rosetremiere (u/rosetremiere)

rosetremiere commented on Ask HN: Signal dropping support for my (very much working) iPhone 6: what now? · Posted by u/rosetremiere

kstenerud · 3 years ago

The last update for iphone 6 was ios 12.5.7 in January. ios 12 is now an unsupported operating system as far as Apple is concerned.

What wouldn't make sense would be to spend resources to continue supporting an unsupported operating system with an imperceptible market share.

The iphone 6 had a good run (2014-2023), but it's time to upgrade.

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

Hard disagree:

I understand it's maybe a bit of an uphill battle to support a software stack that the OS/hardware vendor itself doesn't support, but:

1. telegram/whatsapp do, so it's definitely possible.

2. The point is not to add new features, but just to leave the current version be without deprecating it. There is probably a bit of a development burden in keeping old versions up, but I don't think it's that big: they could even let the community take care of that…

3. But most importantly, "the iphone 6 had a good run", so the natural continuation to that sentence is "so let's discard all those working devices" ? wtf? I think that from a company that defends "public interests", some more thought should be given to not wasting energy, time and money forcing people to upgrade working smartphones…

rosetremiere commented on Ask HN: Signal dropping support for my (very much working) iPhone 6: what now? · Posted by u/rosetremiere

mPReDiToR · 3 years ago

I dumped Signal when they dropped SMS. It no longer meets my use case.

Upgrade your phone, get an Android, stop using Signal. I think that covers your options.

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

Yeah, i'm thinking of getting a oneplus 6 since it's kind of the best supported by pmOS, and I can also just install some privacy friendly android rom in the meantime.

rosetremiere commented on Animal meat and milk sales drop in Europe as vegan versions hit record highs plantbasednews.org/news/e... · Posted by u/gbenga4real

mg · 3 years ago

Vegans of HN: What do you supplement and why?

Personally, I supplement VitaminD3 and Iron.

And I make sure to eat salad, carrots and avocado every day.

I came up with this regime after getting my blood work done and after exactly tracking all my nutritional values for a while and comparing those to the suggested amounts.

I also have a long running project in the "statistics of one" space, where I track a lot of treatment effect correlations:

https://www.gibney.org/a_syntax_for_self-tracking

27,899 entries in my log so far.

From all supplements I a/b tested, Vitamin D3 and Iron look most promising at the moment.

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

I'm taking the VEG 1 supplements (https://www.vegansociety.com/shop/veg-1-supplements) as I believe they essentially cover everything I need to worry about on that front (I hope it does).

rosetremiere commented on Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

rtpg · 3 years ago

can someone explain to me how this would not save energy? I have a very basic model in my head of "energy in/energy out" and it feels like if in the end one person is taking advantage of leakage (but probably not enough to actually get to the same temperature as people around them), then there would be less energy used, but are there non-linear forces at play or something?

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

I'm confused too: my intuiton/understanding would be that:

* The total energy use would be lowered.

* The energy use of the neighbors would be somewhat higher.

rosetremiere commented on Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT genmon.github.io/braggosc... · Posted by u/genmon

gadders · 3 years ago

He's a Labour peer in the House of Lords. They're not known as a group for rampant patriotism.

My criticism of him his how much he struggles with anything of a maths or scientific nature.

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

Good to know, it might be me putting such thought in his mouth then!

rosetremiere commented on Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT genmon.github.io/braggosc... · Posted by u/genmon

petesergeant · 3 years ago

Seems pretty reasonable for a national broadcaster, no? Also British encompasses more than just the English, unless you specifically mean he’s excluding the other Home Nations…

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

Sorry, I didn't mean English more than British (the distinction being a bit too subtle for me to make). It's "par for the course" I guess for a national broadcaster, but:

* That doesn't mean it's not less than ideal.

* It's something one might want to bear in mind, when listening, since it might introduce some kind of a bias to the whole thing (maybe the other comment about number of episodes about european vs african history is a good argument in that direction)

rosetremiere commented on Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT genmon.github.io/braggosc... · Posted by u/genmon

DC-3 · 3 years ago

Nice project OP. I also love In Our Time.

Some favourite episodes off the top of my head:

* Wilfred Owen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001df48

* The Evolution of Crocodiles - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zmhf

* The May Forth Movement - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001282c

* The Valladolid Debate - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgmw

* Gerard Manley Hopkins - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003clk

* Henrik Ibsen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b42q58

* Wuthering Heights - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095ptt5

And finally, in which three mathematicians heroically attempt to explain asymptotic analysis to (septuagenarian novelist and cultural broadcaster) Melvyn:

* P v NP - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06mtms8

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

One thing I am slightly wary about after listening to quite a few episodes is Melvyn Braggs seems to be a bit too patriotic oftentimes. It's nothing really obvious, but you hear a lot of "we" when talking about positive aspects of english history, and a lot of focus on all english innovations compared to other countries. Maybe I'm wrong though.

rosetremiere commented on Zig's multi-sequence for loops kristoff.it/blog/zig-mult... · Posted by u/kristoff_it

eatonphil · 3 years ago

Hey thanks for the feedback! We've got concrete code samples in the README as well [0] that might be more clear?

It's a distributed database for tracking accounts and transfers of amounts of "thing"s between accounts (currency is one example of a "thing"). You might also be interested in our FAQ on why someone would want this [1].

[0] https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle#quickstart

[1] https://docs.tigerbeetle.com/FAQ/#why-would-i-want-a-dedicat...

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

The faq helped, thanks! So, an example of typical use would be, say, as the internal ledger for a company like (transfer)wise, with lots of money moving around between accounts? But I understand it's meant to be used internally to an entity, with all nodes in your system trusted, and not as a mean to deal with transactions from one party to another, right?

rosetremiere commented on Zig's multi-sequence for loops kristoff.it/blog/zig-mult... · Posted by u/kristoff_it

kristoff_it · 3 years ago

Take a look at TigerBeetle which is also written in Zig, if you find segfaults there they even give you money :^)

https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle

rosetremiere · 3 years ago

It's hard to understand what tigerbeetle is about. Can anyone ELI5 it for me? As far as I can tell, it's some kind of a library/system geared at distributed transactions? But is it a blockchain, a db, a program ? (I did look at the website)