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karmakaze commented on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=qEllW... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
milesvp · 2 days ago
BTW, if you don't know Benn Jordan, his YouTube content is fire. I happen to be in the intersection of things that he likes to think about, but every video I've seen of his lately deserves front page HN treatment. It is that good.

This one was particularly good, given the technical difficulties of recording low frequency sounds. I can't vouch for his conclusions, but the effort he goes to to record these sounds is crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvr8L5v8u8

karmakaze · 2 days ago
I realized just how much of a geek and obsessive he is when I watched a video about his analysis and evaluation of reverb effects.
karmakaze commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
flux3125 · 2 days ago
Funny how the article itself is an ad
karmakaze · 2 days ago
AdsTechnica now.
karmakaze commented on The Asahi Illusion   futilitycloset.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/beardyw
karmakaze · 2 days ago
If I keep looking at it, the center slightly 'grays out' matching or even seeming to be less bright than the outer page. Only the inner spaces between the dark circles appears extra bright and not all that much.
karmakaze commented on The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year   time.com/7339685/person-o... · Posted by u/lode
mulhoon · 3 days ago
I can't help thinking AI would have done a better job of this image (no disrespect to the artist)

https://time.com/redesign/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi...

karmakaze · 3 days ago
I thought it might be AI but the composition is so much worse.

I like how odd it looks on the whole--it captures the moment we're in.

karmakaze commented on Using extended attributes to tag files   alexlance.blog/tagging.ht... · Posted by u/alance
alance · 4 days ago
My recent journey sorting through years of files and categorizing/tagging them with the built-in Extended File Attribute functionality.
karmakaze · 3 days ago
I've lost extended attributes of files on a number of systems because they aren't always included by default in file operations. I don't trust everything that could possibly write/update a file to preserve them--common 'safe' pattern is to rename as .bak and write new file contents without EA to original name. Nor do I trust myself from archiving without using the right options in a hurry.
karmakaze commented on iPhone Fold Expected to Claim 22% Foldable Market, 34% Revenue in First Year   macrumors.com/2025/12/09/... · Posted by u/mgh2
karmakaze · 4 days ago
But what's the market share of foldable to non? That's the real question. The iPhone Air has 100% of the super thin phones (excluding camera bump) but they still cut production soon after launch.

Estimates are 1.5% to 1.6%, and I heard one even forecast "nearly 5% by 2028".

karmakaze commented on Morphisms All the Way Down: API Design as Arrow-First Thinking   ibrahimcesar.cloud/blog/c... · Posted by u/ibrahimcesar
znort_ · 5 days ago
> They focus on objects when we should focus on morphisms.

if you're building real systems you should focus on both.

> Coupling as Hom-Set Size ... The second interface is easier to implement, test, mock, and evolve.

i would doubt that. this just hides the complexity of multiple interfaces inside single, more general interfaces. if those "arrows" actually exist you will have to test and evolve them anyway, and adding some extra classification level does little apart from adding complexity.

> Pipelines ... Why This Matters ... Testability: Each morphism can be tested independently

i agree ... and this just contradicts the previous point about hom-set size.

> The arrows are what matter.

everything matters. i'm aware of the benefits and appeal of category theory, but i don't see the need to shoehorn it into everything, this just seems an example of evangelization of extremes. iow: if your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail, and that's not conducing to good design.

karmakaze · 5 days ago
> “We need a User Service”

This is an XY problem statement. We need Y to do X (the following):

> “We need these operations on user data: create, read, update, delete, authenticate, authorize”

karmakaze commented on Bad Dye Job   daringfireball.net/2025/1... · Posted by u/mpweiher
joshstrange · 6 days ago
> Putting Alan Dye in charge of user interface design was the one big mistake Jony Ive made as Apple’s Chief Design Officer.

_One_??? Talk about rose tinted liquid glass(es).

karmakaze · 6 days ago
Leaving him there was an even bigger mistake that Apple allowed and never corrected--Alan Dye had to correct that himself. Any dis post-departure only points the blame back at Apple's management.
karmakaze commented on Previous: A NeXT Emulator   previous.alternative-syst... · Posted by u/fanf2
ksaj · 7 days ago
I'm surprised they didn't name it PreviOS.
karmakaze · 7 days ago
Or PReV. Amazing project!

I remember trying to get NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on x86 hardware, it was so fussy with the hardware it supported that I had to take apart 3 computers from the office as well as a personal (not mine) Everex cube PC. (That's just for what was used, I'd taken apart way more to try and fail with so many cuts on my hands.) Then there were so many precise moments where you had to hit keys, eject floppy, or other hardware shenanigans that it felt like playing Dragon's Lair.

Was finally able to get it to boot to 2-bit grayscale on a DECpc with a LocalBus video card and some kind of SCSI drives. [After a few days, I had to return the parts to the users' PCs]

The NeXTSTEP desktop was nice. Interface Builder though blew my mind.

karmakaze commented on What the heck is going on at Apple?   cnn.com/2025/12/06/tech/a... · Posted by u/methuselah_in
markus_zhang · 7 days ago
> Alan Dye, vice president of human interface design, who is joining Meta as its chief design officer.

I wonder if he is responsible for all those niceties MacOS got for the last 10 or so years. Like the scroll bars in Serious Sam Mental difficulty, or the flat earth flavour icons, you know.

karmakaze · 7 days ago
I don't know if it's only because he left, but there are stories about how bad he was in his position for such a long time. If that's true, Apple must be blamed for keeping him there--until he voluntarily left. WTF?

u/karmakaze

KarmaCake day9044April 23, 2012View Original