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jwitthuhn··on Ask HN: What's your experience with working M1 and M2 Macs?
For work I have a 2019 16 inch MBP with an i9-9980hk which was the last high-end intel model they released.

My personal laptop is an M1 Pro MBP and it runs faster, quieter, cooler, and has over twice the battery life.

That said, for both machines I do a lot of c++ compiling and the difference would be far less noticeable if I wasn't regularly running the cpu at 100% for significant periods of time.

jwitthuhn··on Decentral Bank fixes bug that let one user mint 10T USN for just $10
It's always some mundane detail like a decimal point in the wrong place.
jwitthuhn··on Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
Love this, before I only ever saw code that ran this model through jax. This seems to perform much better on my m1.
jwitthuhn··on Show HN: I stripped DALL·E Mini to its bare essentials and converted it to Torch
Fixed size of 256x256. It cannot go any bigger or smaller.
jwitthuhn··on Permissive forwarding rule leads to unintentional exposure of containers (2021)
Yeah this got me the first time I was using docker as well. I wanted my app server to only listen locally and configured it like that, then Docker helpfully punched a hole in my firewall so anything could talk to it.

Agreed that podman has been a great experience in comparison.

jwitthuhn··on PUBG Game maker says Apple, Google selling rip-offs in new lawsuit
Interesting that this appears to be about copying specific game mechanics, not something like game assets or code.

Based on the screenshots they provide on page 43+ it does look like Free Fire is pretty clearly aping PUBG's aesthetic and mechanics, but I'm not sure that is copyright infringement.

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/dwvkrkjdlpm/...

Interested to see where this goes.

jwitthuhn··on Crystal 1.2.2 Is Released
https://www.truckinginfo.com/330475/whats-behind-the-grille-...

See the "Advanced Electronics" section about halfway through the article.

jwitthuhn··on Crystal 1.2.2 Is Released
It seems real strange that they're using Crystal, I don't see "HTML5 Supercomputer" listed as a supported platform.
jwitthuhn··on Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
Still up for me, but it loaded slow.
jwitthuhn··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
I would be incredibly happy with this but I'm not sure it is possible. I certainly hope so!
jwitthuhn··on Problems with Oracle SQL
This is missing my favorite oracle quirk: Empty strings are equivalent to null. Trying to insert an empty string into a NOT NULL column will fail, which took me a while to understand the first time I saw it happen.
jwitthuhn··on Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop
I would suspect that someone on the Bing team woke up one day and thought to themself "I know exactly how to increase our search metrics"
jwitthuhn··on B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know
I'm not the original commenter, but I sure did implement a B-tree for my databases course at UW Madison.
jwitthuhn··on An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo
I believe it was originally just youtube, but it has support for a whole lot of services now including reddit, twitter, and much more.

Looking at the file names here should give you a pretty good idea of what is supported. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...

jwitthuhn··on Fastly Outage
Seems like they are still taking stock of exactly what is broken.

It has now been updated to a pretty sizable list.

edit: And now it looks like it includes every location.

jwitthuhn··on YouTube-dl can no longer download age-restricted videos
I've also been seeing this in Firefox for the past couple weeks or so.

The video quality will default to "Auto-1080p" or similar but it will be visibly much worse than 1080p quality. Switching to 1080p manually seems to be the only way to get good quality.

jwitthuhn··on Be in a field where tech is the limit
Twitter has about a 50% chance of telling me that every time I follow a link there. Hit f5 a few times, maybe a ctrl+f5 and you'll probably get there.
jwitthuhn··on Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop
Yeah this is still happening in Windows 10. I reinstalled Win 10 Pro recently and the only way to make a local account during initial setup was to unplug the ethernet cable on my desktop. As long as an internet connection is up, it isn't even a hidden option.
jwitthuhn··on EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
As a user I really value having a good ad blocker integrated with my mobile browser.

Safari is okay at ad blocking but it can't do nearly as much as Firefox Mobile with uBlock, and Apple doesn't seem at all interested in improving it.

jwitthuhn··on Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
I recently switched to Affinity Photo after using photoshop CS6 for many years.

It has been a good replacement for my limited needs, give the free trial a go and see if it has all the features you want.

As a bonus it is also super cheap compared to photoshop. A permanent license right now is only $25.

jwitthuhn··on Is It Pokemon or Big Data?
I'm a big fan of "Hadoop is a distributed system for counting words."
jwitthuhn··on XQuartz 2.8.0
I use it for x forwarding through ssh. That lets me use graphical linux programs without needing to run a whole desktop environment inside my linux vm.
jwitthuhn··on Nintendo DS-TV-Out Restoration Project
Reminds me of an interesting feature(?) of the old DS Phat. If you held it close enough, analog tv antennas could pick up the video signal going to the top screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlCpZkVss4

jwitthuhn··on Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
I expect that a broker won't arbitrarily make certain stocks "sell only" and cancel buy orders that have already been submitted.
jwitthuhn··on Qt commercial-only LTS phase starts
Does anyone know how this is compliant with the QT Company's agreement with the KDE Free Qt Foundation?

I was under the impression the Qt company was legally obligated to release all updates under the LGPL, and failure to do so would result in the latest release of Qt being relicensed to BSD.

Specifically, section 3.2 in this agreement. https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/Software_License_Agreeme...

I understand they have 12 months from now until that clause kicks in, but based on their announcements it looks like the Qt company has no intention of ever releasing these 5.13 updates as open-source.

jwitthuhn··on How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
It looks like this is happening because the bypass paywall extension is still signed by mozilla, but not distributed through their normal addon website, which I just now learned is possible.

Still not great, but it is good to learn that it is just a little less restrictive than I thought.

jwitthuhn··on How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
Firefox already has a similar restriction on Windows, and I think MacOS, but not Linux.

On the normal version of firefox for those platforms you can't permanently sideload an extension, you need to reload it on each restart.

The Developer Edition still lets you sideload addons normally, however.

jwitthuhn··on Haproxy 2.2
I think "unreadable" is a pretty big stretch here. This is what the site looks like for me in firefox on android.

https://i.imgur.com/Zmslysb.jpg

The text in the navigation section and the table is a bit small, but quite far from unreadable. That can also easily be solved by zooming in.

On the topic of mobile, I think it is also very important to look at data usage.

~327KB for all assets on haproxy.org ~5.8MB for all assets on haproxy.com including nearly a megabyte of javascript

jwitthuhn··on Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages
There is no apt package with chromium, but there is an apt package name 'chromium-browser'.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/chromium-browser

In previous versions of ubuntu, that package would install chromium, as one would expect.

In recent versions of ubuntu, this package is a stub that installs snapd, and then snapd installs chromium.

There is a substantial difference between those two things. Users that try to install chromium through an open package management system are being pushed to Canonical's proprietary store.

jwitthuhn··on When you type realty.com into Safari it takes you to realtor.com
This is still possible in Firefox 77 if I am understanding correctly.

The magic entries in about:config are

keyword.enabled - Turning this off will make firefox never search for something you type in the address bar.

browser.fixup.alternate.enabled - Turning this off will make firefox never try to "fix" the url you type in by putting .com on the end of it.

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