<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: otterdude</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=otterdude</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 19:00:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=otterdude" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otterdude in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The core tenant of the paper is that roughness reduces drag IN the transition zone. A very small region of the total flow.<p>Thats the region between laminar and turbulent flow. Laminar flow is typically 5x less drag than turbulent, and will be encountered about a Reynolds number of 500K-1M (ratio of inertial flow to viscous flow).<p>Surfboards will have a Reynolds number of 10^7 which is entirely turbulent.<p>A Cessna aircraft will have a Reynolds number of 1-5x10^6.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 03:18:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263119</link><dc:creator>otterdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otterdude in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're sharing the IP! That will severely harm the credibility of the poster for popular system at scale</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:08:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796293</link><dc:creator>otterdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otterdude in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're sharing the IP that harms the credibility in the first place for an established system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:07:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796279</link><dc:creator>otterdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otterdude in "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The 65K IP addresses cost 1.638M dollars, thats alot more than they would spend doing the exact same thing today.<p>The idea is to accept bad actors but make it more expensive and also you can directly identify cliques by IP ect.</p>
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<p>I think residential proxy IP's still have the same associated cost, and arent those often for bundled traffic?<p>I'm not much of a blackhat so excuse my lack of knowledge on tricks of the trade</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:57:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782679</link><dc:creator>otterdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otterdude in "We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>256 Processes x 10k clients (per the article) = 256K RPS</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:22:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413209</link><dc:creator>otterdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otterdude in "We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When people talk about a single server they're not talking about one hunk of metal, they're talking about 1 server process.<p>This article describes the 10k client connection problem, you should be handling 256K clients :)</p>
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<p>did you forget up is down and down is up?</p>
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<p>First off you should get a better, less douchy domain provider than GoDaddy. I like namecheap.<p>You're better off just dumping them and changing domains don't put up with this kind of BS.<p>You could try suing them but they'd probably roll you</p>
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<p>"We're not just reselling Postgres. We're trying to create something both novel and foundational at the same time. It's not easy!"</p>
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<p>No but i think you get more accountability and visibility. Right now we could never do this but in a functioning democracy I think it would be prudent.<p>In civil law when there is no clear precedent congress gets involved preventing the kind of critisisms we get in our legal system of activist judges ect.</p>
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<p>I would like to see the law defining that!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:39:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881298</link><dc:creator>otterdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881298</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otterdude in "Unexpected things that are people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My argument is created to test the original "corporations are people" legality in common law.<p>- slavery, the owning of people, is prohibited by the 13th amendment. 
- the law of the land is that corporations are a type of legal person based on the famous ruling based on the 14th amendment
- corporations are bought and sold, and owned by shareholders. Can they be people if this is so?<p>obviously there is a problem here with all of the contradictions involved, but thats the point of my argument. The legal system picks and chooses the desired outcome, and doesn't actually pay attention to the words involved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:38:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881290</link><dc:creator>otterdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45881290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by otterdude in "Unexpected things that are people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My point is the benefit greatly from the distinction, never codified in law. They have more rights and fewer responsibilities than actual people!<p>They way it "should" be is that congress creates a legal framework for coporations, then justices enforce that. Instead we are living with a nearly two centuries old common law that makes peoples lives worse.<p>My argument that if corporations are people, then they cannot be bought or sold is the kind of argument you can use to create legal precedent by suing some company over a merger or buyout to test the law and the strength of the original case law.</p>
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<p>My arguments are as bad-faith as the arguments that lead to corporate personhood and citizens united. Fight fire with fire.</p>
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<p>I guess my larger point is that words are manipulated to get to a desired effect in the justice system.<p>Slavery is defined as the practice of owning a "person" which the 13th amendment prohibits. As corporations are people why couldn't this apply using the same flexible level of logic our court system uses??? Its just picking winners and losers!!!<p>Regarding "money is speech", this is the implication and argument from Citizens United. <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained" rel="nofollow">https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citi...</a></p>
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<p>The answer if for congress to make a legal definition of corporation, instead we get the justice system coming up with a handwavy explanation that helps out their golfing buddies.<p>The answer is to get rid of the common law justice system and codify laws in congress like a civil law system. That way you dont get rich people trying to buy favors or "tip" judges.</p>
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<p>The definition for person is "a living human".<p>This argument is just ridiculous, a corporation is a corporation. That contains subsets of people who have rights (shareholders, employees).</p>
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<p>The problem is judges, especially in a common law system.<p>Computers follow the machine code PERFECTLY. For the legal system judges get to embark on a jazz odyssey of bullshit.<p>Were living in an easy to track, decades long legal conspiracy to abuse power for corporations - based on the Powell memo.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYoqcr7bAIs7kdyMhh-9m4kPLCG6dGAkX" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYoqcr7bAIs7kdyMhh-9m...</a></p>
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<p>Its just not logical to argue, either they are or they arent.<p>For instance, corporations can be bought or sold, but people cannot per the 13th amendment.<p>Help me understand how these inconsistent principles are allowed in the supposedly rigorous logic of the legal system</p>
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