, because I don't want to be anywhere near the maintenance burden of a pile of hacks that technically can run a single Excel spreadsheet. I don't even want to be within earshot of people complaining about this. If I even thought about it for too long I'm sure I'd have a giant headache.

New comment by nardi in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

nardi — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:35:31 +0000

My notes on the upgrade from 14 to 15 I took during the announcement:

  * Twice as bright screen
  * Dynamic Island
  * Smaller bezel
  * Contoured edge
  * New better plastic back
  * Big camera improvements
   - 48MP main camera vs. 24MP
   - Faster focus
   - Much better telephoto
   - Improved portrait mode
     * Better color
     * Better low-light performance
     * No shutter lag
     * Turn on portrait mode after the fact
   - Smart HDR for better lighting
  * Live voicemail transcription
  * Longer battery life?
  * Satellite emergency / roadside assistance

New comment by nardi in "Why is desalination so difficult?"

nardi — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 01:35:14 +0000

The article talks about why it's maybe politically or economically difficult, but not why it's physically difficult.

New comment by nardi in "How my children (n=2) acquired absolute pitch"

nardi — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:57:12 +0000

> The voice is the only instrument where you can "play" (sing) what note you think.

This is not even close to being true.

New comment by nardi in "How my children (n=2) acquired absolute pitch"

nardi — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:54:36 +0000

Perfect pitch is actually kind of a curse in many, many contexts. I’d be very hesitant to experiment on my kids this way without their understanding of the consequences.

New comment by nardi in "Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices"

nardi — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 03:31:53 +0000

Do NOT read a CSV file by splitting on commas. Python has a perfect CSV library built right in: https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html.

If you split on commas, your code will fail for quoted fields with commas in them.

New comment by nardi in "Apple Mac Studio"

nardi — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 08:56:28 +0000

There is no “serious competitor” in VR/AR, because there is no market yet. The number of devices sold is miniscule. When AR/VR actually takes off, it’s going to look very, very different from what we have today.

New comment by nardi in "New 16-inch MBP with M1 Max to feature High Power Mode for intensive workloads"

nardi — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 03:09:41 +0000

FYI, you’re looking for “sticky wicket.”

Fastmail Is “Under Attack”

nardi — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 02:56:58 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Fastmail/status/1451374471344918533

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28953258

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by nardi in "A potato battery can light up a room for over a month (2013)"

nardi — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 08:02:54 +0000

It is a potato battery—that's what it's called when you use a potato as the electrolyte for a battery.