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mikewhy

1,296 karma · joined January 4, 2011

The year is 2022, Hacker News is largely American Centrists, erring towards supporting big corporations, with a touch of Nazi sympathizing. I'm out
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mikewhy··on Subscriptions and external links help drive users to extremist YouTube channels
Would you prefer "labelled as by the US Department of Homeland Security"?
mikewhy··on Subscriptions and external links help drive users to extremist YouTube channels
Are any of them associated with domestic terrorism?
mikewhy··on Subscriptions and external links help drive users to extremist YouTube channels
The "caucasian" there is redundant.
mikewhy··on Questions to ask a prospective employer during a job interview
If it's not in your power to resolve an issue with your machine by the end of the work day, you should feel no pressure to stay late and fix it.
mikewhy··on Johnny Mnemonic in Black-and-White
It recently released on bluray
mikewhy··on Blocking Kiwifarms
So you've verified the person in the screenshot saying they've arranged for bombs to be planted has been banned?
mikewhy··on USB4 v2 is also 120 Gbps
So that measures transfer speeds, but what about the rest of the things USB carries?

Here's an example of the data that cable testers can give you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XFbJD6RE4EY

mikewhy··on Learn PWA
> > dramatically improving security

> How so? That seems pretty dubious to me

With an electron app, I have access to your file system and can start deleting things. Yes, some operating systems might gate access but it's not standard or granular enough.

While the file system api in browsers requires your approval.

mikewhy··on The silent majority in software
Threads like these are why I don't pay attention to HN anymore.
mikewhy··on An Introduction to PipeWire
Hmm, I suppose that could work, didn't think about targeting the Pipewire api.

I didn't play around with it much, but the controller did appear as a 5.1 (or was it 7.1?) in Linux.

Oh, and I forgot, the controller itself also has a headphone jack. The controller itself can take 3 audio streams, two of which can be used for sound.

mikewhy··on An Introduction to PipeWire
I was playing Spider-Man with a dual sense and got wondering. That game puts out audio to your speakers, a separate audio stream to the speaker in the controller, and _another_ stream of audio for the haptics. Is this any bit possible with any Linux audio solution?
mikewhy··on The Travis separation a year later
So if I was heading a project and we had one CI provider and someone suggested adding another, my response would be either "no", or try to have the benefits of this alternative service explained to me. And if it is better, would only accept the new one if we converted all old pipelines over to it. Is that wrong?

curl has 7???? I would love to understand why. The article has "reasons", but not many justifications. Load balancing is understandable. "not all eggs in the same basket" less so to me. Are they running identical suites on multiple providers? If so, what's the plan when one suite fails on one but works on another?

Just seems mad to me. "If this is stuff you like to tinker with, we could use your help" best of luck with that!

mikewhy··on One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
So we've reinvented mall food courts without the foot traffic. Kudos, technology.
mikewhy··on A new Linux handheld game console based on ODROID-N2
I don't know of a site, but Taki Udon on YouTube follows them very closely.

Retro Dodo does as well.

"The best" is very subjective unfortunately. And the answer will change based on what you're looking for.

IE I've searched for "the best" and ended up with an android phone in a telescopic controller before getting a Steam Deck.

mikewhy··on Plex: Important notice of a potential data breach
> often connecting new devices that don't access the password manager

Isn't that what plex.tv/link is for?

mikewhy··on Why is Snowflake so expensive
I love that CircleCI flaunts it's speed compared to other providers, meanwhile we can clearly see the CircleCI steps take the longest in our builds.

Not to mention the constant failures.

mikewhy··on Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
That sounds exactly like "The client should manage the resources on the client not the server"
mikewhy··on Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade
Nowadays arch install ISOs have an `archinstall` script that can get you going for basic setups.
mikewhy··on Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?
Curious, what's the difference with this and `apt-get --fix-broken install`?
mikewhy··on Rufus: Microsoft is blocking Windows ISO downloads
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10
mikewhy··on Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser
If an app uses the non-OS supplied web view I just assume they're doing nefarious things.

Coincidentally the only apps I have that don't use the OS supplied web view are from Meta.

mikewhy··on “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”
I'm confused by all the mention of "what colour apple uses" in messages, message bubbles are a mask over a gradient
mikewhy··on Winamp, the best MP3 player of the 1990s, just got a major update
I'm confused, you say you want the "old" versions of Winamp, but Winamp has had a media library since the "old" versions. Maybe you can ignore the current one just as you always have and not base your diatribe off one screenshot in an article?
mikewhy··on AirPods Suck in Video Conferences
> used as both the speaker and mic, everybody sounds horrible

Yup, this is the curse of Bluetooth headsets

mikewhy··on HypeScript: Simplified TypeScript type system in TypeScript's own type system
> You can't import JSDoc types from other files

Yes, you can. Using `import('./someFile').SomeType`

Though I do agree, JSDoc works, but isn't as nice as directly writing types in a .ts file

mikewhy··on A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
Did you mean to repost the same link I did?
mikewhy··on A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
Is this data like way off or something? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/suicide-deaths-firearms
mikewhy··on Show HN: I made CSS Scan 3.0, a fast way to check and copy CSS
And back to the original question, how do you copy the font size from the breakpoint rules, the margin from the second set of rules, and the font family from the third, with a callout to the breakpoint, in a single click using Firefox dev tools?
mikewhy··on Show HN: I made CSS Scan 3.0, a fast way to check and copy CSS
Not sure those are the same at all? The submission copies all applied styles, complete with breakpoints. A class / id is only a portion of applicable styles, multiple selectors can match the same element. This is more like copying the non-auto rules in the "Computed" tab, with breakpoints.

Chrome has "Copy Styles", but that doesn't get breakpoints. I don't know if Firefox does, but I haven't looked very much. It doesn't look like Safari does either.

mikewhy··on Git log is not a changelog
At work we squash and use standard-version to create a generic change log, then have a script that ingests that change log and goes to the PR to grab any associated tickets, screenshots, and release notes the developer may have written. The body of the PR is split into sections (just using markdown headers), so there is control over what goes into the release notes.

A git log is not a change log, sure. But PRs can contain a lot of useful information.

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