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majormunkyon iPad Pro with M5 chip

It would be great if they allowed JIT compilation in apps. This would allow things like Dolphin (Wii, Gamecube emulator) to run.

majormunkyon Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs

In the VRF case they can't: "This comes with a tradeoff of course and in this case is that you no longer can reach devices on the venue network, which shouldn't be a problem if you're only connected there for internet connectivity."

majormunkyon Happy 20th Birthday, Django

I also started my programming career thanks to Django, and I started using it while working at a local newspaper, so bonus points there! We built a system that our sales people could book ads, and then we could layout the newspaper through a canvas based tool (used Fabric.js for that), and then send the pages + ad stack to InDesign to be built. Was great to work with the whole process and Django was really never a limitation. I ended up moving on, but it'll always have a place in my heart.

majormunkyon MacBook Air M4

I think the old airs maxed out at 24, the M4 can be configured with 32gb of ram.

majormunkyon Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle

> Taken a step further, customer support probably has the best understanding of their markets' needs!

People working in customer support, from my experience, sort of see the anti-survivorship bias working in action. Not many people call up to say how well something works. I would agree with you though on good Salespeople (ones that do try to understand what customers need and all that, not necessarily ones that sell the most) knowing what the customer wants/needs.

majormunkyon Quill v2 – Rich text editor

At my last job I had built a system where users could enter text into a quill textbox (and style it), and then save it into a database in their delta format. Later, a different team member would pull that into an InDesign plugin where we could easily read what styles had been applied to the text in quill, and style that using the styling in InDesign. This was used when the front desk person would enter in a legal notice for a newspaper, and the production team would be the ones who would get that into InDesign for printing. The quill delta format that it uses made this process so much easier than if we were to have been given HTML like most other editors output / save. Glad to see this is still around, its been a few years since I had heard / used quill.

majormunkyon The weirdest bug I've seen yet

It looks like the desktop Grammerly app hooks into all sorts of things, "An all-in-one writing assistant that works on your desktop and in your browser. Use it in apps, word processors, email clients, and more."

majormunkyon GTA6 – First official trailer in early December

Its really frustrating how amazing the world is in GTA5 and there isn't any single player DLC's for it. There's so much opportunity for great stories to be told. That frustration builds up just a bit more every week when we get a GTA Online update of some sort, bleh.. I still can't wait for GTA6 =).

majormunkyon Stop Using .env Files

I use a python library called python_dotenv, which like the article describes, loads environment variables from a .env file. My use cases are for just tiny personal projects, but, I do like how the process is the same on my laptop and my web host. If i were to use some specific technology with digital ocean, I would still need to do something for when I'm building this stuff locally.

Generally speaking the only thing I'm holding in my .env file is the Django secret key, and the debug flag, so, pretty limited use case, but works well I think. I manually create the .env file when setting up my site, so none of it goes into any repos.

majormunkyon Buttons and Knobs Are Coming to the Tesla Model 3 and Y

For being such a high tech car, its unfortunate that there isn't some sort of API that can be used to directly control things, even if its just things like the climate control, etc.

As a side note, my 2019 Subaru Crosstrek can't seem to show the backup camera, and deal with me turning the physical radio volume dial down at the same time. I think the computer in a car should be up-gradable.

majormunkyon AirJet – Solid-state chip for active device cooling

It would enable more background processing of files (image processing, etc) without seeing an impact on performance from the users perspective.

majormunkyon Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?

I've not really encountered any situations where I've needed to do anything like this yet (still learning), but, I found this example, where there's an existing function, and someone alters the body of the function to create a new function. My guess is that there's various ways of doing this type of stuff: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220198

Edit: a macro example, which I think may be the more common route of doing this type of stuff? https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/common-lisp-macros-by-ex...

majormunkyon Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?

I'm also learning lisp, mainly as a part of learning emacs, so I may not be super accurate here. In python, when you have a reference to a function, its a bit opaque, you can tell the thing is a function, but I don't think you can really go into the function object, and alter it lets say. You may be able to using the AST or something, but its not a "first-class" thing you can do.

In lisp (and code is data, data is code), the function is also a list, so you would be able to use all the normal programming tools to iterate over the list, add new items to the list, etc, which can change how the function runs.

majormunkyon Ask HN: What's the best “higher level Rust” these days?

Have you looked at Zig? Can’t say if it ticks all the boxes but it looks like a pretty interesting language.

majormunkyon Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis points for the third time

Workers making good wages increases demand on goods that are already in high demand.

majormunkyon Ask HN: Who is building credit card size tracker using U1 spec?

https://www.imore.com/aircard-card-shaped-airtag-works-apple...

majormunkyon macOS now scans for malware whenever it gets a chance

> Second, Microsoft is also trying to sell PCs. I don't buy the idea that they can be explicitly anti-consumer and get away with it. Backlash against the OS would hurt MS's bottom line perhaps more than Apple.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2022/08/30/former-microsoft-en...

Having a start menu filled with ads with Microsoft, yet again, reminding everyone that Edge exists, is a bit anti-consumer in my opinion.

majormunkyon Ask HN: Are Golang binaries without Apple Dev acct possible?

It seems like you can sign binaries with non-apple provided certificates:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Se...

This github issue (https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser/issues/835) mentions: So, the sign pipe is supposed to be generic enough so it could be used with different signing mechanisms

Not tried this but it looks like its possible

majormunkyon Ask HN: Ever implemented these editors: Quill, DraftJS, ProseMirror, TipTap?

I think the delta format that Quill uses to store its data is pretty interesting, we use it to convert text written in a Quill editor to InDesign where we preserve the formatting (the delta format helped here quite a bit).

majormunkyon Is Twitter allowing arbitrary code execution on their platform?

I'm pretty certain its running in an iframe

majormunkyon Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for PFAS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

"Planetary boundaries is a concept highlighting human-caused perturbations of Earth systems making them relevant in a way not accommodated by the environmental boundaries separating the three ages within the Holocene epoch."

majormunkyon Ask HN: How can I add shell pipeline support to my Python program?

I've not done this before, but, in a basic test I think this seemed to work

    import sys
    print(sys.stdin.read())

majormunkyon Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ problem is getting worse

My 2019 Subaru Crosstrek has adaptive cruise control, and i've had it hit the brakes pretty hard when there's nothing in the way. Luckily it doesn't happen often.

majormunkyon SketchUp for iPad: 3D Visualization on iPad

These companies aren't moving to a subscription model because its cheaper for the users

majormunkyon Lewis and Clark expedition left a trail of heavy-metal laxatives (2010)

I live in Hayden waves

I was just thinking that this area also seems to have a bunch of references to Lewis and Clark.

majormunkyon Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

The fix from that article has to do with how one would go about setting a different default browser. Earlier, they had to do this by associating the browser with filetypes, so, someone would have to make multiple changes to fully set their browser default. Now, you can just set the browser like you would think.

The issue at hand though has to do with other links within windows that open web pages. Microsoft had used a different protocol (not https, but, something like microsoft-edge://). I think these links are like news items that show up in the start menu, etc. There was no way to set Firefox to open these links with what Windows provided, it only opened in Edge. A program was written that listens for these protocols, and would let the user customize what program opened with those links were clicked. Microsoft has now shut that option down.

majormunkyon PDM: A Modern Python Package Manager

So this is sort of like a virtualenv, except you don't need to activate anything, it just looks within the main project folder for a __pypackages__ folder, and uses that to look for packages

majormunkyon Ask HN: Where should I buy my next book?

You can try: https://store.poisonedpen.com/. I only know of this place due to some authors I like selling their new books autographed if you buy it through this store (Preston & Child books).

majormunkyon Steve Jobs: Let's force Amazon to use our payment system (2010)

Credit card companies do this right now, except the money transfer one (maybe there do there also?)