Hacker News: schoolornot

New comment by schoolornot in "FDA approves first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive"

schoolornot — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:23:25 +0000

Maybe it's time for the FDA to just do quality checks but otherwise screw off. I'm tired of having to order 100% safe drugs from Indian pharmacies. No question they are colluding with Big Pharma. Is there any reason the "Farmacia" model of Latin American countries, where you go in and pay per-pill for whatever you want wouldn't work here?

New comment by schoolornot in "InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion"

schoolornot — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 08:50:15 +0000

It seems a banner was added to the UI: https://community.influxdata.com/t/getting-weird-results-fro...

New comment by schoolornot in "Adobe’s $20B deal to acquire Figma under threat from EU investigation"

schoolornot — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:21:01 +0000

Aren't Adobe and Figma US-based companies? Why does the EU have any say in this?

New comment by schoolornot in "HouseWatch: Open-source tool for monitoring and managing ClickHouse clusters"

schoolornot — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 19:19:32 +0000

I understand why OLAP writes are faster but is there any reason why OLTPs can't achieve similar read performance with denormalized and sharded data?

New comment by schoolornot in "Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage"

schoolornot — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:55:37 +0000

Promoting went from HTTP headers to HN comments.

New comment by schoolornot in "Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment"

schoolornot — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:23:20 +0000

X11 and VNC are still too inefficient for today's internet cafes. Take a look at: https://kasmweb.com/kasmvnc

New comment by schoolornot in "Licensee Hit with $24,000 Fine for Jamming Net, Failure to ID"

schoolornot — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:51:27 +0000

So are the FCC able to levy whatever fine they'd like?

New comment by schoolornot in "The planning of U.S. physician shortages (2020)"

schoolornot — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 09:05:37 +0000

Very easy solution, allow every 4-year state college to have MD programs. Flood the market.

New comment by schoolornot in "Usenet over NNCP"

schoolornot — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 08:48:49 +0000

I tried setting up one of the open source servers and it was an awful experience. I dug around and it seems like most providers are using proprietary implementations or proprietary forks of servers that are no longer maintained. I was interested at the time in understanding how the big guys like Giganews and so on set up nntp, peering, storage, etc. Didn't get very far.

New comment by schoolornot in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

schoolornot — Wed, 31 May 2023 19:46:40 +0000

Seems odd to only charge developers. Make API use part of Gold and call it a day.

New comment by schoolornot in "Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?"

schoolornot — Sat, 06 May 2023 23:14:26 +0000

No but it means a fake 1P login page can be served and that will result in some non-zero number of people who didn't have a choice on a local sync having their credentials compromised. I am a huge 1P and I think their whitepapers show off their top-tier talent in the crypto space but killing local sync was a very crummy decision.

New comment by schoolornot in "IPFS-tiny: attempting to take IPFS to Space"

schoolornot — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 04:50:00 +0000

Is there a reason IPFS is a better fit for it's typical use cases than BT + DHT?

New comment by schoolornot in "Ask HN: What is a good gift for a mechanically oriented 8 year old"

schoolornot — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 03:20:09 +0000

I wish Capsela was still around. I haven't come across anything similar for kids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsela

New comment by schoolornot in "Apple Music Classical is out"

schoolornot — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:41:46 +0000

Was there really that much demand for this kind of app? I'm still going to check it out. Hopefully it's snappier than regular AM and they can use this app as a "testing ground" for changes to the other app.

New comment by schoolornot in "Google nixes paying out rest of medical leave for laid-off employees"

schoolornot — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 08:07:01 +0000

I see a recurring pattern of chief people officers and their minions totally destroying company brands and internal morale. This isn't traditional HR nonsense but pure Peter Principle. It really must be too much run plans and messaging through a comms or marketing team first. As a manager, this stuff pisses me off to no end because it seeds worry in the minds of team members that are in no way at risk.

New comment by schoolornot in "Google: Turn off VoLTE, Wi-Fi calling: severe Exynos modem vulnerabilities"

schoolornot — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 21:42:34 +0000

Under what law?

New comment by schoolornot in "Ask HN: What is the best postmortem you've seen?"

schoolornot — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 00:29:50 +0000

Which is precisely why I don't understand the purpose to even have postmortems for 95% of outages. If everyone is aware of what went wrong and the issue is unlikely to ever happen again, what is the point?

Well, at companies of the size I work with it is to point fingers, make PMs feel more important, and give people talking points.

New comment by schoolornot in "Let's build a Chrome extension that steals as much data as possible"

schoolornot — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:47:15 +0000

My experience so far with publishing to the extension store has been that they examine both the code shipped as well as the scopes used. I've had apps rejected due to overly broad scopes and it was obvious based on the responses that the reviewer was pretty competent at JS.

New comment by schoolornot in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down"

schoolornot — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:18:08 +0000

Why shouldn't your grandfathered price change? I know it's nice and all but do you not think Google has rising costs?

New comment by schoolornot in "Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service"

schoolornot — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:23:00 +0000

Docker should have built a "better" K8s distro. Right now what they have is junk. Even Rancher isn't filling the niche. I don't think K8s is such a huge hill for new folks. Anyone who spends 5 minutes looking at basic deployment YAML can figure out what to do next. Getting a cluster up and running is the hardest part these days. Minikube, K8s in Docker, and even K3s all suck. There is still ample opportunity for them to own this market.