Hacker News: koolk3ychain

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Rust library for end-to-end encrypted, mutually authenticated communication"

koolk3ychain — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 21:57:51 +0000

Very cool in 2021 to see rust and elixir as the first two supported languages :)

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Police say they found mafia fugitive on YouTube, posting cooking tutorials"

koolk3ychain — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:01:35 +0000

Humanity needs the source of this youtube channel. Italian cuisine depends on this. This is a very serious matter.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "It's time to build: a New World's Fair"

koolk3ychain — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:48:29 +0000

Yeah no, we should use this money to fund energy research. Trying to woo idiots is a stupid game already won by youtube, online advertising and TikTok.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Receiving SpaceX Falcon 9 Telemetry with a HackRF and 1.2m Satellite Dish"

koolk3ychain — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:30:48 +0000

I wonder if this telemetry is also unencrypted for launches carrying sensitive government payloads? Very cool stuff though, rtl-sdr.com has been a great source of entertainment for many years!

New comment by koolk3ychain in "USPS Selects Oshkosh Defense for Next Generation Delivery Vehicle Fleet"

koolk3ychain — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:23:37 +0000

Darn, this stock would've been a great buy in Nov and I watched a youtube video from an automotive channel in January that went into quite a bit of depth regarding the post office vehicle trials and their opinion that Oshkosh would get the contract!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE5FGyq12ds

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt in cash and stock deal"

koolk3ychain — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:28:15 +0000

This is likely a move so they can continue to either a) import firearms from outside of the US for sale or b) to gain traction and tooling to produce CZ products domestically in the case that the Biden Admin actually gets some form of "assault weapon" ban passed. It's important to note, they'll include pistols that hold more than 15 rounds as "assault weapons".

New comment by koolk3ychain in "A Poetic Apology: Or Why Should You Use Poetry to Manage Python Dependencies"

koolk3ychain — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:33:06 +0000

I still use pipenv and it's great. Python version management is a hell hole when sharing a project with other devs, pipenv solves this issue and is easy enough to containerize.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Evidence that the FBI can hack into private Signal messages on a locked iPhone"

koolk3ychain — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 22:32:07 +0000

This is why I keep a "universal hammer" at my desk. If the gov boys walk in all I have to do is use it on my phone / laptop.

Problem solved.

Thinking about upgrading to a small commercial grade shredder or microwave.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?"

koolk3ychain — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 02:42:35 +0000

As someone who used to like team happy hours / events when we had offices - team "events" via zoom are weird and awkward. I spend so much of my time at home working, that the last thing I want to do in my free time is pretend to want to talk to my co-workers.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Tracking My Water Intake with NFC Tags"

koolk3ychain — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 00:21:08 +0000

This is awesome! Anyone know of an alibaba source for thermal labels with embedded NFC radio tags?

New comment by koolk3ychain in "SEC reportedly probing whether fraudulent social media posts boosted GameStop"

koolk3ychain — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 01:20:25 +0000

I'm going to assume in good faith you understand what satire is.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "SEC reportedly probing whether fraudulent social media posts boosted GameStop"

koolk3ychain — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:30:35 +0000

SEC reportedly probing whether fraudulent media posts were actively supporting the interests of huge hedge funds. Oh wait...

New comment by koolk3ychain in "IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources"

koolk3ychain — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:29:52 +0000

If there was ever an answer to the question of "is there commercial or enterprise value in blockchain technology" this is the indicator of all indicators. Hyperledger / Corda were always shit, but this really takes the cake.

Even as someone who loves ethereum and has been active in the community since the early days - I still maintain that the technology, other than distributed DNS and the advent of IPFS (not in itself a blockchain technology) are the only productive real products of current blockchain "tech".

If you meet someone at a party (god forbid we have those anymore) and they espouse the "value" of blockchain, please immediately move on and ignore them.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Asdf – An Extendable Version Manager"

koolk3ychain — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:25:41 +0000

Asdf is fantastic for forcing versions of elixir, especially since no native version control exists for the elixir vm itself. Tools like this are developer friendly and also easy to introduce and share - I've had nothing but fantastic experiences with Asdf.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "Ask HN: To techdriven founders/startups – pains and fears in accounting/tax?"

koolk3ychain — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:12:11 +0000

Calculating how much sales tax to collect (when building internal ecommerce payment processing) and figuring out how to report "transient" cashflow (for instance payouts to vendors who sell on a platform) on taxes while not counting it as income.

Figuring out how to file taxes for a small team incorperated as an LLC is also a bit daunting, especially when all team members are in different states working remote.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas, and regretted it"

koolk3ychain — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 21:14:24 +0000

Thank you kind soul

I moved my family from California to Austin, Texas, and regretted it

koolk3ychain — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 21:04:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/moving-california-austin-texas-10-things-i-wish-i-knew-2021-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25972975

Points: 5

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New comment by koolk3ychain in "Tell HN: Someone seems to be trying to make people more fearful through YouTube"

koolk3ychain — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 21:57:50 +0000

I strongly believe that in the next four to five years a majority of the content on the platform will be machine generated. It's fascinating how many military weapons history / "news" channels are almost 100% voiced by machines and placed over public domain gov't produced video of the navy / airforce [0].

Always very interesting to see the kinds of audio / video dithering used to defeat the YouTube algorithm!

0 - https://www.youtube.com/c/MilitaryUpdate/videos

New comment by koolk3ychain in "The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets"

koolk3ychain — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 01:58:41 +0000

Albeit, it's incredibly entertaining - however anyone who things any of it is "real information" who doesn't have pre-existing professional experience is a moron. Unless you're already a professional I highly doubt anyone can cut through the noise to signal ratio.

New comment by koolk3ychain in "The nihilism of r/wallstreetbets"

koolk3ychain — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:32:33 +0000

I don't understand why people think /r/wallstreetbets is really that interesting or provides insight into actual wall street? Anyone who knows anything about actual options trading / building strategies knows these people are idiots. Sure, there's a lot of money flowing around - but most people don't realize that to many $60k is pocket change.