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New comment by antattack in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

antattack — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:54:08 +0000

Some wars for public opinion, are lost and won on social media.

Those who post quickest have a higher chance of not getting lost in the noise and that is where bots will probably be used first by individuals as well.

With that said, hopefully this not the future and new ways of moderating and presenting information will be invented, but the way things are now, it's a slug-fest and the fastest and loudest often wins.

New comment by antattack in "Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources"

antattack — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:30:43 +0000

I can think of couple of reasons:

1. as a public company, they are afraid to lose so many accounts - see Netflix as an example on what could happen to their stock

2. bots are the future, at some point I think everyone will have a bot to post for them

New comment by antattack in "Melting KiCad"

antattack — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 23:32:06 +0000

What drew me to Horizon EDA was that it has interactive router (based on code from KiCad) with push and shove functions. It also has straightforward interface, and it's fast. Recently ODB++ support was added, probably the first (and only?) for open source EDA.

I wish it had ready to use footprints (other than basic resistors, caps, etc), especially from LCSC catalogue.

New comment by antattack in "The U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon, America's “flying aircraft carriers”"

antattack — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 18:21:19 +0000

I saw old footage, posted on yt, with three sailors lifted of the ground when Akron was landing, tragically, two could not hold on. I recall that, because I though to myself that today's news would not have shown all the gruesome details, specially with such sensational commentary.

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jshHDM93PSE

New comment by antattack in "Web color is still broken"

antattack — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:14:02 +0000

I would imagine it actually looks even worse since low-mid tier laptops can only display 60% sRGB.

New comment by antattack in "In sexy worms, inheritance beyond genes can help evolution"

antattack — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:19:52 +0000

"the new study provides valuable clues about the potential for short-term epigenetic inheritance to influence longer-term evolution, too."

Chemistry is different but mechanism is pretty universal, across the species.

New comment by antattack in "Framework Laptop Mainboard"

antattack — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:45:02 +0000

"the average Core i5-1135G7 in our database is just as fast as the Core i5-10400H, Core i5-8300H, and Ryzen 7 3700U in multi-core benchmarks. The CPU acts even nicer when under single-core load, reaching similar heights as the Ryzen 7 5600X and Core i7-8700K."

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i5-1135G7-Processor...

New comment by antattack in "Framework Laptop Mainboard"

antattack — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:42:49 +0000

From what I could find tb3 to PCIe is very expensive. NVME is basically a protocol on top of PCIe with m.2 connector.

Here's an example of m.2 to PCIe x4 adapter: https://www.delock.com/produkt/64131/merkmale.html

If adapter is possible we could use 4 port gig adapter for a nice pfsense/opnsense router or a VM server.

New comment by antattack in "Framework Laptop Mainboard"

antattack — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 23:47:10 +0000

Will BIOS support PCIe network card (with PCIe extender) connected to PCIe port? How many lines is it?

Median Age of the Population in Every Country (2017)

antattack — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 21:06:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/median-age-of-the-population-in-every-country/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31089166

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by antattack in "College became the default – Let's rethink that"

antattack — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:50:27 +0000

Networking and collaboration is hard to substitute though. As to the costs, looking for a substitute to college because it's expensive it's like treating a symptom rather than the cause.

New comment by antattack in "College became the default – Let's rethink that"

antattack — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:25:50 +0000

4. There are companies that will not even consider an applicant w/o BA degree, no matter what experience (HR filters).

Anyway, in large measure, we are only talking how college is not for everyone because it's so expensive. It's fine to have alternatives but education needs to be more accessible to those that want it.

Research: Conviction increases by ~1% for each year increase in avg. jury age [pdf]

antattack — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:51:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w17887/w17887.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31087276

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by antattack in "Mental speed is high until age sixty"

antattack — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:46:55 +0000

Jury is selected and approved by layers and judge. Judge and lawyers are in much better position to select someone competent than age, especially at low and high extremes. Just like there are few 18 yo juror's there would be likely very few 16 yo ones.

Speaking of age, there's an interesting research that found: "that conviction rates increase by about 1 percentage point for each year increase in the average age of the jury pool"

New comment by antattack in "All IoT devices Bricked after Insteon shuts down?"

antattack — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:19:14 +0000

Solution is straightforward, although often not plug and play - only use IoT devices that you can control, based on ESP8266 or ESP32, that can be flashed to Tasmota, ESPhome, etc and controlled with Home Assistant.

New comment by antattack in "People who decide what becomes history"

antattack — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 16:40:26 +0000

“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell.

New comment by antattack in "Mental speed is high until age sixty"

antattack — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:37:34 +0000

That is an interesting idea, but hard to implement in practice, to only allow mature enough people to vote. Being mature means different things to different people, but I suspect that even we we agreed on a definition we would find that a lot of adults would not qualify.

New comment by antattack in "CatalanGate: Spyware operation against Catalans using Pegasus and Candiru"

antattack — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:16:19 +0000

Is there something better? Seems like pendulum swings the opposite way once it reaches western democracy.

New comment by antattack in "“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG"

antattack — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:58:28 +0000

The difference is that I have no control what Russia does with my information but I have some control over what my country is doing with it.

New comment by antattack in "Mental speed is high until age sixty"

antattack — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:57:02 +0000

If started at 16 young people would be much better voters at 18 than current 18 year old voters are and so on. There are examples of uninformed voters at all age groups (voting across party lines is one example). Young people should have a chance to participate in our democracy and should be able to vote, if not in general, at least in municipal elections.