<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: CapstanRoller</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CapstanRoller</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:18:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=CapstanRoller" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "RustDesk: The Fast Open-Source Remote Access and Support Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reconsider using that NanoKVM...
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJGZQ35Q6I" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJGZQ35Q6I</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:45:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306227</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44306227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Ghost jobs are wreaking havoc on tech workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please don't troll.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:54:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011957</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Implausibility of life extension in humans in the twenty-first century"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Let’s say we can get people to 200 by keeping them immobile and cold and nearly starving them of calories and oxygen—dramatically suppressing their metabolism. Who would want that?<p>I can imagine quite a few people. Maybe they are already in pain or have mobility issues. At that point why not say "yeah just feed me painkillers and keep me half-frozen. i can do everything in VR/online"? It's better than hospice.<p><a href="https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_House" rel="nofollow">https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_House</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 19:22:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769924</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41769924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>I can't find any evidence that anyone has ever died from bisphenol-A poisoning.<p>That's like talking about cigarettes and claiming people don't die from nicotine, therefore smoking isn't a problem. Missing the point terribly.</p>
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<p>They're synonyms, per your link. Also check out Wikipedia<p>>Quantum Jump<p>>Redirected from Quantum leap (physics))<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap#In_general" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap#In_general</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:36:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188419</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A quantum leap is actually a tiny event e.g. an electron energy level transition</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:09:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188299</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "How Uber tests payments in production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are always downsides:<p>your personal card can get fraud-flagged, which is a huge pain to fix.<p>It can also get banned by Stripe/Braintree/etc, which will really mess things up until your bank issues you a new card number.<p><i>Never</i> use a personal card for testing, maybe with the exception of being the sole proprietor of the business or if it's a hobby project.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188280</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "How Uber tests payments in production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is wrong and <i>definitely</i> illegal in California:<p>>Here in the state of California, labor laws define that an employer cannot require a team member to take on expenses that are an integral part of the job.<p><a href="https://www.asmlawyers.com/what-your-california-employer-cant-make-you-pay-for/" rel="nofollow">https://www.asmlawyers.com/what-your-california-employer-can...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:09:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188025</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "How Uber tests payments in production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any job that asks you to buy your own equipment, especially a computer, is a scam (unless you are a freelancer, in which case you should already have equipment)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Aug 2024 04:03:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187993</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "A farmer from Zug is hacked. One of his cows dies as a result"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Many people don't know that you have to milk a dairy cow twice a day because they produce so much milk.<p>Why? This doesn't seem natural (or ethical)<p>>In today's world, farmers need to have more cows than they could ever milk by hand.<p>Why? This doesn't seem sustainable (or ethical)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:28:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183464</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "How Uber tests payments in production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Ask (pressure) the developers into buying some cheap stuff from your shop with their own credit cards<p>This is illegal. I've always refused such "requests" and asked for a company expense card.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:17:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183377</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anarchism isn't a belief, but rather a political-philosophical framework with some very specifically-defined foundational aspects.<p>Imagine discussing math and programming with someone who insists that pi=3 and GOTO is the best control flow mechanism.</p>
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<p>It is possible to decrease entropy locally, but not globally. You can only push entropy somewhere else, and that pushing creates even more entropy.<p>This is why refrigerators keep food cold but heat up the room, and why it's impossible to "air-condition the outdoors"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:05:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183272</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41183272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Show HN: 1-FPS encrypted screen sharing for introverts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>For example, you're leaving your home computer and going to work. Save a link and see what's going on there.<p>Doesn't this require leaving the computer unlocked?</p>
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<p>It "says nothing whatsoever" only if you fell off the turnip truck yesterday, or have a vested interest in defending a massive corporation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:10:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41165644</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41165644</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41165644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The decentralization proposed in the technological field is closer to anarchist ideals<p>Anarchist ideals? From right-wing billionaires like Musk and Thiel? Or by centrist billionaires like...?<p>Because that's who is driving the technological field, ultimately — people who have more money than entire countries, to whom we are basically just bugs to be squashed if we bother them.<p>>I believe that the market (controlled and monitored by nations and supranational entities) functions better because it is an imperfect model that, by leveraging people's selfishness,<p>lmao<p>This doesn't feel like a serious discussion. I'm out.</p>
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<p>You're probably not allowed to discuss it here because the people who own this website are currently making a lot of money from content stolen by bots, to be ingested by other bots.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:23:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153366</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Open Source Farming Robot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You didn't really make any points worth addressing.<p>If you want to drink Soylent, go ahead. But even the predominant ingredient, soy, comes from agriculture.</p>
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<p>>I can't envision a decentralized technological and scientific world that wouldn't set us back 300 years.<p>And yet you are here arguing for more capitalist market-based solutions, which are inherently decentralized and have a tendency to create unrelated, wasteful (duplication of effort), and often pointless competition and profit-seeking?<p>Very odd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 12:35:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153131</link><dc:creator>CapstanRoller</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by CapstanRoller in "Open Source Farming Robot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How many actual farmers are involved with this project, or were at least consulted?<p>This thing looks like an out-of-touch nerd hobby project, not a real tool one would use in the real world of farming.<p>The "Commercial Production" link goes to a page mostly consisting of... art projects.
<a href="https://farm.bot/pages/research" rel="nofollow">https://farm.bot/pages/research</a></p>
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