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hahamaster··on NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps using PHP
$NativePHP: A $framework for $building $desktop $apps $using PHP
hahamaster··on The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet
Agreed. It was "only" supposed to truncate the log folder. ;-)
hahamaster··on The day I locked everyone out of the company intranet
Decades ago my ex colleague was supposed to enter a command handwritten on a piece of paper saying "rm -rf /var/log/blah/" which she typed in as "rm -rf /var / log/blah / ". Everyone knows it's awesome to insert white space to increase legibility. It was a production database server.
hahamaster··on C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
You're right, I was subconsciously replying to other comments about evils of passing parameters by reference.
hahamaster··on C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
C is not a general purpose language, it was always intended to be used by people who want performance and control. If you want to pass a potentially large array by value to a C function, it's likely that you're using the wrong language.
hahamaster··on Hello, Perceptron: An introduction to artificial neural networks
It can absolutely be called magic when creators of LLMs themselves openly say that don't understand why they work the way they work. The word "magic" is very flexible ("his singing is magical", "it was a magical holiday in Vegas with four girls and me in the hotel room") and it can be definitely used in this context as "something wonderful we don't fully understand".
hahamaster··on Tell HN: It's 2023 and you still can't import .ics files into iOS Calendar app
> You can't open an .ics file on your browser and add to the Calendar

You need to choose the right Content-Type on the web server for the ics file delivered to iPhone, “text/calendar”. Safari doesn’t care what file extension the file has if the Content-Type is right.

hahamaster··on De-dollarization is happening at a ‘stunning’ pace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
hahamaster··on Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules
Like with Internet Explorer once upon a time, government intervention will prove to be unnecessary. While the two monopolies sit around and push out minor updates each year, rearranging chairs on their decks, alternatives are quietly being developed and from out of nowhere a “TikTokOS” will appear and solve the monopoly issue.
hahamaster··on Open-source high-performance RISC-V processor
> If one Chinese company will develop something, you can bet the rest will learn that fast and will use it in the next economic cycle.

Where exactly is an incentive for a Chinese private company to share its knowledge with other private or state companies?

hahamaster··on Gordon Moore has died
Poor guy considering the obesity epidemic.
hahamaster··on Dutch police collecting demonstrators' personal data on a large scale
They never collect profiles of anyone who's a law abiding, non-protesting citizen who always does what they're told. Docile, compliant, obedient Dutch people are almost never profiled. Be docile, compliant and obedient and you will not have a problem with the police - it's super simple.
hahamaster··on Google Search Is Dying (2022)
I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.
hahamaster··on Demystifying bitwise operations, a gentle C tutorial
I totally intuitively understand bitwise operators in C because I grew up with assembler and all this was my second nature.

I’m afraid this article is unnecessarily complicated. The things that are eventually illuminated are really trivially simple, it’s just that they are explained in a complicated way.

hahamaster··on Modern Mono
Yes, they're called peasants.
hahamaster··on Modern Mono
Andale Mono - one for the ages. Tried a lot of others and always come back to it. How can anyone use anything else is beyond me ;-)
hahamaster··on Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 is 6% faster than the new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
You take your phone to a shop and come back an hour later and boom you have a new battery. I once had a microphone fail on my phone and it was exact same scenario. It's really not a big deal.
hahamaster··on Sabre/dav: open-source CardDAV, CalDAV and WebDAV server
How did you handle authentication, permissions and security?
hahamaster··on The myth of the myth of the 10x programmer (2020)
If only it were that simple. You can't automate IQ, experience and vision. 10x developers are regarded as such because of the quality of their output, not just sheer volume.
hahamaster··on What happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?
Sucks being an early adopter.
hahamaster··on TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia
But how? Develop advanced chip manufacturing in 5 years’ time? Impossible.
hahamaster··on America’s bad bet on sports gambling
Eating too much fast food can result in diseases that can cost serious money to fix.
hahamaster··on A self-authenticating social protocol
Sounds like Taligent, Pink and Longhorn all in one.
hahamaster··on Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
Installed it and saw "Sign In" and deleted it immediately.
hahamaster··on Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
Beautiful, I'm probably going to get it.

Pity there isn't a version with a 24" panel as on the M1 iMac. 27" is great but it actually might be a liittle too big, but I'll live. I guess no product is ever ideal.

hahamaster··on Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
Depends on the screen size. On a 22" screen, the difference between 4k and 1440p equates to 200dpi and 133dpi respectively - if you can't see the difference between 200dpi and 133dpi, I'm sorry, but you have either poor eyesight or glasses aren't doing their job.
hahamaster··on Kubernetes: The Documentary
Oh I was so important, me too, I am very important and we were visionaries solving very important problems that impact millions. It turned out it was very important but it didn't seem that way in retrospect. I'm also very important but also work very well with buzzwords in a way that says absolutely nothing, except that I'm important but we totally didn't know it at the time. None of us wrote a line of code but we were nonetheless very important, and, more importantly, we're even more important now.
hahamaster··on OpenHistoricalMap
They published it waay too early. The quality is abysmal.
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