Hacker News: Viper007Bond

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Reddit just passed Facebook as #3 most popular website in US"

Viper007Bond — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:45:06 +0000

An absolute ton of Reddit users browse the site via apps too. Something to keep in mind.

I still agree that Facebook is larger though.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "HoweyCoins – An educational tool to alert investors to possible fraud"

Viper007Bond — Thu, 17 May 2018 00:36:55 +0000

My 3 months of mining back in the day (aka heating my apartment with video cards instead of electric heaters) netted me about $4000 a few months ago. I found it hilarious.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Fuchsia is not Linux"

Viper007Bond — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:15:48 +0000

Interestingly PowerShell is petty awesome in that regard. You pass around objects instead of trying to parse strings and things.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "AV1: A new general-purpose video codec"

Viper007Bond — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 02:27:27 +0000

No different than HEVC or anything else. My CPUs are a few generations behind (i7-4790K and i5-4690K) and they can't hardware decode/encode HEVC.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "A French King Who Believed He Was Made of Glass"

Viper007Bond — Sun, 08 Apr 2018 01:44:31 +0000

Extremely common in many parts of the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Turn a MacBook into a Touchscreen with $1 of Hardware"

Viper007Bond — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 22:02:32 +0000

All of my past couple laptops have been touchscreens. I never find it that useful honestly. It just ends up leaving fingerprints all over the screen.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Portland Anarchist Road Care Fixes Potholes Anonymously (2017)"

Viper007Bond — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 23:26:31 +0000

The winter of 2016/2017 was really bad here in Portland and caused an unbelievable amount of damage to our roads. Whole portions of streets came up from the freeze/thaw. It was nuts and they're STILL in the process of fixing them, not that the roads in Portland proper were ever that great in the first place.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Supersonic Flight Prepares for Takeoff Again"

Viper007Bond — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 01:36:20 +0000

Commercial flights have actually slowed down for efficiency reasons. They were faster in the '70s.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "The End of Windows"

Viper007Bond — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:09:31 +0000

What size is that? I run a 34" 3440x1440 21:9 and it's nearly a bit too wide.

EDIT: https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-SWIFT-PG3... 100Hz is awesome, even for just browsing the web.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "The End of Windows"

Viper007Bond — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 19:04:56 +0000

The more RAM you have, the more your OS will use. My 16GB laptop is currently using 8-9GB and I don't have much open. What's the point of RAM if you don't use it? If I get low on free RAM, but OS will discard some unneeded stuff but otherwise it properly uses it as a cache.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Bitcoin Mining Hardware Accelerator with Optimized Message Datapath"

Viper007Bond — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:55:37 +0000

I don't see Intel going out of business any time soon...

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Tesla crash victim had complained about auto-pilot in same location"

Viper007Bond — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:20:49 +0000

That would make a hell of a racket. They more likely boiled their brake fluid or something, possibly due to a stuck caliper.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "MacOS finally gains external GPU support"

Viper007Bond — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 02:08:54 +0000

I thought for sure you'd be wrong, but nope!

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_...

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Tell HN: Slack decides to close down IRC and XMPP gateways"

Viper007Bond — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 00:10:33 +0000

The ~600 person distributed company I work for doesn't use phone or email and obviously doesn't do anything face to face. We relied on IRC for years before switching to Slack so yes, all of our real-time communication is via Slack. We have internal blogs for threaded important async discussion though, but Slack is where our high bandwidth talk done.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Slack client for the terminal"

Viper007Bond — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 20:18:41 +0000

You can actually connect to Slack via IRC: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...

New comment by Viper007Bond in "What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?"

Viper007Bond — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:03:32 +0000

Yep, my CPU (i7-4790K @ 4.7 GHz) smokes my dual GTX 780s in hash rate for Monereo.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "What happens when I choose to “Suppress Ads” on Salon?"

Viper007Bond — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 06:00:53 +0000

Because even when you're not paying for electricity, there's much more profitable coins to mine.

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in 'Biggest Leak in History'"

Viper007Bond — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 07:57:32 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16330228

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Donkey Kong scoreboard strips high score claim"

Viper007Bond — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 01:16:37 +0000

Really interesting video about that: https://youtu.be/8e-H4sEHB54

New comment by Viper007Bond in "Keurig to Acquire Dr Pepper Snapple in Largest Soft-Drink Deal Ever"

Viper007Bond — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:20:18 +0000

Isn't Dr. Pepper currently distributed through Pepsi? I wonder how this will affect that.