Hacker News: avery17

New comment by avery17 in "Richard A. Cash, who saved millions from dehydration, has died"

avery17 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:06:29 +0000

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down???

New comment by avery17 in "AI for real-time fusion plasma behavior prediction and manipulation"

avery17 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:43:06 +0000

I really hope you aren't serious. Safe dry-cask storage on site is already a fantastic solution.

New comment by avery17 in "Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages"

avery17 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:23:44 +0000

It hasn't stopped hackers though.

New comment by avery17 in "As America's Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms"

avery17 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:32:27 +0000

Do you have a source for this?

New comment by avery17 in "A team paid to break into top-secret bases"

avery17 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:17:21 +0000

It's probably quite easy...

New comment by avery17 in "Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for its data centres"

avery17 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:30:14 +0000

Never? It's already a solved problem.

New comment by avery17 in "Google orders small modular nuclear reactors for its data centres"

avery17 — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:29:46 +0000

Dry cask storage is very safe and effective.

New comment by avery17 in "Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says"

avery17 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:54:08 +0000

Entropy is a bitch.

New comment by avery17 in "Scientists Identify Brain Signal Disruptions Behind Voices in Schizophrenia"

avery17 — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:06:35 +0000

You're not special.

New comment by avery17 in "The Simpsons: Tapped Out is powering off servers after 12 years"

avery17 — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:29:22 +0000

"We and our 692 partners process personal data to: use precise geolocation data; actively scan device characteristics for identification; store and access information on a device; provide personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development; use limited data to select content."

And you have to disable them one at a time. Absolutely wild.

New comment by avery17 in "Show HN: Similar user search for Hacker News"

avery17 — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:38:23 +0000

That's stupid.

New comment by avery17 in "Marijuana Is Too Strong Now"

avery17 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:24:03 +0000

It's literally fine. I know tons of people who smoke and none of them have issues. Obviously some percentage of the population will react poorly to drugs. That doesn't mean weed is gonna start making everyone go psychotic. This is anti weed propaganda at its best.

New comment by avery17 in "Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)"

avery17 — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:09:23 +0000

They also run a ton of nodes. So yes they own part of the network financially.

New comment by avery17 in "The historical distinction between coder and programmer"

avery17 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:28:39 +0000

I've seen plenty of co.puter magic though.

New comment by avery17 in "Crypto tax evasion is 'pervasive'"

avery17 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:29:48 +0000

Start mining.

New comment by avery17 in "Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?"

avery17 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:14:55 +0000

You never know what may suddenly become illegal.

New comment by avery17 in "Scientists achieve more than 98% efficiency removing nanoplastics from water"

avery17 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 13:18:12 +0000

Teabags are usually silk right?

New comment by avery17 in "Covid-related loss of smell tied to changes in the brain"

avery17 — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 20:01:02 +0000

Lets just all live in bubbles and never interact. Too dangerous.

New comment by avery17 in "SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level"

avery17 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:55:54 +0000

I always thought the internet would get more sophisticated and secure as time went on and my days of SQL injection were limited to my teenage years but it seems as the internet becomes more accessible the number of armature developers putting insecure websites up in rising raidly.

New comment by avery17 in "Airbnb shares drop 12% as company flags weakening US demand"

avery17 — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 01:09:53 +0000

Safety regulations are frequently written in blood.