Hacker News: eppp

New comment by eppp in "Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?"

eppp — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:53:07 +0000

The lack of support for SANs and ISCSI really bothers me. I like the way this style of setup works, I would like to keep doing it.

New comment by eppp in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

eppp — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:50:48 +0000

In fairness, google tried to bypass all of the systems that already exist and are widely used for doing pole attachments.

New comment by eppp in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

eppp — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:48:57 +0000

I have had a grand total of one customer ask in almost 10 years. I have the block and announce it but there are so many dangers with implementing it that I am scared to even try yet until we slow down a little.

New comment by eppp in "Cord didn't win. What now?"

eppp — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:48:13 +0000

Ive been doing this for 20 years and I have had to do several major migrations due to vendors doing all sorts of stupid things. Millions of dollars and so so many hours completely unproductive because a commercial off the shelf product was 'cheaper' to buy initially.

New comment by eppp in "Cord didn't win. What now?"

eppp — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:39:05 +0000

Perhaps they didn't want to build it themselves and took into account the other risks like the company folding?

New comment by eppp in "Cord didn't win. What now?"

eppp — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:26:11 +0000

The in house developers raised their hackles and had reservations about using the product even in the face of perceived inferior solutions. The product then goes out of business... The irony of this story...

New comment by eppp in "Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling"

eppp — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:03:39 +0000

I know that what you said is supposed to be true. However in my real world experience it is anything but. Cisco java programs are a disaster and require certain JVMs to run.

New comment by eppp in "Has the decline of knowledge work begun?"

eppp — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:11:13 +0000

Who have also captured regulators and politicians and use them to cement their advantage by making things too costly and difficult for new startups to compete.

New comment by eppp in "How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop"

eppp — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:00:07 +0000

Who gets the money?

New comment by eppp in "Where is London's most central sheep?"

eppp — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:30:35 +0000

I guess? Seems like a concert for example would be just as fun in a smaller rural venue than a gigantic urban one.

I would enjoy the activity itself without regard of the location. If the city is to be impressive should it not stand on its own?

New comment by eppp in "Where is London's most central sheep?"

eppp — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 14:35:26 +0000

I am not sure what you mean by that. Do cities not want people to visit them? You can't travel through a city unless you commit to live there for a while?

New comment by eppp in "The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)"

eppp — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:07:43 +0000

Lidar and some sort of algorithm probably. It seems to work ok but not perfectly and depending on your area the lidar point cloud could be almost 10 years old.

New comment by eppp in "Where is London's most central sheep?"

eppp — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:31:00 +0000

I have lived my entire life in a a rural area, not even a town and it seems to me that every time I go to a city it is the same as the last. Everyone has their thing I guess.

New comment by eppp in "The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)"

eppp — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:16:55 +0000

It also has a lot of features that dont exist and is missing several that do.

Pretty strange. It misses a pond that is completely obvious on the lidar elevation map.

New comment by eppp in "I made $100K from a dick joke"

eppp — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:56:31 +0000

But you also can't blame Ebay for letting the guy steal? Ebay just can't be blamed ever, seems like a great position to be in.

New comment by eppp in "First demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cables"

eppp — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:10:30 +0000

I know almost nothing about this but lay understand is this: the state of a photon can possibly be encoded with a vast amount of information, instead of transmitting that information encoded into light, they transmitted the state of entangled photons and thusly recreated the information on the third photon.

New comment by eppp in "Are at-home genetic tests worth it? As an oncologist, here's my advice."

eppp — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:32:49 +0000

Ive watched people die of cancer. I do not want to die of cancer. Early detection and treatment increases the chances of a better outcome. What is a normal person supposed to do exactly to avoid this terrible fate when doctors say nothing works and you should just yolo it?

New comment by eppp in "Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser"

eppp — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 15:29:03 +0000

Activating it isnt. I havent found a way to make the old version worth without installing some hacked fix that I have no idea if I can trust or not.

New comment by eppp in "How dermatology became the 'it' job in medicine"

eppp — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:02:21 +0000

They dont need 600 dermatologists on staff. They need residency slots. These people aren't asking to work for the hospital permanently, they just have to check the residency box that is artificially limited by gatekeepers.

New comment by eppp in "MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical"

eppp — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:12:24 +0000

So CO2 is magical here or would a reservoir of highly pressurized atmosphere be just as valuable? I think you are missing where the value is in this situation.