Hacker News: icehawk

New comment by icehawk in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

icehawk — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:48:40 +0000

from the last rental I had, they're not good at that.

New comment by icehawk in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

icehawk — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:15:28 +0000

That doesn't seem right at all, since my phone doesn't have tethering plan and I can still use CarPlay.

New comment by icehawk in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

icehawk — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:13:11 +0000

Cool, I don't. iPads are so useful for drawing, and I hate having to use a terminal app on an iPad.

Different horses for different courses.

New comment by icehawk in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

icehawk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:37:31 +0000

We can't build a TV from 50 years ago, much less a space rocket.

Because we stopped, we get to do everything over again with hardware from this century.

New comment by icehawk in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

icehawk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:16:26 +0000

Wai how is it weaker, like genuinely?

New comment by icehawk in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

icehawk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:29:45 +0000

> and if there were it would be accused as being fake and a ploy from American enemies to discredit them.

Yeah so, the soviets were pretty good at dodging things like that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident

New comment by icehawk in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

icehawk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:05:30 +0000

At the time they were ~57,000km out and I calculated it was at least 380ms RTT to the ground receiver, so bad but not unusable.

New comment by icehawk in "Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout"

icehawk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:33:03 +0000

I don't think you understand how a swiss cheese failure happens. They're not independent or semi-independent. Latent failures, expose active failures, like:

"Committed hard to an assumption that was wrong"

Then causes damage to the seawater pumps along the shoreline, and flooded emergency diesel generators.

That causes total loss of AC and DC power.

Loss of AC and DC power causes the reactor to overheat.

New comment by icehawk in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

icehawk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:01:35 +0000

Except that there are a LOT of people that want to work in video games (which is the supply) which then depresses the price (wages)

All of my developer friends in the gaming industry have had far worse working conditions then what I've had.

New comment by icehawk in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

icehawk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:28:10 +0000

I may have a positive personal opinion of the GDPR, but I ignore all GDPR requests for the website I have that you can just visit, because I don't want to be seen as doing business that makes me subject to GDPR

New comment by icehawk in "Head of FCC threatens broadcaster licenses over critical coverage of Iran war"

icehawk — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:16:26 +0000

I live in the present, and not the past, so I'm not sure what your argument is here.

New comment by icehawk in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"

icehawk — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:43:57 +0000

ns1.he.net - 216.218.130.2, is simultaneously in

Texas (measured from Texas):

  8  port-channel13.core4.dal1.he.net (184.104.196.170)  1.830 ms  1.969 ms *
  9  ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2)  1.539 ms  1.560 ms  1.555 ms

Virginia (measured from Maryland):

  11  port-channel2.core1.ash1.he.net (184.105.222.174)  19.666 ms 24.395 ms *
  12  ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2)  16.748 ms  17.268 ms  20.507 ms

And California (measured from California):

  8  port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144)  3.830 ms be7.core1.sjc1.he.net (72.52.92.132)  5.197 ms port-channel13.core1.fmt2.he.net (184.104.188.144)  3.901 ms
  9  ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2)  2.600 ms  2.435 ms  2.728 ms

The speed of light doesn't lie, IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality.

New comment by icehawk in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"

icehawk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:39:45 +0000

> "we don't want IP's from Frankfurt showing up somewhere in Dubai"

From a network perspective statements like that make no sense. IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality,

New comment by icehawk in "Be wary of Bluesky"

icehawk — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:51:12 +0000

> That's the same argument people made about Twitter. "If it goes bad, we'll just leave." We know how that played out.

Yeah, it played out with my whole social circle leaving, as evidenced by the fact that all my friends link me to the bluesky post whenever there's something happening now.

New comment by icehawk in "Television is 100 years old today"

icehawk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:08:01 +0000

Picture tubes started round, and then became rectangular:

https://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_crts.html

They didn't really have the problem of picking an aspect ratio because motion pictures existed and that was already 4:3

New comment by icehawk in "What a year of solar and batteries saved us in 2025"

icehawk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:05:40 +0000

20MWh is around what my house used in both 2024 and 2025.

New comment by icehawk in "50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player"

icehawk — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:11:19 +0000

CDs can oxidize in the span of decades. I've got hundreds of burned CDs that are from 2003 that are fine (even if they have changed color) because i store them in a climate controlled environment.

A vinyl record degrades every time you play it in a normal turntable.

New comment by icehawk in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

icehawk — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:52:45 +0000

Not even a day ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454115:

> I want my browser to protect me from ALL those things. Ublock origin did precisely that, then Google went in to kill ublock origin. Ublock lite is nowhere near as good.

> I consider this betrayal - naturally by Google, but also by random web designers such as on the python homepage who consider it morally just to pester visitors when they do not want to be pestered. I don't accept ads; I don't accept pop-ups or slide-in effects (in 99.999% of the cases; notifications for some things can be ok, but this does not extend in my book to donation Robin Hood waylanders)."

New comment by icehawk in "Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy"

icehawk — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:47:52 +0000

It was several years after first time I heard this that, that i realized that #3 was an impression of Archie Bunker with: "Edith, get me a beer, huh.", "oh jeez look at this" and "oh who's got the terlit paper."

New comment by icehawk in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

icehawk — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:35:04 +0000

I have several that are not rackmount (SU1000XLCD/SU1500XLCD), and they're all loud because they run fans constantly.