Hacker News: antiphase

New comment by antiphase in "Easy RISC-V"

antiphase — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:24:12 +0000

Why wouldn't someone just do this with their brain?

New comment by antiphase in "Take the pedals off the bike"

antiphase — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:36:54 +0000

This is because gyroscopic forces are not significant except at high speed, and most of the forces relevant to cycling and which direction the bicycle goes are generated between the front tire and road surface. Turning the handlebars to change direction is also only relevant at low speed for the same reason.

New comment by antiphase in "Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts"

antiphase — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:59:20 +0000

The whole thing is full of speling and grammar errors. The author desperately needs a copy editor.

New comment by antiphase in "Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency"

antiphase — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:41:22 +0000

I can't really see how a craptocurrency attached to a messenger provides any sort of pseudonymity. If I can send money to you, I can later identify you in a ledger, which simply means I need to find some reason to converse with you and it's game over. If the ledger isn't public, you're back under corporate or Government control.

New comment by antiphase in "Show HN: A Zero Spam Mail System"

antiphase — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:20:35 +0000

Is this related to dombox.com? They may not appreciate you muscling in on their business.

New comment by antiphase in "Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada"

antiphase — Mon, 24 Dec 2018 19:57:27 +0000

Is AWS not cloud-based any more?

New comment by antiphase in "Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switching power supply"

antiphase — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:19:55 +0000

More likely that it generates a massive amount of wideband noise that happens to be modulated at 120Hz in this case.

New comment by antiphase in "Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price"

antiphase — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 22:45:24 +0000

Tell me more about this bacon mining.

New comment by antiphase in "Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch"

antiphase — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:32:48 +0000

I can only assume this guy wears The Breeches Of Trust

New comment by antiphase in "Nicehash down – rumors of $60M in Bitcoin stolen"

antiphase — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 22:29:35 +0000

They owed me, unless you are them.

New comment by antiphase in "Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20%"

antiphase — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 20:43:48 +0000

This only applies to permanent workers though. Contractors or temporary staff may be employed on much shorter terms.

New comment by antiphase in "AIM will shut down after 20 years"

antiphase — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 18:34:58 +0000

Email by its very nature is asynchronous and was standardized in a time when "always-on" didn't exist, and it is provider-agnostic because of the standard protocol.

Email's maturity by the time that businesses all came online pretty much guaranteed it as the standard for business communication, and personal use was just a small step from there.

Expecting 20s RTT for email is a modern phenomenon, when you could expect replies on the timescale of days before.

The closest attempt to a standard for IM is probably XMPP, which providers have pretty much all ignored in favour of lock-in to their respective platforms.

New comment by antiphase in "HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015)"

antiphase — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:10:49 +0000

Kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch.

New comment by antiphase in "SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster"

antiphase — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 06:35:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

New comment by antiphase in "Ask HN: Should I send a thank you email after a Skype screen with a recruiter?"

antiphase — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:22:41 +0000

It can't do any harm. Can it? :-O