Hacker News: WinterMount223

Ask HN: Is it reasonable to ban Windows OS from our workplace?

WinterMount223 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:50:13 +0000

This is mainly due to security concerns and secondarily for ease of maintenance of network/systems.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30835403

Points: 18

# Comments: 28

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Olbers' Paradox"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:46:52 +0000

Exponentially means that it grows like exp(x).

New comment by WinterMount223 in "What I learned from running a concierge search engine"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 20:03:32 +0000

I wouldn’t feel full or satisfied with such research done by other on open ended questions such as What kind of inflatable kayak should I buy? Maybe after researching, I realize that really I should get a rigid kayak instead. Such research is iterative, interactive, and some of my preferences or personal knowledge can’t be easily externalized.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Olbers' Paradox"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:36:45 +0000

> too. It does act like a radiation shield, exponentially damping the distant starlight.

This is wrong, damping is not exponential but to the fourth root.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "We were a few days away from being settled for life"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:15:08 +0000

That’s why you also do due diligence on your prospective buyer. Also when talks are reasonably advanced, ask for a non-refundable advance as a proof of love.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Crime scene investigators learn to dowse for the dead"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:20:25 +0000

Not everything is able to be reproduced scientifically and reversed engineered. It’s not less real because of that.

You may know how to ride a bike. Can you reverse engineer and explain in an algorithmic way how to ride a bike? No. Does that invalidate the fact that you can indeed ride a bike? Of course not.

Edit: do not fixate on the bike. It was just an example. Write a symphony, create a joke, understand irony.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "What is money, anyway?"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 01:57:58 +0000

I found Bernstein’s Against The Gods shallow and blasphemous.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "What is money, anyway?"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 01:56:26 +0000

At the bottom there’s only exchange for labor.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income"

WinterMount223 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 21:22:50 +0000

If you can’t scale customer support then you can’t scale the customer base.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income"

WinterMount223 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 21:21:05 +0000

Did their accounts end up permanently banned or could they recover them? Seems like something that could actually be abused if not. A weaponized banned Google account on a laptop. A laptop with cooties. The seven generations punishment.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Twibright Optar – OPTical ARchiver – a codec for encoding data on paper"

WinterMount223 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 20:11:03 +0000

How does this compare to printed base 64, then OCR? It seems more robust to print and recognize text than binary patterns. You can always type it out if you are desperate.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "New Male Birth Control Pill Effectively Prevents Pregnancy Without Side Effects"

WinterMount223 — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:30:49 +0000

Ask Mary

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Postico: A Modern PostgreSQL Client for the Mac"

WinterMount223 — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:35:10 +0000

What’s wrong with psql? Those seem like clutches for the Real Thing which you must understand anyway.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Crows possess higher intelligence, thought a primarily human attribute (2020)"

WinterMount223 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:55:20 +0000

The selfish genes strike again. Humans (animals) are machines evolved to replicate their genes, who don’t care how happy or unhappy their replication machines are.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?"

WinterMount223 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:43:42 +0000

Deployability (or lack thereof.)

New comment by WinterMount223 in "YouTuber builds his own x-ray machine after $69k hospital bill (2021)"

WinterMount223 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:46:54 +0000

An x ray lamp is not radioactive unless you are eating bananas.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "A better way to divide the pie"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 22:42:04 +0000

Can you explain? A reference to Carse?

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Please put units in names"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:11:44 +0000

You are right however physicists do not multiply duration x duration but time x time. Duration is discrete and time is infinitesimal.

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Please put units in names"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:05:42 +0000

CGS is so the sixties!

New comment by WinterMount223 in "Tell HN: Did you know you can negotiate price on many things?"

WinterMount223 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 01:55:12 +0000

The house husband.