Hacker News: _underfl0w_

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway"

_underfl0w_ — Fri, 21 May 2021 16:46:13 +0000

This is an absolutely mind-blowing quote, thanks for sharing.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Poor in Tech"

_underfl0w_ — Wed, 19 May 2021 14:32:48 +0000

Easier to do in some places than others.

Public transport is nonexistent in several places here in Texas for example - you have to have a car (or know someone who does) to get to your job in the first place. But commuting puts wear and tear on the car, especially if you can't find work particularly close to where you live.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "NTSB: Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn't Have Been Using Autopilot"

_underfl0w_ — Tue, 11 May 2021 02:28:08 +0000

Local software != map data, necessarily.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Taking sex differences in personality seriously (2019)"

_underfl0w_ — Wed, 05 May 2021 19:52:53 +0000

One might begin to wonder if there's more than mere correlation between those who adopt socially conservative beliefs and those who seem unable to paint their environment in anything other than such broad strokes...

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "LSD, cargo shorts and the fall of a tech CEO"

_underfl0w_ — Wed, 05 May 2021 16:55:24 +0000

That is actually incredibly good advice. Sounds obvious on its face, but isn't necessarily obvious in the moment.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)"

_underfl0w_ — Wed, 05 May 2021 15:41:49 +0000

That still leaves unanswered questions:

What encoding - ASCII or Unicode? UTF-8, or UTF-16?

What type of filesystem - FAT32, exFAT, ext4?

What physical medium - HDD or SSD?

OP's question goes deeper than just the file format.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "It's your device, you should be able to repair it"

_underfl0w_ — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:22:18 +0000

Do you have a source to cite for "the approach that the vast majority of purchasers prefer"?

That seems pretty speculative. The market can be manipulated or directed by more than simply consumer choice, e.g. by business incentives of product manufacturers.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’"

_underfl0w_ — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 07:53:24 +0000

`self`, `this`, `$1`, etc. are also fun to sprinkle in there.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data"

_underfl0w_ — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:23:45 +0000

The problem is that this wasn't the only way they were gathering this info, and that they misled consumers by allowing them to turn off a setting that supposedly stopped this kind of tracking, while still continuing to track due to a different setting defaulting to "on".

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network"

_underfl0w_ — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 05:00:37 +0000

Definitely worse, but also the next logical step given that an ad company has achieved relative browser dominance and has such weight to throw around in defining web standards. Moves like this were inevitable. Writing's been on the wall a while now too.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network"

_underfl0w_ — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 04:52:17 +0000

Please read TFA. It answers this question.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Opting Your Website Out of Google's FLoC Network"

_underfl0w_ — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 04:51:41 +0000

"What about $otherthing?"

Neither is good, but that doesn't necessarily make the topic you're attempting to pivot to relevant in this situation.

Also, Cloudflare (provider of the external service you mention, assuming you're talking about DNS-over-HTTPS) definitely isn't Google. At least not yet.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress"

_underfl0w_ — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:37:30 +0000

> but it is objectively the best selection system one could possibly devise

Your determination of objectivity seems a little... subjective.

Maybe this was objectively best at the time but at minimum the race part seems to no longer be true.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress"

_underfl0w_ — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:34:08 +0000

Can anyone cite a source for this? I don't doubt the legitimacy, but would like to know more about it.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Zoom zero-day discovery"

_underfl0w_ — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:27:31 +0000

"Expected" != "Acceptable" though, IMHO.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail"

_underfl0w_ — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 22:59:22 +0000

They then hired the guy creating those exploit chains.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’"

_underfl0w_ — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:21:52 +0000

While this is correct, surveillance in the physical call center wasn't physically taking place in these people's homes, which IMHO is the critical difference.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’"

_underfl0w_ — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:19:53 +0000

Having worked in a call center myself at one point, I'd say the primary difference is the directly-customer-facing nature of that work. When a call comes in (and there are often a large number of simultaneous calls) someone has to be there at their desk to receive it - whereas with yours and my current gigs, the worst that'll happen is some production issue with a reasonable SLA.

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "A Decentralized Dead Man’s Switch"

_underfl0w_ — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 23:40:43 +0000

> "wild beef"

New comment by _underfl0w_ in "Reflections on IDEA vs VS Code"

_underfl0w_ — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 18:09:31 +0000

You could use grep with vim or nano for quick searches and viewing without even leaving your terminal. Why bother with a GUI at all for that use case?