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jonny_eh

11,906 karma · joined January 21, 2011

- Software Engineer

- Retro games and pinball fan

- https://twitter.com/JonathanAbrams

- http://github.com/JonAbrams

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jonny_eh··on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
To add to that, birthdays can clump, just like any seemingly "random" data.
jonny_eh··on When a video codec wins an Emmy
Why does Adobe need HW support?
jonny_eh··on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
Is the a USB-C/Thunderbolt to HDMI 2.1 dongle? Send Displayport and audio over USB-C and then let that hardware handle the HDMI handshaking.
jonny_eh··on Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros
Goes to show that paying bullies only buys temporary relief.
jonny_eh··on Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Where did it say that they took a month to fix? The hacker just checked in 2 weeks later and it was fixed by that point.
jonny_eh··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
I'm sure they've tried making it hybrid, aka VR optional. I'm curious if they'd be able to make it work. If not, I don't expect a VR only HL game again.
jonny_eh··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
There's pretty strong rumours that they actually have been working on a new Half-Life. People are hoping it releases with their new hardware in 2026.
jonny_eh··on The Penicillin Myth
> and then peering at them every few days?

He only noticed after he got back from vacation, or so the story goes. And it may not have been an open window, could have been a desk near the doorway.

jonny_eh··on Anthropic Acquires Bun
Bun's announcement has more juice on HN so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267
jonny_eh··on Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs
Is that a format/serialization issue, or library/implementation issue?
jonny_eh··on Amazon faces FAA probe after delivery drone snaps internet cable in Texas
I half expected the shared clip to be this scene from Pluribus: https://youtu.be/r3D3dg23tyA?t=129
jonny_eh··on The Penicillin Myth
That one I could totally believe. Radar equipment + chocolate bar = very likely to occur.
jonny_eh··on The Penicillin Myth
> I would preserve the random dish for comparison to the more rigorous follow up experiment

This would also explain why the dish was treated with formaldehyde for preservation, and why the dish still exists today.

jonny_eh··on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
On desktop, press command/ctrl and minus to zoom out and increase the home page's density. It will make text on watch page harder to read, but with theatre mode, the video playback size should be unaffected.
jonny_eh··on Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
jonny_eh··on Unifying our mobile and desktop domains
Now it's your turn YouTube…
jonny_eh··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
timestamp?
jonny_eh··on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research
Exactly, as far as anyone outside of the deal participants knows, Ilya hasn't made any promises with respect to revenue.
jonny_eh··on `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
> This keyword is a bit esoteric and not very common, but it comes in handy in some scenarios where you’d otherwise pull your hair out.

Typescript in a nutshell. That said, satisfies is a good keyword!

jonny_eh··on California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations
Why not say where you are?
jonny_eh··on Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
Just my thinking, they'll release a "Steam Deck Mini" that's more in line with other current ARM based gaming handhelds like the Ayn Odin.
jonny_eh··on GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)
Wow, 1995 was a stacked year for languages: JavaScript, Java, Ruby, PHP
jonny_eh··on Labor Department Won't Publish October Unemployment Rate
Are they even collecting the data at this point? Do they even know how bad the numbers are?
jonny_eh··on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
Jonathan Swift was a writer and known satirist with publicly known views that were opposite to the absurdist views expressed in his famous satire.
jonny_eh··on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
I'm not really in a charitable mood with this guy right now.
jonny_eh··on Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board
Don't get me started on Trump
jonny_eh··on Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)
Oh damn, I hadn't heard :(
jonny_eh··on Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)
Rebecca is currently fighting cancer and has a gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebecca-ann-heineman-fight-a...

She's very close to her goal!

jonny_eh··on I've wanted to play that 'Killer Shark' arcade game briefly seen in 'Jaws'
Fun fact: Stern Pinball was owned for a while by Japanese game company Data East in the 80s and 90s. Then it was sold to Sega for a few years in the late 90s, until it was spun out as an independent company.
jonny_eh··on Google Antigravity
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-ap...
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