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tadfisher

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Android engineer at Mercury Technologies in Portland, OR. Mastodon: tad@androiddev.social

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tadfisher··on Infineon marks innovation milestone with 300mm power silicon carbide wafer
That's a funny way to frame things. Do you think Infineon is forced to choose between those two markets?
tadfisher··on Deus Ex
It's funny, I appreciate DX and HR because they are still obviously video games at their core, jank and affordances galore. MD just felt like they wanted to go all in on realism and inverse-kinematics and cover mechanics and such so it felt like any other hyper-realistic modern shooter.

I loved the gold filter for HR, for another example. I know I am probably in the minority.

tadfisher··on Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web
An advantage of this approach is that everyone's screen readers and other accessibility tools actually work with your app.
tadfisher··on I wish tech companies knew more about me
They left the targeting checkboxes all unchecked. Basically an intern wrote a free check to Google.
tadfisher··on Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)
I would rather read a write up of someone doing just that. This exact thing has been done many times now and no one is really learning or demonstrating anything new. It is cool, insofar as AI tools are capable of reverse-engineering, mechanical translation, and automatic verification, but it is no longer _novel_ and borders on spam.
tadfisher··on I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence
It looks like they are attacking the "leaker" instead of addressing the leaked issues? They clearly don't refute that Andy actually did tell employees to stop writing code and to ship faster with AI, and they don't refute the "loser" comment. It looks like damage control through shit-stirring and a poor attempt at a Gish gallop.
tadfisher··on Copyright Office is restoring copyright to something you have to work to get
You have left out the second half of the sentence, "... by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The position taken by the courts and the administration is that "authors and inventors" means "human". The monkey could not be the author of its own selfie photograph, for instance.

Maybe this doesn't reflect the intentions of the Framers, but it certainly should color any modern discussion surrounding the purpose of copyright law.

tadfisher··on Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
Pretty sure you need actual knowledge of a planned crime for that to stick. But I'm also sure the defense will be expensive.
tadfisher··on We Took over ChatGPT Accounts
I am sure this is a crime, but what crime?
tadfisher··on UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power
Nuclear is great at replacing gas-fired power stations, which has a few costs that are not included in the price.
tadfisher··on Anthropic to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO
The market is not an expert and does not trust experts.
tadfisher··on Infinite Mac: BeOS
Also built-in to PowerToys.
tadfisher··on US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears
It would be a terrible idea for Intel to return to DRAM. Just like it was a terrible idea to enter the flash market. They are commodity technologies subject to massive supply and demand shocks. Intel made the most money by leading the process node race and shipping the best silicon for servers, and they lost their way through short-sighted financialization games, long bets on losing technology like 3D XPoint, and forcing out their best engineering talent.
tadfisher··on CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation
FYI, generating comment text is against HN guidelines.
tadfisher··on Show HN: Encarta 95 Web
Just checked, the Soundgarden clip is in its proper place on the Rock Music article. Fantastic work.
tadfisher··on Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706
There are many permissively-licensed source files in the Linux kernel. You are mistaken if you believe those files cannot be distributed independently and included in other permissively-licensed or closed works. The viral part applies when distributing the combined work, so the vendor can't say "some files are MIT so tough luck"; all sources must be made available for the binary you receive if any source is GPL-licensed.
tadfisher··on Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'
The <marquee> tag won't steal your job
tadfisher··on AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market
Nvidia locks the hyperscalars into long-term contracts to buy GPUs and servers. These purchases then fill up warehouses because the data centers and power success cannot be built fast enough to bring the hardware online. The demand only exists because the scalers are in a Mexican standoff, and canceling the Nvidia contract is basically handing the model-training race to the competition.
tadfisher··on Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access–Here's What to Do Next
I support this legislation. It's a wonderful demonstration for children to learn that the state can strip their fundamental rights at will.
tadfisher··on Unit Tests are not the enemy
If LLMs are good enough to write code, they are good enough to write tests. In fact, they can be quite creative at finding test scenarios which exercise the code in unexpected ways.

The usefulness of testing is basically orthogonal to the advent of language models. This question boils down to whether you think the agents are "cheating" through changing the invariants encoded by the tests to something that no longer matches your project's requirements. To this, I would suggest that you read the code they produce, tests included, and not sign off on stupid changes to cheat on tests. This is not a common thing I've caught agents doing, FWIW.

tadfisher··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Passkeys are the standardized version of the bank's proprietary app. Well, except for the device attestation part, that won't happen on iPhones.
tadfisher··on Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name
How is one earning money through graffiti damage
tadfisher··on Android apps running native on macOS
What? Niantic (Google) admitted they were training spatial AI models. I have not seen evidence that the data was a "foreign intelligence-gathering operation" and I would welcome a source.
tadfisher··on Tesla Roadster
Freedom of speech is a thing, and it's well within that right to criticize how private resources are spent.
tadfisher··on New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50104955
tadfisher··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
My friend, inconsistency is the entire point. You now have incredible power to write truly native apps that fit in with the platform and follow all the standards. The bottleneck is now you, or whoever owns each target platform and understands what native apps feel like.
tadfisher··on Passkeys are not a trap
The standard doesn't dictate the UX of settings screens. That's entirely on the platforms which own the screens and I would hope that is kept out of already-huge standards like WebAuthn.
tadfisher··on Passkeys are not a trap
This isn't a standards problem, this is an "Apple, Google, and Microsoft made using your own software difficult" problem. They have an interest in making their authenticators the default, and the settings UX on all three platforms makes it unclear that their authenticator is active as well as your own "third-party" authenticator choice.
tadfisher··on Trezor Wallets Also Compromised with Implants
Wait, Trezor is just selling off-the-shelf QFP chips and holding their customers accountable for their own supply chain? They can't pot the bare dies? They can't burn in a signature? Do they think everyone else is stupid?
tadfisher··on Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
Check the rates! If 3.5% beats your current savings rate, and your balance is high enough, it might pay for itself.
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