Hacker News: syrrim

New comment by syrrim in "Pretty.c"

syrrim — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:55:50 +0000

recommend setting up tests for your code s/t failures block deployment. can catch categories of bugs beyond typing errors

New comment by syrrim in "Threema's take on the new Apple appstore rules"

syrrim — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 22:28:19 +0000

And someone choosing to pay for threema presumably trusts threema.

New comment by syrrim in "Apple will cut off 3rd-party appstore updates if iPhone is not in EU for a month"

syrrim — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 02:21:54 +0000

Or require it of all devices sold in the EU, regardless of where those devices are later brought. This would be entirely defensible - "we're just regulating products sold within our market" - but inevitably they would make their way outside the EU to be resold.

New comment by syrrim in "VR optics and why IPD means too many things (2019)"

syrrim — Tue, 30 May 2023 14:52:12 +0000

Could you render very close objects twice, far objects once, then composite the image for each eye?

New comment by syrrim in "Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors"

syrrim — Tue, 30 May 2023 14:48:09 +0000

Presumably, the GP considers intent to be the only relevant factor in determining if something is racist.

New comment by syrrim in "SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to warrantless pole camera surveillance"

syrrim — Wed, 24 May 2023 15:08:31 +0000

> The police can't circumvent legislation by just paying a PI to stalk you instead.

Why would they need to? Stalking you doesn't require a warrant. Breaking into your house, for example, would require a warrant, but a PI can't do that any more legally than the police can.

New comment by syrrim in "Update on Sharing"

syrrim — Tue, 23 May 2023 21:01:19 +0000

Or they were supremely overvalued as of oct '21, as were many other stocks and securities, and the decline represents a return to sanity.

New comment by syrrim in "WhatsApp allows users to edit messages"

syrrim — Tue, 23 May 2023 02:31:05 +0000

One suspects that the delay was not caused by the complexity of the implementation, but rather uncertainty around the necessity or desirability of it.

New comment by syrrim in "Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std"

syrrim — Thu, 18 May 2023 20:12:22 +0000

A middle ground between exceptions in c++ and checking every function call for an error code in c.

New comment by syrrim in "Are We Sixel Yet"

syrrim — Sun, 14 May 2023 14:25:05 +0000

Most implementations I've seen use an ioctl to query those particular bits. That's implemented quite reliably, since the same ioctl is used for character size as window size. Some implementations just set the character size to zero though.

New comment by syrrim in "Are We Sixel Yet"

syrrim — Sun, 14 May 2023 14:15:33 +0000

You need to configure it properly or pass the -u flag for it to support unicode I believe.

New comment by syrrim in "Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years"

syrrim — Sat, 13 May 2023 01:13:06 +0000

The data collection would also be illegal in the EU I presume.

New comment by syrrim in "Google Pixel Fold"

syrrim — Thu, 11 May 2023 00:52:48 +0000

An inch in aspect ratio is a relatively large change, considering it entails ~70% of an inch in both dimensions. It would be better to compare screen area or vertical and horizontal dimensions separately, to get a clear picture of the difference.

New comment by syrrim in "YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers"

syrrim — Thu, 11 May 2023 00:27:57 +0000

Either the competitor has no ads and doesn't charge money, at which point it would bleed money, or it charges a fee, and hence would be even less successful than youtube.

Reddit Data API Update: Changes to Pushshift Access

syrrim — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:14:52 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/134tjpe/reddit_data_api_update_changes_to_pushshift_access/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35776848

Points: 46

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New comment by syrrim in "UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal"

syrrim — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 23:07:59 +0000

Apple sells hardware and software/services, Microsoft sells primarily software and software services (surface aside). Hardware is the business of buying materials, improving them, and selling them at a premium. Software is the business of developing software, then selling it to as many people as you can. Software naturally lends itself to high margins. Hardware less so.

New comment by syrrim in "Roblox intentionally blocking Linux with Wine in their new update"

syrrim — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 03:05:42 +0000

They cared enough to implement detection and blocking.

New comment by syrrim in "China’s Ambassador to France Says Ex-Soviet States Lack Basis for Sovereignty"

syrrim — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 04:30:12 +0000

Afghanistan is a relatively poor, undeveloped country, yet they just demonstrated their sovereignty in your sense against the most capable country on earth. Of course, if the US wanted to they could have steamrolled afghanistan - but they didn't. What changed is that the willingness to destroy people in war evaporated, and so the ability in theory to conquer a country, and the willingness to do so given the costs it would entail diverged significantly. This might be particular to the west, and countries like china or russia don't care as much. But they are living in the world created by US hegemony, which in large part entails playing by the US' rules.

New comment by syrrim in "iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe"

syrrim — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:04:25 +0000

They're presumably claiming that european devices will be less secure.

New comment by syrrim in "Apple will launch a journaling app"

syrrim — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:15:17 +0000

Apple has full disk encryption across all their devices, no?