Hacker News: photonbeam

New comment by photonbeam in "Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble"

photonbeam — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 02:19:04 +0000

Picking the right shovel-user is much more difficult though without a time-machine

New comment by photonbeam in "Big Tech says AI is booming. Wall Street is starting to see a bubble"

photonbeam — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 23:09:48 +0000

It may be a ‘sell shovels’ time, where the hardware providers profit

New comment by photonbeam in "Why Proton VPN doesn't use RAM-only VPN servers"

photonbeam — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:13:56 +0000

The updates section seems odd to me

Are they unaware that you can update the OS running on ramdisk just like you can with regular disk?

New comment by photonbeam in "Japan chain uses AI to gauge staff smiles, speech tones in QoS push"

photonbeam — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:03:30 +0000

The problem is that it wont be fair evaluation, regardless of a human or computer adjudicator

New comment by photonbeam in "Ireland's datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined"

photonbeam — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:12:10 +0000

I always assumed they created water from condensation, where is the water consumed?

New comment by photonbeam in "Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate"

photonbeam — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 02:55:49 +0000

Thats logic doesn't fly for any other profession

New comment by photonbeam in "CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago"

photonbeam — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 18:54:47 +0000

Penalty 2 is the same as closing the company down

New comment by photonbeam in "A search engine by and for the federal government"

photonbeam — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 15:05:18 +0000

The IRS doesnt require any auth if you print out whatever and mail it to them, no internet. They just believe you

New comment by photonbeam in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

photonbeam — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:25:01 +0000

It should be obvious to everyone now that kernel extensions for ‘security’ is not worth it

New comment by photonbeam in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

photonbeam — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:08:51 +0000

Need to make software developers legally liable like other engineers, that will cause a huge behavioral shift

New comment by photonbeam in ""Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you""

photonbeam — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:56:49 +0000

Its rather annoying that theres no way to support firefox without sending money to a Mozilla ceo who could use it for some silly side project

New comment by photonbeam in "Houston Is on a Path to an All-Out Power Crisis"

photonbeam — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:31:48 +0000

Millions of tiny generators roar to life

New comment by photonbeam in "New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception"

photonbeam — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 02:19:15 +0000

If they ask to talk to their manager then just talk to the manager yourself, no point negotiating with someone who lacks authority

New comment by photonbeam in "Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes"

photonbeam — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 17:35:00 +0000

Depends on when they joined

New comment by photonbeam in "Move over, remote jobs. CEOs say borderless talent is the future of tech work"

photonbeam — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:16:41 +0000

Wait till they relearn how timezones will slow everything to a crawl

New comment by photonbeam in "UK's Housing Crisis Needs a London-Sized City to Fix It"

photonbeam — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 02:20:39 +0000

The problem is that many view the problem as a good problem to have

New comment by photonbeam in "HH70, the first high-temperature superconducting Tokamak achieves first plasma"

photonbeam — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 23:18:22 +0000

They could put out a big production line of cheaper reactors, but the problem is that their navy boats are a target for missiles, which means larger risks of bad incidents. So they pick carefully

Cargo generally isnt a target in the same way

New comment by photonbeam in "Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux"

photonbeam — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 04:46:36 +0000

It’s somewhat inevitable that something will try to replace the C implementation of coreutils. Hopefully uutils will fix whichever bugs are reported upstream to lower the compatibility load though

New comment by photonbeam in "Almost half of Dell's full-time US workforce has rejected the company's RTO push"

photonbeam — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:31:21 +0000

What mechanism would you guess they are using to exert this influence?

New comment by photonbeam in "Silicon Valley salaries are shrinking, leaving workers in the lurch"

photonbeam — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 04:47:53 +0000

I know a police officer, they work in redwood city but have to live in petaluma to get enough space on their wage.

I can not imagine dealing with that commute each day. Each time I talk to him its in the back of my mind