HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

ZetaZero

485 karma · joined September 9, 2021

submissionscomments
ZetaZero··on Why is selling software so weird?
Footnotes(1) not supported?

(1) This is a footnote. You don't need any fancy software to write a footnote.

ZetaZero··on Inside the longest Atlassian outage
This. It would be an impossible nightmare for every account to have their own DB. Hundreds of thousands of accounts and databases....
ZetaZero··on The most popular chess streamer on Twitch
Oh no my Queen!
ZetaZero··on Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start
I didn't ever understand the value proposition here. I already get CNN thru YTTT. Or I can go to CNN.com for more choices. Why do I need to pay $$ for a different CNN source?
ZetaZero··on Blade Runner RPG
Weird: ©2017 Alcon Entertainment, LLC. All rights reserved.
ZetaZero··on Startup failure stories: 20 months in, 2K hours spent and 200K € lost (2021)
2k hours and 20 months later: "But we were still not there with the MVP. And we already trimmed it down to the bare essentials."
ZetaZero··on We can do better than “same, but electric”
Induction stoves are anywhere from 1200W to 3800W for the larger ones at full power. Looks like the size just needs to be considered when building it out.

https://www.inductioncooked.com/how-much-electricity-does-in...

ZetaZero··on Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time since Fukushima
Batteries were $2,152 per KWh as of 2015, and now go for $137 KWh. That's a 15x improvement in 7 years.
ZetaZero··on Ask HN: What does 12:00 AM mean?
So as a programmer, one way to look at it, 1:00AM to 12:59AM should be in order, meaning 12:00AM is at noon, and the switch to PM happens at 1PM. But this is wrong. Zero-indexing would have helped here.

It really irks me that we stick with these anachronistic standards. 00:00-23:59 seems so much better. Metric system is better. I'm for English-language spelling reform.

ZetaZero··on Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has come
perimeter fencing doesn't stop an airplane
ZetaZero··on I don't need a VPS anymore
I want to know more, please
ZetaZero··on Nvidia Grace CPU
M1 Ultra bandwidth is for CPU and GPU (800GB/s). Grace is just the CPU. Hopper, the GPU, has it's own memory and bandwidth (3 TB/sec).
ZetaZero··on Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty RTX 3090
ARM makes instruction decoding simpler. More memory bandwidth also helps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25257932

ZetaZero··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
We were on vacation, driving on 89 from Page to Kanab, which crosses AZ/UT state line. Several times our phones switched to different TZs. It was annoying
ZetaZero··on China aims to build 450 GW of solar, wind power on Gobi desert
Nuclear is not ideal for a peaker plant. It works best running at 100%, as part of the base load. So it doesn't help to fill in for solar during cloudy times.
ZetaZero··on Apple Imagines Mac-Inside-a-Keyboard Device Evocative of 80s Home Computers
So it's a laptop without a monitor.
ZetaZero··on PeerTube: Free software to take back control of your videos
When I search for a video, it tries to launch a popup window for another domain (sepiasearch.org) which Firefox blocks. Seems confusing for a typical viewer
ZetaZero··on Intel acquires Linutronix
As of a few minutes ago... AMD: 181.86B INTC: 183.97B
ZetaZero··on Virgin Hyperloop axes half its staff
discussion from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30419809
ZetaZero··on Ask HN: Am I the only one baffled by the long term usage of Twitter?
"I tried to build a following..."

Why? Fake Internet Points only matter when you have something to sell.

ZetaZero··on Don't rely on LocalStorage
But you also need: * Account creation * Password recovery * Backups * Privacy policy

This creates more friction, both to end users and for the dev. I likely would have never tried Wordle if I had to create an account first.

ZetaZero··on LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly
I typed in two words, then tried to copy/paste:

Application exit (RuntimeError: Aborted(Assertion failed: pTrans, at: /home/libo/src/core/vcl/qt5/QtClipboard.cxx,104,getContents))

ZetaZero··on Don't rely on LocalStorage
Agreed. The alternative would have us creating accounts, server-side storage, and supporting all this. No way this could be free, without ads.
ZetaZero··on Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?
Thanks. I've been on the waiting list for quite a while. But I didn't get any notification.
ZetaZero··on Confessions of a Bitcoin Widow
He died, and the widow didnt have the keys.
ZetaZero··on Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?
Cloudflare Email Routing is still in private beta. I'm eagerly awaiting it
ZetaZero··on AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
Right, but AMD could have issued shares to the public, then paid cash with the proceeds, if ATI insisted. We don't really know what happened.
ZetaZero··on Why are letters shaped the way they are?
how do you 7-segment an I, O, S, T?
ZetaZero··on AMD Receives Approval for Acquisition of Xilinx
It's complicated. The margins on console chips are lower than PC margins. When AMD had spare capacity (GloFo), that was great. But with everyone at TSMC and AMD demand high, those wafers could be used for more profitable chips. But the console deals definitely helped AMD in the dire times.

IMO, the strategic error was AMD paying a bunch of cash for ATI, instead of an all stock deal. In 2006, with their stock near the all time high (~$40) AMD decided to borrow $2B instead. Six months later, AMD is issuing shares at $14 to meet expenses. Two years later, AMD is trading at $1.50, and on the verge of bankruptcy. In retrospect, AMD's outcome could have been vastly different if they had done the all-stock deal in 2006, or even issued shares instead of borrowing.

ZetaZero··on My best estimate is gas stoves decrease life expectancy by 53 days on average
The water will boil faster if you don't watch the pot.
← PreviousPage 3 of 6Next →