Hacker News: tjoff

New comment by tjoff in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

tjoff — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:02:51 +0000

the whole concept of having cars with that are almost capable of self-driving is utterly insane, the very least you'd need special training. We are not equipped to deal with something that works brilliantly most of the times but might kill you for no foreseeable reason.

New comment by tjoff in "Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?"

tjoff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:42:20 +0000

I don't think you have to look far nor hard for a mail-client that doesn't communicate with the developer because you send an email...

Universal Clipboard, AirDrop and iMessage - is that really the value add of apple? iMessage... do we really want to encourage that behavior?

New comment by tjoff in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

tjoff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:10:30 +0000

It only adds discoverability for the things that fit the screen. In other words, you have to make it simple. I.e. the lazy way to make something "user-friendly", do as little as possible and force the user to adapt to your ways instead.

New comment by tjoff in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

tjoff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:28:53 +0000

It's not hallucination. The prompt lacks details and given that an AI or a human has some artistic freedom. After all, that is why current AI is usable at all.

New comment by tjoff in "A big win for Android interoperability"

tjoff — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:17:13 +0000

So, the argument is that it is popular? I'm not arguing against that...

That people trade anything for even just perceived convenience? That isn't news either, but it does explain a lot of the sad state of affairs we are struggling with today.

New comment by tjoff in "A big win for Android interoperability"

tjoff — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:22:44 +0000

Yes... that $25 if they manage to get even that before it is blocked I can live with. Loosing my phone, even if they can't do anything with it is a whole other scenario. Now I can't even get home.

New comment by tjoff in "A big win for Android interoperability"

tjoff — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:11:39 +0000

Yes it is. Doesn't break if drop it for one. Much smaller than a phone. Isn't tied to apples ecosystem. etc.

I get that you might want one if you are a tech maximalist with a single focus. But that doesn't mean you should stop carrying your card.

New comment by tjoff in "A big win for Android interoperability"

tjoff — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:01:44 +0000

Because a normal card is superior in most practical cases?

New comment by tjoff in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

tjoff — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:52:56 +0000

The images related to the article are about 0.5MB.

New comment by tjoff in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

tjoff — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:37:06 +0000

I'd never trust that it will hold and detach without residue, but that is probably my ignorance talking...

I own a 3d printer which makes most of these projects look like the perfect fit for a 3d print (even when there are far simpler solutions). So that is what I'd do :)

New comment by tjoff in "Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025)"

tjoff — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:20:09 +0000

Exactly, I also want to add that 16 GB at that time would probably correspond to 128 GB today.

My 13 year old laptop, that I still use from time to time (mostly because it is the only windows machine I have) has 8 GB of ram (which truly is barely usable today), it is on the slimmer side and my requirement to have at least 8 GB of ram at that time really limited my options (and there was no option to get more than that in a slim form factor). The norm (not even entry level) was 4 GB and there were tons of options with even less than that.

New comment by tjoff in "Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025)"

tjoff — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:53:50 +0000

Unfortunately the last 15 years computers have deliberately been capped on ram which severely limits the longevity of sold devices.

New comment by tjoff in "Elevated Errors for Opus 5"

tjoff — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:32:57 +0000

Isn't both of those, potentially, just consequences of OAI having more spare compute?

New comment by tjoff in "Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware"

tjoff — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:59:03 +0000

While they are fully compliant with the AGPLv3 and can say "our stuff is open source", this satisfies only the strictest sense of the license. It doesn't supporting integration with most distributions' repositories. This ends up looking like a commercial product to most users look for personal to enterprise scale management front ends.

I agree, but XCP-ng is still the most attractive system on the market for home / small business use in my opinion. Xen Orchestra itself isn't needed either, I do most stuff on the cli and code-monkeying arguably reinforces that even more. Patching up something that allows you to VNC a VM for the initial setup/debug doesn't require much investment / knowhow.

New comment by tjoff in "Elevated Errors for Opus 5"

tjoff — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:51:56 +0000

Interesting, but also wholly incomplete without knowing how effective the respective models are and how much people are actually using them.

New comment by tjoff in "Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware"

tjoff — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:22:21 +0000

Very far fetched and was almost two decades ago, never seen that sentiment in regards for Xen. Xenserver seems a bit mismanaged though.

The original question was vague, but we are getting a bit all over the place. Hyperscalers and most other uses don't really overlap that much.

New comment by tjoff in "Making Xen's dom0 I/O path NUMA aware"

tjoff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:16:35 +0000

Why is KVM a thing when we have great and free Xen virtualization?

New comment by tjoff in "Computational chemistry, Locally? My rant on SSH"

tjoff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:59:33 +0000

x2go can be a bit janky but when setup correctly it can deliver the promise of x-forwarding with good performance even over internet.

Love the ability to just forward one or several applications directly instead of the whole desktop environment. Ability to resume connections are also a godsend.

Seems like that usecase isn't given a lot of effort nowadays.

New comment by tjoff in "Computational chemistry, Locally? My rant on SSH"

tjoff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:30:26 +0000

Sure, but that is not a problem listed in the post.

New comment by tjoff in "Computational chemistry, Locally? My rant on SSH"

tjoff — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:43:15 +0000

how would multiplexing ssh connections help for this?