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I have an Apple TV and Nvidia Shield connected to a home theater receiver which is connected to the LG TV.

Sometimes when turning any of the set top boxes, the other one would turn on and its HDMI would become the active one. I couldn't simply turn off the box I didn't want to use because all the system would turn off.

The solution was to disable CEC on the TV. I still get CEC between the boxes and the receiver (for volume and HDMI active input) but I need to manually turn the tv on and off.


Just don't connect your tv to the internet. Get an Apple TV or an Nvidia Shield.

ACR has been going on for at least a decade now. It's the reason TVs are so cheap now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_content_recognition


I wonder how you're using HN then

I was about 20 years old when I ate real mashed potatoes for the first time. I've never eaten that instant crap since then.

This is all very confusing for me.

I first tried instant mashed potatoes about five years ago.

Before then, I never even knew there was such a thing!

I don't think I can tell them apart from fresh mashed potatoes.

The ones that I have tried are plain (no onion flavoring, etc), mixed with salted butter and coffee cream.

How are people who hate the instant variety preparing them? I am curious if I simply have bad taste, or if it's some other factor.


It's been decades since I last had it but everything was worse. Especially the texture. IIRC you heated water and/or milk and then you just poured the flakes inside and stirred.

It's so easy to make real mashed potatoes that I think there's really no point in using instant.


You can still have separate codebases for server and client in JS/TS...

> You can still have separate codebases for server and client in JS/TS...

Indeed, but unlike Go/Python (backend) and TS/JS (frontend), the separation is surmountable, and the push to "reuse" is high.


> and the push to "reuse" is high

Other than types and stuff like zod validators there's not a lot of overlap between server and client code.

I agree with your point that iso code can be confusing. But beyond that I think you're just pushing an irrational anti JS narrative.


Amazing that Django didn't have this until 2025

It's had includes and custom template tags for over a decade. Partials are a slightly nicer design for a subset of that pattern.

Wouldn’t Jinja2 macros count?

I stayed away from Jinja2 ... was under the impression it has lower performance. But I could have been wrong all these years.

>For nearly all cases, Django’s built-in template language is perfectly adequate. However, if the bottlenecks in your Django project seem to lie in the template system and you have exhausted other opportunities to remedy this, a third-party alternative may be the answer.

>Jinja2 can offer performance improvements, particularly when it comes to speed.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/topics/performance/#al...


YavaScript

It’s not only the hype though.

What about the complete lack of morality some (most?) AI companies exhibit?

What about the consequences in the environment?

What about the enshitification of products?

What about the usage of water and energy?

Etc.


Not to diminish your overall point, but enshittification has been happening well before AI, AI just made it much easier and faster to enshittify everything.

But AI allows us to make customised enshitification, think of the possibilities!

We don't need to spend money on customer support!

hell we don't need customers. we'll just get MS or Nvidia to invest in us, while leaning on their offerings.

Is your "etc." keep repeating the same two points you did in your list of four?

What about the RAM price surge?

What about diverting funding from much more useful and needed things?

What about automation of scams, surveillance, etc?

I can keep going.

There are plenty of reasons to hate on AI beyond hype.


> What about the RAM price surge?

It's a bit more expensive. It's not the end of the world. Production will likely increase if the demand is consistent.

> What about diverting funding from much more useful and needed things?

And who determines that? People put there money where they want to. People think AI will provide value to other people and those people will, therefore, pay money for AI. So the funding that AI is receiving is directly proportional to how useful and needed people think AI is. I disagree, but I'm not a dictator.

> What about automation of scams, surveillance, etc?

Technology makes things easier, including bad things. This isn't the first time this happened and it won't be the last. It also makes avoiding those things easier though but that usually lags a bit behind.

> I can keep going.

Please do because it seems like you're grasping at straws.


> 100-1000x lower than any transducer

This seems like a lot but it's only 20-30db lower than whatever reference they're using.

This is the spec that really matters: THD+N: 0.0003% which is roughly -110 dB. It's very good and completely inaudible but not exceptional these days.


THD+N is irrelevant for the issue the author is describing, through. You need to spec PSRR (power supply rejection ratio). Many individual ICs do not spec this, and pretty much every system does not spec this.

Indeed. I was only commenting on the 100-1000x claim.

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