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Or easily re-connect AirPods from the phone to AppleTV and watch at night without waking the whole house.
> why isn't that standard operating procedure

That says nothing about system bandwidth: if normally they would approve 10 drugs in N months, but now they threw all available resources on one project to get N/10, it would make sense.

Re:Marvel Visual Effects Workers Vote to Unionize on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:58PM (#37500292)
> thousands of people, you see in the end credits

if you look closely, those usually on-set people, medics, drivers, catering services - those who have unions. VFX companies in most of the cases have a dozen of entries out of hundreds who actually worked on the title, or just a single line company mention. I could understand this practice in cellulose era, but saving a few megabytes at the cost of disrespect to your workers is simply despicable.

Re:Deceptive example for malicious usage of .zip domain on Thursday June 22, 2023 @04:01PM (#36437984)
Now replace all inner slashes with U+2215 (copy-paste from here https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2215)
Re:Tailscale Funnel now available in beta on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:12PM (#35378241)
I meant overhead in a broad sense - both packet size and CPU load combined - what end user actually care about.

My test is what I have to do fairly often: use Windows Explorer to copy 70-100gb file from a network NAS to a local drive. Every so often I click on the wrong network share pinned in the Explorer and see slow transfer speed.

Re:Tailscale Funnel now available in beta on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:52PM (#35377313)
I observe there's about 37% overhead when using TS connection on a local gigabit network.

Copying large file from Synology DS1821+ NAS (Amd Ryzen V1500B) to Windows PC (i7-6700K) is about 111-113 MB/s when accessing NAS directly and 70-73 MB/s when traffic goes through TS (different large files, so no caching here).

Re:Blender 3.5 on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:00PM (#35360881)
Re:ChatGPT lied to me and then tried to deny it on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:16PM (#34716234)
It looks you can query it further:

  > Show options for intent variable

  Persuasion
  Information
  Anecdote
  Reflection
  Inspiration
  Nostalgia
  Humor
  Heartfelt
  Political
  Spiritual
Re:Emulating an emulator inside itself. Meet Blink on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @05:24PM (#34252765)
You can go other way around and use other TUIs for GDB:

* https://github.com/pwndbg/pwndbg * https://github.com/longld/peda * https://github.com/hugsy/gef

Re:Ask HN: What are some of the best podcasts for developers? on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:17PM (#33959650)
Hi Adam! I really enjoy listening to your podcast, but if I may I have some feedback:

* Every time your guest specializes on something low-level - like Rebecca Heineman from most recent episode, David Shayer from last year, and others - you keep saying "yeah, this is a very complicated subject and I don't understand anything about it". Everyone has they own area of expertise, no one knows everything - and that's OK. But when you as a host constantly put yourself down, it leaves a very strange impression on the listener: "well then, invite someone who does".

* When you do a voice over for the interview and queue interviewee responses - the whole sequence feels doctored. It just doesn't sound as a normal conversation, more like out of context clips forced into pre-made narrative. Again, I'm not saying it _is_ out of context, it just feels that way.

Please don't take these two the wrong way, you're doing great job.

Also, I would love to support the show and you seem to have a Patreon account, but prices there are a bit too steep for a casual listener: $6/14.50/36 per month (that's in Canadian dollars). For example, semi-weekly Darknet Diaries has $3/7.50/14.50 tiers.

In the last episode you've announced bonus content with Rebecca, but there's not even an announcement on the Patreon page and it's not clear what tier would allow access to it.

Sorry for the rant, but I hope it provides outside perspective and you might find it useful.

Re:Accelerando (2005) on Thursday December 01, 2022 @08:03PM (#33825410)
It seems to be a third book in a series. Do you need to read Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise before this one?
Re:Tailscale Funnel on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:35PM (#33648670)
I wonder why that's the case. If you own a DNS name, you can set NS record to point to magic-blah.tailscale.net, so they'll have a chance to geo-locate you and return IP address of the closest VM.
Re:The horror has a face – Nvidia’s hot 12VHPWR adapter on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:04PM (#33377038)
Well, it didn't go that well [last time around](http://www.x86-secret.com/pics/divers/v56k/finalv5-6000.jpg).
There Is No Antimemetics Division.
There's Ring Video Doorbell Elite, so the market isn't completely bare. Yes, it's Amazon and pricey, but it does exist.
Re:Taildrop on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:58PM (#33195770)
Mac laptop? ".local" seems to from mDNS that requires multicast that currently doesn't work in Tailscale: [1], [2], [gh].

1: https://forum.tailscale.com/t/mdns-over-tailscale-network/22...

2: https://forum.tailscale.com/t/bonjour-via-tailscale/3237/2

gh: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/1013

Re:How to choose a radon fan (2018) on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @06:04PM (#33101785)
Re:Can I use a system call? on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @01:57PM (#32928756)
You don't need to avoid _all_ system calls. Just call sbrk/VirtualAlloc/vm_allocate once and then dole out smaller chunks yourself.

That way if you need to add new platform, it's only one place; you're shielded against weird platform bugs (Apple goes one way, Microsoft the other), so the app behaves the same; you can tweak system to your particular use.

Re:Ask HN: Our users don't want to pay taxes on Monday August 22, 2022 @02:58PM (#32555663)
I am a bit confused here. Does it mean that all tires should be single use and no one is allowed to have summer/winter/performance sets?
Video is paywalled and only pptx file is provided there, but you can find pdf with speaker notes at https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1027553/Adventures-with-Deferr...
Even if you do have a physical sim card, finding sim card ejector isn't trivial, especially in a situation when you do need to call 911.
Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @02:32PM (#32004938)
On the other hand, what guarantees do they have that you haven't tampered with the readers? Are they able or can afford to disassemble every single one of them to inspect?
Re:Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:50PM (#31659899)
Just copy-pasted a piece from the other HN tread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630193) and it's not even close to AWS:

https://unrealspeech.com/k6g8a

Re:A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge on Thursday April 21, 2022 @05:57PM (#31115686)
Now we have `winget install VideoLAN.VLC` :)
For anyone wondering, there's a missing 'l' in the handle. Correct one seems to be `@kamilkazani`
Re:WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @04:01PM (#31088227)
I still can't find any mentions of external memory mapping without copying it into the heap. _Very_ disappointing as it makes yet another version of WASM completely unusable for many high-performance applications :(
Re:Abusing Exceptions for Code Execution, Part 1 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @02:38PM (#30859098)
Yes, but once malware is on the other side, it could be caught by the AV doing static analysis/signature match. This point of this technique is obfuscation and evasion.
Re:Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @03:15PM (#30770236)
> With ultra settings, it runs at 4k 30fps (average of 40fps) on an i7 cpu and rtx 3090.

by rob cupisz (Tech and Rendering Lead at Unity Demo Team) https://twitter.com/robcupisz/status/1505875759243612172

Re:Rich Salz to OpenSSL: Please change your mind on Friday October 29, 2021 @07:00PM (#29044478)
There was a patch that adds QUIC support, but recently steering committee have announced that they are not going to merge it and will implement their own version instead.
In the mid 2000-s we were researching what video card to use for a product with very long life time and extremely tedious certification. Once completed, you can't replace one component with another without invalidating the certificate. While both Ati and Nvidia would offer better performance and features, Matrox was the only supplier promising to keep stock for the next 10 or so years.

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