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SushiHippieon AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86

I just searched for the asahi linux (Linux for M Series Macs) battery life, and found this blog post [0].

> During active development with virtual machines running, a few calls, and an external keyboard and mouse attached, my laptop running Asahi Linux lasts about 5 hours before the battery drops to 10%. Under the same usage, macOS lasts a little more than 6.5 hours. Asahi Linux reports my battery health at 94%.

[0] https://blog.thecurlybraces.com/2024/10/running-fedora-asahi...

SushiHippieon HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday

Was this the same issue as on February 1st? Or are these outages unrelated?

SushiHippieon Where's Firefox going next?

FWIW about:config is available in beta and nightly on android, my main browser was nightly for a while but it sometimes was too unstable, so I switched to beta as my daily, which seems to be stable.

SushiHippieon Google to buy Wiz for $32B

I'm fairly certain that I paid once for WhatsApp back in the day (on Android)

EDIT: just checked my payment history and in November 2013 I paid €0.89 for "One Year Service"

SushiHippieon Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?

Previous discussion of the paper:

Addition is all you need for energy-efficient language models - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784591 - Oct 2024 - 126 comments

SushiHippieon Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo

Your explanation could make sense for TFA, but definitely not in the case below

https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/1e5nyt7/generati...

SushiHippieon Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck

The Legion Go S with Windows will cost $599 and the Legion Go S with SteamOS will cost $499. I suppose those will be the same hardware wise. So a $100 difference

https://www.tomsguide.com/gaming/handheld-gaming/lenovo-legi...

SushiHippieon Ford CEO on why it's so difficult for legacy car companies to get software right

Funfact:

There is a German saying: "Ford kaufen, Ford fahren, Ford schmeißen"

which translates to

"Buy a Ford, drive a Ford (or "drive away"), throw away [a Ford]."

As Ford sounds the same as "fort" and "fortfahren" -> "drive away", "fortschmeißen" -> "throw away"

SushiHippieon Learning Synths

There is also glicol, for example: https://glicol.org/demo#themodel Press start and after some time edit line 14 and press update

SushiHippieon A Minecraft server written in COBOL

FWIW with the Java version you can easily create a LAN Server in game, by joining a world and then opening it to LAN.

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/4410317081741-H...

EDIT: I just realized this works on Bedrock too, but don't know how the support on the Switch is

https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/4410316619533-H...

SushiHippieon CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion

Thanks for the hint, I had this setting enabled, but it didn't look good on Firefox, but using chrome made it look good!

SushiHippieon Test

This is 400004 (4 0's), TFA was 4000004 (5 0's)

SushiHippieon Spotify's Car Thing Accessory Is Officially Dead

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260481

SushiHippieon MagiskSSH – SSH server on Android without Termux

All my smartphones had been Samsung, and then I bought a Pixel just to get GrapheneOS and for me it's a way nicer experience, so I'm curious what the rough edges are that you experience?

SushiHippieon Linux EFI Zboot Abandoning "Compression Library Museum", Focusing on Gzip, ZSTD

lz4 is pretty awesome for ZFS compression. It has nearly no impact on read/write and writing/reading data is sometimes even faster than without compression.

Though I use zstd on zfs datasets which I rarely read/write to i.e. backups.

SushiHippieon Reverse engineering the Ravensburger TipToi pen

There is also fischertechnik, how popular is it outside of Germany?

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik

SushiHippieon DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

2018 is still a long time ago, so that's totally understandable haha

Thank you!

SushiHippieon DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

What year was this? (I'm Curious, as you mentioned 2012 was the last year you used at the time of the E-Mail)

SushiHippieon DuckDuckGo donates $25k to the Perl and Raku Foundation

> [...] asking why they used Perl, and he responded back, which was nice of him.

Do you still know what the reason was?

SushiHippieon Advent of Code 2024

That's smart! I'll probably do this too when I'll publish my AoC code

SushiHippieon Kagi Search API

My estimation wasn't that wrong if I would've left out the first part, but a few weeks was maybe too hopeful ;)

SushiHippieon Kagi Search API

Over a year ago they said something along the lines, that they pay around 1-2ct per search query (for API calls to the different search providers they use). If this is still true, then this seems to be fairly priced.

Though If the API will get available, I won't use it as much as I want to.

I have ~1700 searches per month and use the professional plan (10$/month), which would be 1.7*$25 = $42.5 per month, which I'm glad I don't need to pay.

SushiHippieon Kagi Search API

FYI I Just asked them this:

> Any ETA when the Search API will be available for professional? Ball park of a few weeks or more like 2+ months?

And the answer was "2 months" from Vlad (Kagi Founder)

EDIT: After my comment he also commented this on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42307588

SushiHippieon Kagi Search API

(Kagi User since two years)

The assistant beta was ~1 year in beta.

Assistant had many bugs in the early stages, but it's different kind of beast than Search API (more things that can go wrong). With Search API it's probably "only" billing/UI bugs which they want to catch in the beta and maybe some problems with the search results from the API endpoint

Though in this case I'd say a few weeks, maybe 2 months. (They keep things in beta longer than it needs to be, to be completely sure nothing goes haywire especially if it's billing related like the pay per use API endpoint).

SushiHippieon Advent of Code 2024

Looks pretty neat I'll take some inspiration from this.

Though you shouldn't upload the text and inputs of the puzzles (maybe .gitignore them) as per [0]:

> Can I copy/redistribute part of Advent of Code? Please don't. Advent of Code is free to use, not free to copy. If you're posting a code repository somewhere, please don't include parts of Advent of Code like the puzzle text or your inputs. If you're making a website, please don't make it look like Advent of Code or name it something similar.

[0]: https://adventofcode.com/2024/about

SushiHippieon Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)

Sure, just wanted to tell you about it, as this seems to be defacto standard for foss android apps, for example most if not all https://matrix.org clients use it for push notifications (when you use their de googled build, or don't have play services) available. I also use a Signal fork with UnifiedPush and have some server alert scripts which post to my self-hosted ntfy instance, and the ntfy app itself will display them (otherwise for the Messengers, the Notifications will be from the messenger app itself, as these apps get "notified" aboout a notification and then do their own thing).

SushiHippieon Advent of Code 2024

Interesting, do you publish your AoC solutions in rcl somewhere?

EDIT: nevermind, found it! https://github.com/ruuda/adventofcode/tree/master