Hacker News: wahahah

New comment by wahahah in "100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi"

wahahah — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:00:41 +0000

If I had a dollar every time someone miscapitalized GB/Gb, I would be a lot less angry about people miscapitalizing GB/Gb.

In this case; wow it's actually gigabytes? It does seem strictly theoretical and they mention much more reasonable ~1 gigabyte/s deployments.

>Conclusion [...] scientists and researchers around the world are field-testing LiFi in office and industrial settings and reporting data transmission rates at 1GB per second.

https://lifi.co/lifi-speed/

New comment by wahahah in "Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (2017)"

wahahah — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:15:53 +0000

Add "computing" to your query to disambiguate.

New comment by wahahah in "Packing a string of digits into an integer quickly"

wahahah — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 03:57:27 +0000

Huh, that decimal representation is a pretty attractive idea, I wonder why I haven't heard of it before or seen it in use at all.

100/256 seems very tolerable efficiency-wise.

New comment by wahahah in "Hollywood steps up anime piracy war and battles domain-hopping evaders"

wahahah — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 03:36:09 +0000

Funimation has some more, only Lain and GiTS 2 from your list though.

Tangentially, some cool anime got aired on this local PBS station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUfoDH_1w0

New comment by wahahah in "Sleeping through the technical interview (2022)"

wahahah — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 22:43:08 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277

Archive (slightly NSFW text) https://archive.tinychan.net/read/prog/1295544154

New comment by wahahah in "Red flags in the Threads privacy policy"

wahahah — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 05:34:40 +0000

What were they reading off of?

In the App Store they set the privacy policy to Instagram's;

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644...

https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy

New comment by wahahah in "Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky"

wahahah — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 03:53:24 +0000

Long time namecheap user without any autorenew problems, even with insufficient funds forcing them to retry.

You can also add funds to your account in advance, just got an email suggesting that for an upcoming renewal.

New comment by wahahah in "What gets to the front page of Hacker News?"

wahahah — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:42:15 +0000

You just (poorly) measured the same thing the article did.

I'm still curious to know what % of Show HNs make the front page.

New comment by wahahah in "Things that surprised me while running SQLite in production"

wahahah — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 05:48:16 +0000

They're real, fwiw https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/15/eight-bit-floating...

New comment by wahahah in "Threads, an Instagram app"

wahahah — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:00:01 +0000

600 post views per day qualifies pretty close to "irrecoverably down" for me.

New comment by wahahah in "Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain"

wahahah — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:05:33 +0000

A video you can interact with and has its own thoughts, feelings, motivations and such; sure.

New comment by wahahah in "Apple Shuts Down “My Photo Stream”"

wahahah — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:01:11 +0000

On the other side, they brought a fingerprint reader that actually stored biometric data safely, innaccessible to the OS with the first secure enclave.

New comment by wahahah in "Apple Shuts Down “My Photo Stream”"

wahahah — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:57:22 +0000

>software obsolescence by way of unpatched vulnerabilities.

The 5s from 2013 had a patch in January.

New comment by wahahah in "Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings"

wahahah — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 12:06:09 +0000

I'll sometimes go through the trouble of using `data:text/html,`, but that is impressively replete.

New comment by wahahah in "Ways to say no with grace and style (2021)"

wahahah — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 14:06:09 +0000

It's not plain to me that ligatures might conflict with smallcaps. Certainly feels there's no good reason for that to be the case.

New comment by wahahah in "The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)"

wahahah — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 20:59:07 +0000

AES, particularly AES-256, is considered quantum resistant/safe. AES-128 could have its keysize effectively reduced to 64 bits with Grover's Algorithm (AES-256 to 128 bits), but scaling quantum computers to do that brute force search is not as straightforward as building a bunch of FPGAs or ASICs.

New comment by wahahah in "How to compute a 256 bit elliptic curve key with 50M Toffoli gates"

wahahah — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:07:48 +0000

Being able to crack present-day communications in the future is still a concern.

New comment by wahahah in "OpenLLaMA 13B Released"

wahahah — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:22:46 +0000

RAM requirements

New comment by wahahah in "How Do Nuclear Submarines Make Oxygen [video]"

wahahah — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 05:06:11 +0000

How do they get the CO2 out of the sub?

New comment by wahahah in "Vision Pro"

wahahah — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 01:58:16 +0000

I think it's simply a matter of the media not being there yet. You could envision movies made specifically for experiencing through these devices that would be utterly enthralling to take in, but it won't be for another half decade at least.

Otherwise, I think Apple's focus on "spatiality" is what is key.