Hacker News: nottheengineer

New comment by nottheengineer in "Developer account removed by Apple"

nottheengineer — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:50:03 +0000

If any amount of money was meaningless to apple, they wouldn't be where they are today.

New comment by nottheengineer in "Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future"

nottheengineer — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:27:13 +0000

Don't forget that google also has mozilla by the balls and can turn firefox into a community project at any time.

New comment by nottheengineer in "Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?"

nottheengineer — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 09:47:56 +0000

Yes, as far as I know you do.

I don't know how they did it, but it even works when the phone isn't booted.

New comment by nottheengineer in "Stable Video Diffusion"

nottheengineer — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:38:25 +0000

Haven't implemented negative prompts yet, but from what I can tell it's as simple as substracting from the prompt in embedding space.

New comment by nottheengineer in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"

nottheengineer — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:30:17 +0000

Right here: https://openai.com/charter

New comment by nottheengineer in "Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?"

nottheengineer — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:20:42 +0000

I can highly recommend ACC (and the ACCA app [1] for setup). It lets me limit my phone to 90% charge with the ability to ignore the limit temporarily when I need to. That's very useful for fixing the battery calibration, which can go bad when using ACC.

It has reduced my battery wear by 40-50% according to Accubattery's capacity graph.

[1] https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA

New comment by nottheengineer in "Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?"

nottheengineer — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 06:09:16 +0000

My Oneplus 5T got replaced because it has a small crack in the screen so it's impossible to disassemble without breaking the screen. I used ACC to only charge that to 90% so I could get three years out of the battery instead of just two.

I'll probably get a fairphone next so I don't need to worry about this. But the people with glued-in batteries definitely have to.

New comment by nottheengineer in "Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years (2019)"

nottheengineer — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 17:46:16 +0000

Teams will let you use chat and join meetings in firefox, but as soon as you try to make a call you'll get the "fuck you" popup.

New comment by nottheengineer in "OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns"

nottheengineer — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:47:10 +0000

Sounds a lot like MS wants to have OpenAI but without a boards that considers pesky things like morals.

New comment by nottheengineer in "Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly planning new AI venture"

nottheengineer — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:03:27 +0000

You'll love this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP

New comment by nottheengineer in "Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly planning new AI venture"

nottheengineer — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 11:01:24 +0000

I wouldn't interpret missing interactions on twitter as more than people not using twitter.

New comment by nottheengineer in "Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)"

nottheengineer — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 09:27:27 +0000

I once bent the USB-C connector on a dell dock just because the cable is stiff and the bend from going below my desk put too much force on the connector. It still works, but has an angle now. If the cable wasn't permanently attached, having the wear parts on that side would be fine. The EU should definitely mandate that, I don't see any technical reasons for soldering one side of the cable.

New comment by nottheengineer in "HHKB Studio: The New Happy Hacking Keyboard with TrackPoint"

nottheengineer — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:29:55 +0000

They used to use topre switches which many people swear by and combined it with a modern design. Compared to the gaming keyboards with MX blues and the ultra-cheap rubberdome boards of the time, it was a great package so they gained popularity.

Not sure how they got traction at the start because the main selling point was the weird layout and they didn't have topre switches yet.

This one doesn't have topre either. It still sounds great, but if I wanted MX switches and a trackpoint, I'd go for a Tex shinobi. Shortcut hell is a problem indeed, I want to Alt+F4 with one hand and on a 60% that's impossible to implement without something like spaceFN, which again has to be turned off for gaming.

New comment by nottheengineer in "HHKB Studio: The New Happy Hacking Keyboard with TrackPoint"

nottheengineer — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:15:00 +0000

Those boards are absolutely gorgeus. I'm not looking for a trackpoint or a standard layout, but I'm still tempted to buy one.

New comment by nottheengineer in "NTSB Calls for Technology to Reduce Speeding in All New Cars"

nottheengineer — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:07:46 +0000

This is why my next car is hopefully going to be my last one. I have my eyes on an ND Miata. Tried researching the privacy aspect and found one reddit comment from 69 days ago saying the infotainment system is old enough to not do this crap. Does anyone have more info on that?

New comment by nottheengineer in "NTSB Calls for Technology to Reduce Speeding in All New Cars"

nottheengineer — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:00:14 +0000

The tracking goes much deeper than that [1] and it isn't the only part of the ongoing overdigitalization of cars. Access to diagnostics and the ability to repair them yourself have suffered a lot with the introduction of EVs. Parts and manuals are harder to find for those than ICE cars. Mercedes won't even let you open the hood of the EQS you bought from them.

[1] https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messa...

New comment by nottheengineer in "NTSB Calls for Technology to Reduce Speeding in All New Cars"

nottheengineer — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 21:53:01 +0000

Because a car that does well on the highway is also equipped for higher speeds. You don't want an engine that redlines at highway speeds so it's geared down, but that means you have headroom. You don't want tires or suspension that run at their limits during normal use either, so you get a car with all the parts it needs to go faster.

New comment by nottheengineer in "Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB"

nottheengineer — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:40:43 +0000

Early alexa devices also have power supplies that are rated at 5.2V, those could be an alternative. I also had a good experience with a 30W oneplus warp charger after some power issues with cheap 5V2A ones.

New comment by nottheengineer in "The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores"

nottheengineer — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 12:15:34 +0000

I'm pretty sure schedulers are just black magic and anyone who doesn't work directly with them is unqualified to make statements like these.

New comment by nottheengineer in "EU Parliament Civil Liberties Committee adopts position on CSAR"

nottheengineer — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:50:30 +0000

It's a numbers game. You can't convince everyone, but lobbyists are generally good at their job and know how to find people with malleable opinions.

I don't think there's a topic where lobbying doesn't work to at least some degree. Or do you have an example?