<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: TheNorthman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheNorthman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:21:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=TheNorthman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheNorthman in "M4 MacBook Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's also the rule in the EU.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:32:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42001243</link><dc:creator>TheNorthman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42001243</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42001243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheNorthman in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.md/9nisn" rel="nofollow">https://archive.md/9nisn</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:06:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483211</link><dc:creator>TheNorthman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41483211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheNorthman in "Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You ever think the "safe" districts are safe because the constituents living in those districts swing further left and right than average?</p>
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<p>> Spending time horizontal while not asleep is very unhealthy for your heart.<p>Why is this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:59:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40549844</link><dc:creator>TheNorthman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40549844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40549844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheNorthman in "MTA board votes to approve new $15 toll to drive into Manhattan"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> BTW, there are only 1/5 of people in<p>The argument isn't that Manhattan is car-centric qua its people, the argument is that Manhattan is car-centric qua its infrastructure.</p>
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<p>A danish perspective: Primary care doctors are paid (by the state) based of a fixed list. A 15 min video consultation pays 162.99 DKK (~24 USD)<p>[1]: <a href="https://laeger.dk/media/mjpbsm2a/honorartabel-2023-januar.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://laeger.dk/media/mjpbsm2a/honorartabel-2023-januar.pd...</a></p>
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<p>OVH have some in the US. I've only had good experiences with them. I like Server Hunter to get a general overview:<p><a href="https://www.serverhunter.com/#query=product_type%3Adedicated+region%3A%22United+States%22" rel="nofollow">https://www.serverhunter.com/#query=product_type%3Adedicated...</a></p>
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<p>He can't predict the future. The relevant metric must be<p>1. The chance, weighted by amount, of a price hike/salary increase<p>2. The chance, weighted by amount, of a price decline/salary decrease.<p>As inflation is generally an upward trend, clearly no. 1 is more likely and thus the best bet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:21:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39395962</link><dc:creator>TheNorthman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39395962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39395962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheNorthman in "Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you're reading the chart wrong. The majority does say that police cars and ambulances are not allowed in based on that rule.<p>It is a bad chart though. I was confused too.</p>
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<p>> If you come to an interview without any AI coding skills you would certainly be marked down.<p>And I, in turn, would be delighted not to work for you.</p>
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<p>Very cool!<p>While at uni, I worked on a local fishing boat doing (amongst many things) hardware/software integration, and did some work on equipment communicating via NMEA. Very fun blast-to-the-past, didn't know the standard was used outside of marine environments.</p>
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<p>Imgur should work fine. It at least does so for me.<p>If not your style, <a href="https://imgbb.com" rel="nofollow">https://imgbb.com</a> is also an option. More ads, though<p>But please do upload a picture. That would be interesting.</p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.ph/o34ou" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/o34ou</a></p>
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<p>`nslookup`</p>
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<p><a href="https://archive.md/bVTJv" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.md/bVTJv</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:43:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38667491</link><dc:creator>TheNorthman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38667491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38667491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheNorthman in "Playstation removing previously purchased Discovery content"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Read your own article. The byline reads:<p>> Google is taking the unprecedented step of paying back users for all the games they bought on its cloud gaming platform.<p>Google _voluntarily_ refunded their customers. It's unheard of and was, frankly, extremely unexpected. Good for Google and good for Stadia customers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:56:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38494253</link><dc:creator>TheNorthman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38494253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38494253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheNorthman in "Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The advantage of tor over just E2EE is that it hides the sources of traffic and not only the traffic itself.<p>So it really depends on if your threat model can handle others knowing that you're using Matrix. It most likely can.</p>
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<p>It's not applicable to clients. A clients traffic never touches another client, only the nodes.<p>Of course, malicious clients can ruin it for everyone else in the form of DoS attacks but that's clearly not happening here.</p>
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<p>> Yes, I'm sorry, that was a mistake. The correct answer is actually [hallucinates something else]<p>Doesn't even have to be a new hallucination, sometimes it's just the exact same wrong answer.</p>
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<p>There doesn't exist a corporation on the planet, that doesn't have power over its employees.</p>
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