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New comment by steve1977 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened"

steve1977 — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:26:03 +0000

I cannot confirm your experience with the attitude of the latter unfortunately (I can confirm the former though).

Edit: But as mentioned, the near-shoring resources also were quite substantially less expensive. So you could say we bought cheap and we got cheap.

New comment by steve1977 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened"

steve1977 — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:00:40 +0000

> SWE salaries are constant across all of Europe

Sorry, but this is wrong. Cheaper labor is pretty much the only reason for nearshoring from more expensive European countries to places like Spain or Eastern Europe.

New comment by steve1977 in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

steve1977 — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:53:55 +0000

Darwin is its own thing really. There are parts from BSD, there are also parts from Mach and there are also unique parts.

New comment by steve1977 in "CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers"

steve1977 — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:18:14 +0000

Less eyes but also less problems like "it's been fixed in the kernel but not in distro XYZ"

New comment by steve1977 in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

steve1977 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:58:42 +0000

I think it's like some kind of collective inferiority complex. Nobody really understands things anymore but everyone is afraid to point out mistakes of others because they are scared to come under scrutiny themselves then.

New comment by steve1977 in "GitHub Is Down"

steve1977 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:52:04 +0000

Do they run Xbox network on Azure or is it a separate thing?

New comment by steve1977 in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

steve1977 — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:03:19 +0000

OpenBSD can be downloaded from a variety of mirror hosts (including ones hosted by Cloudflare).

So OpenBSD would probably be able to sustain service at least in terms of being able to download updates.

New comment by steve1977 in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

steve1977 — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:02:07 +0000

My account email is info@.com.

I feel you.

And what I do is create a local account and then add the Microsoft account to it after creation.

New comment by steve1977 in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

steve1977 — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:55:03 +0000

Or malicious incompetence?

New comment by steve1977 in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

steve1977 — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:48:27 +0000

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

New comment by steve1977 in "Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows"

steve1977 — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:54:19 +0000

That is a nice function of Preview indeed.

On the other hand, at least since a couple of releases, I have lots of troubles with the highlight annotation in Preview, especially in PDFs with tables. So much so that I have to resort to 3rd party software for that (PDF Expert in my case).

But yeah, PDF support is basically native in macOS since Mac OS X.

New comment by steve1977 in "Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows"

steve1977 — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:53:20 +0000

If you are using Windows professionally for audio, you will be using ASIO. So in practice, this is not really a problem. Especially considering that ASIO drivers often even perform a bit better than their CoreAudio counterparts and don't have hidden doublebuffering.

macOS also seemed or seems to have quite a few problems with DriverKit USB drivers for large channel count interfaces.

New comment by steve1977 in "Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows"

steve1977 — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:50:53 +0000

There are technologies like MTS (MIDI timestamping), where you basically send timestamped data early to the interface so that it can then play them out exactly (or more exactly) at the right time. This was initially made by MOTU but I think the implementation in Core MIDI is based on it.

Emagic and Steinberg also implementation of this (AMT in case of Emagic, LTB for Steinberg IIRC.

This only really works with recorded data of course. It's also very old already (like 25 years old), I'm not sure how well it is still supported in current DAWs.

With these technologies, timing should be as good or better as on an Atari.

New comment by steve1977 in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

steve1977 — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:36:34 +0000

From what I understand (which might be wrong), Liquid Glass was at least partially inspired by visionOS and "spatial computing". And I guess on that platform it might make sense for some use cases.

That doesn't change the fact that I can hardly read some of the user interface in Apple Music for example.

It's not that the idea is bad, but it's badly executed.

New comment by steve1977 in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

steve1977 — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:34:45 +0000

Qualified by what?

New comment by steve1977 in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

steve1977 — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:56:06 +0000

Who gets to decide who the lucky few are?

New comment by steve1977 in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

steve1977 — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:39:35 +0000

> a notification should have gone out from the kernel team to a curated list of distro security folk

Who would curate that list though? You don't need permission from the kernel team to spin up a new distro. I can go and create fork of Debian or Arch or whatever today and the kernel team would never know (and neither should they).

This is completely in the responsibility of the distros. If you don't like this model, use something like FreeBSD.

New comment by steve1977 in "GCC 16 has been released"

steve1977 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:03:57 +0000

I would assume the code sharing is one-way only due to the licenses. I.e. a GPL project can use MIT licensed code, but not vice versa (AFAIK).

New comment by steve1977 in "Where the goblins came from"

steve1977 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:25:24 +0000

Are they smart or are they imitating things smart people did? (and if so, is there a difference?)

New comment by steve1977 in "Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop"

steve1977 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:59:55 +0000

For starters, it's not even available where I live.