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New comment by Spooks in "Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data"

Spooks — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:45:55 +0000

While bad in sensitive systems, breaking things seems preferable to blatantly giving account information to another country.

> There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE engineers.

New comment by Spooks in "Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author"

Spooks — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:09:44 +0000

The activities are mindless. Cutting grass, shoveling snow, cleaning the house, gardening, painting, and going on a run. Sure, I'll get distracted by something and need to rewind it back in 20 seconds, but that happens in books, and I'll need to re-read a page.

New comment by Spooks in "Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers"

Spooks — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 14:46:51 +0000

That does sounds great. Though I'd imagine trying to retro fit plumbing for each apartment would be a nightmare

New comment by Spooks in "LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop"

Spooks — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 19:58:55 +0000

but... you can post on HN pretty anonymously if you wanted, so that is a bit different

New comment by Spooks in "Panasonic sells its $3.6B Tesla stake"

Spooks — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:24:07 +0000

"The Japanese firm paid $21.15 per share for around 1.4 million shares"

That is some decent profit

New comment by Spooks in "Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone"

Spooks — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:45:47 +0000

At least for me, I don't do banking on my phone and my main email is not tied to my phone.

New comment by Spooks in "Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed"

Spooks — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:49:02 +0000

>have the means to create a vaccine and so save the planet

is that true though? Aren't a lot of diseases being worked on in labs without the means to cure them yet

New comment by Spooks in "Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone"

Spooks — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:35:06 +0000

HN is a pretty minimal site though - it is just a message board.

New comment by Spooks in "Is carbon capture a viable solution?"

Spooks — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:32:09 +0000

Would the increase in investment have a better chance to facilitate research and development? As with more research comes the possibility of a better capture rate down the road

New comment by Spooks in "Why I chose Electron.js for my side business"

Spooks — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:11:22 +0000

I started working with C++ several months ago, mostly due to curiosity.

Though I haven't done anything that I would consider extremely complex, memory corruption seems easy enough to deal with by planning.

Maybe because it is so ingrained as whenever I heard discussions of C++, memory (de)allocation and memory corruption was always the first thing people talked about. Dealing with de-allocation feels like closing a curly brace, almost automatic.

New comment by Spooks in "Background Features in Google Meet, Powered by Web ML"

Spooks — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 16:35:26 +0000

I think because seeing someone's face is more important than seeing their background

New comment by Spooks in "AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]"

Spooks — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 14:16:55 +0000

Intel current platform does not support PCI4 though, if that is important to you, you will need a new mobo anyways.

Also I don't think many people are going to upgrade from intel 10th gen to intel 11th gen, assuming gen 12 will have DDR5 (worth skipping a gen)

New comment by Spooks in "DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix"

Spooks — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:25:47 +0000

I like to grab RAM towards the end of the generation, so far it has been the best bang for my buck (for my personal computer). From the production estimates, looks like I'll jump into DDR5 at the end of 2023 or most likely 2024

New comment by Spooks in "USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess"

Spooks — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:49:17 +0000

Charging is fine, the issue is using under wattage 3rd party docks or using a bad charger for the dock while playing, as it pull more power when it is in dock mode.

Charging it has never been an issue for anyone and this is the first I heard being a charging issue

New comment by Spooks in "Social Cooling (2017)"

Spooks — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:05:11 +0000

Well that is always an option, which I have thought about. I would basically need to remove my entire family and a large amount of friends (not low-quality friends, they are just educated in other areas).

Once I realized that, it was easier to just delete facebook, and keep in touch with my close friends and people that are in similar studies to myself by using group chat messages, emails or just face to face (not so much this option in 2020)

New comment by Spooks in "Social Cooling (2017)"

Spooks — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:51:36 +0000

In terms of a social media site, what you are saying sounds exhausting. Having a couple of friends with different opinions is great, having like 100+ people not educated in certain topics, all with their own opinion is where it kind of breaks.

You mentioned Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scolia, they were both well versed in law and justice, so it makes sense even if their opinions are different, they can respect each other.

New comment by Spooks in "Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes"

Spooks — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:28:27 +0000

I would definitely want more app stores on my game console. Sometimes the deals are just not there, for PC it has a lot of options, and it has been good for consumers, Epic store has been giving away free games like it was going out of business

New comment by Spooks in "U.S. Press Freedom Tracker"

Spooks — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 12:50:46 +0000

For sure, also any of the news crews that were shot in the camera with rubber bullets were dangerously close to being seriously injured or death.

The below study would also assume not all the shots were head shots, aiming at a camera is the same as aiming at the head.

"The injuries in 90 patients caused by rubber bullets are described. There was 1 death and 17 people in the series had permanent disabilities or deformities. In 41 patients the injuries necessitated admission to hospital. One fatality outside this series is known. Injuries to the head and neck were frequent and severe."

source: https://archive.vn/20130106045139/http://www3.interscience.w...

New comment by Spooks in "Preliminary test results suggest 21% of NYC residents have Covid antibodies"

Spooks — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:52:48 +0000

I wonder if we did these preliminary tests with the flu if we would see a large death rate drop for influenza as well

New comment by Spooks in "Barnes and Noble’s new plan is to act like an indie bookseller"

Spooks — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 15:15:12 +0000

One main perk of amazon or online is the reviews. Now I don't just go by review alone (I have read some 3/5 books that I really enjoyed), but they definitely put more weight on my decision than looking at covers or spine of books.