Hacker News: tzahola

New comment by tzahola in "MacBook Pro throttling not a CPU issue, but rather power throttling of the VRM"

tzahola — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:31:15 +0000

Moore’s law is over.

New comment by tzahola in "Pumpable Ice Technology"

tzahola — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:19:02 +0000

>"Food liquid" or drink (a liquid that is specially prepared for human consumption) is a part of the culture of human society and not only a substance which addresses the basic human need to drink.

What a weird sentence!

New comment by tzahola in "Be Nice and Write Stable Code"

tzahola — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:56:28 +0000

D contracts are arbitrary code snippets. So they're Turing-complete, therefore it's still uncomputable.

New comment by tzahola in "ReactOS 0.4.9 released"

tzahola — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 07:08:54 +0000

My hypothesis is that some people blindly upvote anything that has the word “React” in it.

New comment by tzahola in "Machine Learning Guides"

tzahola — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:02:51 +0000

Yep. The plebs are onto us. Time for a crash ;)

New comment by tzahola in "Machine Learning Guides"

tzahola — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 20:54:20 +0000

Daily reminder for data scientist and machine learning types: fill your pockets while you can, because machine learning bootcamps are on the horizon!

New comment by tzahola in "It appears Apple may be unable to recover data from failed 2018 MacBook Pros"

tzahola — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 07:38:33 +0000

While I welcome the privacy implications of this, I don’t see why recovery wouldn’t be possible if the T2 chip and the SSD is intact?

New comment by tzahola in "The childless, aging future"

tzahola — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 22:08:42 +0000

Don’t rock the boat!

New comment by tzahola in "Long Live WebGL (2013)"

tzahola — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 21:56:31 +0000

Just learn the fundamentals in a platform-agnostic way and you’ll be set for life:

- 3D geometry (lines, planes, implicit and parametric surfaces)

- basic splines (Bezier, Hermite, maybe NURBS)

- matrix transformations

- rotation via quaternions

- projective 3D geometry

- shading (diffuse, Phong, etc)

- advanced tricks (shadows, reflections, etc)

Once you nail down these topics, the rest is just learning the specific API quirks (memory model, synchronization, etc), be it OpenGL, Metal, DirectX, Vulkan, or whatever comes next in ten years.

New comment by tzahola in "Long Live WebGL (2013)"

tzahola — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 20:38:38 +0000

How does this connect to the parent comment??

New comment by tzahola in "24% of Tesla Model 3 orders have been canceled, analyst says"

tzahola — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 19:55:19 +0000

This. Traditional “luxury” cars are like those Nokia phones they made with gold plates and swarowski “crystals”. Nothing but gimmicks, and a laughable feature set compared to an iPhone.

New comment by tzahola in "The Return of the Super-Elite"

tzahola — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:29:57 +0000

A spectre is haunting...

New comment by tzahola in "p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing"

tzahola — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 12:43:49 +0000

“We’re a data-driven organization! [as long as the data fits our agenda]”

It’s one of my favorite methodologies, next to “agile waterfall” and “holocracy with managers, middle-managers and minibosses”.

New comment by tzahola in "p-Hacking and False Discovery in A/B Testing"

tzahola — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 07:15:33 +0000

So one in ten of your findings is bogus.

New comment by tzahola in "Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide"

tzahola — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 21:27:39 +0000

I call this the “Cloud Atlas” style, and I hate it.

New comment by tzahola in "Why We’re Building Flux, a New Data Scripting and Query Language"

tzahola — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 06:36:00 +0000

You two made me interested, but I couldn’t find anything about this RQL...

New comment by tzahola in "Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine"

tzahola — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:00:54 +0000

Nowhere in this document do they state that inhaling 5000 particles increases lung cancer risk by 1%.

I recommend revisiting high school chemistry, especially the topic of molar mass. (Hint: Plutonium is about 250 g/mol. One mol is 6x10^23 particles.)

New comment by tzahola in "Building Protocols with HTTP"

tzahola — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:27:26 +0000

Still wrong. FTPS is vanilla FTP over TLS.

New comment by tzahola in "Building Protocols with HTTP"

tzahola — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:26:07 +0000

FTPS is FTP over TLS. However SSH and SFTP has nothing to do with TLS.

New comment by tzahola in "Building Protocols with HTTP"

tzahola — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:23:09 +0000

You only need TLS for that. HTTP adds nothing security-wise.