Hacker News: xmgplays

New comment by xmgplays in "Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app"

xmgplays — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:45:29 +0000

The difficulty of exporting them is kinda the point(sorta). The benefit of passkeys is that the average user is less likely to hand them over to a scammer, because they literally can't/don't know how, whereas everyone and their mother knows how to give a scammer their password/username and the funky numbers in the email they just got.

New comment by xmgplays in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

xmgplays — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:03:43 +0000

I have recently started seeing this on the website, too. It also shows up after you use the temp 2x speed mode by holding left mouse button on the video/tap-holding the video on the app.

New comment by xmgplays in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

xmgplays — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:28:30 +0000

I don't think that "rant" indicates in anyway that he wouldn't want to be paid for his work(even by a corporation). In fact he directly calls it a luxury. He is simply pointing out that people put up with different things based on whether they get paid for it or not. And that given that the current workflow of the kernel may work for people whose job it is to interact with it, but not necessarily for people who aren't being paid.

New comment by xmgplays in "Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin resigns from Linux kernel"

xmgplays — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:02:11 +0000

No it does not require trust. If the RfL people don't do their job, well then Linux releases with the Rust parts marked broken and that's that.

New comment by xmgplays in "Types as Interfaces"

xmgplays — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:05:06 +0000

HaltingProgram and MaybeHalting is expressible(or vice versa), if you want to cover all programs in one of two types. If you want specifically HaltingProgram and NotHaltingProgram then you need a third category of MayOrMayNotHaltingProgram.

New comment by xmgplays in "Six programming languages I’d like to see"

xmgplays — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 08:47:36 +0000

There is ATS as an example of an imperative language with dependent types.

New comment by xmgplays in "Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles"

xmgplays — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 10:30:47 +0000

Pretty much. To simplify a bit: the most stable atom is iron-56 anything lighter can be fused and anything heavier can be split to release energy. Essentially after iron the forces that bind atoms together start to lose out to the repulsion between it's constituents, which makes heavier atoms more and more unstable. This is also why stars that start to fuse iron together will start to cool down.