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New comment by sercand in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

sercand — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:41:58 +0000

I have green card and last time I left is 2 years ago, How can I return back to the US?

New comment by sercand in "iPhone Air"

sercand — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:22:09 +0000

Where did you see the matmul acceleration support? I couldn't find this detail online.

New comment by sercand in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

sercand — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:55:54 +0000

I dropped Spotify when they started to push more podcasts on my home feed as well.

New comment by sercand in "Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community"

sercand — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:41:25 +0000

You can't build to mobile on 4.x version, only desktop supported.

New comment by sercand in "Wendelstein 7-X: Gigajoule energy turnover generated for eight minutes"

sercand — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:59:18 +0000

Solar has the advantage of scaling down. 1000 people can give 1M US dollar which can produce approximately 1GW of power on a thousand of power plant in a year. You can scale down as low as 400W of energy production and distribute the financial cost to many people.

New comment by sercand in "Vikings went to Mediterranean for ‘summer jobs’ as mercenaries, left graffiti"

sercand — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:24:31 +0000

As a person from Mediterranean, It finally makes sense the 5% of Nordic genes in my 23andMe result.

New comment by sercand in "Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS"

sercand — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:17:02 +0000

I am wondering what is the use case for a website that sends notification to the user who didn't install the PWA to home screen.

New comment by sercand in "Internal document explains why Google has become slow and bureaucratic"

sercand — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:45:01 +0000

Gmail initially offered very big email storage space comparing the others, and it was going up continuously until its storage area merged with Google Drive.

New comment by sercand in "A CTO should be technical"

sercand — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:12:13 +0000

It depends on the company size. On a small startup with 10 people and a company with 1000 people have different CTO definitions and roles.

New comment by sercand in "Stable Diffusion PR optimizes VRAM, generate 576x1280 images with 6 GB VRAM"

sercand — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:12:57 +0000

This is the worst type of PR. Just submit a different PR for the code format changes.

New comment by sercand in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

sercand — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 08:06:50 +0000

I mean Unity in general for desktop and mobile. Mentioned exporting to android and iOS as an extra benefit.

New comment by sercand in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

sercand — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 07:45:20 +0000

If you are using a game engine like Unity you should not worry at all. If you need to access Windows specific APIs, of course it is a different story. A Macbook is a perfect machine for developers: you can build for android and iOS, has a great screen, perfect touchpad, finally fixed keyboard and ports.

New comment by sercand in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

sercand — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 06:28:13 +0000

Lots of people just don't game at all. Also, a lot of people like me prefer different gaming and work setup (and different rooms) in order to achieve better work-life balance. I build games on my M1 machine, just don't play on it.

New comment by sercand in "Learning to Love Myself"

sercand — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 13:08:37 +0000

But it is different for the author. He learned to love himself after his girlfriend showed her love to who actually he is. So lots of people struggle to love themselves because they never experienced what does it mean being loved.

New comment by sercand in "“After Going Solar, I Felt the Bliss of Sudden Abundance”"

sercand — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 09:01:39 +0000

Most panels provide 25 years warranty of 85% of output. Therefore, you can use your panels up to 40 years in some cases.

New comment by sercand in "Show HN: Brevity 500 – Short games to help you become a powerful writer"

sercand — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:34:20 +0000

Congrats on shipping!

My two cents on this add a difficulty level. 1370 characters to 500 characters is too difficult to many. Reducing 300 characters to 150 characters would be a better starting point for me.

New comment by sercand in "Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab"

sercand — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:47:31 +0000

DevOps is whole set of tools. Gitlab includes features like monitoring, code scanning, Kubernetes integration, docker registry, cloud security and protections. And those are $1188 per year per person. By CI/CD I mean good old Jenkins that runs on a computer in the office that builds iOS Apps and uploads them to Apple AppStore (of course current generation of CI/CD is much better). Gitlab CI/CD and runners were there much before this "Gitlab is the one DevOps platform" saga.

Everyone in our company including HR, marketing, design people were also using Gitlab for task tracking. Therefore we need those fancy issue tracking features for better management. This features are in the tier that $1188/year per person. For the features we don't use is not something that we could afford.

New comment by sercand in "Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab"

sercand — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:02:26 +0000

This is why we left Gitlab.

DevOps become center part of Gitlab which we don’t use and need any of those feature. We all need a code storage, code review, issue tracking and the CI/CD. We would pay advance features of those (epics, multiple assignee, etc) but we have to pay super expensive top tier which includes unnecessary DevOps stuff. We left and happy so far.

We are using Kubernetes and custom DevOps tools but don’t want to handle things the way that Gitlab does.

New comment by sercand in "New WebKit features in Safari 15.4"

sercand — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:51:09 +0000

We are in similar situation but it is a WASM bug for us when building with Unity. Some part of the our app no longer works on iOS.

New comment by sercand in "Apple M1 Ultra"

sercand — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 20:16:33 +0000

> Highest-end discrete GPU performance data tested from Core i9-12900K with DDR5 memory and GeForce RTX 3090.

From the linked article. Apple is comparing against RTX 3090.