Hacker News: j605

New comment by j605 in "Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring"

j605 — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 20:13:46 +0000

I had oral exams in Belgium where usually you are given time to prepare your written work. In the oral, the task then is to expand on your written work and answer questions that probe your understanding a bit deeper than the question itself. The professor might also ask you to hypothesize by changing some assumptions in the questions to check that you actually know the theory and have not regurgitated the book or copied it from someone.

New comment by j605 in "What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?"

j605 — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 10:40:27 +0000

In extension to what the other commenter said, critical temperature that is listed is usually higher than the maximum operating temperature so it is safe to run at the maximum.

New comment by j605 in "John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff literacy lessons"

j605 — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 10:33:30 +0000

For those curious to see the test, the link in huffpost has been moved to https://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/schoolexam1912.ht...

New comment by j605 in "Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)"

j605 — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 15:19:04 +0000

AFAIR in physics and chemistry, room temperature is a short hand for 27°C in 1 atm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conditions_for_temper...

After checking the reference, I feel like this was probably an assumption in all the textbooks that I had to follow in school. I suppose if each standards body had their own definition, it can get frustrating.

New comment by j605 in "Git undo: We can do better"

j605 — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 19:07:38 +0000

I think for most people, they would encounter it in a science class early in life (at least for English speakers). And Hg is just the chemical symbol for mercury, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/element/Mercury#section=Ide...

New comment by j605 in "Red Hat Goes Full IBM and Says Farewell to CentOS"

j605 — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:57:32 +0000

If companies want something to be reliable and accountable then paying for RHEL seems like the obvious thing to do. They are able to pay for Windows but why not for RHEL. The current change is not unexpected given their acquisition.

New comment by j605 in "Pimp My Microwave"

j605 — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 21:20:06 +0000

Yes, the dumb ones just ding once.

New comment by j605 in "A Second Chance"

j605 — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 19:11:11 +0000

In this case,I felt it was only needed because of having jury trials. I had the same takeaway that is useful in other places as you. For example, my boss presented a feature that I had worked on better than how I would have done it.

New comment by j605 in "A Second Chance"

j605 — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 18:41:31 +0000

Can the URL be cleaned up :)

New comment by j605 in "Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”"

j605 — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:37:13 +0000

You can listen to the songs on bandcamp before buying it.

There's More Than One Way to Skin a Cat (2014)

j605 — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:08:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okxV4TzWrSM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20745240

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by j605 in "iTerm2 3.3"

j605 — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 20:27:24 +0000

After testing it feels Kate has similar numbers as Terminal mentioned here but most emulators are just as slow. The minimal ones are actually worse off.

New comment by j605 in "Adblocking: How about Nah?"

j605 — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 17:05:48 +0000

Patreon gives you a private RSS feed so paid podcasts are indeed a possibility. It is similar to getting your private activity ATOM feed from Github for example.

New comment by j605 in "Users hate change"

j605 — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 21:06:48 +0000

https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/109374 just recently.

New comment by j605 in "CERN migrates to open-source technologies"

j605 — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:51:05 +0000

I was forced to use Windows at school when I was already using Linux at home for about 2 years. So what do you think I should've done here?

New comment by j605 in "Slack Security Incident"

j605 — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:17:46 +0000

That is why you use a system with a package manager. Maybe you could follow the releases feed on Github. It was what I do when I maintain a package on AUR.

New comment by j605 in "QuickJS JavaScript Engine"

j605 — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:20:06 +0000

Both can decompress tarballs. No idea if mobile ever crossed their mind.

New comment by j605 in "I've stopped flying to conferences for climate change reasons"

j605 — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:36:57 +0000

I guess the issue is more for intercountry rail travel.

New comment by j605 in "Betrayed by an app she had never heard of"

j605 — Fri, 31 May 2019 05:05:53 +0000

I get zero spam calls and on most days no calls. Should we give up on privacy because US has bad legislation regarding spam calling.

New comment by j605 in "Firefox 67.0 Released"

j605 — Tue, 21 May 2019 18:32:21 +0000

On Linux, I use cgroups to restrict memory usage of certain applications to prevent them from crashing the whole system.