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morelikeborelaxon Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

I thought the rumours were skipping M6 for the Mac Studio. Not for Macbook Pros and Mac Minis.

morelikeborelaxon Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

Those saying it's fine come from a good place. I come from a world where we see young people groomed, pursued and manipulated. There is no serious reason to posting your age as a minor on an adult forum.

morelikeborelaxon Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

Don't post your age on the internet :)

Project looks cool

morelikeborelaxon Roger Sweet, Creator of the He-Man Action Figure, Dies at 91

He is quite the character on that. Great episode!

morelikeborelaxon Google investing up to $40B in Anthropic

What if Google can't compete? They don't want to be left behind and all this money being throw around is just nonsense anyway.

morelikeborelaxon Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

morelikeborelaxon Show HN: Tolaria – open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases

I really like Zettlr, but I find it is always crashing when markdown changes behind the scenes and it has the document open.

It's so good for viewing all markdown in a repo, but dies all too often.

morelikeborelaxon Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS

This is the reply that was posted when Dropbox was first shown off on HN. It's a joke :)

morelikeborelaxon 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

I used to partake in all RAM discussions online. Here, reddit, every technical hardware forum and anywhere workstations were being talked about.

The sentiment was always ECC is a waste and a scam. My goodness the unhinged posts from people who thought it was a trick and couldn't fathom you don't know you're having bits flipped without it. "it's a rip off" without even looking and seeinf often the price was just that of the extra chip.

I've discussed it for 20 years since the first Mac Pro and people just did not want to hear that it had any use. Even after the Google study.

Consumers giving professionals advice. Was same with workstation graphics cards.

morelikeborelaxon Show HN: 2048 turned 10 this year, I built an updated version to celebrate

Very bizarre, as I also found it helped with this! I was only a First Officer at the time, but even as a Captain today I find playing 2048 during take off and landing really helps.

morelikeborelaxon Pokémon is no longer just a game – it's a lifestyle

Too much control and influence for an American company I expect.

Japanese companies have some behaviour that may seem odd, naive or lacking the best of capitalism, but they are what they are.

Nintendo regularly get this sort of criticism.

The game is also a data collection tool for Niantic, rather that to be a great game. Someone would have to give up control to change it all.

morelikeborelaxon Stop Telling Everyone What You Do for a Living

You forgot brain surgeon. Of course it's not rocket science is it.

morelikeborelaxon Non-ECC memory corrupted my hard drive image [video]

> " I guess you don't really know that you needed ECC until it's too late."

I spent many years on hardware consultation and was amazed at the all the times I had to explain it was just a what if insurance like any other things their business was mitigating against. Sometimes they'd even decided they needed to save costs in non-ecc ram when it was $4 a gb in difference, or (during the FB-DIMM era) there wasn't even an option to avoid it.

Never really understood the resistance towards it.

Maybe the lack of evidence before the Google study and people thinking RAM manufacturers were trying to rip them off or something.

The "never had a problem so why would I need" it attitude with no way to know if an issue was caused by a bit flip was most baffling.

morelikeborelaxon Tumblr Announces Important Blue Internet Checkmarks

Automattic purchased them for $3m 3 years ago. Matt Mullenweg has a vision for it, but obviously we've not seen a huge resurgence in it yet.

They did announce the are allowing non-pornographic nude images back last week.

morelikeborelaxon Snapchat’s product is booming

Because they are a public company and institutional shareholders wouldn't let them.

Before going public they wouldn't have been able to pass it by VCs already invested or raise any more capital. OnlyFans has this problem.

Even if they had offered it early they would have struggled the same way OnlyFans did recently over payments, and with no way to police it on their technology probably would have been embattled with media and public perception way worse.

Banks, investors and other companies don't want to deal with Pornography and sex workers despite the massive proliferation online.

They wouldn't have been able to have all their partnerships, generate revenue from other sources or have apps either.

morelikeborelaxon Diving into BoardGameGeek

It was very highly ranked, you are correct.

morelikeborelaxon Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1B

Ah yes your anecdotal experience clearly means one of the largest companies in the world is rejecting remote work by buying an office they already lease.

morelikeborelaxon Show HN: Duedilly.io – Accuracy of Reddit Trading Ideas

I've been using WSB and what has come since for many years as additional sources of DD; and it reads like "Howdy do fellow kids" type nonsense from someone who isn't part of the community.

The Ape stuff is cringe, because that moniker is adopted for those who can't read/can only buy and hold stock and is purely focused on GME anyway.

This could be a great resource and it doesn't need to be directed to people playing up ridiculous persona's on reddit when the reality is those who will read this are intelligent investors.

morelikeborelaxon The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

Onlyfans is a service not a content provider or media company.

What you are suggesting is akin to Shopify, Etsy or eBay paying a minimum wage to sellers.

morelikeborelaxon Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log

I used to sell workstations and servers years ago and trying to convince people they needed ECC Ram and that it was just insurance for (often) just the price of the extra chips on the DIMMs was a nightmare.

The amount of uninformed and inexperienced counter arguments online suggesting it was purely Intel seeking extra money (even though they didn't sell RAM) was ridiculous.

I never understood why there was so much push back from the consumer world commenting on something they had no idea about. Similar arguments for why would you ever need xxGB of RAM while also condemning the incorrect 640kb RAM Bill Gates comment.

morelikeborelaxon Fastly Outage

That's how good Fastly is. Outside of this issue it's a great service.

morelikeborelaxon Fastly Outage

Over one issue that highlights they have an abundance of top level customers? Interesting strategy when it's already at a low.

morelikeborelaxon Fastly Outage

Fastly gives them the edge performance they need without having to build it themselves. They have been a customer for a while I think.

morelikeborelaxon The Last Days of Satoshi: What Happened When Bitcoin’s Creator Disappeared

When I got into Bitcoin in 2012 seeing "the light" for me was no fee international transfers and a non-traceable way to pay for whatever. There wasn't any wealth investing. Everyone was agreeing it had value and I liked that concept.

I had felt let down by banks and financial institutions after 2008 and this was a new way to do business with people outside that.

It became something else after the end of the 2013 spike to $1k, and then I guess I was aware its use was mostly for illicit activities, but it still has plenty of use cases beyond just increasing in value.

morelikeborelaxon Technologies I thought my son would never use

Mechanical storage will probably change first time he builds a desktop to play games on. AAA games will require more and more space and I doubt SSD space will catch up for the budget of kids/teenagers within the next 5 years.

Or when he starts using a computer at school, other family or friends.

morelikeborelaxon Eight Years at Roblox

I don’t really understand why Roblox is so successful - you can invent all sorts of reasons in retrospect but it’s hard to validate them, and if you came to anybody back in 2012 and asked for an investment to build a platform where all games are user generated and run on a custom engine with a custom toolset and all users participate in a giant virtual economy and …, I think you’d have gotten a blank stare.

Interesting that he writes this. I don't believe you'd have got a blank stare at all. Minecraft servers with custom games had already sprung up, Second Life had existed and people were playing around with these concepts. The idea is sound, just needed execution and luck.

morelikeborelaxon Complex text layouts progress report in Godot game engine

Because Godot is OS independent for development and consumption so there would be inconsistencies.

morelikeborelaxon Nova by Panic

Been waiting for this for some time as a previous Coda 2 user for a while.

Looks good.

morelikeborelaxon Corsair Gaming S-1

Not at all. Look at last summer's IPOs.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/heres-who-has-gone-public-i...

morelikeborelaxon Corsair Gaming S-1

You can buy DIMMs from all three just rare to see in most retail channels for consumer stuff. Obviously Micron have crucial, but you see Micron non-server DIMMs in OEM systems.