Hacker News: pacetherace

New comment by pacetherace in "KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser"

pacetherace — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 18:08:41 +0000

Surprisingly this feels like it has been in existence for longer than 29 years.

New comment by pacetherace in "AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86"

pacetherace — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:14:33 +0000

Plus they are not cheap either.

New comment by pacetherace in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

pacetherace — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:55:04 +0000

As much as people are making this out to be a Google thing, I think this is more about the security requirements many countries are imposing.

New comment by pacetherace in "Arm desktop: emulation"

pacetherace — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:54:21 +0000

I think we are already past that point. With Apple Macbook, Google Chromebook and Microsoft Surface, we pretty much have all consumer computer echo system become ARM based. Thanks to AMDs resurgence the server space is still heavily x86 based.

New comment by pacetherace in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

pacetherace — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:58:17 +0000

That's pretty much the comparison between Tesla and old-time car manufacturers. Most people who are trading Tesla stock don't even look at other car stocks.

New comment by pacetherace in "Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM and 600W of power"

pacetherace — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:40:03 +0000

Send the bill to my manager

New comment by pacetherace in "Visa and Mastercard agree to $30B settlement that will lower merchant fees"

pacetherace — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:18:25 +0000

Yes. And that is why some places like food trucks charge 3% transaction fees instead of 1 or 2%

New comment by pacetherace in "Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies"

pacetherace — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:49:56 +0000

I don't think it is that giant. It is basically the downtown of a small town.

New comment by pacetherace in "Tesla’s $10k-Cheaper Model S, X Are Software Locked for Less Range: Report"

pacetherace — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:56:50 +0000

Would the battery and by that virtue these cars at least have a longer life?

New comment by pacetherace in "FTC reportedly plans major antitrust lawsuit against Amazon"

pacetherace — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:52:20 +0000

I sometimes do find different prices for same products with amazon pushing me to buy product with prime shipping.

If you use an extension like Honey, it will warn you that a product is available for lower price without Prime.

New comment by pacetherace in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

pacetherace — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:31:27 +0000

I like Reddit but I don’t think I will miss it. Good riddance.

New comment by pacetherace in "Reddit Doubles Down"

pacetherace — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:53:25 +0000

In the recent AMA, they claimed that the average cost per user would be around $1/month. Apollo dev believes it will be much more than.

I feel Reddit could have easily come up with a model where the API usage gets tied to premium account and that decouples apps from API charges.

Reddit has now created a new problem for itself which is that a huge user base that previously didn't bother to look at third-party apps has suddenly become aware of third-party apps. So now, they will start bypassing Reddit's official apps that generate revenue for Reddit in favor of third-party apps that seemingly have a better UX and are ad-free.

New comment by pacetherace in "Reddit Doubles Down"

pacetherace — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:42:48 +0000

If anything, the mods are getting a break from their stressful lives as Reddit mods.

New comment by pacetherace in "Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests"

pacetherace — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:12:46 +0000

This! I tried using third-party apps and for some reason didn't like them. The official app is clunky but it is not like we haven't seen similar experiences with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.

I mean look at Twitter, since going private, the whole thing has been so clunky, but the parameters governing how well Twitter is doing are still hinging policies related free speech, user-abuse and content moderation.

New comment by pacetherace in "macOS 14 will support JPEG XL"

pacetherace — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:24:35 +0000

Can't it be enabled via an extension? Similar to how media players support third party codec.

New comment by pacetherace in "Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site"

pacetherace — Thu, 25 May 2023 22:04:29 +0000

in most commutes, if your tailing distance is too much, someone will else will come in front of you.

New comment by pacetherace in "Uranus (NIRCam Image)"

pacetherace — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 21:00:40 +0000

Telescope time for JWST is allocated based on scientific proposals. So yes there is to be some obvious scientific justification for observation of Uranus. This is the news release associated with these images.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2...

New comment by pacetherace in "Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says"

pacetherace — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:16:20 +0000

Peanut allergy prevalence is a very interesting topic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6021584/

New comment by pacetherace in "San Francisco Bay Area to phase out natural gas heating appliances"

pacetherace — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:34:12 +0000

You are describing an emergency scenario. Everyone should be prepared for emergencies but I don't think having a gas furnace or stove should be part of that plan. Using them during a power outage can be extremely dangerous.

New comment by pacetherace in "John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next"

pacetherace — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:21:28 +0000

Farming equipment is quite expensive and typically what is used in a particular region depends on the dealer network. And the dealer network what gives John Deere the power to play these dirty games.