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maxwindiff··on Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
Love your product!
maxwindiff··on Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong
We hoped China would grow into a Korea or Japan, instead we got ourselves a Russia.
maxwindiff··on State of Text Rendering 2024
I believe this is a Google doc preview. On my iPad it had terrible scrolling performance, and the shortcut to scroll to the top of the page (tap the top edge of the screen) doesn't work :(
maxwindiff··on I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate
https://www.17lands.com/ collects your limited game win/loss stats, and it also records your turn-by-turn game history for both limited and constructed games. (I was a contributor)
maxwindiff··on Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
Not OP but I'm interested. How should I DM you? (couldn't find one on your HN profile)
maxwindiff··on Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie management
On Safari at least, you can configure it to ask whether you want to run an extension on each domain.
maxwindiff··on Ask Wirecutter: Can you recommend a not-smart TV for me?
If your threat model involves people hijacking your TV to spy on you, and one of these attackers managed to enter your home, you are already toast no matter what.
maxwindiff··on Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped
Wouldn't the sub itself also reflect the ping and give itself away?
maxwindiff··on Almost 25% of world’s seafloor now mapped
I'm curious why this reply got downvoted so much. Can someone explain if the content is correct or not and why?
maxwindiff··on Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
The "50% faster" stat is talking about latency, which is not really what subsea cables are about (massive bandwidth).

The more important figure is the attenuation at frequency bands used in telecommunication (C-band and L-band). According to the article, hollow core fibers are still much worse than solid core fibers (0.28 dB/km vs 0.14 dB/km).

maxwindiff··on The U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon, America's “flying aircraft carriers”
In every Marvel movie I watched the Helicarrier was shot down before it could do anything useful. I imagine a real life version would suffer the same fate.
maxwindiff··on Cooking for Founders
Yeah. When I started cooking I read a bunch of articles on theory of cooking, what utensils to use etc, but in the end I realized they are all counterproductive. The first few attempts at cooking are bound to fail, and spending hours and hours on preparation and decision paralysis makes the failures much more disheartening. It's much better to stick to a few simple recipes and just do what they say without questioning why. The analysis / innovation can come later.
maxwindiff··on ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
Benefitting from structural privileges is very different from being a racist though.
maxwindiff··on I built a lay-down desk
Same here. The way the thing wobbles in the video doesn't inspire confidence. Although even if the monitor falls off I don't think it will hurt too badly.
maxwindiff··on Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
I don't know if he is really advocating it, but I absolutely support the notion that programmers should learn to bullshit better.
maxwindiff··on Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request
This. Also we should remember that companies are not a hive mind but are made up with individuals. Employees who want to take a stand will tend to be pushed out by those who are willing to compromise, as the latter would have better results to show of.
maxwindiff··on Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?
Perhaps counterproductive is too strong a word, but there could definitely be problems in the short term. Programmers love to apply things they learned in their work, and taking a concept or pattern from language A and applying them to language B is a natural reaction. The most common culprits are monads and actors. Ergonomics (readability, cognitive cost, debugging, IDE support, etc) became afterthoughts in the midst of excitement, and the long term health of the codebase (and teammates) suffers.

I have made mistakes like that (introducing monads/future and making the team learn guava) and I still regret it. Its not to say futures are useless - there were a lot of async logic in the codebase and futures solve a real problem, but its not clear if the benefits outweigh the cost.

maxwindiff··on Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?
This kind of sentiment come up every so often on HN and I'm just sick of it. Sure, programmers should strive to improve their craft, just like professionals in every industry. But there are plenty of ways to improve yourself and learning a new language is hardly the most effective choice (and in fact could be counterproductive).
maxwindiff··on Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?
Whether you hire an outside consultant or not doesn’t matter. You have to pay the cost one way or another, either by your employees spending time learning the language + experimenting + making mistakes, or by going through some training and hopefully making less mistakes (not guaranteed).
maxwindiff··on Ask HN: Who regrets choosing Elixir?
I want to downvote this comment so much.
maxwindiff··on Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images
Honestly this is the most stupid part. And I don't think College Board (or whoever made the site) didn't do any testing -- if that's the case the site should be way more broken. It's probably a problem of setting non-realistic test cases.
maxwindiff··on Google Cloud earns defense contract win for Anthos multi-cloud management tool
Faster and cheaper.
maxwindiff··on The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor
Then those jobs won't be filled whether there is UBI or not anyway.
maxwindiff··on Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?
The article did investigate the assembly.
maxwindiff··on Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack
Waste heat production scales with system load.
maxwindiff··on MessagePack: like JSON, but fast and small
Invalid unicode sequences?
maxwindiff··on Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
Council on Foreign Relation’s daily news brief: https://www.cfr.org/newsletters/daily-news-brief
maxwindiff··on Coffee Is Hard
They have their version of mundane tasks.
maxwindiff··on Apple announces iOS 10
Open the control center (slide up from bottom of screen) and adjust the slider.