Hacker News: linuxlizard

New comment by linuxlizard in "ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship"

linuxlizard — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:37:36 +0000

"I'm behind on my beatings."

New comment by linuxlizard in "Show HN: The Montana MiniComputer"

linuxlizard — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:23:22 +0000

I did my MS-CS in Bozeman. I'm super excited to see MSU on HN FP as well! Very cool!

New comment by linuxlizard in "Supreme Court Gives Doge Access to Social Security Data"

linuxlizard — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:43:01 +0000

My college classes used to post grades, on paper, taped to the wall, listed by SSN.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Micro Wheeled legged Robot"

linuxlizard — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:43:25 +0000

I want to hack this to drive around the office and find an AP based on signal strength. Bloodhound mode!

New comment by linuxlizard in "I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car"

linuxlizard — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:24:03 +0000

Root word comes from the Greek mythological giant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argus_Panoptes

New comment by linuxlizard in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

linuxlizard — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 02:22:41 +0000

I'm a big fan of Ada. I first encountered exceptions in Ada. When I first saw Python, way back in version 1.5, I was happy to see exceptions.

New comment by linuxlizard in "South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it"

linuxlizard — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:37:47 +0000

California.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Landowner Sues After State Searches Property Without Warrant or Consent"

linuxlizard — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:44:06 +0000

Are the private schools forced to take any students? Or can they cherry pick just the best students? Do they reject anyone that needs an IEP? Public schools are legally obligated to provide an education to anyone, no matter how much trouble they cause. If these private schools take public coin, they should be required to follow the same laws.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Understanding how bureaucracy develops"

linuxlizard — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:58:41 +0000

>When you treat every negative outcome as a system failure, the answer is more systems.

Holy crap, I'm going to save that quote forever. I have a co-worker who treats every line of bad code committed as a reason to add ever more layers to CI. Yo, we caught it in testing. There's no reason to add another form we have to fill out.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Ask HN: Why haven't we miniaturized the Ethernet RJ45?"

linuxlizard — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:29:34 +0000

That makes sense. Phones would drive smaller USB and laptops likely drove smaller DisplayPort.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Ask HN: Why haven't we miniaturized the Ethernet RJ45?"

linuxlizard — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:28:57 +0000

That does make sense. Ethernet is easily replace by WiFi. There's no easy replacement for USB (can't charge a phone over Bluetooth (yet)).

New comment by linuxlizard in "Ask HN: Why haven't we miniaturized the Ethernet RJ45?"

linuxlizard — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:07:53 +0000

Crimping our own cables is more common in data center or IT. Normal people wouldn't cut their own cables. I've given up cutting my own cables for home use (fixing busted heads) because it's easier to just grab a new cable.

Ask HN: Why haven't we miniaturized the Ethernet RJ45?

linuxlizard — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:50:07 +0000

Why is the Ethernet jack still a huge monstrosity? I see these small boards appearing and the ridiculous sized Ethernet jack looms over the PCB.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/10/14/wiznet-w55rp20-evb-pico-board-features-w55rp20-sip-with-w5500-ethernet-controller-and-rp2040-mcu/

We have gone from giant USB-A to the slim USB-C and converters are available. We have mini Display Port and converters are available. Why has no one tried to miniaturize RJ45?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41849210

Points: 10

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New comment by linuxlizard in "A novel channel contention mechanism for improving wi-fi's reliability"

linuxlizard — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:59:29 +0000

There's no laws about it. It's mostly a "handshake agreement" enforced via the WiFi Alliance. You go through the WFA certification process to get the "WiFi Certified" sticker. https://www.wi-fi.org/certification

Usually large vendors try to do the right thing.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS"

linuxlizard — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 20:16:03 +0000

I wrote printer code for 10+ years. I appreciate how hard the technical problems are but vendors make it so much worse. I loathe printers. Printers peaked with the LaserJet III.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon"

linuxlizard — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:43:24 +0000

> the two-pizza rule:

Or just me.

New comment by linuxlizard in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

linuxlizard — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:23:40 +0000

Crowdstrike also has an Ubuntu Linux version. We're required to install it at work.

New comment by linuxlizard in "The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever (2020)"

linuxlizard — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:26:27 +0000

I came to work over a vacation to fix a critical customer issue. The company rewarded me with a $50 gift card.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Reverse engineering ESP32 Wi-Fi driver: the road ahead"

linuxlizard — Sat, 25 May 2024 14:08:14 +0000

Decompiling the microcode blob might run afoul of intellectual property laws. A clean room implementation needs to be done without reading any of the product's actual code.

New comment by linuxlizard in "Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C"

linuxlizard — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:41:20 +0000

When I first started using UNIX (Ultrix on a DECStation), I was floored by the wizardry of "hackers" sending me email from Santa Claus. Mind blown!