Hacker News: the_svd_doctor

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Toll roads are spreading in America"

the_svd_doctor — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:52:06 +0000

Some people just set it to 3+...

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux"

the_svd_doctor — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:58:12 +0000

Yes. In fact I just filled a UK ETA for my 1 year old daughter, and after taking a photo of the MRZ the application asked me to confirm if she was born in 1924 or 2024 :-)

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?"

the_svd_doctor — Thu, 08 May 2025 14:59:29 +0000

This is incredible. Almost feels like another world.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Flying Somewhere? You May Need That Real ID."

the_svd_doctor — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:00:17 +0000

It should remain true.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Flying Somewhere? You May Need That Real ID."

the_svd_doctor — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:59:27 +0000

You can bring food. You’re right about drinks though. Albeit it’s not very hard to find free water in airports.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

the_svd_doctor — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:11:02 +0000

Aren't all immigration "arrests" all "detentions", technically speaking (not that it makes any difference in reality - you're behind bars)? Aren't ICE prisons called "detention centers"?

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Make C string literals const?"

the_svd_doctor — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:08:31 +0000

Right but some code will stop compiling, no?

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "The average college student today"

the_svd_doctor — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:18:20 +0000

In my EU country, lots of first year students are kind of lost and are picking their major more or less at random (or very unprepared). Very low passing rates in first year are very common. It gets better in 3rd year and after.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Xfinity XB3 hardware mod: Disable WiFi and save 2 watts"

the_svd_doctor — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:52:42 +0000

In SF Bay Area my PG&E rate is also close to 0.5$/kWh…

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

the_svd_doctor — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:10:05 +0000

I went to Japan (first time) a few months ago, and I was blown away by almost everything (including what you mention). It's just so different from the US in almost every way, but so nice overall (people, cities, transit). I loved it and want to go back already.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "GitHub Git Operations Are Down"

the_svd_doctor — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:03:20 +0000

Ha so that's why my git pull were so slow. I should have checked HN faster.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices"

the_svd_doctor — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:01:37 +0000

Personally that's all I'm asking for. Transparent pricing. It amazes me how far business will go to to just hide how much they want to charge me.

Recently in California, restaurant have been great at making their prices as difficult as possible to try to figure out.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers"

the_svd_doctor — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:50:18 +0000

> Resident keys essentially kill physical tokens.

Can you elaborate? I'm curious. Is there a storage problem?

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "FTC Announces "Click-to-Cancel" Rule Making It Easier to Cancel Subscriptions"

the_svd_doctor — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:27:47 +0000

I get you. AFAICT what's included for airlines is basically "get me from A to B".

There are usually ways to filter out by seat types, though, both on airlines websites and in places like Google flights. In my experience those are also pretty accurate.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

the_svd_doctor — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:53:57 +0000

For plane that's pretty unfair. If you don't get any ancillary fees, the price you see is almost exactly up to the cent what you pay.

Now if you get any extra, sure. But that's a different problem from Airbnb hiding 100% of the cost in mandatory cleaning fees.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "CuPy: NumPy and SciPy for GPU"

the_svd_doctor — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:51:40 +0000

It does (for NVIDIA at least)

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Make your electronics tamper-evident"

the_svd_doctor — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:43:32 +0000

Very cool. I actually learned something by reading just the abstract, which does not happen often.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "What Visa earnings tell us about the state of the payments industry"

the_svd_doctor — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 17:24:12 +0000

Amazing episode - highly recommend it.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "How to optimize a CUDA matmul kernel for cuBLAS-like performance (2022)"

the_svd_doctor — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:57:24 +0000

FWIW Triton can actually be used pretty easily from C++ straight using MLIR. XLA does that. Maybe not exactly a frontend but not that far.

New comment by the_svd_doctor in "Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes"

the_svd_doctor — Fri, 03 May 2024 16:27:55 +0000

https://www.lowercase.app/pricing/ looks pretty clear to me. You can optionally subscribe to support the project, but otherwise it's free.