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New comment by scq in "Working in Glass"

scq — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:56:54 +0000

Superfest was a brand of ion-exchange toughened drinking glasses. Ion-exchange toughened glass was invented by Steven Kistler in the 1960s, and commercialised by Corning shortly after.

Gorilla Glass is essentially the same thing, and it (or similar products from other manufacturers) is on nearly every smartphone and tablet sold today, so in some sense it's more widespread than it has ever been.

Another reason it might not have caught on for drinking glasses is (aside from being much more expensive to produce), when it breaks it shatters into a huge number of _sharp_ shards, whereas tempered glass shatters into mostly blunter cubes. You can get tempered glass drinking glasses at IKEA.

New comment by scq in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

scq — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:22:46 +0000

10Gbps fibre uses significantly less power than 10Gbps copper ethernet.

New comment by scq in "UAE to leave OPEC"

scq — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:45:00 +0000

Ford no longer makes traditional passenger cars. They now only sell SUVs, trucks, and sports cars.

You can see this if you go to https://shop.ford.com/showroom/ and select sedan or hatchback in the left filters. No results.

New comment by scq in "Highlights from Git 2.54"

scq — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:51:25 +0000

The approach some JS projects have taken is to use Husky, which automatically sets up the git hooks when you install the project's dependencies during development.

New comment by scq in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

scq — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:35:57 +0000

There seems to be some JS on the page that messes with the URL. Try this one: https://web.archive.org/web/20260421141017/https://claude.co...

New comment by scq in "The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?"

scq — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:45:26 +0000

No, the author is a crank named Arthur Firstenberg, one of the original "microwaves will give you cancer" people.

New comment by scq in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

scq — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:39:18 +0000

There are plenty of snappy examples. Off the top of my head: Discord, Netflix, Signal Desktop, WhatsApp Web.

New comment by scq in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

scq — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:31:04 +0000

Just because a web application uses React and is slow, it does not follow that it is slow because of React.

It's perfectly possible to write fast or slow web applications in React, same as any other framework.

Linear is one of the snappiest web applications I've ever used, and it is written in React.

New comment by scq in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

scq — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:03:50 +0000

No. What it can affect though is the bandwidth of the cable, meaning e.g. for HDMI cables, they might not support higher resolutions or framerates. If it's on the border you might see random disconnects or screen blanks.

The quality degrading is not something you will see, as it's a digital protocol.

"Audiophile grade" HDMI cables are likely to just be a Shenzhen bargain-bin special with some fancy looking sheathing and connectors. I would trust them less than an Amazon Basics cable.

New comment by scq in "Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range"

scq — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:31:49 +0000

With EVs, most of your charging should be done at home, with fast charging mostly just existing for trips.

I know not everyone can charge at home (especially if you live in an apartment), but the solution to that is pretty straightforward and a lot more convenient compared with trying to scale up fast charging to match petrol stations.

New comment by scq in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

scq — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:13:05 +0000

From my understanding, the new CT machines are able to characterise material composition using dual-energy X-ray, and this is how they were able to relax the rules.

New comment by scq in "Yes, It's Fascism"

scq — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:59:52 +0000

Mods didn't remove it, user flags did.

New comment by scq in "Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs"

scq — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:45:51 +0000

There are definitely use cases. Pis have lower power consumption than NUCs. This is the main reason I went for one to run Home Assistant rather than a NUC.

I have a NAS/home server that I could put it on but I don't want my home automation going down when I tinker with it.

New comment by scq in "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"

scq — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:44:45 +0000

That is not how PKI works. Your cert provider does not have a copy of your private key to give out in the first place.

Having the private key of the root cert does not allow you to decrypt traffic either.

New comment by scq in "FIFA Arrives on Netflix Games"

scq — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:54:31 +0000

If you don't want anything to do with EA, Konami ain't much better. They actively sabotage their former employees job prospects.

> One employee from a staffing agency said that Konami "files complaints to gaming companies who take on its former employees," causing one game company to "warn its staff against hiring ex-Kon" - "ex-Kon" being a nickname for ex-Konami employees. "If you leave the company, you cannot rely on Konami's name to land a job," one former employee said.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/konami-accused-of-blacklisting...

New comment by scq in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

scq — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:44:36 +0000

Rust is already making substantial inroads in browsers, especially for things like codecs. Chrome also recently replaced FreeType with Skrifa (Rust), and the JS Temporal API in V8 is implemented in Rust.

New comment by scq in "What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO"

scq — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:49:02 +0000

One aspect of Transmeta not mentioned by this article is their "Code Morphing" technique used by the Crusoe and Efficeon processors. This was a low level piece of software similar to a JIT compiler that translated x86 instructions to the processor's native VLIW instruction set.

Similar technology was developed later by Nvidia, which had licensed Transmeta's IP, for the Denver CPU cores used in the HTC Nexus 9 and the Carmel CPU cores in the Magic Leap One. Denver was originally intended to target both ARM and x86 but they had to abandon the x86 support due to patent issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver

New comment by scq in "Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs"

scq — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:42:15 +0000

bcrypt is the industry standard.

New comment by scq in "Kurt Got Got"

scq — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:03:52 +0000

Usually presents as a keyboard that types commands, yeah. Win-R -> powershell -> execute whatever you want.

E.g. https://shop.hak5.org/products/usb-rubber-ducky

New comment by scq in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

scq — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:56:23 +0000

There's no way to test on Safari without either buying Apple hardware or subscribing to services like Browserstack.

This is a problem of Apple's own making.