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New comment by out_of_protocol in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

out_of_protocol — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:41:36 +0000

> How are you suffering equal heat stress from being submerged in moderately warm water

by the rules of this universe, you can't survive being submerged in 40C water for a prolonged period of time (even 37C would kill you as well), because humans produce heat and if you can't dispose of it you'll overheat and be dead soon enough

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

out_of_protocol — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:52:59 +0000

Humidity is the key, Finnish style sauna is low humidity+ high temperature (85-115C is OK i think), while Russian banya-style is low temperature (60-80C with high humidity). Both of them produce about the same load on a human

New comment by out_of_protocol in "H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means"

out_of_protocol — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:29:32 +0000

* VP9 where AV1 is not available (default YouTube codec, almost universally hardware-supported). Also universally supported .webm is vp9+opus - which mostly used as modern .gif

New comment by out_of_protocol in "H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means"

out_of_protocol — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:23:05 +0000

VP9 works well too and more supported (default YouTube codec)

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

out_of_protocol — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:15:02 +0000

Do note that in current economics 32GB of RAM alone will cost something like $400

New comment by out_of_protocol in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

out_of_protocol — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:56:02 +0000

> This is a configurable setting.

Give me pointers please. Getting same headaches every day. Clicking on icon in dock, closing some window produces random results every time, across many, many apps

New comment by out_of_protocol in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

out_of_protocol — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:32:33 +0000

v7 exposes creation date, and maybe you don't want that. So, depends on use-case

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Intel XeSS 3: expanded support for Core Ultra/Core Ultra 2 and Arc A, B series"

out_of_protocol — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:57:46 +0000

fps getting increased but latency does not improve, and what's what important

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Choosing a language based on its syntax?"

out_of_protocol — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:08:44 +0000

> its differentiation from Elixir is purely syntactic.

Well, there's also standard library, Erlang one is very messy while Elixir one is very consistent (and pipe operator - `|>` - enforces order of arguments even in low-quality 3rd party code as well, making whole language more pleasant to work with. Same goes for utf8-binary string everywhere and other idiomatic conventions

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Animated AVIF for the Modern Web"

out_of_protocol — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:48:49 +0000

1. It's VERY common, sometimes pretending to be a .gif file. Many major image hosters are serving .webm even if users upload gif files.

2. AVIF is not a codec but a container. Webm also can contain AV1 video (but usually contains VP9). Also, difference between VP9 and AV1 is not that huge to be noticable on small gif-like animated pictures

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Animated AVIF for the Modern Web"

out_of_protocol — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:07:50 +0000

Why .avifs when we have .webm already? Seems like overcomplicated replacement for already existing de-facto standard.

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11"

out_of_protocol — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:37:00 +0000

>Windows 7 was effectively just vista but enough time had passed that the required hardware to run it was easy to get a hold of.

Not really, Windows 7 had a lot of work poured into it, fixing Vista issues. Even first public betas of W7 were more polished than any of Windows 8..11 releases. That includes work on minimal amount of "noise" notifications, driver issues, speed, design etc

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid"

out_of_protocol — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:32:57 +0000

Any favorites for "ebook into an audio book" process? Both model and software

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

out_of_protocol — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 11:26:06 +0000

https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-and-the-pareto-front

Oldie goodie article with charts, comparing webp, jpegxl, avif, jpeg etc. avif is SLOW

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

out_of_protocol — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:46:40 +0000

- avif is better at low bpp (low-quality images), terrible in lossless

- jxl is better at high bpp, best in lossless mode

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold hands-on"

out_of_protocol — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:14:14 +0000

This is only second device in such form factor (first one from Huawei was long time Chinese exclusive) so, for now, there is WoW-factor baked in. Something to impress billion-dollar CEOs and the like. Give it a few generations to reach general public

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results"

out_of_protocol — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:52:32 +0000

You also need a VPN, otherwise you'll get results in local language anyway

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Biscuit is a specialized PostgreSQL index for fast pattern matching LIKE queries"

out_of_protocol — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:37:02 +0000

Any data on index size for big tables? Comparison (with ms/megabytes) vs trigram regarding size/speed?

UPD

> Biscuit is 15.0× faster than B-tree (median) and 5.6× faster than Trigram (median)

> Trade-off: 3.2× larger index than Trigram, but 5.6× faster queries (median)

New comment by out_of_protocol in "Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns"

out_of_protocol — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:15:21 +0000

There's usually 1 or 2 spots for NVMe drives, but that's it. If you want more, fall back to SATA

New comment by out_of_protocol in "SQLite as an Application File Format"

out_of_protocol — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:09:14 +0000

Also, tested .zip vs .tar vs sqlite vs file system. Of this bunch, sqlite was the most compact format with minimal overhead.