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You can use it without understanding, but this won't help you actually understand how it behaves.

watermelon0on Platform-independent SIMD in Go

Rob Pike seems to dislike syntax highlighting:

> Syntax highlighting is juvenile. When I was a child, I was taught arithmetic using colored rods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire_rods). I grew up and today I use monochromatic numerals.

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3B...

He is definitely not alone in thinking this, for example (but for different reasons): https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/

watermelon0on I said no and Apple said yes

> The cheating is out of control.

There are hardware cheats that are not detectable by KLAC, so it doesn't solve the problem, just improves the situation.

The only way to avoid cheaters is to play with people you trust.

watermelon0on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

They abandoned (or at least postponed) the idea of charging for self-hosted runners usage.

Actions management plane is the most problematic part of the platform (in regards to scale), so they are basically losing money with self-hosted runners.

Scaling of VMs shouldn't be a problem, since that is practically stateless, whereas there are lots of operations performed for every job/workflow.

watermelon0on Homebrew 7.0.0

Are you implying that a 6 year old hardware is as good as a paperweight? Outside of the Apple fairyland this is just bonkers.

I'm not blaming the Homebrew project/developers here, but the fact that many people are okay with deprecating perfectly fine hardware.

watermelon0on Astra replicates Adobe Lightroom

It links directly to captcha page.

watermelon0on Bug Blindness

There is no CSS configuration for text/font on the website, so it's using browser defaults.

Seems like reader mode is needed due to bad defaults.

watermelon0on Disruption with Some GitHub Services

It very well may be that the paying customers are actually the problem. Those can actually afford to throw enough money at AI providers to significantly increase the number of commits & other actions.

watermelon0on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

Forgejo CI is based on act, which allows running GitHub Actions locally.

However, Codeberg offers hosted Woodpecker CI.

watermelon0on Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx

Works for me in Firefox. It's h264/mp4.

watermelon0on Using a Gaming PC's RTX 5070 from a separate Linux workstation

https://archive.is/HBaXZ

(Cloudflare says I'm blocked from accessing the webpage, even though I'm using a residential IP)

watermelon0on Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

Plex app is better, but still inadequate compared to Infuse.

watermelon0on Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand

I’m quite sure that server set cookies are the norm for authentication, at least where they are set from the server side.

watermelon0on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application

Wouldn't it be cheaper to only produce 500 items, instead of producing 1k, and throwing half of it away?

watermelon0on TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

Practically all consumer Zigbee devices only support 2.4GHz. You would need to go for ZWave for the sub-GHz range.

Also, it's not like 860-930 MHz (depending on the country) is without interference.

watermelon0on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

I've been thinking about building my own NAS as well. Mind sharing how much did you pay for those hard drives, and what motherboard did you choose?

watermelon0on Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

Docker Desktop's memory saver shuts down VM when containers are not running.

Additionally, Docker/Podman/Orbstack start a single VM, where memory is shared between containers.

On the other hand, Apple Containers create a separate VM for each container, which results in higher memory usage due to Linux kernel overhead, as well as the fact that kernel will try to use most of the available memory for file caching.

watermelon0on Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

FYI Apple Passwords supports exporting of items including Passkeys, which can be then imported in e.g. Bitwarden.

watermelon0on Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

The issue here is not that they didn't test on alternative distributions of Android, the issue is that they went out of their way to prevent anything but the officially blessed distributions.

watermelon0on Hetzner Price Adjustment

Can you tell more about their subpar latency?

I've been using Hetzner for many years, both personally and for business use, and I've not seen any noticeable issues regarding the latency.

Granted, my use cases are webapps/backends that are not particularly latency sensitive, and are primarily used from a few European countries.

For what's worth, I've seen cases where download speeds from Hetzner are considerably higher than from AWS eu-central-1.

watermelon0on Surprise, pay $1000

Technically, here the paying customer experience was the problem, not the free trial one, because they were automatically upgraded.

Generally, you don't want to award people/companies that don't respect you. I'm not saying that you shouldn't re-evaluate them in the future, but they will walk away with the wrong lesson if you just start throwing money at them.

watermelon0on Surprise, pay $1000

Do you plan to refund all previous free trial customers, who didn't contact the support, and actually paid unexpected overage fees?

Invoices are legally binding documents in many countries, and even if that might not be the case in your country, not everyone might be aware of that fact.

> since it gives their AP team a real cost to work from instead of a ballpark of us vs. GitHub

Same could be achieved by showing the real cost in the web app and/or sending a report via email, without scaring them away, and possibly _extorting_ them.

watermelon0on Surprise, pay $1000

Why would you want to use a provider, that resorts to shady practices, especially since there are a lot of alternatives out there?

watermelon0on Surprise, pay $1000

Self-hosted runners make a ton of API calls during job execution, so they might not be completely wrong here.

watermelon0on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use

Luckily for them, every OS has (at least one) native way of building applications, and with the power of AI they could easily make 3 different desktop UIs, while reusing the same core logic.

watermelon0on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

> They pioneered things like iCloud Private Relay and privacy protecting cloud backups for devices.

They didn't pioneered it, they just brought it to the masses. Tor was here before the Private Relay, and most open source backup applications offer E2EE out-of-the-box.

watermelon0on 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack

Unless something has changed recently, Slack uses AWS Chime SDK for audio/video, so at least the core technology is great.

watermelon0on Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

Is GitHub really profitable, considering how much Actions credits are given away to open source projects as well as free users? Same goes for Copilot.

watermelon0on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

It doesn't have a great cross platform support (no Linux client, and there are many complaints for the Windows client).

Personally, I dislike that you cannot restore an older version of a file on laptop/phone, and must instead use their web app, for which you need to disable ADP, which defeats its purpose.

watermelon0on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

Sharing files between apps and file management in general on iOS is atrocious.

I assumed this was a solved problem before Windows 98 (first desktop OS I used), but Apple cannot get this right 28 years later.