Hacker News: ptah

New comment by ptah in ""Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order"

ptah — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:02:33 +0000

this is impacting scientific research to the point that people are scrubbing the word "gender" from their papers to avoid their research programs getting flagged by the doge gestapo

New comment by ptah in "A botnet is taken down in an operation by Microsoft, not the government"

ptah — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:54:09 +0000

yes, exactly! you get it.

New comment by ptah in "A botnet is taken down in an operation by Microsoft, not the government"

ptah — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:10:03 +0000

i'm not saying they do it intentionally. i am saying that they should deal with the consequences and not let taxpayers take the downside while they take the upside

New comment by ptah in "EU plans 'right to repair' rules for phones and tablets"

ptah — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:46:55 +0000

they should focus on making rules around product obsolescence. phones and computers should work with latest OS for 10 years or more

New comment by ptah in "A botnet is taken down in an operation by Microsoft, not the government"

ptah — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 08:56:23 +0000

they produce software that is vulnerable to exploitation by criminals

New comment by ptah in "A botnet is taken down in an operation by Microsoft, not the government"

ptah — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:34:11 +0000

why is this surprising? because they are cleaning up a mess of their own making instead of making taxpayers foot the bill?

New comment by ptah in "Elon Musk says college is 'basically for fun and not for learning'"

ptah — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:32:23 +0000

not so sure. the way of thinking i got from university professors has been invaluable. it is the meta-skills that count

New comment by ptah in "Everyone's a Socialist in a Pandemic"

ptah — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:41:24 +0000

a lot of government money goes into vaccine creation.

EDIT: socialism and capitalism are not mutually exclusive

New comment by ptah in "Robinhood maxed out credit line last month amid market tumult"

ptah — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:59:29 +0000

credit is so cheap nowadays. i'm sure their creditors were happy for the business

New comment by ptah in "Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux"

ptah — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:23:08 +0000

can this be used to run windows VSTs on Linux.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology

New comment by ptah in "Tesla’s success in Europe catches industry off guard"

ptah — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:40:48 +0000

you see about as many teslas as porsches in my experience

New comment by ptah in "Detroit to restore water to allow people to wash hands to avoid coronavirus"

ptah — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:36:49 +0000

there is no material difference: if your water is cutoff, the reason does not matter. it just seems incredibly shortsighted to put the entire population in danger because of a few dollars

New comment by ptah in "Detroit to restore water to allow people to wash hands to avoid coronavirus"

ptah — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:51:18 +0000

please explain how someone that has their water cut off still has access to water

New comment by ptah in "Detroit to restore water to allow people to wash hands to avoid coronavirus"

ptah — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:49:33 +0000

that's barbaric

New comment by ptah in "Engineered healthier sugar that tastes good"

ptah — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:29:13 +0000

> His team also started out by giving them to potential clients, only to routinely hear it didn’t work. “Rarely is our ingredient properly used,”

it sounds like it needs some other ingredients. possibly it makes starch break down to sugar quicker? like what saliva does to starch?

New comment by ptah in "ARMed mac: not again or for real this time?"

ptah — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 14:11:28 +0000

the problem comes in when your apps break and the only way to fix them is to fork out even more money for software upgrades. for music production i have been badly burnt and have moved to hardware synth that will last decades and a mac with logic that will never see another upgrade ever.

New comment by ptah in "Payments on mortgages to be suspended across Italy after coronavirus outbreak"

ptah — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:17:38 +0000

the money is not from other entities. it is literally made up based on a fraction of the reserves the bank holds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

New comment by ptah in "Payments on mortgages to be suspended across Italy after coronavirus outbreak"

ptah — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:38:51 +0000

not sure why you are being downvoted as if fractional reserve banking is not the status quo

New comment by ptah in "South Korea is composting its way to sustainability"

ptah — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:50:16 +0000

when they die they become plant food

New comment by ptah in "South Korea is composting its way to sustainability"

ptah — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 15:51:11 +0000

composting worms tend to stay where the food is. they are different from earthworms