Hacker News: oaththrowaway

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)"

oaththrowaway — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:35:03 +0000

Because the food was so bad and the women were so ugly that they had no choice to but leave

New comment by oaththrowaway in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

oaththrowaway — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:48:03 +0000

Ahh sorry, someone with your same username used to post on Hockey's Future message board

New comment by oaththrowaway in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

oaththrowaway — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:14:27 +0000

Hench from HF?

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Airbnb and Vrbo are going downhill like a hippo on a water slide"

oaththrowaway — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 01:14:19 +0000

Quite the take. We do one of the units in our apartment building as an AirBnB. It makes a bit more per month than just renting would.

It is cleaned and inspected very thoroughly between guests. We wouldn't do it if we couldn't offer great service.

Certainly would never want to show up at check-in/check-out though, and it'd probably freak me out if someone did that at one we stayed at. It's not a hotel and it doesn't need to be treated as one.

New comment by oaththrowaway in "We’re secretly winning the war on cancer"

oaththrowaway — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:18:25 +0000

Just went through the process recently...

Luckily Urgent Care was able to go from ultrasound to CT scan in 1 day. The long wait time has come from the insurance honestly.

Had to go to a different hospital because the original one I went to has to get an approval from United before getting it done (other hospital 2 blocks away doesn't have that same requirement??)

I got referred to a dedicated cancer center and then guess what, I have to call United and ask them to approve it - but I can't get an appointment to do that for 2 weeks.

Ended up doing all the legwork on my own and was able to get a consultation done within a week. Now I'm having to do biopsies, PET scan, ect. Depending on the result I might be able to get it removed next week!

But the pain has become so severe I can't eat, sleep, even lay down without extreme discomfort. I can't imagine waiting around on the insurance to walk me through it.

Funny enough, United sent us a letter in the mail asking if I really wanted to get that original CT scan! Like no, I'd rather not know I have a 7" tumor in my abdomen. Simply a joke of an industry

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

oaththrowaway — Tue, 27 May 2025 14:40:29 +0000

Solid list there! I love Calibre and ScummVM. Is Scumm still under development though?

New comment by oaththrowaway in "'Significant amount' of private data stolen in UK Legal Aid hack"

oaththrowaway — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:39:44 +0000

Then you're going to have to start paying entry level IT like surgeons. Nobody is going to take that kind of risk for $30K.

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection"

oaththrowaway — Thu, 15 May 2025 14:58:44 +0000

Oh I'm not on stock Android. I'm on lineage

New comment by oaththrowaway in "California sent residents' personal health data to LinkedIn"

oaththrowaway — Thu, 15 May 2025 14:58:04 +0000

Why does a state have ad tracking data? Are they really that hard up for cash that they need to have ad campaigns for people selecting insurance?

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection"

oaththrowaway — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:56:03 +0000

You can absolutely deny apps internet access. I do it for the Google Keyboard app.

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues"

oaththrowaway — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:56:33 +0000

> "No Western government (or whatever you meant by government system) treats anyone like that, and such behaviour should absolutely surprise everyone."

Clearly not

New comment by oaththrowaway in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

oaththrowaway — Mon, 05 May 2025 03:27:50 +0000

I'll have to use that next time!

New comment by oaththrowaway in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

oaththrowaway — Mon, 05 May 2025 03:02:05 +0000

Ha,this could have been written by me as well. Aphantasia is so weird to try to describe to people.

I've never been great about taking photos, but my wife always remembers. Recently spent some time consolidating all of the to Immich and being able to see the "memories" every day is incredible.

New comment by oaththrowaway in "My experience of participating to a startup weekend competition in Italy"

oaththrowaway — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:55:50 +0000

I went to a startup weekend maybe 9-10 years ago. It was a lot of fun. I didn't pick the best idea to work on, just the funnest sounding. Ended up with a small team (3 of us total) and we we're one of the only ones to actually have a good demo. I try to do some kind of hackfest every year now.

There is just something magical about working on something fun and pulling an all nighter.

New comment by oaththrowaway in "This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops"

oaththrowaway — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 16:09:32 +0000

It's pretty common in fosscad (3D printed firearms subreddit), that people will get DMs from brand new accounts asking them to do illegal things. Cops/Feds are really doing the least possible to entrap people

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Use the Gemini API with OpenAI Fallback in TypeScript"

oaththrowaway — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 02:14:00 +0000

It's really pretty reasonable. I don't notice it at all. Nothing as bad as trying to relay 1min.ai or something

New comment by oaththrowaway in "I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud"

oaththrowaway — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 03:27:31 +0000

What TV? I ended up getting a cheap Sceptre since it didn't have any smart nonsense. Not the greatest picture in the world but that's okay

New comment by oaththrowaway in "The Origin of the Pork Taboo"

oaththrowaway — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:11:16 +0000

I've had both dogs and pigs as pets. Pigs are much smarter overall. They just have different behavior

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Fedora 42 Beta"

oaththrowaway — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:44:30 +0000

I'm actually using a customized version of Universal Blue that Bazzite is also based on. Very slick setup

New comment by oaththrowaway in "Fedora 42 Beta"

oaththrowaway — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:34:40 +0000

My biggest gripe with Wayland is screen sharing/remote desktop. For my desktop PC I could just install RealVNC and have access to it on any of my devices anywhere in the world. I still haven't found a good solution for Wayland. I'm using RDP right now but it really sucks in comparison so far.

Slack screen share is kind of hit and miss as well. Not to mention screen capture being less than ideal.