whatusername

Joined 18 years ago

Karma
2,974
Submissions
1,504
Member since
May 5
Call me Rob.
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 1 year ago
From memory there was LPAR "Logical Partitions" - which were effectively like a VM. and there was WPAR "Workload Partitions" - which had a shared OS and were more like a container.

I had some "interesting" experiences getting stuff to work on WPAR's.

Comment · 1 year ago
That is less of a problem in the consumer space where the OIDC Auth providers have giant long lived sessions (google/FB/etc).

In the government/banking/etc space - there is at least FIDO/WebAuthn/Passkeys which also resolves it. But it's a fair criticism.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I'll echo this for anyone else in the comments -- You can watch the cricket episode with 0 knowledge of the show and 0 knowledge of cricket. If you haven't ever seen Bluey - it's a great example as to why so many speak so highly of it. If you haven't seen bluey but want to see what the fuss is (and especially if you have any interest in sports) -- it's only 7 minutes long and absolutely worth watching.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not sure how true that first statement is anymore. Most of the recommendations I see now are "just get a Bambu labs one". We are much closer to 3D printing as a utility as opposed to 3D printing as a hobby than we were ~3 years ago.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
As someone mentioned - the "Arena Starter Kits" worked for us as an intro to the game.

The basic rules around commander aren't particularly additionally taxing beyond that. (This is your special card that you can play every time. When it dies it goes back to its special spot and it gets more expensive each time you cast it). What I like about the commander format (in the few pre-constructed decks I've bought over the last few years) - they can really lean into a theme/strategy more - and the commander really guides you in how to play this deck.

Start with those arena kits - they are cheap and handle the rules. But if your son sees a commander deck that resonates with him (in theme or mechanics) -- I'd recommend giving it a shot.

Comment · 2 years ago
yeah. But a high number of pixels and a high number of minutes of battery life work against each other here.
Comment · 3 years ago
Loopt, OpenAI, WorldCoin.. how many do you need to be serial?
Comment · 3 years ago
This is hacker news. Sam was the founder of a startup in the very first round of YC. He then later became president of YC. I expect news of him to resonate more around here.

And OpenAI have been the most exciting tech company of the last 12 months.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
So you're covered for "forgotten" - but "lost" is still an issue. What happens when a user loses their passkey? (stolen phone, no backups, house fire, etc).
Comment · 3 years ago
If I'm reading the docs right (TBH - I'm probably not) it looks like on a z16 you can get 200 cores and 40TB of Memory on a single "VM" (LPAR).

So 1/100th of the CPU and 40% of the RAM. (I suspect the RAM comparison is reasonable - I'm not sure about how to compare the CPU's).

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton