I have no idea why this was shared on Hacker News (might simply be the Paul Graham connection), but it was one of the best, well-written, and researched articles I've read in years!
Readit Newswargames commented on The Origins of Wokeness paulgraham.com/woke.html... · Posted by u/crbelaus
Arm in inevitable for the server. It's interesting how now days, efficiency/power consumption is a consideration over pure raw performance.
I genuinely don't see how x86 architecture will continue to survive the next 10 years. It will of course take longer to change home desktop users to new architectures; they will be the last segment to switch, but it seems all but inevitable.
BTW, I'm not even speaking to whether x86 can compete at the same power per watt... I think it just won't make sense financially to be out of sync with the industry.
FYI to the website designer: on desktop, this website does not have a scrollbar. In addition to that being an accessibility issue, I closed the website after I got tired of paging and/or using the scroll wheel.
wargames commented on How to (and how not to) design REST APIs github.com/stickfigure/bl... · Posted by u/stickfigure
Doing REST microservices is incredibly slow because of the amount of work it is to agree on what a "clean" and "consistent" api looks like for each service. It's just such an endless well of trying to establish best practices without refactoring constantly.
It's worth it for your public API, but it's such a huge time sink for internal APIs.
I would be interested in what you are using internally that is allowing you to move quicker.
> I'm blown away that I can watch 3 hours of h264 content on my flights and only 5% of my iPad battery is used.
That sounds wild. Apple says iPad is rated for up to 10 hours of video playback [1]. The display alone should consume more than that.
No lyin'. I have an iPad Pro 12.9", 5th generation. I download content on Netflix, Prime, and to VLC prior to flights. During flights I have the iPad in airplane mode and use my AirPod Pros for audio. On my flights from California to Texas, ~3 hrs, I use somewhere between 5-8% battery life. Brightness is probably on the low side because the cabin is dim.
Airplane mode (turning off most of the wireless) seems to be a big factor as well.
I'm just as astonished as the next guy!
It's to save the license fee. A76 cores are fast enough to brute force H.264.
True, but hardware support does wonders for power consumption. I'm blown away that I can watch 3 hours of h264 content on my flights and only 5% of my iPad battery is used. i.e. more factors to consider than simply whether it can/can't with brute force.
wargames commented on A Call for Developers – Jellyfin jellyfin.org/posts/a-call... · Posted by u/tetris11
Around a year ago I jumped in, picked up some tasks, submitted one or two PRs to fix where exceptions were being used for flow control, basic stuff to give the maintainers confidence that I could contribute. All they did was say those exceptions -- which happen every time the app starts -- don't need to be fixed.
A bit of a turn off for wanting to help on the project....
It's an alternative to using IndexedDB which is a browser provided API.
On use cases, you can give your web app offline support by locally caching data in an SQL database and have it be fully queryable.
Say you are building an app like Notion, they already have "offline mode" for the mobile and desktop apps, this would enable you to build that for the web app.
This is very much one of the final jigsaw pieces needed to make PWAs (progressive web apps) competitive for the majority of use cases. We just need Apple to catch up and fill in a few other blanks too.
A design pattern that is beginning to emerge is "offline/local first". You design your app to fundamentally work offline, using things such as this, and the server component only works to synchronise clients. It's a bit like the design move to "mobile first" that happed 10 years ago, but going to another level.
I haven't used IndexedDB in a while.. but my recollection is that it is basically SQLite. Not sure I see the advantage of this above and beyond what IndexedDB is already providing. What are the pros and cons of each approach?
wargames commented on The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges spectrum.ieee.org/james-w... · Posted by u/MindGods
I'm curious for anyone who may know the answer... with no mention of encryption, are these streams free for anyone with the equipment to receive? Conversely, what kind of security is in place on JWST for command updates to ensure that some rogue group couldn't cause mischief and send it commands?