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New comment by VTimofeenko in "The most official water costs $120k a gallon"

VTimofeenko — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:14:09 +0000

The argument for "it shouldn't" could be that it's a federal supplier and/or some sort of RnD exception. Not sure if NIST would even sell to a private buyer.

New comment by VTimofeenko in "The most official water costs $120k a gallon"

VTimofeenko — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:09:22 +0000

Shows $508 for 2 cartons, so 254 per. NY has probably most expensive smokes, ranging $140-155 per carton

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

VTimofeenko — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:32:04 +0000

You can use raw wireguard + ddns(if your ISP-given IP changes) to achieve this. This also implies maintaining a firewall to allow network pixies in and out. Totally doable, just needs a bit of upfront setup.

Benefit of Tailscale is that run the external servers that your PC and mobile use to establish connection.

Alternatives are Logmein Hamachi(might be dating myself here, haven't used them in 10+ years), Zerotier, Netbird. Headscale too.

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Deflock Casa Grande"

VTimofeenko — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:10:00 +0000

That's your right, but the problem is that cameras are in public and some people do mind this.

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators"

VTimofeenko — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:10:19 +0000

> Kinfolkification

Pardon my ignorance, but what is this referring to?

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too"

VTimofeenko — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:27:27 +0000

I'd pay top dollar for an adblocker that would replace ads with "They Live" references

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too"

VTimofeenko — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:25:13 +0000

Folks are already walking (and driving, which is more scary) in a daze, glued to their doomscrolling rectangles

New comment by VTimofeenko in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

VTimofeenko — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:00:39 +0000

This is probably PEBCAK, but I can't figure out how to capture an island

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

VTimofeenko — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:15:13 +0000

I can totally see Internet availabilit correlating with the rise of unwanted stuff in the install. Believe it started with 3rd party games being part of the OS at first. I don't recall the yes/maybe later dialog "options" in win8 though, at least not in the beginning.

I actually really liked the win8 start menu change and the live tiles, even wrote some tiny homegrown apps with them. My logic was always "if I am opening the start menu, I will want to interact with that menu and only it until it's closed", so having it fullscreen made sense.

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

VTimofeenko — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:29:54 +0000

Moving 15 years back puts you into glory Win7 days. IIRC, the spam started with win8 which was released ~13 years ago and was very mild at first

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs"

VTimofeenko — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:14:21 +0000

Same, I had reasonable success with LLM-generated OpenSCAD files fed into prusa slicer. Just needs a few manual tweaks for spatial transforms from time to time.

New comment by VTimofeenko in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

VTimofeenko — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:14:08 +0000

How would one know though by just looking at the device? I have chassis that came with Intel 11th gen, but the brainboxery, keyboard, battery, touchpad -- all have been swapped over time.

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

VTimofeenko — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:16:58 +0000

Maybe the thought process is that leak would effectively be pressure normalizing over a larger area and more gradually than creating a tiny hole, so whatever I said about jet ignition would not be applicable

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

VTimofeenko — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:18:41 +0000

Shooting holes in pressurized vessels with explosive stuff is probably a very bad idea, as outlined in my comment[1]. Slowly loosening a valve is a better idea.

That being said, in no way, shape or form am I an authority on the subject.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254381

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

VTimofeenko — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:35:12 +0000

Quick googling sez that liquid nitrogen might solidify the MMA inside, turning it into even more of a pressure cooker

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

VTimofeenko — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:32:32 +0000

IIUC, the stuff inside is polymerizing, turning into goop that gummed everything up. It was probably not goop when used for the original purpose

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

VTimofeenko — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:30:22 +0000

Inb4: I don't work in the industry, my knowledge is limited to a faint memory of a college course on fluid dynamics.

If I recall correctly, high pressure ignitable stuff can spontaneously turn !!FUN!! in absence of heat if it is suddenly relieved through a pinhole. Basically jet is followed by a ring-like zone where the stuff mixes with oxygen. Jet creates tiny zones of very high temp, thus igniting the mixture ring that follows.

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

VTimofeenko — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:17:22 +0000

Drill = spark = boom = nasty stuff all over surrounding area

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

VTimofeenko — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:23:39 +0000

Modern cars sometimes have telematic units running off dedicated lithium ion batteries, so killing main battery might not do anything

New comment by VTimofeenko in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

VTimofeenko — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:32:35 +0000

> Give us your laptop

There's no way to read this without hearing Scottish accent. It's like a sleeper agent activation phrase.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfAjlW6E30