Hacker News: revax

New comment by revax in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

revax — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:44:46 +0000

While optional, it's very common in France.

New comment by revax in "Pi Pico 2 Extreme Teardown"

revax — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 10:50:33 +0000

Usually you use fuming nitric acid with or without sulfuric acid depending if you have copper bondings.

https://www.semitracks.com/reference-material/failure-and-yi...

New comment by revax in "Elon Musk's leadership beginning to splinter Tesla loyalists as car sales drop"

revax — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 16:16:00 +0000

The worst thing is I can't read the policy without accepting it.

New comment by revax in "Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?"

revax — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 15:17:49 +0000

>Then eat grass-fed meat. I do so myself.

I'm not sure there is enough grassland in the world for everyone to eat grass-fed meat.

New comment by revax in "Ask HN: Single-person creations that have stood the test of time?"

revax — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:12:40 +0000

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

New comment by revax in "Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (2019)"

revax — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:54:50 +0000

No, lux is based on lumen and itself founded on the human perception of light using the luminous efficiency function.

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

New comment by revax in "Global chip shortage may soon turn into an oversupply crisis"

revax — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:25:14 +0000

Those functions don't require the most "high-end semiconductors".

New comment by revax in "Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine"

revax — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 18:37:01 +0000

According to the name of the icon, it's the flag of the Soviet Union, not China.

Edit: I would guess it's labelled Soviet when it's unclear which side the equipment come from.

New comment by revax in "US DOE to offer $6B to keep struggling nuclear reactors online"

revax — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:35:59 +0000

More specifically, the water become too hot to be released in a river without impacting the bio-environment, not all plants have this issue.

New comment by revax in "White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug"

revax — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 14:21:12 +0000

Those skills are unrelated.

New comment by revax in "Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review"

revax — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 08:01:58 +0000

>Alcohol/thc/caffeine/nicotine (you name it) do not fall in the "natural" diet of humans.

Well Sapiens likely consumed naturally fermented fruits even 200.000 years ago, after all we evolved to produce certain enzymes to digest ethanol.

Alcohol have shaped human cultures for thousand years, hardly unnatural.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/alcohol-...

New comment by revax in "No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation"

revax — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:49:37 +0000

The high consumption of red wine in France is thought by some people to be the explanation of the French paradox.

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

New comment by revax in "Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?"

revax — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:56:46 +0000

The timestamp seems to refer to the time the test report was downloaded not when the test was conducted.

https://twitter.com/blokovi/status/1480945535620108296

New comment by revax in "Drone carrying a defibrillator saves its first heart attack patient in Sweden"

revax — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 08:34:06 +0000

>part of the mandatory first aid kit (I'm talking Europe here).

In which country is it mandatory?

New comment by revax in "Webb placed on top of Ariane 5"

revax — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:05:32 +0000

Also Ariane 5 is one of the most reliable rocket capable of launching JWST on the correct orbit.

New comment by revax in "A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (2015)"

revax — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 12:14:28 +0000

It reminds me this SMBC comics https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21

New comment by revax in "Missouri found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public"

revax — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:47:10 +0000

Don't forget that the vaccine also lower the risk of severe form of Covid.

New comment by revax in "OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware"

revax — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 07:28:00 +0000

I think the closest thing you'll find are hospitality TV. Display used in hotel, restaurants and the like.

New comment by revax in "Hiking America’s three longest trails in less than a year. What could go wrong?"

revax — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 14:23:26 +0000

Europe is rather diverse regarding those rights.

In France you cannot do wild camping at all, bivouacking is merely tolerated. In some trails, you can only set up camp in designated spot.

New comment by revax in "“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says"

revax — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:18:47 +0000

That's not really a source.