Hacker News: bananaowl

New comment by bananaowl in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

bananaowl — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:21:27 +0000

Iridium has launched its own alternative positioning and timing system now https://www.iridium.com/iridium-pnt

New comment by bananaowl in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

bananaowl — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:45:09 +0000

I witnessed my great aunt of 85 trying to watch TV. It was sad and painful. How ux is forgetting this entire generation is just terrible.

New comment by bananaowl in "Moving from relational data to events"

bananaowl — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:28:43 +0000

The architecture from hell. Hard to debug. Why didn't my service pick up that event? Error handling. What happens with the state if a service throws an exception? Resource hog. How do I map/reduce all these events into a state?

I do like events. They go into my elk stack where I can look at pretty graphs which gives me a story of how my system behaves over time.

New comment by bananaowl in "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

bananaowl — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:34:31 +0000

It's come down to hostage ransom now. Easier to pull some people off the boat and hide them in the jungle for ransom. The huge vessel they came in on requires expertise to crew.

New comment by bananaowl in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

bananaowl — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 08:46:44 +0000

I listed private office as a requirement for my current job. Now I'm in the office almost every day.

At one point in time there were talks of sharing the space. I told them I had other options. The talks died.

Don't only negotiate on salary.

New comment by bananaowl in "Ask HN: What jobs will be big in the future that don't exist yet?"

bananaowl — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 05:51:58 +0000

Is advertising to people without money a good business?

New comment by bananaowl in "Using the same Arch Linux installation for a decade"

bananaowl — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:04:26 +0000

I started on slack and hopped on over to arch eventually. But lately been considering going back to Slackware again. Circle of slack.

New comment by bananaowl in "The End of CI"

bananaowl — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 07:39:40 +0000

I've had caching problems when triggering manually resolve on a new commit.

New comment by bananaowl in "The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018)"

bananaowl — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 07:57:54 +0000

I love my aeropress. Light weight. Super easy to clean by just giving it a rinse. And most importantly, makes a very good clean cup of coffee no matter what.

I like the moka as well. But it's harder to master. It will play different on different stoves. The original is in aluminum, so won't work on induction. But when you get the nack it will make you steaming darkness.

New comment by bananaowl in "Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'"

bananaowl — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:47:43 +0000

Not quite sure why I'm getting downvoted for publishing those two links, but hey :)

Anyway, here's the UK's disclaimer from the Yellow Card summary link you posted.

Part of our monitoring role includes reviewing reports of suspected side effects. Any member of the public or health professional can submit suspected side effects through the Yellow Card scheme. The nature of Yellow Card reporting means that reported events are not always proven side effects. Some events may have happened anyway, regardless of vaccination. This is particularly the case when millions of people are vaccinated, and especially when most vaccines are being given to the most elderly people and people who have underlying illness.

New comment by bananaowl in "Germany pauses AstraZeneca vaccinations as a 'precaution'"

bananaowl — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:59:28 +0000

According to these reports hosted on gov.uk there are reports of fatalities and reactions.

Pfizer: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

AstraZeneca: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Disclaimer from UK.gov:

Edit: Added disclaimer from UK.gov

New comment by bananaowl in "Show HN: I wrote an entire book to build a mouseless dev environment"

bananaowl — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 14:17:14 +0000

I switched to this kind of mouseless setup a couple of years ago and haven't looked back.

It takes some time getting into, but the rewards were worth it for me. I'm now relying on muscle memory for navigation, and my mouse arm inflammation is gone!

New comment by bananaowl in "Exploring new forms of chess using artificial intelligence"

bananaowl — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:11:46 +0000

I can heartily recommend "Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins" by Kasparov.

It's his story on what happened around Deep Blue.

New comment by bananaowl in "The cult of the free must die"

bananaowl — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:54:15 +0000

I value time the further into my professional life I get. So for me, paying for good quality documentation, wether it comes in form of a website or a book, is a better bargain than me trying to read up on 10 blog posts and going down the rabbit hole of the source code.

New comment by bananaowl in "A Hidden Origin Story of the CBD Craze"

bananaowl — Sun, 24 May 2020 11:56:14 +0000

Hops do have some interesting properties. You can make a tea to help you sleep. Also used as a antipsycothic before we got pills.

Close relative to Marijuana as I understand.

New comment by bananaowl in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"

bananaowl — Thu, 14 May 2020 08:53:06 +0000

I had some friends complain about their sedentary home-office. So I cooked together a pomodoro app with exercise videos for your break time.

Work and work out :)

https://pomfu.no

New comment by bananaowl in "Tesla races past $100B in market valuation"

bananaowl — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:36:16 +0000

The Mercedes voice control system can't understand anything I'm asking for.

New comment by bananaowl in "Show HN: Stack – Save and explore books and book lists"

bananaowl — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:24:43 +0000

From the TOS:

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New comment by bananaowl in "Ask HN: Physicists of HN, what are you working on these days?"

bananaowl — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:25:17 +0000

So what happens to the seed??

New comment by bananaowl in "How to deal with a psychopath"

bananaowl — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 12:58:42 +0000

You can never win versus a psychopath. In my experience dealing with several as a freelancer is to never give them any conceived power over you. Wether personal or professional. In the future they will use any ammo available to get what they want.

I see it as a game of chess dealing with this kind of person.