HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

TravelPiglet

116 karma · joined March 16, 2020

submissionscomments
TravelPiglet··on Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes
Sweden has been sharing info with its neighbours and the US for a long time. See SIGINT Seniors Europe for example
TravelPiglet··on Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico
It’s barely usable on Apple platforms. Horrible compiler and Xcode is very buggy. Segfaults and error report dialog popups.
TravelPiglet··on Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License
Apple Watch is a flop. It's not delivered on anything other than being a good fitness tracker.
TravelPiglet··on Git tips and tricks
Chunk Norris
TravelPiglet··on Modern Java/JVM Build Practices
And then you need 3700 lines of Cargo.lock to make sure that those 15 lines of Cargo.toml actually does work
TravelPiglet··on Sweden Sans
Translation: the Pacific Ocean
TravelPiglet··on SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years
https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics-and-data/craft...
TravelPiglet··on Don’t use sugar substitutes for weight loss, World Health Organization advises
When used to that level or a level slightly below it.
TravelPiglet··on Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time
Discounting all the power consumed planting, growing, cutting down and delivery of the logs to the power generator.
TravelPiglet··on Microsoft exec says Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside
Certainly. Having requirements set in stone helps rewriting any code base. They probably get more time for optimization with the language handling a lot of the security and correctness issues as well as future changes.
TravelPiglet··on Amazon’s quiet open source revolution
Having to pay for hosting an open source product? Isn’t Amazon doing what they should in this case where a company tries to block any competition.
TravelPiglet··on De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)
Booking.com has no customer support. They’ll happily fuck you over and not respond to any attempts to contact them.
TravelPiglet··on Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?
Usually you can just get an agreement with the employer to leave sooner. Three months might be enough time to hire someone and have some limited handover, but better than no handover.
TravelPiglet··on My Controversial Opinion: Ventura Is Apple’s Worst macOS Yet
Having some kind of device key that will trigger a pop up similar to the SSH host verification on the first connection would be better. No spam every time I connect the phone to charge it and getting a dialog for MITM attempts.
TravelPiglet··on iOS 16.3 Is Out
Hope they fix the temperature widget as well. Temperatures below zero are common outside Cupertino.
TravelPiglet··on Java 20: A Sneak Peek on the Panama FFM API
You can use Method Handles now for better performance in a lot of cases
TravelPiglet··on Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet
Same as every major release? Accept the xcode bojo and continue?
TravelPiglet··on Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet
Old macOS versions were usually extremely buggy. People have just forgotten this
TravelPiglet··on Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold since 1990
Less wood they need to import as well
TravelPiglet··on Tiny Core Linux 13.0 is a full Linux desktop in 22 MB
X11 without WM was fine on 2.x as well on 8 MB ram. Loading fvwm or whatever I was using ended up with endless swapping.
TravelPiglet··on Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
The church lost a lot of their influence as well.
TravelPiglet··on Risk of myocarditis after the Covid-19 mRNA vaccination in the USA cohort study
You can die with the seat belt on in a car crash. Why wear it at all?
TravelPiglet··on Berry is a healthy, byte-sized window manager written in C for Unix systems
Puns on the name.
TravelPiglet··on EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
Magsafe is back
TravelPiglet··on Ulstein X-BOW inverted bow
Or Viking Long ships.
TravelPiglet··on Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
How do you handle removal?
TravelPiglet··on A one in a million bug in Switch kernel
Or, hopefully, they are releasing a new Switch with more cores and it manifested it self more often on that hardware. :)
TravelPiglet··on Russia to legalize software piracy
Guessing Russia is not taking a stand against IP or copyright at all. Just making it legal for them to steal from non-Russian owners. Don’t think they will remove copyright for Russian creators.
TravelPiglet··on Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
Well most people here are binary. Killing people and believing in astrology or homeopathy or whatever are not comparable. It’s not about good or bad. It’s about basic human morals and rights.
TravelPiglet··on Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends
” I've been finding it very easy to empathise with Russians in this.”
Page 1 of 3Next →