Hacker News: simplemath

New comment by simplemath in "Nintendo Switch Teardown"

simplemath — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 07:28:02 +0000

You are a bit underwhelmed.

Got it

New comment by simplemath in "Images and video showing extent of Oroville dam damage"

simplemath — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 22:11:41 +0000

There's a similar theory regarding the formation of the Grand Canyon

http://www.icr.org/research/index/researchp_sa_r02/

New comment by simplemath in "The mystery of why some people hate raw tomatoes"

simplemath — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:07:35 +0000

for me, its texture.

I hate the goop and love the flesh of raw tomato.

I cannot stand cooked large chunks of tomato.

New comment by simplemath in "AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive"

simplemath — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:46:00 +0000

ding ding ding

New comment by simplemath in "AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive"

simplemath — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 19:57:46 +0000

my homelab is ready.

New comment by simplemath in "Ray Dalio Is Stepping Down from Management at Bridgewater"

simplemath — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 23:36:01 +0000

>Funny how these things tend to work out in Corporate America.

They are like that everywhere.

People who are willing to screw over other people without remorse go far in our world.

New comment by simplemath in "CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages"

simplemath — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 00:52:45 +0000

>I work at an IoT company and we take security far more seriously than some would say is necessary or even reasonable.

Then you are a member of a miniscule minority.

The backing argument is a ballooning threat surface that can never reliably be patched

New comment by simplemath in "CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages"

simplemath — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:52:58 +0000

whats really needed is an actual un-fucked-with consumer grade encryption standard that is headless, touchless and on forever with no offswitch.

Alas, that wont happen either

New comment by simplemath in "SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year"

simplemath — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:15:58 +0000

"We seem to have somehow miscalculated our trajectories and the vehicle is now permanently locked in low lunar orbit forever with no recourse. Sorry for the inconvenience."

New comment by simplemath in "CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages"

simplemath — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:49:25 +0000

IoT should die a swift and permanent death.

Alas, that wont happen.

New comment by simplemath in "Why Ever Stop Playing Video Games"

simplemath — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:16:05 +0000

Starcraft in particular always felt like work to me; the insane level of management required to simultaneously macro/micro...

I never enjoyed it.

Currently enjoying the apocalyptic wasteland / occasionally broken mess that is H1Z1: King of the Kill

New comment by simplemath in "White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing"

simplemath — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:17:18 +0000

Both

New comment by simplemath in "White House Bars NYT, CNN, and Politico from Briefing"

simplemath — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:16:37 +0000

It's the annihilation of truth and its terrifying.

New comment by simplemath in "Wind and solar power are disrupting electricity systems"

simplemath — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:52:45 +0000

"JOIN US AT SOLAR.IO AND RUTHLESSLY DISRUPT THE ENERGY GRID"

New comment by simplemath in "Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?"

simplemath — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:17:28 +0000

Man, welcome to the future.

Well, mostly unless said author has a persistent social media profile, you manually do it

New comment by simplemath in "Nobody Knows What They're Doing (2013)"

simplemath — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:10:21 +0000

The frightening context that the White House belongs to Putin? I find that pretty frightening, personally.

New comment by simplemath in "Passwords for social media accounts could be required for some to enter country"

simplemath — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 04:07:44 +0000

This is as good a time as any to stop using social media.

New comment by simplemath in "Passwords for social media accounts could be required for some to enter country"

simplemath — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 04:05:57 +0000

That may be changing.

New comment by simplemath in "Inside Magic Leap"

simplemath — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 23:26:40 +0000

I hope they can deliver what they are promising.

I remain highly skeptical.

New comment by simplemath in "Inside Magic Leap"

simplemath — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 17:38:02 +0000

The process isn't rocket science but the scale is.