Hacker News: option_greek

New comment by option_greek in "Microsoft Says Windows May Need Up to 8 Hours to Update"

option_greek — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:48:51 +0000

We do get update notifications in many linux distros as well. I guess the difference is how aggressive the windows updates are. Its like having a gun to the head if at all there give a choice in the first place. The fact that windows is still kicking around with these shitty ux practices says how low the desktop or laptop market must mean to companies these days.

New comment by option_greek in "Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs"

option_greek — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:36:50 +0000

Not specific to tesla but I guess the answer is in your question. Most likely all the current self driving efforts across board will fail till we have smart roads. A road that can help a vehicle self drive will ensure the complexity of self driving is reduced. And of course that might mean these roads will have to be human driver, pedestrian free.

New comment by option_greek in "Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy"

option_greek — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:04:04 +0000

How about something like an SLA for power?

Clearly, placing any country's energy security in the hands of ever changing climate (less winds and high cloud cover) or at the feet of dictators has to factor in some where.

New comment by option_greek in "Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet"

option_greek — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 04:44:09 +0000

And hire who?

Its not like the job is very appealing in current environment. The risk of either dying on job or getting imprisoned due to domestic disturbance calls gone wrong is very high. Not to mention, a lot of cops not showing up situation seem to be in line with the demands of general public who instead want to mental health workers to show up for handling a variety of scenarios.

New comment by option_greek in "Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life"

option_greek — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 04:56:24 +0000

Very well put. Not just tall/short but physical beauty in general tends to push or pull people with it in a particular direction (be it career/friendships/relationships). To think of it in another way, they are as much trapped with it as the person with bad looks whether they want it or not.

For many good looking people, its a big problem when the short span of these once awesome physical attributes start to reach its eventual decline. They don't have any self confidence and self worth not tied to their looks. And from then on a its a life long fight to keep looking the same through cosmetics or surgery.

New comment by option_greek in "Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia"

option_greek — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:23:14 +0000

Science is ever changing. After trying this out my self, I can say with confidence that current state of myopic management with glasses will be deemed as quackery on par with drinking crude oil to cure diseases in past centuries.

Near work imposed in schools and wearing glasses constantly is the reason for current myopia epidemic as can be evidenced by low myopia rates in schools following western curriculum that is more holistic in nature.

New comment by option_greek in "Myopia treatment 'smart glasses' from Japan to be sold in Asia"

option_greek — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:08:01 +0000

Checkout endmyopia for similar alternative therapy to glasses.

New comment by option_greek in "In Argentina, inflation is a way of life"

option_greek — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:35:20 +0000

Its not a distribution. Its a dilution. The rich gets richer as they have most of their savings and capital in form that is not taxable and also set to rise with markets and real estate. The poor and middle class have much smaller percentage of income working for them and not usually have access to high growth opportunities.

New comment by option_greek in "In Argentina, inflation is a way of life"

option_greek — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 19:23:42 +0000

> A financial device called Overnight, were you would convert your brazilian currency (had many names) into USD at night and then convert it back to BR on the next day

Who eats the loss from the fluctuations in this case? Any idea how the providers used to hedge against the risk.

New comment by option_greek in "Nvidia prepares to abandon $40B Arm bid"

option_greek — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:10:13 +0000

Wow that's an interesting read. So anyone who holds a rubber stamp of a company can steal the whole company? That's some screwed up legal system.

New comment by option_greek in "Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listen"

option_greek — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 09:55:25 +0000

It's not a given that real estate has intrinsic value. Sure properties which are in high demand today will continue to do so tomorrow. But not all properties are like that. You can look at several foreclosed properties in 2008 bubble. Many continue to be in rundown state (both commercial and residential). Because the costs of renovation, taxes, utilities, insurances when included makes the property a losing proposition.

New comment by option_greek in "Web3 and crypto skepticism is growing and people are finally starting to listen"

option_greek — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:11:39 +0000

But then jury is out on whether there will ever be a bear market (or in other words will the central banks ever allow one). Also whether anything else (real estate, stocks or other assets) can survive it.

New comment by option_greek in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

option_greek — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:32:33 +0000

Could be that IP Address/ISP reputation is also a factor for the variation in results.

New comment by option_greek in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

option_greek — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 04:40:34 +0000

Use private mode exclusively. You will start getting into the captcha hell in a day or two.

New comment by option_greek in "Dude where's my coldstart?"

option_greek — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 10:59:16 +0000

So this serverless solution has a watchdog process always running and mapping requests to the correct process? It that more like a server than serverless? Will the next optimisation be launching one thread per request? In which case we are back to square one (:

New comment by option_greek in "WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?"

option_greek — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:22:47 +0000

The ingress can be free with Nginx but not the inbound firewall rule that passes the traffic to Nginx. And 'coincidentally' it costs the same $ as using their load balancer which automatically has this rule applied.

New comment by option_greek in "WebAssembly: The New Kubernetes?"

option_greek — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:05:34 +0000

More and more it appears that k8s is designed to extract maximum value from the tenants of the cloud companies.

You need to connect your cluster to public Internet? No problem that's $x for each load balancer (whether its needed or not).

Ohh you are feeling the whole thing feels like a blackbox and difficult to debug or observe? No problem that is $x for data dog.

Gcp is the worst when it comes to setting up k8s with preemptive nodes. Thought you could get away with preemptive nodes? Not so fast, we restart all the nodes together at end of 24 hours period so that your multi node cluster will have zero availability for 5 minutes everyday. Or jump through hoops to killing your own nodes periodically to keep them all restarting at the same time.

New comment by option_greek in "Tricking PostgreSQL into using an insane, but faster, query plan"

option_greek — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 07:04:03 +0000

I'm not sure what value your harsh tone adds to your comment. Sharing experiences like this publicly benefits everyone. It obviously exposes blindspots in one's knowledge and it is expected that noone knows everything. That is the point of the. Comments functionality in HN. So that we can all share things that we know and absorb things we don't.

I personally enjoyed this article and learnt a few things from it. I learnt a few things from your comment too but it would have been better without all the harsh words.

'Collarwali', Tigress Who Gave Birth to 29 Cubs, Dies in India

option_greek — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:13:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/collarwali-tigress-who-gave-birth-to-29-cubs-dies-in-madhya-pradesh-2711399

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29968047

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New comment by option_greek in "It takes $420k per year to run Lichess"

option_greek — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:02:31 +0000

I guess that's a literal interpretation but the OP's comparison serves the same purpose. It's sad that he has an edit option where he can clarify/correct to phrase it differently if he chooses to but continues to have it stay the same.