chinhodado (u/chinhodado)

chinhodado commented on SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2... · Posted by u/accountinhn

AnHonestComment · 5 years ago

To concur:

My laptop running Windows hangs periodically requiring a hard reset... if I watch Hulu on Chrome. At least twice a week and sometimes multiple times a day.

At least Windows in the 90s had the decency to put up a blue screen — now it just hard crashes without any display or debugging information.

Telemetry and forced updates are a slap in the face on top of the quality regressions.

chinhodado · 5 years ago

That sounds like a hardware or driver thing, specifically related to GPU, rather than a Windows issue. You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Chrome.

chinhodado commented on Facebook Lets Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting a Celebrity Plea theintercept.com/2020/12/... · Posted by u/ilamont

chinhodado · 5 years ago

Facebook can't win. If they stand back and do nothing people scream about them being enablers of fake news, propagating misinformation and other things.

But if they remove posts that are reported then they are accused of censorship, of "unaccountable tyranny"

So what are they expected to do then?

chinhodado commented on Changes to Code Search Indexing github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/xPaw

neovintage · 5 years ago

Hey everyone. I had a lot of folks reach out to me about this change. We've heard y'all loud and clear that you want a better code search. The goal of this change was to balance performance and search relevance while we work on a new code search backend. The vast majority of folks shouldn't notice a change in their search results. The folks that will are those that are using code search to count things across all the repositories in GitHub. That's a use case that we don't expressly support as part of code search but we know folks are doing it anyway. My goal for publishing this was to be open about the change and for those folks that are using code search for analytics not have to guess at what happened.

chinhodado · 5 years ago

> The vast majority of folks shouldn't notice a change in their search results.

I'm not sure what you meant by this. How is this the case when repos with no commit within the last year (which is extremely common) are no longer indexed?

chinhodado commented on Changes to Code Search Indexing github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/xPaw

mrcarruthers · 5 years ago

AKA the indexes are too large and we don't want to spend the money

chinhodado · 5 years ago

I doubt that's the reason, given Microsoft's resources.

chinhodado commented on Changes to Code Search Indexing github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/xPaw

chinhodado · 5 years ago

This sucks. I use code search from time to time to find example usages of obscure APIs. With this change it's more or less useless now.

chinhodado commented on Firefox 84.0 mozilla.org/en-US/firefox... · Posted by u/easton

chinhodado · 5 years ago

I love Firefox, I use it everyday, I can't imagine using a browser without Tree Style Tab, or all the things that I can do in about:config.

At the same time, I can't shake off the dreadful feeling that it will eventually die one day. The market share keeps falling year by year.

What is the most realistic future for Firefox?

chinhodado commented on Who Americans spend their time with, by age ourworldindata.org/time-w... · Posted by u/eoo_owid

chinhodado · 5 years ago

I wonder how this data changes in Asian countries. I would expect the end section (time spend in later years) to be vastly different, although that may be changing.

chinhodado commented on AirPods Max apple.com/newsroom/2020/1... · Posted by u/css

lethologica · 5 years ago

Funnily enough I came across these the other day.

https://www.transparentcable.com/collections/all/xl?catID=1&...

A fool and their money...

chinhodado · 5 years ago

You can't talk about expensive cables without mentioning Nordost Odin 2 - something like $30,000 per meter.

https://www.analogueseduction.net/analogue-interconnects/nor...

chinhodado commented on Experts are sounding the alarm about the hidden dangers of gas stoves qz.com/1941254/experts-ar... · Posted by u/mattgreenrocks

mywittyname · 5 years ago

Honestly, induction works better than all but the most high-end gas ranges. The cheaper gas burners can produce the BTUs, they just do a poor job utilizing them. Induction, OTOH, puts nearly 100% of its energy into the pan.

chinhodado · 5 years ago

Is it? It has been a while since I read it but there was an article comparing the energy efficiency of different cooking devices and even though induction cooker is at the top the efficiency is only 70%-80% something.

Edit: Found it:

> There are no Energy Star® certifications for ranges, but research by the U.S. Department of Energy indicates an induction cooker is 84% efficient at energy transfer, versus 74% for a smooth-top electric unit, giving it a heating performance comparable to a gas element. More significantly, induction is 90% efficient with its power use, using 2.8 kW to deliver 2.52 kW. This is a substantial improvement over electric coils, which use 2.0 kW to deliver 1.1 kW (a 55% efficiency), and over gas, which uses 3.5 kW to generate 1.75 kW (a 50% efficiency).

https://insteading.com/blog/energy-efficient-induction-cooki...

chinhodado commented on Google to end the “top stories carousel” benefit to AMP next spring themarkup.org/google-the-... · Posted by u/CPLX

sida · 5 years ago

I hate AMP as a user. It breaks my browsing experience in strange and sometimes unexpected ways. (like certain scroll features can stop working, sometimes weird features like search in page can also break. Sometimes when you try to highlight some text, it will highlight a whole section. And the solution is always --> click the button to get to the actual page and then it is fine)

chinhodado · 5 years ago

I especially hate it for reddit AMP links, since 100% of the time I have to click on the original link anyway to read the full comments, so it's an extra middle step for no good reason.