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New comment by daveevad in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

daveevad — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:05:07 +0000

I'll argue there's potentially a standards based advantage at the end when this all shakes out.

It will probably take a couple hundred years but I'm pretty sure I'm right about this :)

New comment by daveevad in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

daveevad — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:18:24 +0000

Sorry to be pedantic but if you're clicking the link, YT gets the referer header even without the share id url parameter.

New comment by daveevad in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

daveevad — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:54:11 +0000

myself

man, myself needs work

New comment by daveevad in "I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it"

daveevad — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:18:07 +0000

my undergrad econ degree suggests there was more demand than supply

New comment by daveevad in "I made a public living room and the internet keeps putting weirder stuff in it"

daveevad — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:10:31 +0000

Got here too late so seems like it went viral.

So, it was a really good idea?

New comment by daveevad in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

daveevad — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:32:27 +0000

I hope you're talking about the original The Jackal. That's a great movie that has fascinated me essentially because of the theme you've identified. A truly motivated, highly-intelligent person could commit horrendous acts without detection. So far, whoever committed this assassination has succeeded; but I suspect, there is simply too much surveillance in 2025 to get away with it.

edit: regarding the surveillance issue, wonder what the retention on google earth/maps logs is for the location of the shooting?

New comment by daveevad in "Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked"

daveevad — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:56:37 +0000

> hiss of communication

Allow me to speculate massively. Hiss sounds more like weak signal acquisition. Perhaps in this case, Mitnick was interfering but not defeating encryption.

New comment by daveevad in "Brian Wilson has died"

daveevad — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:05:20 +0000

You reminded me that one of Brian Wilson's favorite songs was "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_My_Baby#Effect_on_Brian_Wil...

New comment by daveevad in "Streaming every NFL game this season requires 7 different services, costs $2,500"

daveevad — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 01:11:35 +0000

> Are there any good out of the box or open source self-hosted Aereo-like services, that let me access OTA broadcasts in another market?

Jellyfin with an HDHomerun is a pretty nice combo for this.

New comment by daveevad in "NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9"

daveevad — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 06:19:15 +0000

> - Starliner leaving ISS autonomously early September

What shall we make of all of this should it succeed?

New comment by daveevad in "How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket"

daveevad — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:44:04 +0000

> the ability to use StringLike conditions

so much depends

upon

a regular

expression

New comment by daveevad in "A History of the TTY"

daveevad — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 05:22:09 +0000

That's the first time seeing that Gates photo for me. He would've been 14 or 15 years old.

New comment by daveevad in "The Eagle Never Sleeps: one Kentucky newspaper still screams for press freedom"

daveevad — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:57:51 +0000

It makes my day whenever eastern Kentucky content shows up on here. It's such a contrast to life in the valley and it seems like our homestate might be setup well for remote work going forward, or is that just the eternal optimist in me?

New comment by daveevad in "How does a B-tree make queries fast?"

daveevad — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:53:19 +0000

It's not that deep.

New comment by daveevad in "YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin"

daveevad — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:47:31 +0000

Between Youtube and PirateBay, who do you think has distributed more unauthorized copyrighted works?

New comment by daveevad in "Apache HTTP Server 2.4.58 (CVE fixes)"

daveevad — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:07:21 +0000

Full disclosure: I haven't cut my hair in awhile. It may be influencing my architecture decisions at this point.

New comment by daveevad in "First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student"

daveevad — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 03:36:50 +0000

That's fascinating to this lay clay tablet thinker. It had never occurred to me that clay tablets were reused. In fact, it nearly fundamentally changes my estimation of them as a long-term durable storage medium.

New comment by daveevad in "The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps"

daveevad — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 01:16:45 +0000

Any examples of major predictions verified in this way?

New comment by daveevad in "Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Mine does"

daveevad — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 21:39:09 +0000

That sounds amazing. Are there more details like what sort of ads even?

New comment by daveevad in "Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company"

daveevad — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:27:22 +0000

Anyone able to share the definitive history of the polar bears that visited the office?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Polar_Be...