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2,698 karma · joined April 17, 2019

On HN everyone can pretend to be a 10x engineer.
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panpanna··on Reddit Acquires Dubsmash
Don't forget they started forcing people to use their app (in some subs).

If your business doesn't work in a browser, I'm out.

panpanna··on Germany begins legal action against Facebook for their Oculus login requirements
What if people are using it for work stuff?

It's becoming a big thing in some industries.

panpanna··on AirPods Max
I thought these looked familiar, but it was just the metal frame reminding me of jabra elite/ evolve.

Usually when apple creates a new product they are very careful to give it a distinct look that is immediately identifiable from competitor products.

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Entirely off-topic: Looking forward to seeing people who make 1/3 of what I make (and my salary is pretty average) telling me they are a winner because they snagged one of these babies on release day. We are so easily fooled...

panpanna··on 64-bit RISC-V core claims 10x better CoreMarks/Watt compared to other 3-5GHz CPU
Not a huge fan of these riscv posts.

This one is more marketing than a technical post worthy of HN.

panpanna··on Big no on Big Sur: Mullvad disallows Apple apps to bypass firewall
> a system-wide content blocking API (which Linux does not

Technically, isn't that what apparmor does?

panpanna··on No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years
This is borderline conspiracy theorist.

Even if your numbers were correct, you have to remember these are the numbers we have _despite_ drastic measures taken.

And of course with the amount of hand washing and social distancing going on right now, I could see how it will have affected the "normal" flu deaths.

Edit: let me just add an answer to this statement

> Clearly that didn't happen, which invalidates the claims of the 'experts' that said it would

It did happen in Italy, which forced Sweden to mobilize the whole country to avoid it. And they almost failed.

panpanna··on Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon
Why is there this illusion that osx just works and linux requires much maintenance??

Only today we had 2-3 _major_ osx issues on HN front page. For example

https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware/status/132699029641299148...

panpanna··on Gig economy companies spent more than $200M to bankroll Proposition 22
This comment is wrong on so many levels.

Most importantly, you don't want others get the protection they deserve because it works fine for your husband.

panpanna··on Docker fails to launch on Apple Silicon
All this trouble so you can stay with apple?

Unless you are an ios dev, why??

panpanna··on Firejail – Sandbox Linux Applications
How much of what freejail provides is already part of snap?
panpanna··on The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone
"Chips not available from Mouser can be purchased from a variety of sources in China"

Good luck figuring out why your code doesn't work on your "genuine" 8051.

From my experience, as soon as there is some demand (this has hit HN after all) the resellers start selling fake or inferior chips. Doesn't really matter how common or cheap they are, its just hope things work now.

Edit: when we really have to buy from China, I always create a test rig to verify component characteristics. Easy for transistors and opamps, not so easy for CPUs.

panpanna··on The Snood Bloober is an open-source reverse-engineered Sound Blaster 1.0 clone
Maybe because ISA is very simple to implement?

You can support a subset of PCI with a fairly simple fpga implementation, but even the antique pci with its 33/66Mhz bus can be tricky to design with correct signal integrity.

panpanna··on SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client
Because apple stopped their app so they can promote their own service instead and now we are seeing a lawsuit?
panpanna··on SpotifyKeyDumper – Dump song decryption keys from the Windows Spotify client
You make that sound as if spotify is the problem.

This is about labels and sometimes artist not wanting to have their songs on spotify anymore.

This is about Tidal or whathername wanting more money from a dying market.

panpanna··on Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
Counterpoint: I find the go standard libraries (which are quite extensive) incredibly readable.
panpanna··on RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
Don't be naive.

When they are done with open piracy they will move to other stuff.

Did you whistle a copyrighted tune in the elevator? You owe us money now.

(If you think I'm joking, look at Japan who jails musicians for 10+ years for playing covers at parties without paying royalties)

panpanna··on U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord
The point was, US can do this too.
panpanna··on U.S. Exits Paris Climate Accord
Question: should countries be able to tax imports from countries with more lax environmental laws?

Because that would address the argument about cost and staying competitive.

panpanna··on Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
Sure, const is great to have.

But Haskells view on this topic is far far more opinionated than just supporting 'const'.

panpanna··on Three Months of Go from a Haskeller’s perspective (2016)
It did to me.

He slams go for not doing stuff the Haskell-way (e.g. pure code vs effectful code).

This is not how you approach new things

panpanna··on FPGAwars: Exploring the Open Side of the FPGAs
For beginners coming from software side, I highly recommend the official lattice boards like ice40 hx8k (by axelsys).

They are cheap and are supported by the FOSS toolchain. So you won't waste money or wrestle with crappy and/or expensive commercial tools, and can concentrate on learning FPGA.

panpanna··on iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review
This is about to change.

Sony and Samsung have already started using much beefier hardware, now that their custom Asic is falling behind.

panpanna··on Cyberpunk 2077 delayed to December 10
> They delivered multiple projects that were at least of comparable size.

They also delivered Witcher 2, which - many years later - is still full of bugs and not playable on some HW.

panpanna··on AMD to Acquire Xilinx
ARM + ASIC? Isn't that simply a SoC?

Edit: technically, the arm part is also ASIC, but you get what I mean

panpanna··on Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you think of it?
I find it more important that it is backed by Rob Pike.

He doesn't cancel things when he gets bored with them.

panpanna··on Books in .txt format for AI training purposes
You just described Google.
panpanna··on Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access
Do you actually live there?

From what I have heard the "high pressure" has only affected ordinary people who can't get things like meds and equipment. Just look how they were affected by corona, so much worse than their neighbors.

I would highly, _highly_, doubt a person actually living there would consider the "high pressure" strategy a good thing.

panpanna··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
We need a rouge git server.

Like silk road but for your open source fixes...

panpanna··on Ask HN: Is Microsoft preferable, from a privacy point of view, to Google?
If Microsoft invented a pill that cures migraine, they would sell it for $$$.

If google invented a pill that cures migraine they would sell it for only $.

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But 10 years later someone would notice that the pills contain a small device that record everything that happens in your body and sent it to google. At the time the pills were created google had no idea what to do with this data, but now somehow they have become the world's biggest pharma. Nobody knows how...

And when confronted, google would see absolutely no problem with what they have done. They would maybe receive a €10.000 fine in germany and then go on.

Some people would start injecting Google Body devices ™, and someone would publish and article on connecting it to your Google Home device ™, which would become the top story on HN. Famous bio-hsckers would hold TED talks on the subject. MacWorld would for years write articles about apples significantly better solution that will very soon be unveiled. Doctors would warn about the risks, but in 2030 nobody listens to doctors anymore.

(You can see this happening, can't you?)

panpanna··on bat, a cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting, Git integration written in Rust
Am I the only one who prefersmy lean and clean Unix commands to stay lean and clean?

For everything else I already have emacs...

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