Hacker News: rangibaby

New comment by rangibaby in "Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?"

rangibaby — Mon, 10 May 2021 11:30:30 +0000

- Jeff Bezos

New comment by rangibaby in "US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack"

rangibaby — Mon, 10 May 2021 03:26:20 +0000

I remember they got past the Iranian air gap using a USB stick. It’s a mistake to think air gaps are safe but they are certainly better than having your network open to the internet.

New comment by rangibaby in "Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers"

rangibaby — Thu, 06 May 2021 13:01:59 +0000

The article wants it to "just work"

New comment by rangibaby in "Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers"

rangibaby — Thu, 06 May 2021 12:45:35 +0000

What’s wrong with installing WinXP+office and calling it a day? Even if someone fulfilled your request and got an up-to-date browser etc working on your 256MB laptop Would YouTube even work?

New comment by rangibaby in "Show HN: CS Weapons – Counter-Strike weapon data comparison app"

rangibaby — Thu, 06 May 2021 00:04:56 +0000

Tactical Intervention had tons of wacky broken creative ideas, to me it felt a lot more like old school CS than Source or GO

New comment by rangibaby in "A whale who tried to mimic human speech (2014)"

rangibaby — Sun, 02 May 2021 03:22:45 +0000

Agreed. I think people forget that smart animals are smart enough to do bad things because they feel like it

New comment by rangibaby in "Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19"

rangibaby — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 01:17:58 +0000

> (Of course, it's also possible that by thinking we've 'cured' the common cold, we will open ourselves up to a once-a-century pandemic, where millions are wiped out by what used to just be a common cold.)

H.G. Wells knew his stuff

New comment by rangibaby in "Technologies I thought my son would never use"

rangibaby — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:38:35 +0000

You could put your fax machines in a locked container

New comment by rangibaby in "Blackout Hits Iran Nuclear Site in What Appears to Be Israeli Sabotage"

rangibaby — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 01:46:34 +0000

Because it is a quote

New comment by rangibaby in "Prince Philip has died"

rangibaby — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:25:02 +0000

The crown is just a rubber stamp, until it’s not, like in the Australian constitutional crisis

New comment by rangibaby in "'Satan Shoes' to be recalled as Nike agrees to settle lawsuit"

rangibaby — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 04:03:02 +0000

> That's some fake Prada bag shit

I think it's different because they started out as actual Nike shoes

New comment by rangibaby in "Suga says time ripe to decide fate of Fukushima No.1 water"

rangibaby — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:35:13 +0000

I read a book or something online by Michio Kaku where he was passionately against launching any kind of nuclear material because of the possibility of the rocket exploding before reaching space.

New comment by rangibaby in "Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?"

rangibaby — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 03:40:29 +0000

I was a big fan of Soulseek back in the day. Everyone else I knew used Limewire

New comment by rangibaby in "The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland"

rangibaby — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 23:45:41 +0000

> The Dutch hosting company doesn't obey US law. My god! Can you believe these assholes? Running a hosting company that just hosts, and doesn't snoop into what their customers are doing? And how dare they make enforcement agencies actually go through the required legal processes to enforce the law!

That reminds me a lot of the saga of Kim Dotcom

New comment by rangibaby in "Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?"

rangibaby — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 01:32:12 +0000

I downloaded plenty of music on shitty dialup. It’s not like there were any other options. The hard part was finding them until Napster etc

New comment by rangibaby in "Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count"

rangibaby — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 03:57:05 +0000

This is Youtube's revenge for users not loving the Rewind 2018 video

New comment by rangibaby in "Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update"

rangibaby — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:32:53 +0000

Considering that they literally invented JIT manufacturing, yes I think it counts

New comment by rangibaby in "Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update"

rangibaby — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:31:09 +0000

> Ha! Things can disrupt JIT operations, don't these bozos know that

For a real world example of bozos not knowing that, see Toyota in 2011.

New comment by rangibaby in "Ask HN: Do you read books regularly? Fiction or nonfiction?"

rangibaby — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:03:25 +0000

Which translation of War and Peace?

New comment by rangibaby in "Bad Apple on an Apple //e: playing video on a stock 1 MHz Apple II [video]"

rangibaby — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 06:15:05 +0000

> It's truly amazing, and I wonder what I would have felt if I had seen that on an IBM PC back in its day.

I felt the same way about the 8088 MPH demo, knowledge that the original IBM PC could do that would have had unimaginable effects.