Hacker News: conexions

New comment by conexions in "The Visible Zorker: Zork 1"

conexions — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:21:55 +0000

Perhaps you could try making a map.

New comment by conexions in "Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy"

conexions — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:39:22 +0000

In my mind the principal reason for the current hierarchy is read/write usage. With /etc and /usr it is possible after installation and configuration to set one or both as Read Only. With /var and /home you have the directories that should be Read/Write on a running system. This allows you to mount each of those directories on a different partition with different settings or even different filesystems depending on how you want to optimize/secure your application.

Now admittedly actually doing this is pretty rare in these days, but I still like having the option. I believe he does address this talking about "union mounts" and "overlay filesystems". I'm really not too familiar with either or how production ready they are, but it may address my concerns.

Facebook will pay millions to content moderators who suffer PTSD at work

conexions — Wed, 13 May 2020 01:43:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/12/facebook-content-moderator-ptsd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23162512

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

Bad News Wrapped in Protein: Inside the Coronavirus Genome

conexions — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:14:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/03/science/coronavirus-genome-bad-news-wrapped-in-protein.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782602

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by conexions in "Microsoft's “Love” of Linux"

conexions — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:06:44 +0000

A web interface is already a reality.[1] Work great with Chrome or Chromium. Not a full featured office, but in general very nice. [1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office/ndjpnladcal...

Most Popular Languages on GitHub

conexions — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:54:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/oprogramador/github-languages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21537625

Points: 17

# Comments: 5

New comment by conexions in "Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years"

conexions — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:37:30 +0000

For anyone interested, a book was written on this about 15 years ago by a reporter from "Janes Defense Weekly". "The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology". Not as tin-hat as you might think, mostly a story of a lot of dead ends while trying to research some DARPA dark projects.

New comment by conexions in "Why Enterprise Software Sucks"

conexions — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:03:37 +0000

I really would say your just restating the OP conclusion from the point of the of the purchaser instead of from the point of view of the software developer.

An executive at an Enterprise would state their search for some piece of software as: I have such and such problem. I wish someone would make a magic wand and fix it for me(how hard can it be anyway).

To which some software developer will reply. Hey we make magic wands. We make incredible magic wands. Let's schedule some time to show them to you. And the fact that the people who have to use it are not involved makes a huge difference in quality.

You give Word, Excel and Jira as examples of Enterprise Software. If these are examples of Enterprise Software they are by far the best examples of such Software.

Enterprise Software that currently makes my life miserable on a daily basis would be products like Remedy for workflows and approvals, Serena and Harvest for Change Management, WebSphere Middleware, CyberArk for secrets management, and WebMethods for an Enterprise Service Bus. All of these have horrible documentation, are extremely expensive, and most have superior open source equivalents.

The only reason that companies like this can still stay in business is because there are executives who still believe in magic wands and then believe sales people when they say they have them for sale.

New comment by conexions in "Start Your Own ISP"

conexions — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:14:39 +0000

I had looked into doing something similar around 10 years ago. A couple of things I found useful that aren't mentioned:

Find a program that can measure the propagation of EM waves(for a WISP that's normally microwaves) Quite a few are listed at http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/qsl-review-propagation-sof...

I really liked the book Deploying License-Free Wireless Wide-Area Networks[1] if you're completely new to large scale wireless.

[1] http://www.ciscopress.com/store/deploying-license-free-wirel...

New comment by conexions in "Why numbering should start at zero (1982)"

conexions — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 03:20:57 +0000

Think of defining an empty range.

    a) 1 <= x < 1
    c) 1 <= x <= 0

c seems quite a bit more confusing than a.

New comment by conexions in "[dead]"

conexions — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:29:44 +0000

Just coming out of a situation like this there are a few thing that are important to take note of on both sides.

First even having a pretty good job in not enough to keep you above the poverty level. I worked in a trade job and was paid fairly well. In our case, though with a family of 5 you would need to make about $13.50 an hour and never miss a day of work for any reason to keep above the poverty level. We just weren't making it and were on food stamps for about a year.

On the other hand our situation was very much a life decision. We had two preschool age children and my wife preferred not to go to work. In the end I decided I just had to get a better job. I went back to school(which meant I got even more government money) and was eventually able to double my salary.

I don't know if I have any point other than that there is no black and white. It is a nuanced situation and we should not dehumanize either side.

C++ Dependency Manager Biicode, Now at 2.0

conexions — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:51:25 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.biicode.com/biicode-20/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9069465

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New Major Relase for Pyglet

conexions — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:20:55 +0000

Article URL: http://www.pyglet.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9057223

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by conexions in "Shellshock in the Wild"

conexions — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:22:28 +0000

I would just like to point out that, for all the talk of routers being vunerable, routers in general use busybox, which in turn uses ash shell as the default shell. Most routers will not be vunerable unless bash was explicitly installed.

https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=52937

A Holographic Origin for the Big Bang

conexions — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:25:38 +0000

Article URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.1487

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8164481

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by conexions in "Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality"

conexions — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:27:08 +0000

As an answer to the question on entanglement, the FAQ posted above had this to say:

In contrast, Bell’s Theorem can be formulated without even speaking about hidden variable theories: the theorem states that some predictions of QM, well confirmed by several experiments, can not be explained by any local theory. And BM is nonlocal, as well as QM is. In fact BM inspired Bell to investigate non-locality, finally leading himto discover his famous inequalities. Bell was one of the most prominent proponents of BM and wrote many articles explaining it in great detail.

Also here's a wikipedia article that talks about Bohmian Mechanics and entanglement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory#...