Hacker News: doobiedowner

New comment by doobiedowner in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

doobiedowner — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:52:38 +0000

Whoppers junior

New comment by doobiedowner in "In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives"

doobiedowner — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:19:47 +0000

You send in the Calvary to get this straw Juan of yours, you don’t sick them on the state of Minnesota

New comment by doobiedowner in "In 6 violent encounters, evidence contradicts immigration officials' narratives"

doobiedowner — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:12:24 +0000

If that’s your rationale for soft pedaling shock troops attacking American citizens, yes deeply flawed.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Hellenistic War-Elephants and the Use of Alcohol Before Battle"

doobiedowner — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:58:24 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_pink_elephants

New comment by doobiedowner in "Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times"

doobiedowner — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:01:24 +0000

You can eat shit. A private investigator has a specific target and a specific complaint. The topic, blanket surveillance by a private company does not have either. Again, eat shit. Shame on you apologizing for this behavior.

New comment by doobiedowner in "XKeyscore"

doobiedowner — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:50:25 +0000

How do they not have much to lose? They are the ones that have their users on a subscription basis.

New comment by doobiedowner in "XKeyscore"

doobiedowner — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:24:17 +0000

Wasn’t room 641A just the NSA strong arming At&T to facilitate full take collection?

New comment by doobiedowner in "PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor"

doobiedowner — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:16:19 +0000

As a guy that tries to make the lame ui in FactoryTalk sparkle, thank you!!!

New comment by doobiedowner in "Arduino PLC IDE"

doobiedowner — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:22:40 +0000

How is procurement process with Beckhoff? I am tempted to make the jump from mostly AB.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Arduino PLC IDE"

doobiedowner — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:18:45 +0000

Sure, call. Do a back and forth with calls and emails for two days with their sales guy to make sure they got it right. Spending five to six figures. 5-15% of order shows up incorrect.

When you go to try another distributor: No, you're in crappy vendor's territory. So, sorry!

Waiting for that invisible hand of the free market to step in...

New comment by doobiedowner in "Arduino PLC IDE"

doobiedowner — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 21:10:10 +0000

Cheap and reliable goods. Free software. Great prices. Decent Docs.

Best of all, no middle men distributors to dick around with. It is so easy to buy their stuff compared to almost all other controls hardware.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Nathan Tolbert pushes the limitations of new games on old consoles"

doobiedowner — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:42:44 +0000

I see "pre-order" and "shipping winter '23"... :(

New comment by doobiedowner in "Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant"

doobiedowner — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:48:09 +0000

Hacked VFD firmware makes the most sense to me. The PLC/PAC is giving a reference of xx Hz, the hacked VFD overrides the speed reference to destroy the centrifuge but reports back that everything is tickety-boo.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Pixel 8 Pro"

doobiedowner — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 23:03:35 +0000

Just switched my work phone to a flip phone. Fuck smart phones. My life and job aren't that important for immediate email updates.

I've got automated SMS texts for critical alarms. if something else is burning down, someone will call.

I miss email on my phone, but it just makes me use the phone for what it is for: Talking

New comment by doobiedowner in "Amiga runs Michigan schools' heating and air conditioning systems (2015)"

doobiedowner — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:10:47 +0000

A fart has been lofted in your direction

New comment by doobiedowner in "Amiga runs Michigan schools' heating and air conditioning systems (2015)"

doobiedowner — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:37:32 +0000

Ladder logic, written by peasants. (signed: control peasant that prefers ST)

New comment by doobiedowner in "Amiga runs Michigan schools' heating and air conditioning systems (2015)"

doobiedowner — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:21:46 +0000

>they are likely just relay closures.

You get it, yup.

>Also each school is probably on the net these days, so replace with some Wifi IOT device.

What I use are Ethernet to Bacnet gateways. Each building gets a gateway device with Bacnet nodes connected over a serial daisy chain. If the HVAC device isn't networkable, serial devices do the relay flipping. IT folks get the data into different applications.

Integration and maintenance are expensive.

New comment by doobiedowner in "China solar module prices keep diving"

doobiedowner — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:10:21 +0000

Optics coating

New comment by doobiedowner in "Crows found to be smarter than we think"

doobiedowner — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:24:36 +0000

avoid black walnut. not as terrible as salting the earth, but not great.

New comment by doobiedowner in "Micron picks Syracuse for computer chip plant that would bring up to 9k jobs"

doobiedowner — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 23:31:59 +0000

Somewhat often but minor. I believe it's called glacial rebound. As someone tangentially involved in the optical side of chip fab, I am excited to have a neighbor like this. We work primarily with Micron competitors, but this is good for WesternNewYork.