Hacker News: a_random_name

New comment by a_random_name in "UAE to leave OPEC"

a_random_name — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:45:08 +0000

Yeah, but "increasing taxes" always rouses the rabble.

New comment by a_random_name in "The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets"

a_random_name — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:52:39 +0000

The post office has used OCR machines (optical character recognition) since the 80s.

I think the 80s machines used something more like hand built digital image processing to find the characters, but OCR is absolutely not new.

New comment by a_random_name in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

a_random_name — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:51:55 +0000

uh no... You still need a heat pump. The water coming from that system would be like 50 degrees, far too cold for heating.

New comment by a_random_name in "Lazy JWT Key Rotation in .NET: Redis-Powered JWKS That Just Works"

a_random_name — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:25:56 +0000

TY, that seems like not the best practice.

New comment by a_random_name in "Lazy JWT Key Rotation in .NET: Redis-Powered JWKS That Just Works"

a_random_name — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:13:50 +0000

(glanced at it so I could be wrong) They're talking about a public key that can be used to validate the JWT's authenticity. AFAIK there is no need to keep these secret, and it's not possible to (without breaking public key crypto) forge them so it should be safe to store them wherever.

New comment by a_random_name in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

a_random_name — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 04:29:32 +0000

If Netflix still interviews on hacker rank puzzles I think this should be a wake up call. Interviewing on irrelevant logic puzzles is no match for systems engineering.

New comment by a_random_name in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

a_random_name — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 04:10:00 +0000

Ota broadcasts are clearer

New comment by a_random_name in "The Calorie Paradox of Raw Veganism (1999)"

a_random_name — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 15:07:04 +0000

That and not using proven treatments for cancer.

New comment by a_random_name in "BMW CEO to quit after carmaker loses early lead in electrics"

a_random_name — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 19:28:13 +0000

This is exactly what happened with incandescent light bulbs. The price for led bulbs dropped very quickly onve there was economy of scale driven by garunteed demand.

New comment by a_random_name in "Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22"

a_random_name — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:17:17 +0000

ZFS does bring in file system level versioning. Not widely adopted yet though.

New comment by a_random_name in "Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013)"

a_random_name — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:50:23 +0000

When I worked for the post office, our pay keeping clocks were 24 hours to a day with 100 minutes to the hour. It was super weird to look at a clock and see that the time was 18:79. Eventually I got used to keeping time in quarter hour increments, because the math lined up well enough.

New comment by a_random_name in "Gut bacteria may change the way many drugs work in the body"

a_random_name — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 21:35:28 +0000

It's also possible that your brain is impacted by caffeine differently. I have adhd and caffeine can make me feel sleepy sometimes.

New comment by a_random_name in "DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border"

a_random_name — Fri, 03 May 2019 13:44:34 +0000

I'm an adoptive parent in the US and I've been waiting months for that paperwork........

New comment by a_random_name in "DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border"

a_random_name — Thu, 02 May 2019 15:26:00 +0000

Because I guess adoptions, or family relationships a little more complicated than the nuclear family don't exist.

New comment by a_random_name in "DHS to start DNA testing to establish family relationships on the border"

a_random_name — Thu, 02 May 2019 15:25:08 +0000

This makes a lot of presumptuous about the intention of the adults here. Do you know that these are not something similar to adoptive parents?!

New comment by a_random_name in "Burnout caused by chronic stress is widespread"

a_random_name — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 02:54:47 +0000

I wonder if unionization could be a solution here.