brevhtff (u/brevhtff)

brevhtff commented on Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed xda-developers.com/arm-sa... · Posted by u/sharpshadow

dvdkon · 2 years ago

Do you have a source not behind a "cookie wall"?

I remember Qualcomm making phone SoCs with custom cores some years back. Why is it suddenly an issue now? Or were those just rebrands of tweaked Cortex designs?

EDIT: From reading the Reuters article [0] it seems that Arm's argument is that since Nuvia's cores were developed under a now-terminated licence, Qualcomm doesn't have a right to use them, their other licences notwithstanding.

[0]: https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2024-06-10/a...

brevhtff · 2 years ago

> Do you have a source not behind a "cookie wall"?

Ignore it, use technical measures to overcome it, disregard it.

If a stranger came up to you in the street and demanded $5 to continue looking at them, you’d tell them to fuck off (in so many words). You certainly wouldn’t avert your eyes, nor would you cough up.

Fuck these bozos and their shrink wrap licenses and their cookie popups and all.

brevhtff commented on Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago torrentfreak.com/napster-... · Posted by u/luuurker

mmh0000 · 2 years ago

Napster was such an improvement over what it replaced, but, it’s funny by today’s standards Napster was so “basic”.

I remember waiting 3+ hours for a single song to download. Then discovering it wasn’t what I wanted but a troll who renamed the `Barney The Dinosaur I love you` song. Then I’d spend another 3+ hours downloading a different song. Ah 56k internet, what fun.

Today, TPB and a quick search can give you an artist’s entire discography in one go. Or if you’re into automation, lidarr , sonarr , and radarr can pull in your favorite things as soon as they’re released.

What I find most strange about the modern day piracy is quality. It blows my mind how different groups fight to offer the best version of a free thing. And they’re so good at it, that the pirated product is usually substantially better than the official version.

brevhtff · 2 years ago

It’s the only place to find classic hardcore and punk.

brevhtff commented on Anduril Is Building Out The Pentagon's Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms wired.com/story/anduril-i... · Posted by u/cainxinth

ThinkBeat · 2 years ago

Do you find that has worked well? Vietnam, Iraq, Libya?

brevhtff · 2 years ago

Americans are still part of the most powerful western economy so I guess yes?

Evaluating a hypothetical is hard. I’m glad I’m not an Iraqi though. What a fucking fiasco.

(Not arguing morality just effectiveness).

brevhtff commented on Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel futilitycloset.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/beardyw

mulderc · 2 years ago

Who said anything about supporting a family?

brevhtff · 2 years ago

Exactly. It’s a choice.

I had a family instead, but anyone can do it.

brevhtff commented on Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel futilitycloset.com/2024/0... · Posted by u/beardyw

jonas21 · 2 years ago

When you're 67 and basically retired (as Einstein was at this time)?

By contrast, in his 20s, he wrote 4 highly-influential papers in a single year, in his spare time while also working full-time at the Swiss patent office.

brevhtff · 2 years ago

He was incredible and to think he wasnt working incredibly hard to develop his work is (probably, who can say?) nonsense.

brevhtff commented on Ask HN: Anyone left their job because of RTO? · Posted by u/snailb

dangus · 2 years ago

I definitely think there’s merit to the conspiracy theory that people who own shares in companies are the same general groups of people as those who own commercial real estate interests.

Or there’s the tried and true explanation that it’s just micromanagers who want play power games with their employees.

The senior leadership team member can’t really conceptualize a world where an individual doesn’t sacrifice their entire personal life for work, so hearing that an employee has time to do laundry makes them think that it’s anti-productivity to be home.

brevhtff · 2 years ago

> Or there’s the tried and true explanation that it’s just micromanagers who want play power games with their employees.

Everyone thinks they are the good employee that doesn’t need to be managed thank you very much. Yet every manager has seen employees that produce very little if they aren’t constantly managed.

And every manager thinks they’re a good manager, too!

brevhtff commented on Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced to 90 Months in Prison justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

TheNewsIsHere · 2 years ago

I do wonder about how he could have hidden assets in advance. Not that you should, but it’s a fun thought experiment.

Almost eight years is a long time to hold onto a phrase in memory. You would want to repeat it to yourself every day, and not aloud. You would probably want to make sure someone who really cared about you had a copy.

On the other side, that is also a long time for crypto. If your chosen currency crashes or evaporates in the meantime, what was the point over stashing it somewhere in cash or some other liquid or easily liquidated collateral?

Perhaps “buying your mom” a load of extremely valuable jewelry that for some reason is still in the box and lives in the basement would be another gamble without as much risk.

brevhtff · 2 years ago

“Good things come to those who wait.”

brevhtff commented on Anduril Is Building Out The Pentagon's Dream of Deadly Drone Swarms wired.com/story/anduril-i... · Posted by u/cainxinth

tehlike · 2 years ago

We can achieve peace only with responsible use of power.

We can't achieve peace without power.

brevhtff · 2 years ago

Have the biggest stick. Use it responsibly. The idea that anything else will work is naive.

brevhtff commented on EU doubles down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services patrick-breyer.de/en/leak... · Posted by u/belter

avianlyric · 2 years ago

The title of this article is very misleading, suggesting that EU governance is some kind unified body, and that these documents actually represent what “The EU” wants to do.

EU governance is far more complicated, and these documents only represent the view of one part of the EU governance system, the EU Council.

The EU council is basically made up of people sent by the state governments of all the members, and basically represents the views of those state governments. The council is the only legislative writing body in the EU, but it has no power to enact legislation. It can only write proposed legislation, and present it to the EU parliament for voting on.

The EU parliament is made up of directly elected MEPs and represents the interests of EU citizens as a whole, and not as individual member states. To get legislation passed, the parliament and council need to work together to get legislation written that the council is happy to write, and the parliament is happy to enact. The council is small body of 27 people, representing the interests of state governments, and the parliament 705 MEPs and represents “the people”.

There’s currently no evidence that these proposals by the Council will have any success in the parliament, if anything quite the opposite. The EU parliament has made I quite clear they don’t like this type of draconian legislation, and won’t vote to enact it.

Obviously that doesn’t mean we should ignore these proposals. It’s important to make it clear we don’t like it, and lend weight behind the arguments being put forward by MEPs to block this legislation. But to say this represents the EU “doubling down” on penalising privacy-friendly services is ridiculous. It represents the EU council doubling down, but that only one small part of the EU governance bodies, and the other bodies are actively fighting back.

brevhtff · 2 years ago

Thanks for explaining a bit how things work in the EU. Pretty interesting, and not something I would have thought or cared to look up.

In this light it feels a bit like some of the grandstanding bills US politicians write or even pass in the House, knowing they haven’t a chance in the Senate, or whatever. And perhaps the audience is folks in the home country or even other politicians in the home country?

brevhtff commented on Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money? · Posted by u/gooob

brevhtff · 2 years ago

I retired in my late 30s and had kids. So I’m a full time parent as is my partner. I guess that’s my revealed choice for what my ideal job would be? Sometimes I’m not completely happy with my choice, but mostly I am.

If I had more time, or more energy, I’d program for fun more often.

I don’t especially believe in “changing the world.” Not that you can’t (though really, you can’t, to 3 sig figs) just I don’t care to.