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New comment by noselasd in "The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)"

noselasd — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:19:26 +0000

Not really. Wifi does not do CSMA/CD. It does CSMA/CA, something quite different.

Wifi is in any case not considered a bus network, rather a star topology network.

New comment by noselasd in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

noselasd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:51:23 +0000

> But... Why on earth do the people filing an administrative subpoena not have to notify the interested parties too?

Generally they do - with some notable exceptions being if you're a non-citizen and you're no longer in the US, and it's either a criminal investigation or related to intelligence or national security.

New comment by noselasd in "Do you even need a database?"

noselasd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:14:26 +0000

Yes, the code in the article will at one unlucky point end up with an empty file after a power outage.

At least write to a temp file(in the same filesystem), fsync the file and its folder and rename it over the original.

New comment by noselasd in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"

noselasd — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:59:57 +0000

It just means "noone" uses the wayland APIs directly, but instead they leave the wayland complexity to GTK,Qt or FLTK, and they call their app a Qt app, not a Wayland app.

Distributed relational database built on SQLite

noselasd — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:38:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993060

Points: 1

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New comment by noselasd in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

noselasd — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:59:13 +0000

A typical CPU heatsink dissipates 10-30% of heat through radiation, and the rest through convection. In space you're in a vacuum so you can't disipated heat through convection.

You need to rework your physical equipment quite substantially to make up for the fact you can't shed 70-90% of the heat in the same manner as you can down here on Earth

New comment by noselasd in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

noselasd — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:11:23 +0000

Is it an advantage though ? One of the main objections in the article is exactly that.

There's no atmosphere that helps with heat loss through convection, there's nowhere to shed heat through conduction, all you have is radiation. It is a serious engineering challenge for spacecrafts to getting rid of the little heat they generate, and avoid being overheated by the sun.

New comment by noselasd in "Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub"

noselasd — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:24:50 +0000

They are doing _something_ according to https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-c... . It'd be good for someone with more knowledge to summarise what this act means though.

New comment by noselasd in "Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal'"

noselasd — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:12:01 +0000

> Norwegians self identify as socialist for example

Er.. that's not even remotely true

New comment by noselasd in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

noselasd — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:59:45 +0000

No, it's for every batch.

New comment by noselasd in "How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in"

noselasd — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:00:11 +0000

Mostly out of curiosity, a read on a TCP connection could easily block for a month - how does the I/O timeout interface look like ? e.g. if you want to send an application level heartbeat when a read has blocked for 30 seconds.

New comment by noselasd in "Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time"

noselasd — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:06:32 +0000

Iceland does have a lot of gnats, midges, flies etc. that are just as big a nusance.

New comment by noselasd in "SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers"

noselasd — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:14:07 +0000

Yes, seems so - but they shut down a lot more terminals too, not just the seized ones.

And it seems the biggest reason for them shutting down the terminals was pressure from US Senator Maggie Hassan to shut down scam centers, not the government in Myanmar.

New comment by noselasd in "Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species"

noselasd — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:27:07 +0000

Yes, in some areas - but not e.g. on Sicily. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O4_AwWpfI gives perhaps a better overview

M. Ibericus produces 4 kinds of offsprings.

    1. M. Ibericus queen + no male (unfertilized egg) -> M. Ibericus male.
    2. M. Ibericus queen + M. Ibericus male -> M. Ibericus queen
    3. M. Ibericus queen + M. Structor male -> M. Structor male, no genes from the mother
    4. M. Ibericus queen + M. Structor male -> M. Structor/Ibericus hybrid female, (worker ant, infertile)

New comment by noselasd in "Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species"

noselasd — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:48:16 +0000

I thought one of the big points was there's no M. structor females on the islands.

New comment by noselasd in "Wind turbine blade transportation challenges"

noselasd — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:08:35 +0000

They tip over from inertia or a small wind gust.

New comment by noselasd in "Europe is locking itself in to US LNG"

noselasd — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:57:04 +0000

Do the list go on ? For gas Q2 2025, figure 5 at https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports it's

    UK          5,6%
    Azerbadjan  3,8%
    Algeria    12,5%
    Norway     30,1%
    Other LNG   9,4%
    USA LNG    27,2%
    Russia     11,5%

Most of the "Other LNG" comes from Turkstream in the underlying data. Edit: I was wrong, Turkstream is included in "Russia", other sources points to Qatar and Nigeria being the largest part of "Other LNG"

If I read it right, for oil in Q1 2025, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

    United States    15,0%
    Norway           13,5%
    Kazakhstan       12,7%
    Libya             9,0%
    Saudi Arabia      6,6%
    Nigeria           6,3%
    United Kingdom    5,2%
    Iraq              4,5%
    Guyana            4,3%
    Brazil            4,1%
    Azerbaijan        4,1%
    Algeria           3,4%
    Russia            2,5%
    Mexico            2,1%
    Other             6,6%

New comment by noselasd in "ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones"

noselasd — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:03:06 +0000

Those Attach Rejects should have a cause value, possibly telling a bit more on the reject reason.

I see those quite frequently, the bulk of them are phones trying to roam in a network they're not allowed to though, and some cause the cell is a bit overloaded, some cause the phone sends a wrong tracking area - not sure that's a phone bug or a common scenario where the phone retains an old tracking area, then it tries to connect to the same tracking area - then the phone discovers it's is now in a different tracking area, and after being rejected, it connects with the correct one.

New comment by noselasd in "VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong"

noselasd — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:12:30 +0000

Proxmox is an amazing alternative

New comment by noselasd in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

noselasd — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:00:43 +0000

TikTok complied with their regulation last year. The regulations basically requires social media platforms with > 1 million nepalese accounts to get a license to operate in Nepal.

The bill and requirments doesn't seem unreasonable, atleast according to https://www.lawgandhi.com/social-media-bill-2081-2025/