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New comment by fhars in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

fhars — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:04:22 +0000

> an opt out that you forgot to click when you signed up with them

This is the textbook legal definition of spam in any sensible jurisdiction, though.

New comment by fhars in "Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)"

fhars — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:39:38 +0000

Yes, you are likely confusing Oberon with Pascal. That is the Wirth language people usually have heard about. They may also have heard about Modula 2, but assuming that is stretching it. I was already interested in computers at the time, but I still only remember Oberon as that even bigger failure than Modula.

New comment by fhars in "One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie"

fhars — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:30:12 +0000

The only earthquake that happened in the region I am living during my lifetime was caused by a collapsing salt mine, though. (Small magnitude. I only heard about it because I was working at a particle accelerator lab at the time and the machine crew observed some beam instability caused by the ground vibrations, so they talked about it.)

New comment by fhars in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

fhars — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:12:59 +0000

You are arguing against the opposite of what the comment you answered to said.

New comment by fhars in "Bet on German Train Delays"

fhars — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:33:07 +0000

Watch the original, there you can select an English simultaneous translation: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10652-bahnmining_-_punktlichkeit...

New comment by fhars in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

fhars — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:13:34 +0000

That method wont work, that is a too large change that happens to seldom. What you want is a leap second every hour for five months to switch between standard and daylight savings time and back, with a month of constant time around each solstice. That gives you a smooth transition without perceptible discontinuities.

New comment by fhars in "CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate"

fhars — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:09:26 +0000

People have been wondering that for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19304281

New comment by fhars in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

fhars — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:47:46 +0000

You only have to bundle about 110 ISDN channels to transfer that (four E1 or five T1 trunk lines).

New comment by fhars in "Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts"

fhars — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 19:10:50 +0000

Like the "Cancel subscription" dialog with options "Cancel" and "Cancel"...

UX Design is hard...

New comment by fhars in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"

fhars — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:30:23 +0000

Like nightmode in Stellarium: https://www.stellarium-labs.com/blog/nightmode/

New comment by fhars in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

fhars — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:03:50 +0000

There are even commercially available prototypes of that vacuum cooling technology, if you want to perform your own experiments with that concept: https://www.amazon.com/Thermos-Stainless-Ounce-Drink-Bottle/...

New comment by fhars in "Almost all Collatz orbits attain almost bounded values"

fhars — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:39:05 +0000

There is another interpretation, reading "bits" as "set bits" and assuming that textual description (especially the operator "of the") has a higher precedence than multiplication, then your initial number is 9 with 2 bits set, and the largest number is 52 with 3 bits set, and 3 < 2 * 3 + 1 = 7.

New comment by fhars in "Ruby already solved my problem"

fhars — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:56:57 +0000

Does Base https://github.com/garybernhardt/base still work with current versions?

New comment by fhars in "Nutella maker in hazelnut stand-off with Turkish dealers"

fhars — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:15:09 +0000

Cocoa butter is more expensive than palm oil.

New comment by fhars in "A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler"

fhars — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:02:13 +0000

Without it, there would not have been a transition phase.

New comment by fhars in "J-Link Compact USB-C Issues"

fhars — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:45:50 +0000

USB3 cables are black magic, anyway.

New comment by fhars in "Fukushima insects tested for cognition"

fhars — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 13:20:54 +0000

Yeah. How could 1950's science fiction be so wrong?

New comment by fhars in "VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong"

fhars — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 17:01:06 +0000

Teams brings back a sense of adventure into boring online meetings since you never know what works subtly different than id did last week and who will be made to act the clown due to strange glitches.

Poor mac users.

New comment by fhars in "Endoscopist deskilling risk after exposure to AI in colonoscopy"

fhars — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 21:29:11 +0000

Yes, what the GP was implying is that the important people don't get convicted in court when a patient dies due to a wrong diagnosis if the AI is responsible.

New comment by fhars in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

fhars — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:53:56 +0000

These probably were live keys before they shuttered the project, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898330