Hacker News: radishingr

New comment by radishingr in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

radishingr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:44:21 +0000

Sounds like a quick legal solution: heat and cooling are now the landlords problem. Sort of like the kitchen.

New comment by radishingr in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

radishingr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:39:50 +0000

By switching from burning Russian hydrocarbons for heat to heat pumps so you can heat and cool while being more efficient? This isn't a rebuild, it is a moderate adaptation to the actual requirements to live in the Europe of today.

For steam based heat systems there is also cooling options, so that is a fix for those cities with central heat service.

New comment by radishingr in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

radishingr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:30:51 +0000

Corporations have money and money attracts lawyers. Some discipline would have been required for the trademark stuff because you have to be very careful about it or lose your job.

Now, did something cause other issues that converted this from formal "don't do that, use the official process" and nothing more? Sounds like something caused this to escalate. It could be toes were stepped on, could be a bad reaction to the warning, or could just be wanting to cut employee numbers in a shortsighted way.

New comment by radishingr in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

radishingr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:58:59 +0000

The answer is not that it matters, but as a matter of financial and legal controls they need to know and approve. Do they care? They probably are delighted, but also want to get all the paperwork set up to avoid problems.

The space this comes from is the legal undue influence side where they need to give notice to shareholders about potential conflicts of interest, and it needs to be in the form of having a clear positive audit trail that they have told people to follow a clear policy with no grey area so that any deviation is an accident not willful failure to get people to tell them.

New comment by radishingr in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

radishingr — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:26:59 +0000

It depends, flowcharts are great for defined processes, but troubleshooting (which vulnerability research mirrors) is not a flowchart or checklist or task list.

New comment by radishingr in "To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps"

radishingr — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:46:39 +0000

The Tom Scott video(https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y) did a pretty good summary of the Percy Spencer microwave (a giant commercial oven) and the later parallel development by J. E. Lovelock of a small microwave to reheat small mammals for experiments with cryorevival (replacing lamps and hot paddles).

New comment by radishingr in "FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours"

radishingr — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:42:35 +0000

ATC is hundreds of functions and dozens of responsibilities like checking that the runway is safe to land. "Clear to land" is not just a turn of phrase, it is a check and verify that an aircraft with hundreds of people is relying on.

Air traffic is not a deterministic system, it is squishy and significantly more complicated because it involves humans, complex mechanical systems, and weather floating on top of a sea of limited resources.

New comment by radishingr in "FAA to restrict commercial rocket launches to overnight hours"

radishingr — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:22:59 +0000

Also remember that ATC is vital for emergency situations. "Your distress call is important to us, please continue screaming into the void and hopefully a miracle happens.

New comment by radishingr in "FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado"

radishingr — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:01:49 +0000

The bigger comment is that these people are not documented or undocumented. To be either would require due process where such documents could be produced.

New comment by radishingr in "James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity"

radishingr — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:57:58 +0000

There are vastly different scales where the approximation is correct for newton vs general relativity. Perhaps you can define the scales that you are calling relevant so we understand what you mean.

New comment by radishingr in "James Webb Space Telescope finds evidence for alternate theory of gravity"

radishingr — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:47:13 +0000

So spacetime (interactions between mass, space, and time) are required for any sort of precision explanation. If "extreme" means planet size masses, I guess, but I generally consider our solar system pretty normal. However we cannot explain the planetary motion of mercury without relativity, so define your extreme.

But sure, newton is good enough to handle most ground based scenarios where we only care about forces at low precision.

New comment by radishingr in "FUTO Warrant Canary"

radishingr — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 01:07:12 +0000

The Roberts court is fine with compelled speech, so long as it is as antiabortion. So I assume the same can be applied here.

New comment by radishingr in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"

radishingr — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:28:43 +0000

And never forget excelsior geyser (crater) just up the road.

New comment by radishingr in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"

radishingr — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:27:11 +0000

What is the accuracy of the mapping you do and is it destructive? Do you deal with hot systems (steam/water equilibrium matters)?

New comment by radishingr in "Hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone National Park"

radishingr — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:24:33 +0000

Honestly, I would be more worried about an elephant rampage, as it is significantly more likely.

New comment by radishingr in "The Most Decorated Battleship in U.S. History Gets an Overdue Face-Lift"

radishingr — Fri, 03 May 2024 03:53:33 +0000

I think they may still have a few tickets to go visit the ship while she is in drydock (as in walk under the ship).

New comment by radishingr in "COBOL on Wheelchair: Micro web-framework for COBOL"

radishingr — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:49:18 +0000

Mainframe ecosystems include things like non-relationship databases and other I/O abstractions that may or may not be in use.

It resembles a combination of every Microsoft component (IIS, SQL), alongside dozens of separate proprietary products that are a fever dream of products to do simple tasks like write "files" to disk.

New comment by radishingr in "Google Outage in Europe"

radishingr — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 06:22:32 +0000

"Impact: fixed processes that led to 8 hr outage" seems like an easy case to make.

New comment by radishingr in "Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status"

radishingr — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:37:21 +0000

Part of the issue is that many vitamin and other health indicators are highly correlated with other things like income status, race, and other significant conflating factors.

D3 also is related to being outside , which would influence the means of infection: lower initial viral load changes outcome.

New comment by radishingr in "X-ray analysis reveals hidden composition under iconic portrait of Lavoisiers"

radishingr — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:36:27 +0000

Generally you are correct, a work unrealized is mostly a question of might have been. This is probably more special than most, as it isn't a hidden work. Instead we are seeing changes made to emphasize a different aspect of the sitters. It is also interesting because of the dual nature of the pair: hated tax collectors and beloved scientist who fundamentally created modern chemistry.

The changes like removing an ornate hat from the lady and emphasizing the scholarly work of Lavosie are interesting as they show the concerns an aristocratic couple had about their public image on the eve of the French revolution.