Hacker News: harddrivereque

New comment by harddrivereque in "FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX"

harddrivereque — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:43:43 +0000

Speaking in layman's terms, it's fancy remote microwaving.

New comment by harddrivereque in "Training a Human Takes 20 Years of Food"

harddrivereque — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 04:15:26 +0000

Lie, rich people know that the only reason they are rich is because of poor people

New comment by harddrivereque in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

harddrivereque — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:50:44 +0000

Deutsche Bahn has gone from not perfect to straight up disastrous and antisocial in the past years. They use scamming approaches more misleading than airline's and in cases straight up lie. It's rightfully headed for insolvency despite billions of wasteful and wrongful state funding. I hope that company goes under as soon as possible. Any other solution to the railway system management is better than DB. DB is not going to make it

New comment by harddrivereque in "Ask HN: What tech purchase did you regret even though reviews were great?"

harddrivereque — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:24:29 +0000

I wanted to buy my so an apple ultra watch, is it a bad idea? It seems like a perfect thing that someone doesn't need that would.make a nice present

New comment by harddrivereque in "Contrails Map"

harddrivereque — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:13:36 +0000

It is easy to suggest to fly less but it is going to be impossible to convince society where core values include agressive "extra" consumption, which in turn is the backbone of the world's current economy. Flying is one of top "extra" consumption types out there. I know many people are trying to convince people of that, but the society is moving in the opposite direction - bigger cars (both us and eu), more travel. Maybe arguments used currently are not convincing enough? I mean, sure, keep trying and you will obviously reach a certain 0.00x% of the population, but that's not really going to make any difference

New comment by harddrivereque in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

harddrivereque — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 09:15:18 +0000

School was hell on earth for me. Openly racist kids (I'm mixed race wo I was more or less not as strongly affected, but we had one kid of certain heritage that was being harassed on an hourly base, think of south park Cartman multiplied by 10) with teachers never doing anything about it, borderline maniac kids that would attack anyone randomly, teachers not caring. Sure, nowadays it's different, but for me school has leas to me not exploring some of my personality traits and basically being afraid of people and disassociating with society on a way of 'them vs me'. Sure, I'm talking about 20% of "bad" characters, but when 20% does this and the rest kind of pretends it's normal, you get the idea of what "normal" is in the society. But, being honest. I have to admit that having that experience gave me the understanding that what society nowadays "tries to pretend it is" is just hiding it's true face, because only in school people are actually honest and sincere. So in this sense, I understand that going to school to get to know the true face of our society is definitely useful for individuals, but it causes overall harm to society as it contributes to it's separation

New comment by harddrivereque in "CDC to end all monkey research; will phase out HIV, infectious disease studies"

harddrivereque — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:10:19 +0000

Is it just me or are the news lately really not nice? Less free internet, funding cuts for science (including NASA and this example), the economy is worse than it used to be (as far as I remember), general mental health of the population is tanking,almost every aspect of usual life is being exploited by apps for micropayments, wealth gap grows, I come gap, well, grows too, but everything is impossibly expensive for every class.. are we going into the "great recession" version of the dark ages? I mean, it's not it right? But I have to agree, I do feel bad for the animals, but as someone who has participated in certain academic activities I am convinced that the scrutiny that the ethical committees have put the research through for this should ensure more than enough reasons for this research. Also. What happens with the monkeys? Do they send them to the zoo? I don't think so

New comment by harddrivereque in "GPS 'kill' switch allows state police cruisers to go dark and disable tracking"

harddrivereque — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 06:52:32 +0000

I do believe that you are writing the truth, but it is extremely unbelievable to me. To be honest, I've never been pulled over for traffic violations, but bribing officers with gift cards being "common" sounds like it could lead to some really bad place. It's a good thing it hasn't yet. Bribes have many drawbacks compared to traffic tickets.

New comment by harddrivereque in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

harddrivereque — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:03:22 +0000

Most of the released videos show speedboats without fishing equipment. For all intents and purposes, these speedboats might be medevac or just joyrides, but I would strongly count that they were fairly confidently related, to, uhm, the groups that were being referenced as being targeted officially. The sea allows for quite a bit more clearance regarding these things, mistakes can still happen, but are less likely than on densely populated areas on land. Anyways these strikes don't change the big picture in terms of movement of the things that they move - the things that they move comes in on airplanes, trucks, containers, through tunnels, in pockets of people arriving, even in fishing/leisure boats. For all I know they could be easily moving it using homing pigeons. And you can pass the pigeons through the gaps in the wall. Sure, not as efficient as by speedboats,but the demand will make stuff move. The solution to this problem is complex, but solving it in the society is easier than trying to stop the flow... I mean, people would just start producing locally then. Either with the groups of people that are being targeted or without.

New comment by harddrivereque in "Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret"

harddrivereque — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:15:19 +0000

The difference in energy usage won't be noticeably higher for PR purposes. Of course, the difference comes at a price, cutting which is the main incentive for water usage.

New comment by harddrivereque in "Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret"

harddrivereque — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:00:34 +0000

The problem with data center water usage is that it is unnecessary from the PR point of view. Data centers can run on air cooling just as good, but more expensive. For all I know, we could also do just as good without data centers, like we did 20 years ago.

With agriculture, water usage is necessary as eating is not something optional and everyone needs to eat to survive. From the PR point of view, of course. We couldn't live without agriculture, as we had agriculture 20 years ago too.

Golf courses are unrelated as they don't use nearly as much water as agriculture or data centers.

PR is everything, the narrative is what makes the difference. There is a lot of hypocrisy in this field, which is why I try to avoid it, but there is also some truth in it - we really didn't need that many data centers 20 years ago.

New comment by harddrivereque in "Roc Camera"

harddrivereque — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:06:49 +0000

But why does the case look like it is made out of garbage?

New comment by harddrivereque in "Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling"

harddrivereque — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:03:26 +0000

My XP system was my best ever system. I had so many things in it. I still have my old XP laptop, it still works but I can connect it to the internet. Even when I do, usually browsers don't show anything properly anymore because the last xp supporting versions are from I think 2016-2018? Not sure about that one. But I love my XP computer. I wish there was a way to completely move the system to a virtual machine.

New comment by harddrivereque in "Germicidal UV could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water"

harddrivereque — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:34:53 +0000

...and maybe diy germaphobes.. just like positive air pressure ventilation systems. In fact, you could combine

New comment by harddrivereque in "Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues"

harddrivereque — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:51:49 +0000

It should be obvious to everyone, not just about UK, but all sorts of war invoke this. I mean, we all know about torture in Guantanamo and even on European soil, and it wasn't even that long ago. What makes anyone think anything has changed? Why would it change? Is there an incentive? Sure, there are courts and theoretical conventions, but the system is not perfect, there is no enforcement and also no incentive to enforce it. For all I know there is lack of enforcement for all kinds of crime - just extrapolate the mess with simple street crime to warzones and it doesn't seem as surprising anymore, does it?

New comment by harddrivereque in "Zuckerberg's Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI"

harddrivereque — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:18:01 +0000

I know it is a controversial topic, but do adults really need friends? I feel like "being friends" is something from middle school where our brains were different. Now, there are colleagues, there are neighbors, there is the partner that is supposedly our only and best friend, and optionally there are pets/kids. But proper friends? In my life and in the life of people that I observe regularly, there is no real need for friends.