Hacker News: quickben

LVFS votes on permitting new hardware vendor imposing EULAs

quickben — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:41:18 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/hughsient/status/1292783799525429249

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24118981

Points: 1

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What Does C++ Do That Rust Doesn't?

quickben — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:20:48 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.to/deciduously/what-does-c-do-that-rust-doesn-t-4h2g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859040

Points: 5

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New comment by quickben in "Have scientists discovered a fifth force of nature?"

quickben — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 21:14:07 +0000

Where can I read more about these hints?

New comment by quickben in "Update on free software and telemetry"

quickben — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 22:45:38 +0000

"Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause..."

It's not even take it or leave it, one has to agree first in order to leave.

It seems whoever approved this, forgot why people arrived to GitLab from GitHub.

The Turing Pi Clusterboard Runs Seven Raspberry Pis at Once

quickben — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 15:15:31 +0000

Article URL: https://technabob.com/blog/2019/07/07/turing-pi-clusterboard-raspberry-pi-cluster-board/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383446

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by quickben in "NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini and making the kernel power failure proof"

quickben — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 15:39:03 +0000

Mill architecture?

New comment by quickben in "Toshiba and WD NAND Production Hit by Power Outage: 6 Exabytes Lost"

quickben — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 14:39:33 +0000

Interesting. So what do they do with the materials afterwards? Landfill or melting or?

New comment by quickben in "150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019"

quickben — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 21:49:21 +0000

It would be interesting if you can evaluate the UI spam lately somehow:

  - Sign up for newsletter
  - This website wants to send you notifications

and more, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bx5a3PMks

New comment by quickben in "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later (1978)"

quickben — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:03:44 +0000

He writes this paragraph that may explain your observation:

"So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one novel after another. And I have to build them in such a way that they do not fall apart two days later. Or at least that is what my editors hope. However, I will reveal a secret to you: I like to build universes which do fall apart."

New comment by quickben in "U.S. and U.K. F-35 Jets Include 'Core' Circuit Boards from Chinese-Owned Company"

quickben — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 18:22:18 +0000

Of course, I was just illustrating with an elementary electromagnetism example that the risk isn't zero.

New comment by quickben in "U.S. and U.K. F-35 Jets Include 'Core' Circuit Boards from Chinese-Owned Company"

quickben — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:50:34 +0000

>The risk to the supply chain is zero

Hypothetically, what would happen to a pcb board , 33x33cm in size, with the ground lines running around the edge of that board, when hit with a high power 900 MHz broadcast?

New comment by quickben in "TV meteorologist objected to management’s ‘code red’ orders"

quickben — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 16:47:49 +0000

So, why are we not closing stations for scheduled code red days on normal weather? They are lying to the public, but it doesn't seem there are any consequences for them, only for the employees that object to the lying.

New comment by quickben in "Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing"

quickben — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 18:24:10 +0000

Fairly enough. Although I want to live in the illusion that Google at least likes money more than anything else, and they weight their options. The alternative is scary.

New comment by quickben in "Google’s Dominance Is No Longer a Sure Thing"

quickben — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 18:04:25 +0000

It's not dismal, it's calculated. Monopolies can afford that.

On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens

quickben — Sun, 02 Jun 2019 17:29:41 +0000

Article URL: http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/05/31/on-the-pleasures-and-sorrows-of-life-without-screens/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20076775

Points: 127

# Comments: 84

New comment by quickben in "A NY School District Defies State, Plans To Proceed With Facial Recognition Test"

quickben — Fri, 31 May 2019 20:59:53 +0000

A bit incomplete title then. They are also testing legal boundaries, population reaction, and few other things that are morally objectionable.

Ask HN: What would be a good Android alternative?

quickben — Sun, 26 May 2019 14:19:41 +0000

My Nexus 6p is not supported by Google anymore. I am thinking of flashing the phone with LineageOS, but what other alternatives would be better?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20015051

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by quickben in "US cosmetics are full of chemicals banned by Europe"

quickben — Wed, 22 May 2019 16:40:45 +0000

Maybe because hundreds of millions are spent to lobby for it:

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=H04&yea...

New comment by quickben in "When Nobody Shows Up to My Conference Talk"

quickben — Tue, 21 May 2019 20:26:51 +0000

"Error establishing a database connection"

Well, maybe most people can't even access what his events are about?

New comment by quickben in "GDPR adtech complaints keep stacking up in Europe"

quickben — Mon, 20 May 2019 18:03:32 +0000

Well, say that I want to know if you are interested in golf. Do you prefer me asking if you can fill in a questionnaire, or should I just pop where you live and take pictures from inside your house?

You really don't have to play devil's advocate, one of them is illegal.

If a company has no viable way forward, and has to resort to what the rest of us deemed illegal, it should stop existing. Not all companies should survive at any cost, that's not utilitiatian or desirable.