Hacker News: iso1210

New comment by iso1210 in "EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage"

iso1210 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:21:53 +0000

That's a foreign law applying to a foreign country

New comment by iso1210 in "Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills"

iso1210 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:21:11 +0000

Bush and the Congress in general certainly did commit the single most successful act of terrorism in recent history. I'm not sure how showing ID would have prevented that though. The US public brought it on themselves, and today's world is a world away from the hacking culture of the 1980s

New comment by iso1210 in "Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills"

iso1210 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:19:27 +0000

That's so sad in the "land of the free"

Do you have to show photo ID when filling up with gas within 100 miles of the border?

New comment by iso1210 in "Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills"

iso1210 — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:00:46 +0000

Still the case in the UK, no law saying you have to provide any ID on a domestic flight (although you'll need a boarding pass), certainly I don't whenever I fly domestically (rarely). Some airlines require ID for ticket purposes (to prevent you from selling your ticket to someone else). Flights between the UK and Ireland are a little trickier, you don't need a passport, as long as you can prove you are either British or Irish. If you don't have a photo ID you can fly from the UK to Belfast and then drive/train/bus to the Republic.

The requirement for a passport and appropriate visa on international flights departing from the UK is I think solely an airline requirement, as if you land in a country you don't have a right to immigrate to the airline gets fined. If you're flying privately it's a different matter.

Obviously you need a passport or other authority to travel when you get to the border of another country (Ireland being the obvious exception for the UK).

New comment by iso1210 in "EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage"

iso1210 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:31:49 +0000

Not any more, other than no sales tax on the panels.

New comment by iso1210 in "Amazon warehouse workers stage first-ever strike in the UK"

iso1210 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:30:52 +0000

And thus competition pushes those prices down.

Either way I'd personally pay more to use an app, so win-win for me.

New comment by iso1210 in "Amazon warehouse workers stage first-ever strike in the UK"

iso1210 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:38:19 +0000

Supermarkets pay more than that and while aren't exactly cushy, they aren't as bad as the reported warehouse conditions of an amazon factory.

New comment by iso1210 in "Amazon warehouse workers stage first-ever strike in the UK"

iso1210 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:35:58 +0000

Either that or due to political restrictions preventing more housing being built, land is overvalued.

Any increase in wages is taken by landlords who increase the rent. The competition for a house isn't the next door house, it's not living in the city at all.

New comment by iso1210 in "Amazon warehouse workers stage first-ever strike in the UK"

iso1210 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 17:33:45 +0000

Depends on the consumer, I'd far rather order in my own time on my phone. You want to pay more to employ someone to serve you then fine.

New comment by iso1210 in "EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage"

iso1210 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 14:35:02 +0000

This does work today at grid scale, people use their home batteries (either on wheels or not) to charge/discharge to the grid in the UK all the time.

If someone builds that storage facility to do it commercially then great.

> rooftop solar can't exist without special subsidies

Yet it does

New comment by iso1210 in "Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for"

iso1210 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:56:04 +0000

And you can still access it while it's open from the /proc directory

New comment by iso1210 in "Wizz Air now charging some travellers a strange extra fee (2020)"

iso1210 — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 21:40:10 +0000

In Europe you have EU261, which if the flight is significantly delayed (hours rather than minutes) means you get several hundered euros in compensation. The exact delay and amount depends on the length of the flight.

New comment by iso1210 in "I don't care about HSTS for localhost"

iso1210 — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 14:07:50 +0000

You can use name constraints on the CA, but they are a bit hit and miss when it comes to client support.

For a local CA with the CA only on one machine you're perhaps OK if you are careful, but once you share the server with a couple of collegues you are potentially into a world of hurt.

On OSX you can choose "Always Trust" or "Never Trust" for various purposes (code signing, SSL, EAP, etc).

Why can't I have "Ask first time", or "Trust only for specific domains"

Same with built in ones. That "Hong Kong Post" root CA raises some eyebrows with me, I'd love to set that to "Ask first time" on it.

New comment by iso1210 in "Turkey’s inflation soars to 73%, a 23-year high, as food and energy costs rise"

iso1210 — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:47:33 +0000

The old lira was retired and the new lira came in 2005 roughly at about 1.30 to the dollar.

It's now 16 to the dollar, up from 8 to the dollar a year ago.

The old Lira was 15 to the dollar in 1975, by 1985 it was 500 to the dollar (devaluing 42% a year), 1995 was 43,000 to the dollar (56% a year), and by 2001 it reached 1.3 million to the dollar (77% a year)

From 2001 to 2005 it was relatively stable, and the new lira came in and only lost half its value from 2005 to 2015. Things have been getting worse since 2015 though.

New comment by iso1210 in "Ffmpeg Buddy"

iso1210 — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 14:17:19 +0000

Pretty much the entire field contribution system of BBC News uses ffmpeg (or ffmbc, an ffmpeg fork from years back with some specific broadcast related additions) from the commandline (launched from a custom program), has done for about 15 years.

New comment by iso1210 in "YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos"

iso1210 — Tue, 24 May 2022 23:24:06 +0000

Disturbing, she'd have been 12 at that time.

New comment by iso1210 in "Bluetooth relay attacks allow Tesla Model 3 / Y to be unlocked and driven away"

iso1210 — Tue, 17 May 2022 13:00:55 +0000

I bought a new skoda last October, it has a real key.

New comment by iso1210 in "Bluetooth relay attacks allow Tesla Model 3 / Y to be unlocked and driven away"

iso1210 — Tue, 17 May 2022 12:55:14 +0000

I hate lane assist, fails miserably where I live (country lanes). I believe its a requirement now, which is tedious. Its the first assistance feature I've actively disliked.

New comment by iso1210 in "Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did"

iso1210 — Fri, 13 May 2022 08:11:36 +0000

Yahoo finance says its 30,279.67 at the moment after a collapse in everything over the last week or so.

New comment by iso1210 in "Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did"

iso1210 — Fri, 13 May 2022 08:10:04 +0000

In 2017 $100 would buy you about €90, ¥11000, CHF99, £80 (plus/minus about 5% during the year).

Today it will buy you €96, ¥13000, CHF100, £82

Not a great deal of movement