Hacker News: mcbrienollie

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Celebrity Flights"

mcbrienollie — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:46:24 +0000

I totally agree with the fundamental changes. Rest is bullshit.

What would be your suggestion on Kardaishan's energy consumption levels? Having a crash course?

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Celebrity Flights"

mcbrienollie — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:39:19 +0000

There are multiple ways to travel. You can have a bike to commute into work rather than taking your car. This is not a freedom limitation. It is just a different perspective. Greta Thunberg travels everywhere freely by keeping emission in mind.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Celebrity Flights"

mcbrienollie — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:37:01 +0000

I'm just saying there should be a "regulation". A couple of years ago, everybody accepted the fact that people all should have 3 shots of vaccination to have a flight. Everybody got opposed to it. But got the shots eventually.

I'm not the guy who has the golden law that will change the world. I'm just proposing that CO2 emission is a big problem and some of the people are exploiting it.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Celebrity Flights"

mcbrienollie — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:31:01 +0000

This can be adapted into different scenarios or use cases. At least it could be the first action into the CO2 emission problem that everybody is complaining about but nobody really does a thing. Well, also maybe we can let Kim Kardashian to have Zoom calls rather than taking flights.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Pillows to help workers snooze at desk"

mcbrienollie — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:18:26 +0000

Nice thinking but extremely bad for the spinal cord. Repeated usage of this will definitely cause a herniated disc or other orthopedic problems.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Celebrity Flights"

mcbrienollie — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 20:13:58 +0000

Since 99.9% of the flights and the people are already registered, there should be a worldwide limitation per each of the person for CO2 emissions.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)"

mcbrienollie — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:38:34 +0000

Each and everyday we see a CSS hack or update to resolve the problems we experience. This might be a harsh critic but whenever I see these things, I immediately realize how CSS is an ancient monster that we are dealing with.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Some Pixel owners still can't dial 911 during an emergency"

mcbrienollie — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:28:29 +0000

If you would be isolated on a random place and given the chance to bring only one item, you would most probably pick the phone. On both ethical and user-experience cases, this is completely unacceptable. Google is just bringing the trust issues for such a silly bug.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy"

mcbrienollie — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:24:02 +0000

There are a couple of points in here to discuss:

- Geographical advantage for renewable enegry - Regulation on the energy consumption.

There are a lot of countries which are importing energy already from external sources. Even some of the countries does the same thing, they cannot reach into this potential.

However, we have to accept the truth that this is a big achievement for Portugal no matter what. At least, some of the folks think about climate change.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "An exabyte of disk storage at CERN"

mcbrienollie — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:21:13 +0000

"the one terabyte per second (1 TB/s) threshold". This is definitely something extremely good for the research pipelines. Also, Moore's Law and Kryder's Law seems not applicable that much on their current state.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Ask HN: How filter HN about programming?"

mcbrienollie — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:39:52 +0000

You can just go into their algolia website and search&filter anything you want. https://hn.algolia.com/

New comment by mcbrienollie in "[dead]"

mcbrienollie — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:37:09 +0000

I was stumbled upon, yet another, upvote/comment selling service for Hacker News this time. What do you think about this and do you think these services are getting used to bump the posts in here for the PR purposes?

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization"

mcbrienollie — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:31:26 +0000

So the classic case is happening. If you are powerful enough, you don't need to worry about any regulation.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned"

mcbrienollie — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:29:41 +0000

Day after day, the paid(online) ads is becoming traditional and all the startup owners or new entrepreneurs are diverting themselves into guerilla techniques. Buying Tiktok comments, ProductHunt reviews and more. Rather than spending the money on the algorithmic advertisement, they are trying to build a base where they can create a "base" for their possible customers. I really liked the article, and I think this is showing a couple of crucial signs about the topic I mentioned.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Costco gold bars are selling out within hours"

mcbrienollie — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 10:25:49 +0000

I think there are two perspectives on this. Either this is a very good PR campaign so that these retail companies can sell literally anything to any customer. Or people are concerned about the inflation rates so that they went back to the roots of the USD which is gold. In both of the cases, this should be researched in-depth

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Cloudflare is now powering Microsoft Edge Secure Network"

mcbrienollie — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:25:57 +0000

You cannot "secure" the internet by centralizing all the traffic into a specific place. Internet meant to be decentralized by its own nature. Cloudflare is just one of the companies which is trying to monopolize the whole industry by the partnerships.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "[dead]"

mcbrienollie — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:24:12 +0000

He was definitely one of the best actors that I've ever watched in my entire life. When I learned the news, I got very sad like my grandfather passed away. R.I.P.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords"

mcbrienollie — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:34:04 +0000

This whole story starts from the API token leak into the worst. I think, in a way, Github should reach out to the account holders if it sees a suspicious commit is getting pushed with some sort of security algorithm. I think that shouldn't be that hard.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Why are websites requesting access to motion sensors on my desktop? (2019)"

mcbrienollie — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:25:15 +0000

If the website contains a protection system such as Cloudflare, Perimeter X or similar, they run a small software in your browser called Challenge (which you might seen in Cloudflare also). This software is trying to understand if you are a bot or not by executing a series of internal functions on the browser which is also called Fingerprinting. They usually go hard on microphone, motion sensors, camera, location, navigator (language etc), WebGL and other similar technologies. Bots usually does not contain these functions. In my opinion, that would be the main reason for it.

New comment by mcbrienollie in "Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization"

mcbrienollie — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:22:47 +0000

Is it even okay with the external ad providers or GDPR?