Hacker News: Cocktail

New comment by Cocktail in "The Red Herring of Red Flags: Why Resumes Are a Relic of the Past"

Cocktail — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 08:41:34 +0000

I am one of those who made through the hoop of first and second rounds with the most horrid of CVs, still cant believe I got the job. Extremely happy that I did, I was told later that the resume I submitted was the worst one by far, but the person (ie. Me) was the best applicant, which I still consider funny yet depressing.

Coral Whisperer: Bleaching and Tissue Loss in Corals – What's the Difference?

Cocktail — Fri, 17 May 2024 08:38:30 +0000

Article URL: https://reefs.com/magazine/the-coral-whisperer-bleaching-and-tissue-loss-in-corals-what-s-the-difference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40387711

Points: 1

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New comment by Cocktail in "Air Purifier vs. Positive Pressure Fresh Air System – An Unfair Battle?"

Cocktail — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 07:13:02 +0000

Do you have any issues with mold after air tightening the house? Here in Finland pretty much every house needs constant airflow/intake and the houses built to breathe to fight against mold. Im curious if youve had any issues, especially due to living closer to the tropical zone.

New comment by Cocktail in "Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market"

Cocktail — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:40:39 +0000

There is also significant cases before and currently in South Korea, namely illegal immigrants working at farms with nigh-slave labour conditions and factory workers in Samsung/Hyundai etc large multinationals

New comment by Cocktail in "Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market"

Cocktail — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:38:27 +0000

Not 100% sure what you are implying? OP seems to be not from Qatar (notorious for being a modern slave labor economy) and in turn implies a good worker/emplyer relationship. Quite a few people from poorer countries seek better conditions and employment elsewhere for understandable reasons, whats so wrong in this case?

New comment by Cocktail in "OpenWrt 22.03"

Cocktail — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 07:07:02 +0000

Are there any suitable alternatives for OpenWRT? My huawei 4g router that i use over sim connection does not support OpenWRT or Tomato unfortunately...

New comment by Cocktail in "Why Nagasaki? (2013)"

Cocktail — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 06:17:36 +0000

That is true. I was not there and im of a completely different world. Well, to be honest i ended up agreeing atleast partly too. For context im from europe, and a small country arrayed against a historically and currently aggressive and strong neighbor, aaand i was conscript officer in charge of a few hundred men total. Believe me that im not that detached from this question, however my concience about bombing civilians is also quite conflicted but heavily leaning towards the Geneva Conventions.

In conclusion; no, i dont agree that it was be "perfectly ethical" or even simply ethical, but rather a neccesity born of the lack of efficacy in the firebombing campaing. And yes, a top-down hierarchical militant society like imperial japan of the time would not have surrendered without significant show of power, of imminent destruction, demonstrated. Im personally more convinced that Hirohito only issued the decree to surrender unconditionally due to the fear of imminent destruction of the capital, since a military society would always expect an attack on the command structure.

New comment by Cocktail in "Why Nagasaki? (2013)"

Cocktail — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:34:27 +0000

While i understand the rationale, ive come to question if "fighting fire with napalm" is such a good idea, from ethics perspective. Is it not a duty to not fall prey to indulge in mass killing even if it may seem justified by the barbarity of the opposing side?

Ask HN: HN is gone, now what?

Cocktail — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 23:36:19 +0000

In a hypothetical scenario where HN would disappear for whatever reason more or less permanently, what alternatives would there be? Where someone could find similar quality of commenters?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32029405

Points: 41

# Comments: 58

Ask HN: HN-like sites for engineering topics

Cocktail — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 03:55:06 +0000

While I really enjoy the conversations in the HN think-tank collective, the topics usually are far off from my area of expertise, whish is in electronics and radio engineering. Are there sites of similar format and quality that go more into "traditional" engineering topics instead of software?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30240175

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

All Reasonably Stable Tools

Cocktail — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 09:15:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zodiacon/AllTools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29700872

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Finland exports 5G enabled cottages to African Namibia

Cocktail — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:25:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.5gmokki.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29160771

Points: 1

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New comment by Cocktail in "A Summary of Electronics"

Cocktail — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 09:19:38 +0000

User or component safety? I think in general electronics do not require much in the way of user safety (Ofcourse I exclude power electronics and other high-energy systems) beyond how to properly use measurement devices. Component safety, eg: the art of not killing your semiconductors is another beast entirely

LG pledges to operate with 100% renewable energy by 2050

Cocktail — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 06:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/lg-pledges-to-operate-with-100-renewable-energy-by-2050/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27916047

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Cocktail in "Gibraltar, world’s only airport runway intersecting a road"

Cocktail — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 08:07:18 +0000

In Finland there are many roads that are extended and maintained as alternative "airfields", mainly for purposes of national defense but also as emergency landing sites for civilian craft

Using 8-inch diskette drives with a PC

Cocktail — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:38:44 +0000

Article URL: http://boginjr.com/it/hw/8inch-drives/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26590531

Points: 53

# Comments: 36

New comment by Cocktail in "Fraidycat: Follow from afar"

Cocktail — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:40:35 +0000

Thanks for the reply! I'll send you a message once I come up with something palatable (no pun intended)

New comment by Cocktail in "Fraidycat: Follow from afar"

Cocktail — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:03:23 +0000

Heyo Kicks! Long time user, love it. One feature would be nice, a possibility to change background colors and such. My eyes cant seem to adapt to the deep blue behind white and i get a headache from it sometimes

Wrong place to put in a ticket i know, but love the project!

New comment by Cocktail in "I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?"

Cocktail — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:21:01 +0000

What an intresting but sadly somewhat common story. Thanks for sharing! Im a undergrad electronics student so basically a world apart, in terms of skill and department, but this is one of the reasons i do not wish to pursue academia and instead focus on intresting jobs

New comment by Cocktail in "WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using app"

Cocktail — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 07:20:50 +0000

Same story here, i think i saw a deadline mentioned at tue bottom