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New comment by mordant in "The Pyra Handheld Linux PC is Shipping"

mordant — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:49:19 +0000

I use an iPad Mini 5 with the Zagg Rugged Keyboard case, which essentially turns it into a small, iOS-based ToughBook-alike.

It runs all my iOS apps locally, & I use the WiFi or LTE to ssh or vnc into remote VMs or a local Raspberry Pi to run *NIXy things. The keyboard is great; I can manage ~60wpm or so on it, down from ~90wpm on a MacBook Pro.

New comment by mordant in "Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop"

mordant — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 08:47:47 +0000

How/where can I learn more about your laptops?

New comment by mordant in "AirPods Pro"

mordant — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:17:40 +0000

The Nuraphones are better than the Sonys and the Boses.

New comment by mordant in "Whatever Happened to Steampunk?"

mordant — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 06:23:34 +0000

It is not 'hit or miss'.

It is the first, and still the best, steampunk novel.

It defined the genre.

New comment by mordant in "Hard comp-fi reading list"

mordant — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:12:15 +0000

CTRL ALT Revolt, Soda Pop Solider, & Pop Kult Warlord, by Nick Cole.

New comment by mordant in "Pocket Casts Is Now Free"

mordant — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:53:30 +0000

It doesn't properly support authenticated feeds.

New comment by mordant in "Scientists revisit the cold case of cold fusion"

mordant — Tue, 28 May 2019 14:22:54 +0000

Where are the dead grad students?

Oh, there aren't any? Then there's no 'cold fusion' taking place.

New comment by mordant in "Termshark – A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark"

mordant — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:23:38 +0000

Flow telemetry like NetFlow in general; ntop, specifically.

New comment by mordant in "A missing letter helped create a tech billionaire"

mordant — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:11:33 +0000

And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful house."

And you may tell yourself, "This is not my beautiful wife."

New comment by mordant in "Neo-Nazi group's new leader is a black man who vows to dismantle it"

mordant — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 08:45:29 +0000

How is this Hacker News?

This story should be flagged.

New comment by mordant in "12-Year-Old Claims to Have Achieved Nuclear Fusion at Home (2018)"

mordant — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 03:08:43 +0000

The fact that he's still alive and kicking undercuts his thesis.

New comment by mordant in "Two years later, I still miss the headphone port"

mordant — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 12:57:14 +0000

>They all sound better, on average, than any Bluetooth

No, they don't.

They may sound better than cheap Bluetooth headsets.

But I guarantee they don't sound better than my Nuraphones, or the Sennheiser Momentum 2 Wireless/HD-1s I was using beforehand.

Note that I own both Shure 535s and 846s, as well. The Nuraphone sounds better than either of them.

I use my Nuraphones for business con-calls every day. They sound great on my end and I've been told they sound great on the other end(s) of those calls, as well. Same with the Sennheisers.

New comment by mordant in "Two years later, I still miss the headphone port"

mordant — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 12:54:31 +0000

>the loss of sound quality

My Nuraphones sound great, as did my Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 2/HD-1 Wireless Bluetooth headphones before them. No static whatsoever.

Just because you're too cheap to pony up for decent Bluetooth headphones doesn't mean the rest of us are.

New comment by mordant in "Two years later, I still miss the headphone port"

mordant — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 12:52:46 +0000

Why use the in-flight entertainment system when you can bring your own entertainment on your phone or tablet?

New comment by mordant in "Two years later, I still miss the headphone port"

mordant — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 12:52:11 +0000

I don't believe you.

New comment by mordant in "Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?"

mordant — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 23:38:00 +0000

OP asked about novels. Here are a few excellent novels in this genre which I highly recommend:

Soda Pop Solider by Nick Cole

Ctrl-Alt-Revolt by Nick Cole

Glasshouse by Charles Stross

Second the Vernor Vinge recommendations, and the Neal Stephenson and William Gibson Sprawl Trilogy recommendations.

Gibson's The Peripheral, as well as Pattern Recognition, Zero History, and Spook Country all apply, as well. Same for his Idoru, Virtual Light, and All Tomorrow's Parties.

Finally, Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine - the first and, so far, best steampunk novel - also qualifies, given the storyline.

New comment by mordant in "What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction?"

mordant — Sat, 11 Aug 2018 22:49:08 +0000

This is about the supervolcano hypothesis.

Note that this and the Alvarez asteroid hypothesis aren't mutually-exclusive; a significant impact event could in fact trigger vulcanism on a massive scale.

There's plenty of evidence that the K-T impactor was real and slammed into the Earth. It alone might've caused the massive die-offs, or it might've triggered vulcanism and/or venting of poisonous gas deposits from beneath the seabed.

New comment by mordant in "Why we downplay Fermi’s paradox"

mordant — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 23:02:06 +0000

My favorite theory is that there's been at least one Bracewell probe in our solar system since the 1920s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracewell_probe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_delayed_echo

http://folk.uio.no/sverre/LDE/

New comment by mordant in "The dark story behind Stalin’s popular photo with a Soviet girl"

mordant — Sat, 16 Jun 2018 01:18:46 +0000

The USSR would've conquered all of Europe if it weren't for Germany - read _Icebreaker_, et. al. by Suvorov.

New comment by mordant in "Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'"

mordant — Sat, 26 May 2018 16:00:12 +0000

The Expanse is a garbage TV series which totally and completely diverges from the novels - for no good reason, since it's a miniseries, with plenty of time to do justice to the books.

It's depressing how many people here either haven't read the books or somehow think this dreck is superior to the books.