Hacker News: SomeoneFromCA

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "Every company should be owned by its employees"

SomeoneFromCA — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:30:18 +0000

Yes exactly. This is why, European countries, with the strongest worker protection, such as Norway, Sweden, Germany etc. are so much poorer and far behind than US in terms of QOL and quality of goods they produce.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests"

SomeoneFromCA — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:06:05 +0000

Revolutions are always made by young, are not they?

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:08:48 +0000

My point was that the original poster was wrong saying that Soviet and Post-soviet cities had and have hot water only during winters. This is idiocy; you know that, I know that. Right now, while I am writing, my relative is using hot water to wash her head.

What is your point?

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:05:55 +0000

Not sure what is your point. You've mentioned USSR and it was wrong, as Soviet System has never been like that - "hot water only during the winter". Ergo, you should not have brought up USSR.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "Radxa X4 low-cost, credit card-sized Intel N100 SBC goes for $60 and up"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:40:55 +0000

Hopefully no nasty surprises in firmware.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "Radxa X4 low-cost, credit card-sized Intel N100 SBC goes for $60 and up"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:40:23 +0000

A typical chinese N100 minipc takes from 5w at idle to 20W at full load.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:35:31 +0000

Exactly my point.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:33:45 +0000

have you read the original post?

> Old Soviet style communities get hot water from central plants, mainly used for heating but also for showers, so when winter is over, they shutdown the heating plants for the season and no hot water at all

Because if you reread it, you'll get the ridiculousness of that claim. So what you saying that situation in ex-USSR is such that there is only hot water during the winter. This is ridiculous, even taking into account grievances you have about Russian infrastructure.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:36:44 +0000

What you describe is not normal today (unless we are talking about some Mukhosransk type of cities), and certainly was not normal in USSR, which kept civil infrastructure in a good shape.

As someone who is currently living in Central Asia, yes I do have no water for two weeks a year, they switch it off for "maintenance". However all last 5+ years, I had water through summer, with only occasional failures. We did have no heating one year, but water was all the time present.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:42:47 +0000

It is so incorrect, it is boderline idiotic urban legend. post-Soviet cities have hot water year around; same heating plants used for winter heating, are used for hot water in summer time, albeit at lower power. Also waste heat from power plants used for the same purpose.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:38:30 +0000

Central Asia (where I actually live) does not have much to see, esp. Kazakhstan. The main tourist destinations are historical monuments in Uzbekistan which has huge tourist influx lately (every time I am in Uzbekistan I see a good deal of tourists around hotels). Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have beautiful mountains, nature. Kazakhstan is bit dull post-Soviet place, Almaty resembles more some city in Eastern Europe than Asia.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:31:40 +0000

Interestingly but central Asia it is called Arak. Same root.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The only tourist in Moldova"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:30:27 +0000

Since what Moldova is Russia? Am I on reddit or 4chan?

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "Panic at the Job Market"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:28:54 +0000

AVR has no protection and no segments. I mean really, it seems to be true that new generation of programmers have zero understanding of hardware, nothing personal.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "Panic at the Job Market"

SomeoneFromCA — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:59:37 +0000

Is it even possible to core dump on AVR, with no storage and MMU?

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "The Toyota Pickup Truck Is the War Chariot of the Third World (2013)"

SomeoneFromCA — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:59:39 +0000

(In)famous Bandermobile.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "Jailbreaking RabbitOS"

SomeoneFromCA — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:56:58 +0000

Good luck proving it in court. (It is not that I disagree with you).

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)"

SomeoneFromCA — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:55:00 +0000

It is far easier to switch an employee than employer, as decision is made assymetrically - the decision maker, the manager of your manager, for example, has zero emotional investment in you, compared to you and your being accustomed to your place, social relationships etc.

EDIT: It is also true that too frequent switching jobs will have negative consequences for your employability; and high attrition, even if it becomes a public fact, would have little consequences for desirability of the job.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems"

SomeoneFromCA — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 08:46:43 +0000

Well, this is possible for sure, but not for primitive functions, such as strcmp. It just does not happen in practice.

New comment by SomeoneFromCA in "RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems"

SomeoneFromCA — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 08:45:43 +0000

It in theory may, but no one does.