Hacker News: keyboardcaper

New comment by keyboardcaper in "They stole my voice with AI"

keyboardcaper — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 04:34:05 +0000

Funny, I first heard of Jeff Geerling over ten years ago in my dev circles.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Reactive Relational Algebra"

keyboardcaper — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:36:14 +0000

You win!

New comment by keyboardcaper in "FTC Accuses Drug Middlemen of Inflating Insulin Prices"

keyboardcaper — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:32:53 +0000

It has nothing to do with coffee, tobacco and meat per se and everything to do with how coffee, tobacco and meat is prepared for human consumption. It is the pyrolytic processes which form harmane from amino acids.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "FTC Accuses Drug Middlemen of Inflating Insulin Prices"

keyboardcaper — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:31:10 +0000

No, just that they are taking advantage of status quo.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Porsche's idea for a six-stroke internal combustion engine"

keyboardcaper — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:58:09 +0000

Have you ever been to North Europe in the winter?

New comment by keyboardcaper in "FTC Accuses Drug Middlemen of Inflating Insulin Prices"

keyboardcaper — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:05:42 +0000

Explain how we keep treating essential tremor as a disease of the elderly to be managed with CNS depressant drugs, when we have known for decades the disease is entirely caused by a single substance (harmane) which can be mostly avoided by stopping coffee, tobacco and meat consumption?

There are plenty of other examples.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Reactive Relational Algebra"

keyboardcaper — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 21:46:32 +0000

Yes, it does.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Reactive Relational Algebra"

keyboardcaper — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:59:49 +0000

The author seems to miss that relational algebra was developed for the needs of the databases of the time, i.e. in an effort to optimize reads off spinning iron. Any effort for async is destroyed by blocking fs syscalls.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Reactive Relational Algebra"

keyboardcaper — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:56:35 +0000

Like big O notation probably? So some constant time that does not depend on the size of the tables.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail"

keyboardcaper — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:38:42 +0000

Funny how that goes: macOS is POSIX certified but no other desktop BSD or Linux is.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Launch HN: Silurian (YC S24) – Simulate the Earth"

keyboardcaper — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:35:25 +0000

Would geolocated historical seismographic data do?

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?"

keyboardcaper — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 04:52:53 +0000

This is how gangs benefit the economy.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of misuse to create bioweapons"

keyboardcaper — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:23:05 +0000

You can get PTFE spray in any hardware store.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "The US Military Is Not Ready for the New Era of Warfare"

keyboardcaper — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:10:41 +0000

At the same time, a defense contractor, whose name rhymes with ”top speed carting”, is running sci-fi ads with the tagline ”Ahead of ready”.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Iran turns to Hells Angels and other criminal gangs to target critics"

keyboardcaper — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:17:24 +0000

You don’t think they have built that public image themselves?

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Transparenttextures.com"

keyboardcaper — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:53:57 +0000

Wow, I remember using this 10 years ago.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "Ask HN: Why no transflective LCD portables?"

keyboardcaper — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:11:27 +0000

> Are there any devices currently rating 2,000+ nits?

Wonderfully chosen limit, as the newest iPhone model now has a 2,000 nit screen.

New comment by keyboardcaper in "OpenSSH Keystroke Obfuscation Bypass"

keyboardcaper — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:02:16 +0000

There is a market for keyboards which obscure keypress timings.