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anthonj··on Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't
Not that simple, about 5% of the world population has G6PD deficiency and can get sick or die from a diet based on many kind of beans.

I would consider a vegetarian diet, but I can't eat lentils, hummus and beans every day without getting sick (ant my case is quite mild)

anthonj··on Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
This is a 100% online bank account you typically open from an app. The typical clientele will just use the "selfie" auth.
anthonj··on Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' and congratulates OpenAI
Conman-level of statement, from the same person that said he would be "worried" if his engineers were not spending an amount of token comparable to their salary.
anthonj··on Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
I believe it was disproved, but regardless, there is a lot between accepting an hypothesis and possibly valid and building a conspiracy around it. I don't about this case, but this conspiracy typically degenerate in anti-science behaviours, perosonal attacks (on researchers or just chiense people) and similar nice things.
anthonj··on Startup Anti-Patterns
The ridiculous things I was asked to do, and observed other people doing, all because "one day we will gave thousands of clients" while at the same time struggling to push out just a few units.
anthonj··on Stop Making TUIs
I only see a bunch of references to swift (very much not portable), but I did skip the Q/A style section. I see he mentions portability, but still no mention of actual portable frameworks. The word "macOS, "apple" or "swift" appears ~7 times each. No mention to any other GUI framework other than ...a link to the bloomberg terminal website? I would find the title less misleading if it was "I like swift".

Let say someone, as windows or linux user, clicks on this article claiming he/she should stop "doing TUIs", what take away message should he get from it? "GUIs just looks nice but sucks you have no swiftui"? Personally, I was expecting a developer's angle on GUI programming.

anthonj··on Stop Making TUIs
"I built my first serious Mac application"

I will just stop here. No hates for macs, but your typical cli/tui software devoper is concerned about making their software run on almost anything with an actual os. As soon as I see references to specific operating systems or platform specific libraries my bullshit meter goes off.

I was expecting an article about methology and tooling to develop guis, got an apple fan telling stories about ai use.

anthonj··on Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops
Framework addresses issues that previously generated some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345220
anthonj··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
ah, you mean after the accident. Well for starter I would acknowledge the issue (thing that according to the liked thread did not happen, maybe it did not affect enough customers?). Then they should either provide an official recovery guide instead of letting customers figure it out themself on the forum (I can see various pictures of people hooking clips to the flash chip and wondering want to flash exactly), or repair it pro-bono since it's a job that probably take ~10 mins for affected customer and it's an issue caused by a design flaw.
anthonj··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
"Bricked" is a bad term for system without a proper software/firmware update path. A LOT could have been done here to improve "repairability" (with quotes, because this is a software issue on a perfectly fine mainboard).

A/B updates automatically recovering the bios is case of failed update, recovery from usb in case that somehow fails as well (InsydeH2O call it "crisis mode" I think). Lenovo support both. Dell too afaik. This is very much realistic to have, and I would expect it from a decent product. A computer without this feature is pretty much designed to fail more easily.

If for some very weird reason framework was unable to offer this, then at very least they could have placed a header on the board with flashing instructions on the website, instead of advising to buy new hardware.

anthonj··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
I see your point, but what i'm talking about is the company generating a strong incentive to people to buy upgrades or replacements.

This whole submission is about a user going extra length to recover a perfectly functioning main board (with price between 400 and 800 eur depending on model) after an official update went wrong and was suggested to buy a new one.

Mind that I am planning to buy one as well, so I don't have a bias against it. But those suspicious "features" pulled me away from the 16" model for example.

anthonj··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
My conspiracy theory is that selling parts is pretty much their main business case.

A modular gpu using a new standard that is form-factor specific for only a specific model? Matte panel released a few months after the first 13.5 model was released with glossy panel as only option?

It sounds a bit fishy to me. But maybe I'm just a bit too cynical .

anthonj··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
I heard a lot of talk about porting to coreboot (they even sent some motherboard to some coreboot developers I think). Not sure what is stalling there, but sounds like a priority.

For the EC, I feel like a team of a single developer could arrange something there?

anthonj··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
I really don't understand how in 2025 a competent company can't implement a trival A/B flash update. Do they depend on some obscure contractor for the firmware and have no power here?
anthonj··on Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL
Refused to design a dragon dildo :(
anthonj··on I'm Done with Mullvad
I would not call Mamdani a populist, but I don't follow the political situation in usa that closely
anthonj··on I'm Done with Mullvad
Every populist party works that way, by promising very "sensible" thing. They work like an echo chamber for trendy political ideas.

Whether or not they are actually capable or even plan do any of that it's a different matter. Typically, they only end up being a coverup for political extremism. In then other cases they fumble and somehow mess up the situation even more.

anthonj··on SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock
Tbh I'm no5 sure I've even seen an IPO where the price didn't collapse initially.
anthonj··on What `for x in y` hides from you – From Scratch Code
I don't really get the point of the article. Even if I knew little about python, would be it surpsing that a language with no real basic types is probably abstracting a lot?

Even a simple i=0, i=i+1 is "hiding" a lot in python then.

anthonj··on Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
I think this call for something similar to "__builtin_expect" or linux' likely()/unlikely().

Not very clean, but better than inserting obscure optimisations in the source.

anthonj··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Some level of english is required in every country. And you are exposed to it quite frequently in a way or the other (which european country doest start teaching it from elementary school? ). My uni required me to follow course in english and write and defend a thesis in English. You are exposed to english a lot. And on top of that it's a simple lanuge.

Try to lean polish, or chinese. Or german as a Japanese native. Won't be that easy.

anthonj··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
I know some electronic and mech engineers with no german skills, but it's always in young startup in major cities.
anthonj··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
I think there is also a chicken-egg problem in almost every country that doesn't use English as official language:

If you are not an engineer you must have an almost excellent level of local language --> an excellent level of a language is only possible if you are immersed daily over a long time and have the time to study --> to live there you need a job --> back to start

Different counties have different tolerances regarding how quick you pick up the local language. For Germany and France this tolerance is almost 0, for Netherlands it's much higher.

anthonj··on Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe
My friend if my thermometer reads 38-39 I don't need a walk to the doctor to confirm I need to rest for the day.
anthonj··on Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe
"As part of Merz's proposals, from January next year, workers will no longer be able to get a sick note over the phone. They must visit a doctor in person and on the first day of illness."

Can't wait to share the sbahn with feverish people or seeing a live diarrhea attack.

anthonj··on The end of the AArch64 desktop experiment
Ahh that's true, I forgot how badly prices are raising
anthonj··on The end of my AArch64 desktop experiment
Well it's also more than double the price
anthonj··on The end of my AArch64 desktop experiment
I imagine, be he mentions video playback on youtube making things worse, and he does have a dedicated amd gpu.

But iirc for both Firefox and chromium on Linux desktop hw acceleration is tricky so maybe it's that.

anthonj··on The end of my AArch64 desktop experiment
I see the problem, but I don't see a clear analysis on the actual source of the problem. I assumed the issue was mainly single core performance, but he is also suggesting context switches could be the cause?

So could you fix that with a new scheduler? Or you just need another SoC with better single core performance? I could imagine that the latter already exists, just not in soc with >16 cores. My naive view is that such high core count system comes with tradoff on core size and interconnect/memeory bus complexity.

And I mean.. my phone is a middle lower end device and for sure I can play youtube videos (maybe in a popup as well) and run the browser without noticing that much difference from my laptop.

anthonj··on Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
Others comments already mentioned multimedia, but for example where I work we have some development board and prototypes with 10g ethernet, but most developers have a laptop rather than a fixed station. Turns out smallish (but overly expensive) thunderbolt 10g adapters can be used for testing and even reach full thoughput in many cases.
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