Hacker News: uuddlrlr

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system"

uuddlrlr — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:37:52 +0000

iOS does this on-device, you can access the SQLite database containing the metadata using libimobiledevice's ifuse(1).

https://libimobiledevice.org/

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator"

uuddlrlr — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 16:47:11 +0000

TempleOS comes to mind.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "'I Lost Everything': How Squid Game Token Collapsed"

uuddlrlr — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 18:11:45 +0000

Ironic shitposting is still shitposting.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Apple: Ten Years Forward"

uuddlrlr — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:11:30 +0000

Do you have an Android phone? The bluetooth stack on Android is a an atrocity.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

uuddlrlr — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 20:19:56 +0000

Thanks for clarifying! The constitution is pretty far from fiduciary duty legally, so I apologize for not interpreting it more charitably.

(In general the maximize profit meme does need to die tho)

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

uuddlrlr — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:13:42 +0000

NFTs let you own autographs of digital assets.

Which is cool. If it weren't for the energy use.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Facebook Renames to Meta"

uuddlrlr — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:03:12 +0000

>I don't think Facebook is constitutionally able to give up ad revenue gains

This "fiduciary duty" meme really needs to die.

Seriously the idea of fiduciary duty [to maximixe profit] is dystopian, corporations don't fuck us over because they have to they do it because they can.

Edit: clarify

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Expectations for generics in Go 1.18"

uuddlrlr — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 03:54:20 +0000

Colloquially in the north "native" is ubiquitous.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font"

uuddlrlr — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:49:56 +0000

It doesn't have Fantasque Sans Mono, unfortunately.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Photoshop will get a ‘prepare as NFT’ option soon"

uuddlrlr — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:22:52 +0000

Critics of NFTs incessantly conflate them with copyright and DRM, but it's a strawman argument.

Buyers are aware that it doesn't grant them any actual rights beyond "I can transfer this NFT".

I'm against NFTs for their environmental impact, I'm fine with their vanity.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies"

uuddlrlr — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:25:15 +0000

I worded it poorly (and it wasn't really anything worth saying in the context of COVID), but:

A population with 5% naturally-induced/80% vaccine-induced immunity might see more spread of a new variant than a population with 25%/60%, however the total outcomes would still be better in the first population; so "less protected" was definitely the wrong thing to say.

Naturally-induced immunity for COVID is stronger because it targets more than just the spike protein, and it presumably[0] grants better mucosal immunity than our current vaccines induce, but of course the risk/cost of natural infection is very high.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8358136/

New comment by uuddlrlr in "SARS-CoV-2 variant A.30 is heavily mutated and evades vaccine-induced antibodies"

uuddlrlr — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:56:49 +0000

I guess there might be a point where strictly vaccinated populations are less protected than populations with more natural antibodies.

Where I live is >80% double dosed, however there are far less than 5% that have been naturally infected.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Geothermal's path to relevance: cheap drilling"

uuddlrlr — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:39:36 +0000

There's a 52-home community in Alberta that provides ~all of their winter heating by storing heat in the ground throughout the summer:

https://www.dlsc.ca/borehole.htm

It gets up to nearly 80C, but took a few years of operation to get there.

The website covers it really well and I'd recommend checking it out.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip"

uuddlrlr — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:03:25 +0000

It's a temporary infertility, at least.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Car accidents cause death, injury and trauma. Why do we shrug them off?"

uuddlrlr — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:41:42 +0000

In my Canadian city all traffic related deaths are heavily covered, fwiw

New comment by uuddlrlr in "Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility"

uuddlrlr — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:44:16 +0000

Any rust project like this inevitably gets sardonic replies about rewrite-in-rust fanaticism.

I agree they shouldn't have to justify themselves, but it is handy to preempt that.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "The brain processes speech in parallel with other sounds"

uuddlrlr — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:04:19 +0000

I learned in a documentary that pople who play some video games can immediately recognize 5-7. They tested with a handful of grapes.

I can reliably recognize up to 6 in most cases.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "20 years of the iPod"

uuddlrlr — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 04:49:45 +0000

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft"

uuddlrlr — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 04:05:57 +0000

I've spliced chunks together using sh, dd, and xxd before to resurrect my gf-at-the-time's wolf.

I've also been meaning to play psuedo-multiplayer with my friends by us each claiming a region in a seed. Each region being 32x32 chunks and saved to a separate file (.mca), you can just drop their latest region into your world folder to see what they've been up to, or play on LAN and send it back after.

New comment by uuddlrlr in "How to keep a support contract: Make the user think they solved the problem"

uuddlrlr — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 23:46:07 +0000

This kind of story feels rare for IT, thanks.