Hacker News: Lascaille

New comment by Lascaille in "The magic of the Japanese convenience store sandwich"

Lascaille — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:56:02 +0000

Maybe you could delete my account. I'd prefer that. I think maybe I have a tendency to argue with people and this just isn't the place for it. Best to remove the temptation.

If you aren't going to delete the account and comments could you change the username to something random then ban it? That would work.

New comment by Lascaille in "Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown"

Lascaille — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:51:15 +0000

This is academic thinking. The infections will occur because nothing can be done about them. Omicron is too transmissible to contain. Everyone understands that now. There is no 'gambling' here because there is no dice to throw. The die is cast by nature.

New comment by Lascaille in "How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News"

Lascaille — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:41:26 +0000

By the way, I wasn't the one that flagged your post. I dislike that facility.

New comment by Lascaille in "We must return to an economy fueled by innovation, rather than disruption"

Lascaille — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 10:08:09 +0000

>What is the point of these thinktanks

They create research that is used by politicians to justify them creating a policy they'd already decided to create for political reasons. They manufacture consent.

What did Chuck Colson want to do to the Brookings institution again?

New comment by Lascaille in "Where there’s muck, there’s brass (2007)"

Lascaille — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 10:00:29 +0000

Thanks for the context, I appreciate it. At the time I remember the concept of running PHP on Windows/IIS did have this air of 'hmmmmmmmmmmmno' associated with it.

In my experience it ran fine, but for obvious reasons when shipping software that might make or break their company I can understand Joel preferring the familiar territories of ASP/IIS/Win or LAMP.

New comment by Lascaille in "Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook"

Lascaille — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 08:08:48 +0000

I figure - at least for the US - that that's the inevitable conclusion. Not necessarily FB, perhaps a govt service that's created along the lines of twitter, simple and straightforward.

The internet is the de-facto public square, there has to be a public forum that's under the control of the public.

New comment by Lascaille in "How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 16:26:28 +0000

I just like straightforward linear conversations in which questions are asked and answered.

I don't like endless come-ons in which questions are responded to (not answered!) with more questions and a sentence fragment that seems designed as a push to move past the question.

New comment by Lascaille in "Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 15:44:22 +0000

The testing is for a combination of knowledge of the subject and ability to apply it in practice.

New comment by Lascaille in "Barrier: Share mouse and keyboard between computers"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:29:40 +0000

Not 100% sure this fits your use case but UltraVNC goes back to w95.

New comment by Lascaille in "DNS resolution issue in Alpine Linux (2021)"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:21:34 +0000

>virtually nobody uses IPv6

Some very high percentage of mobile devices, when using mobile data, are on IPv6 and preferentially connect using IPv6. I think 80% of Meta traffic is IPv6.

Lots and lots and lots of people use IPv6.

I have to say though the BOFHesque attitude shown in this thread by a number of people has convinced me never to touch Alpine linux. I can already see exactly what sort of attitude towards users and input the developers encourage and that sort of ivory tower shit has absolutely zero appeal.

New comment by Lascaille in "Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to Avira servers"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:00:28 +0000

Netgear DM200 or one of the Fritz!Box devices if you want VDSL/DSL support.

New comment by Lascaille in "Newer TP-Link Routers send large volumes of requests to Avira servers"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 12:52:13 +0000

If you're on DSL, the DLink DM200 has an integrated adsl/vdsl modem that's supported by OpenWRT, and the platform is quite powerful. You'll need a second device for wifi though but that suits my use case.

If you want a dedicated OpenWRT device Mikrotik would be my suggestion.

New comment by Lascaille in "Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 12:31:42 +0000

So the 1st amendment's wrong. Fix it somehow. Landline telephone companies are obliged by their terms of licence to serve all customers in their coverage area (i.e they can't deny the KKK a landline.) There's precedent for forcing companies to provide a certain service. Just write a law. Find or invent a justification and write a law.

New comment by Lascaille in "NY energy grid: Real-time dashboard"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 10:29:59 +0000

2016 generation: -752 GW/h

New comment by Lascaille in "How CNN's Jeff Zucker and His Cronies Manipulated the News"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 09:55:49 +0000

>Good question!

Yes, it is, so let's stick with it:

Was the winning candidate a white supremacist?

New comment by Lascaille in "The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night (2020)"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 09:27:40 +0000

You can read that sentence to both confirm and oppose the writer being male, FYI. Both 'like me' and 'unlike me' can be implied. You need more data than that sentence.

New comment by Lascaille in "Migrating Thunderbird profiles: A story in three acts"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 07:09:53 +0000

This is all over the place. I've done this countless times when reinstalling laptops etc (because it saves redownloading 4GB worth of mailbox) and you just install thunderbird on the new machine, run it once, close it, make sure it closes properly then copy the Thunderbird directory from your appdata. Then you re-open it and it works.

New comment by Lascaille in "Where there’s muck, there’s brass (2007)"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:53:07 +0000

Could have just shipped the customer a server, especially as Joel's article suggests that most of your on-prem customers went with dedicated servers for the software anyway.

Find it hard to imagine that a significant percentage of your customers were 100% linux/mac to the extent that they'd refuse any win boxes in their shop.

I was in IT at the time and catered to a number of 100% mac shops (mostly ad agencies/gfx design studios) and there were always one or two win boxes around, usually a couple for fileserver/backup and one for the sysadmin to do sysadmin things with.

>We couldn’t go back in time and decide to write it in a different language.

You had an intern write a program that rewrote it in a different language for you, time after time after time.

You could have just rewritten it once :)

New comment by Lascaille in "Tron founder Justin Sun and his many escapes"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 05:51:56 +0000

Is that really significant in any meaningful sense? A new crypto token launches every other day. Call me back when they get marketshare.

New comment by Lascaille in "We’re the founders of Substack, we just launched an iOS app. AUA"

Lascaille — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 05:16:40 +0000

Yeah.

You're the one calling this service - which has attracted a sizeable number of perfectly mainstream conservative writers - 'the perfect honeypot.'

We definitely do have different ordinaries.