Hacker News: Rarok

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: Why do cameras stop recording after 30 minutes?"

Rarok — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 11:24:02 +0000

It's said that the tax was for every computing machine but big companies pressured the government to remove it and what the government did was only tax microcomputers and not systems like mainframes and such.

The computer with the 72KB was the Amstrad CPC472

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#CPC472

New comment by Rarok in "The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option"

Rarok — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:01:41 +0000

I don't know if the law changed in the last years but here (Spain) it's illegal to sell a computer without a operative system. Today the most easy option probably is to install Linux but I remember this law was there at year 2000 and at that time Linux was harder to install than FreeDOS.

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: How do you protect your emergency fund from inflation?"

Rarok — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:57:50 +0000

When you don't have a emergency fund you don't have to worry about how to manage it.

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: Why do my online accounts keep getting banned?"

Rarok — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 04:18:19 +0000

Just a tip, check haveibeenpwned

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?"

Rarok — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 09:58:22 +0000

Many buildings hear use electricity for heating, electricity is cheaper at night. We have heaters that heat some kind of ceramic material and keeps releasing the heat during all the day.

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: How much gas we could save in EU if we reduce our heating temp by 3°?"

Rarok — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 09:46:15 +0000

I'm already at 13ºC at home and my cats hate me. I won't turn off the heating.

New comment by Rarok in "Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons"

Rarok — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:08:05 +0000

Probably you know that but check magic lantern firmware (if its available for your camera)

New comment by Rarok in "Adding unusable RAM for tax reasons"

Rarok — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:03:48 +0000

I'm Spanish and I'm finding this very hilarious because that explains a "urban legend" that was about that computer. People said that the Amstrad had a secret chip that only the NSA could use. Yes secret chips for a foreign government in a offline computer.

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: Why is there a chip shortage?"

Rarok — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:54:32 +0000

Question about your 5. 7nm is overkill in performance but... isn't it better if they get more chips per wafer?

New comment by Rarok in "$2,295 5-port Ethernet Switch for Audiophiles"

Rarok — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:25:05 +0000

In the times that I used forums with phpBB and SMF I really liked that I could select the font that I wanted to use, using Comic Sans is a nice way to let people understand that you are using the satire.

New comment by Rarok in "Dell and HPE switches come with 'American Megatrands' stickers"

Rarok — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:23:42 +0000

It's just a sticker, but a sticker that has a license. In the world where we live I would expect that something like this has to be aproved by a legal team.

New comment by Rarok in "Why WordPress is an utter load of crap to build a serious business website with"

Rarok — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:08:19 +0000

My experience with WordPress ended a few years ago but it was with a few news blogs with 10k daily visitors with 50k page loads. The first "trouble" with WordPress was that I had to fiddle with the config files of Apache, php and MySQL to improve the performance in a old i5 where the websites where hosted.

The worst part of WordPress is that the main redactor (the boss) was continuously installing plugins and themes developed by monkeys that ended more than a few times with the website with "nice and shiny" webshells installed by remote hackers. The most recurring culprit was that the themes used JavaScript libraries that where years old and even if the developers of such libraries updated those for security, the developers of the themes never updated the themes.

I'm looking to create a personal blog and most probably I'll go with WordPress with a official theme.

PS and Edit: I'm not a developer but even I can recognise that accepting inputs from the users without checking that the user only uses text and not special symbols is a bad idea.

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: Does Google have a way to report scam advertisements?"

Rarok — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 11:59:30 +0000

Not scam ads but I've been having troubles with adsense ads that redirect the webpage I'm seeing to a copy of the website of my ISP asking to update information about my account.

Wasn't able to report it so... If they get the money they don't care to spread scams or malware.

New comment by Rarok in "Video Games Are the Future of Education"

Rarok — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:15:51 +0000

Same here, fun fact is that even at school and high school I was the only boy that could understand a basic text or do a basic conversation but even with that I always had troubles just to pass any test.

Learned English playing games in the early 90's

In any English test they ask me to put a phrase in passive form and I was like: the f* is that?

And most probably for maths/physics It would be funnier to do some angry birds with numbers than calculating the movement of a random body in a parabolic movement.

New comment by Rarok in "With 'thank you' emails polite Britons burn thousands of tonnes of carbon a year"

Rarok — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:08:39 +0000

Most probable a emoji in Slack uses more resources than a email.

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: Shouldn't web browsers ask us before storing cookies?"

Rarok — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:02:30 +0000

Internet Explorer (in the time of Windows 95) did that and people didn't liked and always checked the "Never ask my again" checkbox

New comment by Rarok in "California Can Expect Blackouts for a Decade, Says PG&E CEO"

Rarok — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 08:43:01 +0000

I don't understand how the powerlines can affect to wildfires. They can put powerlines in any place or how it works? In my country (Spain) there are laws to say exactly how much meters of free space are needed depending on what capacity has the powerline. That means that you can't build anything there and that if a powerline goes in your forestal terrain you can't plant any tree there (thats why people don't like powerlines over theirs lands). That also does that all the forestal ground have a good number of firewalls because of the powerlines.

New comment by Rarok in "I hate living in my tiny house"

Rarok — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:16:09 +0000

I had to check the unit conversion but I think that 1000square feet is almost the same as 92 square meters. If that is correct it's the regular size of a flat in Spain for a family. The flat where I was raised was 80 square meters and there where my parents, my sister and my. 3 bedrooms, a living room, kitchen and a bathroom. Thats the usual here.

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?"

Rarok — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 10:21:06 +0000

In Spain is almost the same, you are dealing with personal data, if you automate that you have to notify people of that and they can request you to delete the data.

New comment by Rarok in "Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?"

Rarok — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 10:18:57 +0000

In my country there are many restrictions even to do a barbecue in the summer because you could cause a forest fire. That and also you can't do fire in a city because urban fires are even worse that forest ones.

And about gathering wood in the forest, if you aren't the owner of the forest that is stealing.