Hacker News: klingoff

New comment by klingoff in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

klingoff — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:08:36 +0000

Why do you assume they had your sense of ethics? 10 was often considered the age of adulthood. Little men had no specific exception from work or war, or expectation of education outside specific classes. Being a regular troop was more often from 16, but plenty fought from 10 up or had other roles in battle.

New comment by klingoff in "IBM acquires Kubecost"

klingoff — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:23:49 +0000

> If their prices aren't changing then we have a market problem that extends beyond AWS.

How do you get there? Even in markets without any specific lock in, the top brands charge prices that have nothing to do with raw costs.

New comment by klingoff in "IBM acquires Kubecost"

klingoff — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:11:18 +0000

No, Moore's law is fine. If the CPU takes half the real estate and uses half the power but costs the same it is the same perversion of the market expectations of Moore's law as if you don't deliver twice as much in the same price.

From Wikipedia:

Some forecasters, including Gordon Moore,[122] predict that Moore's law will end by around 2025.[123][120][124] Although Moore's Law will reach a physical limit, some forecasters are optimistic about the continuation of technological progress in a variety of other areas, including new chip architectures, quantum computing, and AI and machine learning.[125][126] Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared Moore's law dead in 2022;[2] several days later, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger countered with the opposite claim.[3]

New comment by klingoff in "IBM acquires Kubecost"

klingoff — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:37:43 +0000

Price is supposed to cut in half every 3-4 years, if it isn't it is largely because cloud vendors can't bear to take less and hope there really is that much more volume of half as valuable computing to do.

The things they sell as an average CPU performance, etc are basically the average when their cloud began.

New comment by klingoff in "Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home"

klingoff — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:33:38 +0000

Is hurricane alley going to pay this wonderful 20k more and is it worth it to live there? I know Europeans who went there but not who stayed. Those are terrible places to actually work.

New comment by klingoff in "Filipinos are embracing electric 3-wheelers faster than officials can regulate"

klingoff — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:13:52 +0000

The car EVs try to be in a price class above a Toyota subcompact so I think they can't really compete for the taxi volume, etc, before any logistics.

EVs would be fine with a few hours of outage here and there, but the light EVs are going to be easier to move to battery swapping if needed and are price competitive with vehicles in classes that already sell well in the Philippines.

New comment by klingoff in "Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home"

klingoff — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:38:24 +0000

I've known people to go back on vacations who probably shouldn't, but an outsider, weakly under the protection of a foreign country, who doesn't seem like they are going to get back into their old life is usually not a political priority.

Ray Dalio warns of threat to democracy

klingoff — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqgg4zdzlo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549046

Points: 3

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New comment by klingoff in "Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home"

klingoff — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:00:49 +0000

Oh wow, 20k a year makes anything worth it.

New comment by klingoff in "Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home"

klingoff — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:38:36 +0000

If they have to go home it isn't enough.

New comment by klingoff in "Twelve sentenced for violent home invasion robberies to steal cryptocurrency"

klingoff — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:13:48 +0000

There are thousands of definite targets. People don't actually plan maybe crimes with coconspirators unless they want to be maybe dead.

New comment by klingoff in "Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS"

klingoff — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:31:01 +0000

Huh? Whistleblower programs exist to defend them and fail to combat the problem, one that directly punishes would be like a bounty program that actually crafts the legal threats to security researchers.

New comment by klingoff in "Zero-Click Calendar invite vulnerability chain in macOS"

klingoff — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 21:39:54 +0000

I think suspicion of bug bounties even from organizations who would clearly benefit the nost from doing them right are well founded and you are over simplifying the situation.

Every organization includes a mess of situations where the overall best interest of the organization no longer comes through. Groups and individuals don't want to admit mistakes both personal and in wider senses and have alliances, competitions, team and organizational loyalty that twists their behavior.

A lot of organizations know they would benefit from having a proper whistle blower program and then proceed to crucify the first person who uses it.

New comment by klingoff in "Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of Weight"

klingoff — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:42:05 +0000

A donut is about a half hour of jogging. If a Little Rock breakfast is like the rest of that neighborhood most of the sedentary thin thin state people I know wouldn't be able to keep it down.

New comment by klingoff in "Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of Weight"

klingoff — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:20:04 +0000

This is true and contributes to poor health, but I don't think it is the primary factor for weight. It is very hard to excersize yourself out of a high calorie diet.

It's really pretty shocking how much added sugar there is in anything with more than 1 ingredient, and getting more sweetness in is basically a race with every other element of someone's diet. The 1980s had it junk food, but there was still other food.

New comment by klingoff in "Metformin decelerates aging clock in male monkeys"

klingoff — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 20:47:28 +0000

Cabbage also doesn't work, but what does that have to do with a theory that:

Metformin exerts a substantial neuroprotective effect, preserving brain structure and enhancing cognitive ability.

We obviously want additions or replacements to physical and mental exercise depending on how much we get.

New comment by klingoff in "We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi"

klingoff — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:46:04 +0000

I'd assume regulated in the sense of identity verification and transactions. There's no legal basis for needing a north American phone number, but good luck with any US obligations if you are without one.

New comment by klingoff in "Swiss BMW Driver Slammed with $116,000 Tailgating Fine Because He's Rich"

klingoff — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:29:34 +0000

It sounds very progressive for a society to admit high income spendthrifts are immune to self reflective remorse, but I feel like we should still try impose penalties to give them an opportunity for growth.

New comment by klingoff in "Git Bash is my preferred Windows shell"

klingoff — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:11:49 +0000

Powershell introducing the English language to a shell at a time when everyone else was doing i18n is about 3 leaps beyond an annoying thing in the traditional Microsoft form of the time.

You can do what ever you want for innovation but if you choose mindf*ck as your UI..

New comment by klingoff in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

klingoff — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 19:54:51 +0000

Firing people at will includes firing them because you got the feeling they may be behaving in any way in any situation perhaps in conflict to any request you made. Odds are someone won't get fired for stealing office supplies and in at will place they may be more often fired for misunderstandings related to a misperception where they don't come clean on something they never did.

That there was no way to sue the company in that example is a demonstration that the employee lacked any right to break any taboo.

As such there are teeth anywhere that is at will for any request whether it is reasonable or not and whether it relates to a taboo the employee may be expected to have or not.