Hacker News: dfcab

New comment by dfcab in "NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew"

dfcab — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:34:11 +0000

All I know is that SpaceX said dragon and crew-11 would undock no earlier than Wednesday, Jan 14.

New comment by dfcab in "Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#"

dfcab — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:26:14 +0000

I am in the same boat. Aspose has been the go to for Word and PDF documents. Will say, Adobe's PDF Services API offers a ton of interesting features but comes with a price tag and in my scenario, it's not HIPAA compliant.

New comment by dfcab in "Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again"

dfcab — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:34:25 +0000

Had the same thought but then wondered if the damage would cause vibration which would then lead to other issues.

New comment by dfcab in "Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again"

dfcab — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 20:29:45 +0000

There is a picture of the helicopter that has arrows in your link, click next and you will see the tip of the blade in a shadow. :(

New comment by dfcab in "She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter"

dfcab — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:58:46 +0000

Seriously!

New comment by dfcab in "A runner who leads every pack and then vanishes"

dfcab — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:36:52 +0000

Here you go: “A marathon or half marathon pacer is a volunteer runner that runs a race at a specific pace for a target finish time. Pacers are usually veteran runners that have racing and pacing strategies they have mastered which they utilize during the course of the race. Pacers wear some type of signage/object such as a sign, balloon, or shirt identifying their target finish time.”

Link: https://halfmarathonforbeginners.com/what-is-a-pacer-in-runn...

New comment by dfcab in "FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions"

dfcab — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:53:08 +0000

Whole heartedly agree.

New comment by dfcab in "FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions"

dfcab — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:52:30 +0000

Thank you

New comment by dfcab in "Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account"

dfcab — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 20:13:07 +0000

Coincidentally on a flight right right now and service is decent on United. Not fast but useable. One caveat is that it performs much better with a VPN enabled. Seems they block certain things such as Zoom and the VPN allows the use of the chat feature. Apple Music was struggling until the VPN was enabled and solid since.

New comment by dfcab in "In some instances the fetus helps repair a ruptured amniotic sac"

dfcab — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:15:45 +0000

This is the way!

New comment by dfcab in "Orcas are breaking rudders off boats in Europe"

dfcab — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:34:02 +0000

Indeed!

New comment by dfcab in "Ask HN: Does anyone use a Raspberry Pi as your main computer?"

dfcab — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:55:03 +0000

Curious, what mini-desktop pc did you go with?

New comment by dfcab in "Ubiquiti developer charged with extortion, causing 2020 “breach”"

dfcab — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:01:21 +0000

Same happened with Crosstalk in a similar fashion. Commented on a video about a product similar to what he was describing and he removed the comment. It’s all about them and the products they want to sell. Not as open/transparent as one would think.

New comment by dfcab in "Monitor Airplane Traffic with a Raspberry Pi"

dfcab — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 16:23:51 +0000

Check the Flightradar24 app (https://www.flightradar24.com), I use it all the time to determine the helicopter or airplane nearby.

New comment by dfcab in "Tesla Cybertruck"

dfcab — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:48:13 +0000

What on earth is that! :)

New comment by dfcab in "California Live Fire Maps"

dfcab — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 01:12:39 +0000

Same here. Had to zoom for it to appear.

New comment by dfcab in "Carnival Cruises emits ten times more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s cars"

dfcab — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:27:51 +0000

I'm no Carnival fan, they are terrible for the environment and don't seem understand the harm they cause. Example, once again fined just a few days ago: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/04/729622653/carnival-cruise-lin...

My issue is that I'd like to see the comparison to Maersk, not sure how 700+ ships compares to Carnival Corps !00+ cruise ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Corporation_%26_plc. Article just points out how bad Carnival Corp is without painting a broader picture. You can certainly point out that a company is bad but how bad is it?

New comment by dfcab in "Carnival Cruises emits ten times more sulphur oxide than all of Europe’s cars"

dfcab — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:48:56 +0000

@smachiz, totally agree. With all the cruise and shipping companies this article feels like a political attack on Carnival. Wonder what happened if they ran the stats on Maersk who has the largest fleet of 700 ships in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...

New comment by dfcab in "Radio Attack Lets Hackers Steal Cars with Just $20 Worth of Gear"

dfcab — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:53:33 +0000

Saw that yesterday as well, always a cat and mouse game.

New comment by dfcab in "Ask HN: Is Comcast having internet problems?"

dfcab — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:08:27 +0000

Same here, been crawling since around 1pm EST