Hacker News: tbrock

New comment by tbrock in "Turns out you won't be able to uninstall Windows 11's Recall feature after all"

tbrock — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:02:41 +0000

What windows laptop is that?

New comment by tbrock in "Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system"

tbrock — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 00:05:54 +0000

New comment by tbrock in "GDPR: Is It Worth It?"

tbrock — Fri, 17 May 2024 22:56:40 +0000

> but we need to remember enough that when we encounter you again, we recognize that you've objected to further processing. How are we supposed to know in future interactions that you've opted out if we've deleted all mentions of you and your PII?

Just hash the PII, delete the original and reinsert the hashed version (perhaps into another table). On insert check if hashes match and the opt out bit is set, if they match and it’s set then act appropriately.

New comment by tbrock in "France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone"

tbrock — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 14:53:10 +0000

Or the manufacturers will just not sell their phones in France. Ultimately it’s the French citizens that will miss out.

New comment by tbrock in "Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive – Memory and Storage"

tbrock — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 10:03:33 +0000

I like what framework is doing but boy is the 16” an ugly piece of hardware. The other one is beautiful, what happened?

New comment by tbrock in "Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?"

tbrock — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 23:27:22 +0000

The bacon egg and cheese at Beecher’s handmade cheese in the same terminal is $16.50 for some decent bread with a microwave egg. It’s ridiculous, shake shack has a breakfast bacon egg and cheese in the $5-6 range right down the way.

New comment by tbrock in "Framework Laptop 16"

tbrock — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:31:31 +0000

I want framework to succeed and they are targeting folks who want sleek and customizable computers (which they’ve nailed) but compared to a thinkpad the build quality isn’t great.

New comment by tbrock in "ChatGPT Plugins"

tbrock — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:08:15 +0000

Too late, we spoke with someone on the team three years ago who told us he couldn’t help and we’ve moved on.

New comment by tbrock in "ChatGPT Plugins"

tbrock — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:30:56 +0000

And Zapier are unwilling to work with you to reduce that cost even at a scale of 1 billion requests per month.

New comment by tbrock in "ARM64 Linux Workstation"

tbrock — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:01:29 +0000

I really would like someone else to put out something competitive in that case, I’m rooting for them but haven’t seen it yet.

New comment by tbrock in "ARM64 Linux Workstation"

tbrock — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:37:21 +0000

A comparable m1 is twice as fast in the above benchmarks?

And that’s Apple’s chip from 2 years ago!

Core for core this is a dog.

New comment by tbrock in "ARM64 Linux Workstation"

tbrock — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 22:33:05 +0000

Performance isn’t there. Why spend 3k+ on this?

New comment by tbrock in "LED lighting badly suppresses human melatonin production at night"

tbrock — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:06:44 +0000

You can make the side button triple click on iPhone toggle application of an accessibility setting that lowers the brightness.

New comment by tbrock in "Building an ARM64 home server the hard way"

tbrock — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 14:01:06 +0000

You could do this for cheaper (and with more ram) using a raspberry pi 4 with a usb nvme ssd, it’s got gigabit ethernet and is arm64. Sure you have two less cores than this solution but it’s more likely to be supported over time and once you get the SD card out of the mix the I/O is solid. I’ve been surprised by how much the SD card throughput was limiting the experience.

I run arch Linux arm on mine and it’s a fantastic little device. I wonder if these boards are way faster or just more of the same. I guess the pcie expansion makes this more extensible.

New comment by tbrock in "Ask HN: What simple facts have you learned surprisingly late in life?"

tbrock — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 20:45:08 +0000

Why though? It would make more sense to keep lending at 2-ish% and making 8 in the market just throwing it in the S&P. The spread is 6 pts or more on average.

New comment by tbrock in "Just got offered office space in San Francisco (SOMA) for the same price as 2009"

tbrock — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 21:17:10 +0000

It’s 100% accurate for me having lived and worked in 3 neighborhoods over 7 years.

New comment by tbrock in "Tilck – A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel"

tbrock — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 17:57:25 +0000

If you’re learning, having a direct implementation vs multiple layers of abstraction is a huge benefit.

New comment by tbrock in "November 2022 Progress Report"

tbrock — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:20:32 +0000

Isn’t it more absurd that no vendors who support Linux make acceptable/comparable hardware?

New comment by tbrock in "Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results"

tbrock — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:33:51 +0000

On android you’d be lucky to get more than a single OS update that added new features or functionality.

New comment by tbrock in "Linux M1 GPU driver passes 99% of the dEQP-GLES2 compliance tests"

tbrock — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:53:06 +0000

And better than any windows laptop on the market with the same performance profile.