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jonatronon AnandTech Farewell

Reviews for components are better in written form than video form, yet you can see by the number of YouTube views what people are using. I guess it doesn't help that it feels like there hasn't been an increase in performance to price ratio for GPU's in the longest time.

jonatronon Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

If you were thinking of making a UK supermarket price comparison site, IIRC there's a company who owns all the product photos, read more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31900312

jonatronon Computers are amazing. So why is software so terrible?

"computers today can do things we hardly dreamed of twenty years ago."

It's 25 years since Bill Gates got shot in South Park because Windows 98 crashed so much.

jonatronon Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2

Thanks the thousands of African workers doing the boring repetitive dataset work.

jonatronon Ask HN: Midlife crisis, which direction to go with?

If your country and company allows you to request flexible working, you can try going part time to enable you to learn something new.

jonatronon It seems routine to see a bunch of browser User-Agents from the same IP

TLS fingerprinting can spot things like requests made with python requests easily.

jonatronon Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid

In the UK there are grid operators in the control rooms disconnecting wind farms. It's called curtailment and it's expensive: https://www.energylivenews.com/2024/04/08/grid-constraints-l...

jonatronon PiDP-10 – a modern replica of the PDP-10

I've got to appreciate how much effort must have gone into an injection molded replica case, it looks fantastic.

jonatronon Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom

That's about the GDP of France, I can't see how it makes sense.

jonatronon Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime

Can you copy the official image's script? https://github.com/nginx/unit/blob/0e79d961bb1ea68674961da17...

jonatronon Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime

https://unit.nginx.org/howto/docker/#apps-in-a-containerized...

> We’ve mapped the source config/ to /docker-entrypoint.d/ in the container; the official image uploads any .json files found there into Unit’s config section if the state is empty.

jonatronon EU countries must implement right to repair laws within two years

Why is there gatekeeping of "professional" repairers and "repair services"? Why can't I as a consumer view a service manual and buy a part? If a washing machine costs £220, and a professional repair man costs £70 per hour, nobody will repair out of warranty.

jonatronon NSA Ghidra open-source reverse engineering framework

I wonder how Hex-Rays IDA sales are doing since Ghidra was released. Edit: If anyone can read French accounts: https://consult.cbso.nbb.be/consult-enterprise/0873473914

jonatronon Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

This PDF https://pip.raspberrypi.com/categories/685-whitepapers-app-n...

jonatronon Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

Yes. Maybe it's theoretically possible to add something to a modifiable part of the eeprom, but that's beyond what I can do in my spare time.

jonatronon Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

Thanks, this is really useful information.

jonatronon Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

Just quickly looking at Orange Pi 5 images without properly researching, the official site links to images on google drive, and armbian has an image with a 5.10 kernel, that requires PPA's for 3D acceleration.

There's got to be an SBC other than Raspberry Pi that has reasonable software support. Does anyone know? I'm not buying another SBC that advertises hardware video decoding but doesn't actually have the software for it, or requires one specific modified kernel version.

jonatronon Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

I have extensive experience in watching LTT's jank cooling videos, and I think water cooling with a big relatively big reservoir would be able to keep the temperature at a chosen temperature. I found someone who has done it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBNSbzTzfSE&t=20s using this kit: https://www.seeedstudio.com/High-Performance-Liquid-Cooler-f...

jonatronon Beating Jeff's 3.14 Ghz Raspberry Pi 5

I'm not sure Raspberry Pi are to blame. Broadcom insist on closed source binary blobs, and their chip has e-fuses built in.

jonatronon The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year

If you want video evidence that real plastic recycling facilities do actually exist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5YDCeotSc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUrBBBs7yzQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1WTgGyirDw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTpRUXS2wmA

jonatronon Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]

DrChrono was "hiring" a developer for years

jonatronon California Electricity Mix Live Dashboard

It could be inertia, solar doesn't have any spinning mass to maintain the frequency. https://www.nationalgrideso.com/electricity-explained/how-do...

jonatronon The Defenestrations of Prague (1419–1997)

There is the BFRC, the British Fenestration Rating Council. So if fenestration is to do with installing windows, you'd think defenestration is to do with removing windows, but it isn't.

jonatronon Easy video transcription and subtitling with Whisper, FFmpeg, and Python

Why burn subtitles into the video, when you can use the vtt or srt file that whisper can output?

jonatronon The British Are Coming for Your White-Collar Job

At my last job in London, jobs were being replaced by workers in cheaper countries such as Belarus, Ukraine, and India.

jonatronon The Reasonable Effectiveness of Using Old Phones as Servers

If you don't mind disassembling and finding connectors or soldering, you can connect a power supply with the same voltage as the battery to the battery connector on the main board.

jonatronon Why are so many people being hit with £5 fines for 'counterfeit' stamps?

It's impossible to say if this was detecting counterfeits, or incorrectly flagged counterfeits, without more information. I'd like to point to my recent experience trying to buy a mask from Amazon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844229

jonatronon Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel cancer recurrence, study finds

Presumably this is because coffee in the morning quickly makes you need to use the toilet?

jonatronon Django REST framework 3.15.0

You have to know what DRF is good for, and what doesn't fit well with it. Because DRF is on top of Django (one layer not many layers), you can always fall back to a function that takes a request and returns a response. You can also fall back to SQL instead of the ORM.

jonatronon Django REST framework 3.15.0

I don't think http://django-vanilla-views.org/ ever really caught on, but it does show that ccbv.co.uk shouldn't have to exist. The DRF class tree is small enough to keep in your head once you've spent some time with it.