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Anyone find stuff like this funny? "They cracked a 15-bit key, OMG". 15 bits = 32,768 possible keys in the entire universe. A normal computer cracks this as well in 0.0000001 seconds.

MacBook Neo 5 months ago

Anyone think you'll actually be able to do anything on a Mac with only 8gb of RAM? I had a Macbook Pro before with 16gb of RAM and it was constantly running out of RAM and showing me the Force Quit Applications dialog. Constantly...

Yeah just adding to this -- being able to see the files being operated on is absolutely essential for figuring out if you need to ^C it and try again or if you need to let it keep going.

xAI joins SpaceX 6 months ago

Seems like a great way to play games with moving money around. Come up with a "valuation" and then "acquire".

Ran a bunch of stop losses (momentum ignition) while conning everyone into thinking it was all about being a math genius, but what do I know

Predictably, the new design sucks. It compresses and obscures multiple workspace icons all onto one icon, so I have to hover it to see what I could see previously without a hover.

And of course you can't "switch back to the old experience"

The summaries and comments need spacing/line breaks. I think right now the original HN site is still way better. Maybe have it produce bullet points or explicitly ask for line breaks in the relevant places. It's just not pleasant to read unbroken walls of text once they're more than about 1-2 sentences (yours appear to be at least 3+).

Had the same experience w/ the Apple Watch Ultra. I realized the main way I'm using the watch is as a stopwatch when I'm at the gym. For fun -- let's do a quick comparison:

Cheap Casio Watch:

- Never have to charge it

- Continuously shows me the minutes and seconds on the stopwatch

$700 Apple Watch Ultra:

- Needs to be re-charged daily

- Refuses to offer a minutes and seconds mode for more than 10-15 seconds at a time (it will keep counting, but will just show the minutes unless you continuously keep raising your wrist)

- Refuses to offer a settings option to adjust the above behavior (presumably because Apple's UI in general is basically "would you like 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or 60 minutes?" with very little thought given to the idea you might be able to actually comprehend how many minutes you want and that it might not be one of the Cupertino options)

Also since I'm already rambling -- just to ramble a bit more:

- Receiving "now's a good time to be mindful" or "time to take a break and stand up" alerts while I'm driving and (maybe because of the specific distance from my house) particularly when I'm about to merge onto the nearest freeway .... when the watch has a GPS and knows how fast I've been moving and where I am ... kinda leaves me speechless.

To balance:

It is still useful overall for seeing Maps directions displayed directly on the watch face -- and this would be the major use case for me. But it's enough of a PITA to keep it charged that I generally just use my phone instead anyway.

Cool! I'd use a different font than just sans-serif on the above the fold content/nav. I'd also kill the underlining. Maybe add some border-radiuses at the bottom form elements / submit button. But unique style and cool non-run-of-the-mill design!

PHP in 2023 4 years ago

Just to offer an alternate opinion for anyone reading -- check out Next.js

PHP in 2023 4 years ago

Everyone's at a different step in their journey. But I do agree if you're building stuff then exactly, who cares? End of the day it's definitely about what's built, not how.

PHP in 2023 4 years ago

React isn't a language, it's an elegant pattern layered on top of (Java|Type)script which are languages. Not sure what versioning conflicts there are with Python but there are a lot of community solutions in the form of pyenv, virtualenv, etc. Python is well thought-out, imho, but I think it can take a certain type of person time to realize it. I used to hate it but the way I ultimately came around to understanding it was someone explained to me it's essentially extremely close to pseudo-code, which I think is ultimately why it can seem very natural and why so many universities and the larger STEM/ML community have all adopted it.

PHP in 2023 4 years ago

Kinda, you have to make sure all the extensions you need are installed, then fix php.ini so it's not doing anything wrong, and then it usually works if you haven't missed anything, until something becomes deprecated.

PHP in 2023 4 years ago

Kinda applies to anything (Ruby, Python, Rust, Java, Javascript, ...)