yeasayer's comments

What is the typical use case for such a thing?

> WireGuard doesn't work over TCP

Can somebody well versed explain what the difference between TCP and UDP in this case? I obviously know what these are, I just don't understand why it's such a debatable choice applied to VPNs.

Is this a new oil? That could speed up the space exploration.

This is suspicious. They have the VPN traffic, now they want passwords. Encrypted of course, but still. The trust just isn't there. The company is too young. I don't trust them just because they have great design and UX.

I don't like that file operations are controlled by F1-F8 keys. This UX is unfriendly to macOS environment. Most users' F-row is in media keys mode by default, so you have to hold Fn otherwise. And I'm not even taking into account the Touch Bar.

Where are these new battery technologies that are invented every 6 months, according to the news?

Is this the second or third time the're fixing Meltdown?

I think Intel might get away with it.

Last 5 years they were slacking off, because economically there is no reason to go over the usual 10-15% yearly performance bump. But actually they were accumulating aces up their sleeves. Again, no reason to show your hand, if you don't have to.

But the time has come. Right now Intel has 3 major problems: 1) Meltdown/Spectre situation 2) AMD is awoken from sleep with surprisingly good Ryzen lineup 3) Apple craves new powerful CPUs to satisfy unhappy MacBook Pro customers

Intel can fix all of this with one sweep. Just by releasing a brand new CPU that will surprise everyone. Of course with hardware Meltdown/Spectre fix. They were holding off, but it's time to drop all these hidden aces on the table. And I believe it's gonna happen. Not right now with Cannon Lake, but with the one after - Ice Lake on 10nm transistors, by the end of 2018. It's going to be even bigger than NVIDIA's GTX 1080 success.

Does it include patches from wine-staging (CSMT)?

What's the difference between SentinelJS and DOM Mutation Observers?

I glanced at the source code, it seems this lib is using some kind of hack based on CSS animations. Why not just use Mutation Observers, which are the standard approved API to get the job done?

One of the biggest use cases of Evernote for me – OCR notes with search. All my important checks, slips and papers are going there. It's seems that Laverna doesn't have this feature. So it's not an alternative for me.

What about "rsync"? I use this command pretty often.

Relying on JS illogical behaviour:

  [] === [] // false

It's more confusing and error prone than other options mentioned in the article.

10 years since The Wire season 4, the situation is still the same.

It's very sad that our industry is so hype driven.

Nothing really changed, you could write Android apps on Kotlin before, as well as on any other JVM language. But now "Kotlin is the hero".

I suspect that Google's adoption of Kotlin is just politics: JetBrains develops Android Studio for Google, so they pushed Kotlin as part of the deal. Google could acknowledge Scala years ago, but didn't, because Scala authors spend less time on bullshit politics and more time on actually improving the language.

Also, I don't understand the point of Kotlin. Clojure, Groovy and Scala are all very distinctive from each other and have their own niche. Kotlin is just a subset of Scala. Same thing, but less features. I guess it's NIH principle applied to JetBrains.

> Resolved CPU throttling with AWS t2.micro instances

What does it mean? I know that all t2.micro instances are CPU throttled (credits system)

Unfortunately, you can't. For example, it's impossible to properly install PostgreSQL. Also, no 256 colors support. Currently, there are 733 open issues https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues It's still a beta feature. Nowhere near the smooth macOS experience.

Oh wow, 2.4 is out next week? I thought we're stuck with 2.3 for a long time. Top 1 daily Hacker News submission incoming.

Why did Fog Creek approved this acquisition? With products like Stack Overflow, Trello and GoMix I thought they want to become a big player on the market of software development. Why sell our own assets?

In terms of speed, Alacritty to Hyper is like Sublime to Atom?