Hacker News: qrobit

New comment by qrobit in "Viral Polls Are Not Representative Polls"

qrobit — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:37:41 +0000

> [...] they cannot control for the willingness to respond to polls at all.

I believe this is not true, because at least ESS (European Social Survey) corrects for non-response, although how exactly is beyond my understanding of survey analysis. Each country reports the response rate as well. See [^1] section 3. Although ESS is much larger survey than simple opinion poll, there are political affiliation questions too (`^prtv.*$` variables).

[^1]: https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/sites/default/files/202...

New comment by qrobit in "SpeedCrunch 1.1"

qrobit — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:58:19 +0000

I use qalculate too, although it's plotting UI/UX leave a lot to be desired, because as far as I understand it, it calls gnuplot, which opens a new window each time. UI is nice when using breeze on plasma, but it has a crude look on darwin

The greatest qalculate feature is it's integration with krunner on kde, which gives you access to a very powerful calculator / unit¤cy converter with Alt+Space (by default), but it often doesn't trigger when you want to convert e.g. currency, so you need to force it by adding a prefix = to a query, like

    = 1 EUR -> PLN

Never used speedcrunch though

MoltenVK (Vulkan on Metal) was deprecated in favor of KosmicKrisp

qrobit — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:08:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50230738

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by qrobit in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

qrobit — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:42:42 +0000

The page addresses it: https://keepandroidopen.org/#objections

24h delay is not all of it, there's developer verification.

Ways to Encrypt Data on Servers

qrobit — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:00:22 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1092553/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881884

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by qrobit in ".name Termination"

qrobit — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:39:43 +0000

What was the deal with .org?

EDIT: seems like Ethos Capital private equity firm wanted the .org registry, and Xavier Becerra (Attorney General of California at the time) wrote a letter that played major role in transaction being rejected

> Dear Messrs. Botterman and Marby:

> I urge ICANN to reject the transfer of control over the .ORG registry to Ethos Capital.

> The proposed transfer raises serious concerns that cannot be overlooked.

(from https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/correspondence/becerra-to...)

New comment by qrobit in "Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)"

qrobit — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:45:00 +0000

I believe the complete HTML version is right below the "Download PDF" button. Also I bet you could reproduce the cheatsheet using this HTML converted to markdown and some example from how other Posit (formerly RStudio) cheatsheets are made: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/tree/main/html

New comment by qrobit in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

qrobit — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:17:23 +0000

https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2305

New comment by qrobit in "Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB"

qrobit — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:18:26 +0000

Same can be said about loopback device in general. Why do you need to use networking when you are literally on the same device and can use binder/dbus and friends with native apps?

Shizuku uses Binder AFAICS[^1]. Looking deeper it seems that Shizuku does not connect to the device itself per se, but rather it has a privileged server launched manually through adb. Never used Shizuku, so can't say for sure.

[1]: https://github.com/rikkaapps/shizuku#how-does-shizuku-work

New comment by qrobit in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

qrobit — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:00:55 +0000

Arguably PCIe lanes the thunderbolt exposes are a differentiating factor, not the maxed-out specs that "plain" usb-c cables can have. Although to be fair, I've never used the PCIe lanes on thunderbolt ports.

New comment by qrobit in "Plotnine"

qrobit — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:01:35 +0000

And it comes with tidyverse-like cheatsheet[1] that I confused with ggplot2 when first discovered plotnine

[1]: https://github.com/rstudio/cheatsheets/blob/main/plotnine.pd...

New comment by qrobit in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

qrobit — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:27:43 +0000

Sort of, there're more posts about graphene in the year 2026 & they get much more attention. Aggregated some data and plotted it with my agent: https://boop.icu/Pr.png

New comment by qrobit in "Apple's CUPS repo was archived"

qrobit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:09:25 +0000

That's what I wondered as well, whether it is a new implementation, or perhaps they still use their version of cups? Or maybe they use the forked openprinting cups? Would be nice if somebody knowledgeable with a mac device told whether the cups is still used

New comment by qrobit in "Apple's CUPS repo was archived"

qrobit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:29:38 +0000

The repo got archived in march, I wonder whether it means that Apple uses something other than CUPS on their devices? Quick search suggests they still use CUPS, but why would they archive the project then?

Apple's CUPS repo was archived

qrobit — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:29:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/apple/cups

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555895

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by qrobit in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

qrobit — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:37:54 +0000

previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906947

New comment by qrobit in "Coreutils for Windows"

qrobit — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:33:02 +0000

On nixos they're not, there's a single executable in /bin -- /bin/sh, and a single executable in /usr/bin -- /usr/bin/env

New comment by qrobit in "Qwen3.7-Max Ran for 35 Hours on Unknown Hardware and Achieved a 10× Speedup"

qrobit — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:58:42 +0000

Both are non-deterministic, both have some metric to optimise, one is specific and efficient, the other is too broad and very expensive

New comment by qrobit in "Opaque Types in Python"

qrobit — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:16:26 +0000

Much older? Wikipedia says[^1][^2] java appeared in 1995 (started in 1991), while python appeared in 1991 (started in late 1980s). 4 years doesn't seem too far apart, considering both language are >30 years old now.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)

[^2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)

New comment by qrobit in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

qrobit — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:12:36 +0000

He doesn't have a role at Facebook anymore AFAIK, although I can't find the source now. I remember hearing it was mostly due to filtering engine at Facebook being rewritten in Hack, so they don't have the need for Haskell people anymore.