Hacker News: DEADBEEFC0FFEE

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Cryptocurrency is like taking the worst parts of today's capitalist system"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 12:06:07 +0000

I think lot of your comments relate to Bitcoin, and that's a Gen1 cryptocoin. If you have a look at where Cardano (Gen3) is going, you might have a more favorable opinion.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Loon’s final flight"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:31:10 +0000

Only if that the market you want to win in. Where's the synergy between Waymo and online ads?

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Loon’s final flight"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:27:23 +0000

I though shielding with water was the way forward there.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 22:13:50 +0000

Take out some subscriptions. Free news is basically news entertainment. If you want high quality long form articles, pay for them.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 10:21:43 +0000

That's a good book.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Isaac Newton’s attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 10:17:03 +0000

I really ought to finish the last book.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:29:42 +0000

It's a shame these large companies are are driven to extract as much value from their workers as possible.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:39:52 +0000

They chose the product to sell. That are absolutely part of the problem.

Consumers buying cheap shite is also a problem.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Walmart router, others on Amazon, eBay have hidden backdoors to control devices"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:37:47 +0000

Yes, TCL TVs are largely venerable.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Booting from a vinyl record"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 01:33:35 +0000

You will enjoy this classic. It's a lovely image showing the dialup handshake . My first modem was a Hayes 1200 baud. Every modem after seemed to double. The protocols got better too. Bidirectional transfers, wow.

http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured...

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Job interest not a big predictor of job satisfaction"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 21:17:49 +0000

Mastery and Autonomy are often intrinsically motivations. Usefulness is a nice suggestion and certainly resonates with me. Working for nonprofits has more satisfying than commercial organisation. I expect age is a factor. I used to value interest, these days I value paycheck a bit more.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Voyager 2 is back online after eight months of radio silence"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 20:10:50 +0000

That the difference between actual engineers and software engineers.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Libyear – a simple measure of software dependency freshness"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:00:25 +0000

Only if you think all the security issues have been found in all the libs.

Lesser known libs can be riddled with vulns that nobody has found.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Ask HN: What happens when. PC boots up and loads Linux?"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 04:27:48 +0000

Thanks, I will have a look for that.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Ask HN: Were you in the early 2000s HTPC scene?"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:49:45 +0000

Yes,. a great many hours. Building PC's, trying to make them quiet enough to tolerate. Buying expensive Haupage hardware encoding boards, DTV tuners and programmable remotes. Getting the software to work at the right resolution, getting the driver to work.

In Australia TV listing were copywritable, so we had to crowdsource that too.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Ask HN: How to Win the Twitter Game?"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:14:25 +0000

I have no first hand experience, but presumably there is an algorithm making recommendations of tweets to users. I would very much expect big accounts to carry some weight. So perhaps one approach is to follow many big accounts that have similar interests, comment often, hopeful get followed, and eventually get comments to you tweets, which then get seen by big fish followers.

Ask HN: What happens when. PC boots up and loads Linux?

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 10:07:42 +0000

Can anyone recommend resources for learning, the detailed steps of a PC booting a contemporary Linux?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24885142

Points: 9

# Comments: 6

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Show HN: A simple app to make Ctrl+V paste unformatted text by default (Windows)"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 10:44:38 +0000

I would quite like to have highlight text automatically copy, as it does when I use puttlly with Linux.

Is that a potential enhancement.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Ask HN: What password manager do you use?"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:32:27 +0000

KeePass and a couple of cloud syncing services.

New comment by DEADBEEFC0FFEE in "Awful-AI: A curated list to track current scary usages of AI"

DEADBEEFC0FFEE — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 20:58:17 +0000

Let's stop calling them engineers then.