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awesomepeter··on Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making
I think my M3 isn't supported yet and won't be for some time
awesomepeter··on Inside the Steam Deck's APU
I’ve had the OG Steam Deck and now have the OLED.

Genuinely curious, what do you consider low build quality on them?

awesomepeter··on How to generate tested software packages using LLMs, a sandbox and a while loop
Any tips on how to use it locally this way?
awesomepeter··on AngularJS support is ending, and developers can migrate to Angular
I feel you. I have worked on an Angular project for over a year and was miserable working with it (and I _really_ tried to like it).

At first glance it seems "complete", but once you start building there's just so many insane edge cases that don't work well or have bugs. I also think that "integrating" RxJS was a mistake, while I get it and it's nice, it's imho too low level of an abstraction if you have many people that don't necessarily want to learn all the details (easy to shoot yourself in the foot with it), too different from anything else in JS, and too poorly integrated into angular.

And also the verbosity of everything.. was too much for me.

awesomepeter··on Simula One vs. Quest 2 vs. Valve Index
It's a bit weird to me that they're going with intel, is the new i7 better than ryzen processors if you count in energy efficienty (and thermal output)?
awesomepeter··on Porting Doom to a USB Bluetooth Dongle
Why lunix? I assume you mean Linux, I've seen it written this way a few times and am wondering where it comes from
awesomepeter··on Flutter 2
If you had to pick a multiplatform solution (for whatever reason) which one would you pick? I've been exploring this space a bit, and it's really hard to form an opinion on this.
awesomepeter··on Why Nuclear Must Be Part Of The Energy Solution (2018)
It's all nice, but where does the base load come in? From what I know Germany is decomissioning their reactors, and is replacing them with NEW coal power plants + importing energy from other countries (which is just sidestepping the problem)

What's the real solution here? If all countries did what Germany does, we'll have a lot of coal power plants, why not instead have nuclear ones? I don't know a lot about this topic, but it seems to me there isn't any viable solution here, even if nuclear costs a lot.

awesomepeter··on Announcing TypeScript 3.9
Deno still uses a TS to JS compiler internally, but it's transparent to the user.

Just adding as it might interest someone :)

awesomepeter··on Comparing Ember Octane and React
Couldn't you do the same thing with class components though? From what you've mentioned it seems you've mostly moved complicated logic into reducers. I may misunderstand though.
awesomepeter··on I can't keep up with idiomatic Rust
Seems like it would be beneficial if codemods would accompany such features if possible.. is it possible in rust?
awesomepeter··on EmberConf 2020 goes virtual and free to attend due to COVID-19
best part is it's available for all! Didn't know that at first.
awesomepeter··on Show HN: CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance
They don't compete in the local talent market, they compete in the global talent market while offering local compensation. If they have a physical office, then they actually compete in the local market.

edit: I mean have an office and require to work from there. Companies which have an office and offer remote are naturally at a disadvantage here in the same way, though having an office may help offset the disadvantage (some people don't want to work remotely, having an office to go to from time to time and talk to people, meetings, integration parties, other benefits)

edit2: I've also just checked their rates, and for my region they are at best average even accounting for local market prices. So I don't see how they have an attractive offer in any way.

awesomepeter··on Show HN: CalmJobs.io – Work with companies who values work-life balance
I know they have their reasons, and it may even work for them, but I really loathe their location dependend compensation (as a person living in one).

I think their explanations don't hold water. For eg. they actually compete with other remote companies for people working in what they consider "low-wage regions", but those companies pay the same rates for everyone. So they won't get top engineers from those regions, since those engineers can work in other remote companies which pay more (and don't discriminate people based on location).

awesomepeter··on New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
I think the sleepiness in meetings is mostly related to lack of fresh air. I remember reading some articles that the air during meetings (talking about physical meetings in rooms here) has a very high CO2 count.
awesomepeter··on Bugatti has broken the 300mph barrier
Going around 160km/h on highways in Europe is pretty common, also higher speeds for eg. in Germany
awesomepeter··on Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
Which is the same thing that a virtual DOM does, it also has to have an adapter(react-dom in Reacts case) which applies the VDOM to the real DOM via it's imperative API.
awesomepeter··on People Who Claim to Work 75-Hour Weeks Usually Only Work About 50 Hours
What evidence? Afaik average IQ is constantly rising: https://ourworldindata.org/intelligence#iq-gains-over-time-a...
awesomepeter··on New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
Yep, or 16:10.
awesomepeter··on SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation
Where I am 150MB/s fiber internet is for ~$12 a month :)

edit: what I was going for is, you can't take that number and extrapolate it to the whole world

awesomepeter··on VW says combustion cars will fade away after 2026
Is the word "fading" really so hard? It's a pretty common word IMO, not even specific to audio/video..
awesomepeter··on Audi e-tron first drive review: a solid electric SUV
Right? It's the only thing I'd hate about having a Tesla Model 3, if I could afford it, and it would be available in my country.

Scratch that, I'd also hate not having a HUD in front of me, it would more then make up for the lack of a dashboard IMO.

But yeah, a few basic controls for eg. for AC and oh.. a PHYSICAL BUTTON TO OPEN THE GLOVEBOX? :)

awesomepeter··on From macOS to Windows and WSL
It's fine if you can live with it. I can only compare it to typing on an absolute hard surface and my hands get worn out fast from that. I hate it, I wish I didn't so I could use the otherwise ok hardware :)
awesomepeter··on From macOS to Windows and WSL
I can understand all of that. I'd also rather use OSX, but the new Macbook Pro's have such a garbage of a keyboard that I'd even rather use Windows and the slow WSL (though I use native linux myself).
awesomepeter··on Parcel: Fast, zero configuration web application bundler
Yup, just FYI Angulars CLI is based on Embers. Just putting it out there because the oldest thriving framework which put out a lot of great ideas often gets forgotten in these discussions :)
awesomepeter··on Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store
An alternative which lets you host your data is Enpass. I've been using it but I'm not sure how secure it really is.
awesomepeter··on A Year Using Matrix and Riot
What confused me about Riot when I tried it was that when I picked a friend to chat, it created some kind of new room instead of.. not sure how to call it, a P2P chat? Like it's on slack or other services. For eg. I could remove messages but my friend couldn't which makes it weird (I'm an admin in a P2P conversation?)
awesomepeter··on Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free
The issue is this action isn't benevolent. It's nice, but as said previously it's to promote their engine. So they will profit from it indirectly.

If on the other hand they would release the assets without strings attached (for use with any game engine / in any way) then I'd say this word would apply.

awesomepeter··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)
Is remote a possibility for everyone or for people living in the US?
awesomepeter··on KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
Did you actually use WebOS? I've had a great experience with the Palm Pre phones, way ahead of its time.
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