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New comment by roto in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

roto — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:36:13 +0000

Chrome does it, so it must be good? Is a extra 200mb going to cause the computer to choke? probably not, but that doesn't mean people cant complain about the fact that a lot of modern software has gone this route and it all does add up.

New comment by roto in "Cursor (IDE) tried launching on HN 8 times unsuccessfully"

roto — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:44:14 +0000

While sure, the comments can often be hostile to ai, warranted or not, AI stuff is consistently upvoted and makes it to the top ranks all the time. It not doing well can be as simple as posting it at the wrong time of the day.

New comment by roto in "Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based"

roto — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:30:58 +0000

I have always found sublime to be the best at large files, well over 1gb. Since you mention bbedit, maybe this is some mac specific issue? I really don't know. But at least among people i know, opening large files has effectively become its main USP.

Should be noted that the linked post is almost 15 years old at this point too, so perhaps not the most up to date either.

New comment by roto in "So you want to write your own CSV code (2014)"

roto — Fri, 15 May 2020 11:34:21 +0000

Developers are by no means the only humans that use and/or edit CSV files.

New comment by roto in "xDedic – the shady world of hacked servers for sale"

roto — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:43:24 +0000

Back in the day, pre-torrent/p2p, we used to use hacked boxes to distribute our pirated materials over FTP. If you are lucky and find a stable box, it could last 1-2 years, though that was a pretty rare find. Most machines didn't last more than a month at most.

New comment by roto in "The Electro-Optic Camera – The World's First DSLR"

roto — Wed, 28 May 2014 17:01:21 +0000

My company actually built one of the first fully digital aerial mapping systems (commercially at least) using the slightly newer and publicly available Kodak DCS's (~94). They were very nice cameras, especially for the time. I cant even imagine doing this kind of work with film, it would be so tedious. The speed to process the data was incredible when going all digital. This made up for the loss in detail compared to film for most jobs, especially since our costs were quite a bit lower.

Also interesting, is if i recall correctly Kodak actually made about 100 colour infrared versions too which was nice... until we couldn't reliably source them out! We ended up having to burn the filter off of the CCD of the standard RGB cameras systems with some sort of acid solution turning them back into their natural CIR mode.

New comment by roto in "A monitor with a built-in thunderbolt 2 KVM"

roto — Thu, 15 May 2014 20:09:19 +0000

You can hit scroll lock to lock the mouse to 1 screen. As long as you game on the synergy server machine there is no problems.

New comment by roto in "ZFS Forensics – Recovering Files From a Destroyed Zpool"

roto — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 08:18:33 +0000

The fuse one is not terribly fast, as expected. I think this is what you're really looking for: http://zfsonlinux.org/

Basically the standard ZFS driver with a shim for the kernel.

New comment by roto in "ZFS on Linux 0.6.1 released: Ready for wide scale deployment"

roto — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:12:47 +0000

FDE Is exactly why my home FS is Solaris 11 (32gb / AES-NI capable xeon). Linux ZFS + their encryption layers combined with large file preallocations performs very poorly.

Its too bad, i really dislike Oracle, but its the best tool for the job currently.

And for the person above, as long as you restrict the pool version to 28 when creating under solaris 11 you can still migrate between solaris/linux/bsd. Obviously you lose out on native FDE though.

New comment by roto in "Worst CAPTCHA Ever"

roto — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:56:47 +0000

Its to prevent people from being able to change your password if you step away from the computer for a few minutes to take a piss.

New comment by roto in "Nexus 4 demand 10 times higher than Google expected"

roto — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:07:27 +0000

I got mine a month or so ago and they announced both time so far before it went on sale.

If you're just checking randomly you're unlikely to get it in time before it sells out :(

New comment by roto in "Ask HN: What do you guys use to check browser compatibility"

roto — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:24:58 +0000

This script will setup vm's for ie 6-9 under virtualbox. https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

Very handy.