Hacker News: networkchad

New comment by networkchad in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports"

networkchad — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 18:05:03 +0000

Ridiculous and deranged take. No one on the right will endorse mass-shooters. You have plenty of people on the left willing to make excuses for their looters because "muh socioeconomic factors".

New comment by networkchad in "Train robbery for Amazon packages? More common than you think"

networkchad — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:54:59 +0000

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or an actual idea you are proposing.

New comment by networkchad in "Tesla Cybertruck owners who drove 10k miles say range is 164 to 206 miles"

networkchad — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:09:51 +0000

I’ve always questioned this assumption. Doesn’t the factory do a burn-in test for the engine and drivetrain? I’d be shocked if they really were delivered without any basic bathtub-curve test performed.

New comment by networkchad in "Kurt Gödel, his mother and the argument for life after death"

networkchad — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:12:14 +0000

By my understanding the answer according to Christian belief is no. Your body is restored to its fully capability when you enter the kingdom of heaven.

New comment by networkchad in "Travel routers improve your life [video]"

networkchad — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 19:01:08 +0000

These types of views/takes honestly are not productive. Security is never 100%. If location-based blocking defeats 98% of the low hanging fruit threats, it is most likely worth it. You can then filter down your more costly countermeasures to the 2% of the remaining pie.

Similar reality exists regarding security through obscurity. Is it perfect? No; nothing is. But if the cost to even understand the system in play is very expensive, that alone is a deterrent to low-effort / drive-by attackers.

New comment by networkchad in "The Hyperloop was always a scam"

networkchad — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 18:48:40 +0000

> Anita Sarkeesian

To be fair she's very easy to hate. She has no identity but to be a victim.

New comment by networkchad in "Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order"

networkchad — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 20:13:33 +0000

> There is a way to harness this energy regardless.

Yeah, it is called prison. I don't care if someone is "autistic" or "shit-head asshole". If you are a violent son of a bitch, I have a concrete cage with bars to house you in.

New comment by networkchad in "Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook"

networkchad — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:34:29 +0000

Ok no one literally cares what you think. Apple is solving a problem and you’re just an annoying nerd.

New comment by networkchad in "Several piracy-related arrests spark fears of high-level crackdown"

networkchad — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:19:55 +0000

You're confusing quality with gross revenue. First thing that comes to my mind: Marvel movies gross an absolute shit ton of dollars, but the quality of the story is absolute dogshit. Yeah, she won't lose her job, but the quality of said movies lacks.

New comment by networkchad in "Aerobic exercise is good for the brain; easy wins for behaviour change"

networkchad — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:43:53 +0000

I would love to know the waist size of the average HN user.

New comment by networkchad in "Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space"

networkchad — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 22:25:04 +0000

Such systems exist with even more advanced key management schemes. Eg: you lose a handset, it gets removed, all other handsets have their traffic key rotated immediately over the air.

New comment by networkchad in "EFF Call to Action: Tell Congress to Stop 'Kids Online Safety Act'"

networkchad — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:51:07 +0000

It is exactly titled like that for the reason you are feeling. Look at the “PATRIOT ACT”. You want to be against the PATRIOT ACT? Well, you must be a terrorist!

New comment by networkchad in "SpaceX will launch the X-37B on a Falcon Heavy rocket Dec. 7"

networkchad — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 23:12:38 +0000

It’s really not that special in my eyes. It’s a miniature space shuttle, minus humans. The purpose is 100% classified but you can guess the usual suspects (advanced sensor testing, experimental payloads, testing space warfare / asset manipulation, etc).

I really doubt they have put humans inside of it, given that they have kept it up there for year-long plus periods over its lifetime.

New comment by networkchad in "Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem"

networkchad — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 02:09:03 +0000

You are correct in general. Lossy = no guarantee mechanism / state-based acceptance; it’s handled by a higher level proto (tcp).

New comment by networkchad in "23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack"

networkchad — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:36:14 +0000

Based Clayton Bigsby enjoyer.

New comment by networkchad in "Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station"

networkchad — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 13:25:54 +0000

Most of these stations are owner-operated. They usually aren’t owned by BigCo.

New comment by networkchad in "Dianne Feinstein has died"

networkchad — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 13:28:36 +0000

> But, you know, [R]'s can't stand having a strong justice system where no one is above the law.

Cute quip. Do you apply that sentiment towards the Biden family as well?

New comment by networkchad in "The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars"

networkchad — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:24:38 +0000

When I was in Boy Scouts we had a camping trip to SAC. A snow storm forced us to relocate inside and the Air Force came up with the museum as our temporary sleeping area. I got to sleep about 20 feet away from that SR-71. I will never forget how cool that was.

New comment by networkchad in "TCP's congestion control saved the internet"

networkchad — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 01:45:03 +0000

MPLS didn’t really address latency issues in the core - it scaled PE to PE connectivity by removing full table lookups at the P layer and replacing it with truncated labels.

However the main long-staying effect of MPLS is enabling L2 and L3 VPNs (VRFs).

New comment by networkchad in "Exploring the Halo 1 System Link Protocol"

networkchad — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:30:20 +0000

Thanks for all your hard work. Many a hours (days?) of entertainment amongst my friends were possible due to it :-)