Hacker News: mr337

New comment by mr337 in "Step by Step: Thinking through and beyond the repair manual"

mr337 — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 21:50:12 +0000

Not going to lie, I never would have thought someone could sell those for $10/each.

New comment by mr337 in "Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling"

mr337 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:05:31 +0000

Same here and on my laptops I don't need the extra finger touch. It just works.

I have had a work MPB for years and while the touchpad is nice I just use the other touchpads with no problems.

Then again as I like bigger displays I use an external keyboard and mouse when not traveling.

New comment by mr337 in "Ultra-processed food exposure and adverse health outcomes: umbrella review [pdf]"

mr337 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 17:46:24 +0000

Funny enough I recently came across this video [1] about ultra-processed foods maybe being labeled "predigested". It sort of got me thinking but makes an interesting point that if you take a basic ingredient like a potato and break it down into a starch slurry it does sound like it has been pre-digested.

1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz2WR6tVg5E&t=308s

New comment by mr337 in "Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site"

mr337 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:33:10 +0000

I wish that was so straight forward. You can google this incident where an empty lot got a 35K water bill and the water company said it was an error, then backtracked on that and still saying 35K is due.

> Towards the end of 2023, the DWM seemingly corrected the issue. Revive received an email stating: “The prior balance on the account reflected water leakage that was the result of Department of Watershed actions. Once the leak was addressed and the account properly adjusted, the corrected balance for the property is $219.24.” However, DWM soon backtracked and claimed that the $219.24 quote was made in error and that the nearly $30,000 balance still applied.

https://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2024/02/26/empty-atlanta-lot-...

New comment by mr337 in "US will relax pollution-limiting rules for vehicle emissions"

mr337 — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:29:18 +0000

The OP must be talking about eastern Alaska ;)

New comment by mr337 in "BMW I3 Owner Confronted with $71,000 Bill to Replace EV Battery"

mr337 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:09:15 +0000

Agree, I wish the manufactures would do something to reign in these costs as it is doing a disservice to EVs.

Anyone on the fence about purchasing a BEV, a headline like this doesn't bode well.

New comment by mr337 in "BMW I3 Owner Confronted with $71,000 Bill to Replace EV Battery"

mr337 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:07:53 +0000

The only thing I can think of is the high voltage. I don't mind working with 220v but anything higher I tend to shy away with. I think some of the voltage systems in the battery packs can peak at 800v with most of them between 400v and 600v.

New comment by mr337 in "Ask HN: Best open source and/or free EDA tooling"

mr337 — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:35:45 +0000

That is impressive!

New comment by mr337 in "YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution"

mr337 — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:34:04 +0000

For one off for technical folks on both ends I like the magic-wormhole cli tool. https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

New comment by mr337 in "Aldi: Culture and Operations of a Hard Discounter (2023)"

mr337 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:51:21 +0000

100% agree with #4. Enjoy it while it lasts though. All the Aldis near us for us have removed almost all of the checkout lines for the self check out. They are the worst. Imaging shopping for a large family with a fully loaded card and have to scan 100+ items.

New comment by mr337 in "Dieselgate, but for trains – some heavyweight hardware hacking"

mr337 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:35:30 +0000

100% agree with this. IMO there are a few efforts to modernize PLC programming but I feel like they are still stuck in the 1990s software development. Take a look at Codesys, got Git support few years ago and in very bad shape. How do you test your code, in the field or buy another Codesys testing plugin....which is in rough shape.

The issue is as machines get way more complex this issue gets worse. Also there are generations of PLC devs that still want to stick with ladder logic. Huge fragmentation.

New comment by mr337 in "Still no love for WPA3 on the Raspberry Pi 5"

mr337 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 14:47:18 +0000

There are a few products that take the RPI and turn it into a PLC. Here is an example of one [0].

0 - https://revolutionpi.com/

New comment by mr337 in "Americans falling behind on auto loan payments at record pace"

mr337 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 20:00:12 +0000

> For many Americans, rising interest rates and high car prices have pushed their monthly payments above $1,000.

This is insane. I have never bought a new vehicle and never imagined this was the normal.

Edit: Finished a partial comment

New comment by mr337 in "Americans falling behind on auto loan payments at record pace"

mr337 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 19:48:40 +0000

> For many Americans, rising interest rates and high car prices have pushed their monthly payments above $1,000.

This is insane. I have never bought a new vehicle and thought having payments like this was the exception, not the norm.

New comment by mr337 in "Show HN: Mango Mail – Affordable email host with unlimited addresses"

mr337 — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:10:58 +0000

I was thinking the same thing. Been using catch-all for about 7 years with zero issues about that.

New comment by mr337 in "DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019)"

mr337 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 02:39:20 +0000

I was thinking the same thing. Either you go Amazon or you don't get it for some book. It is pretty dismal experience to be honest. Of course there are "other places" you can find them and not deal with any of the hassle. Search and download an ebook in about a minute.

New comment by mr337 in "Monitor bandwidth usage with bandwhich (and build a snap package of it)"

mr337 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 23:09:21 +0000

If it the popey from podcasts he used to work at Canonical. Actually looking at this confused, popey also came up with the snap removal tool that is handy https://github.com/popey/unsnap

Maybe he has a love hate relationship with snaps lol

Edit: added gh info

New comment by mr337 in "TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption is coming to Ubuntu"

mr337 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:32:08 +0000

Hard pass. I'm slowly been dumping Ubuntu due to the force snaps down your throat strategy they have. Still irritated I have to jump through hoops to get Firefox without a snap.

New comment by mr337 in "US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say"

mr337 — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:33:36 +0000

> 25gbit symmetrical available

Unless I was building a data center, think AWS/Azure, 25gb would not even be an option given I would want to burn money in the US.

New comment by mr337 in "U.S. Air Force selects fast microreactor for nuclear power pilot"

mr337 — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 20:34:35 +0000

You may find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR5gefU87TY (t 6:12). Sadly it didn't pan out.