Hacker News: snark42

New comment by snark42 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

snark42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:33:08 +0000

Cool, they probably changed it, this was years ago. I've had similar issues with other companies, REI is just the only one I can I really recall right now.

New comment by snark42 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

snark42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:26:47 +0000

I've had some reject my e-mail address because it contains their company name. REI was one (ie it wouldn't allow rei@domain.com but would accept reicoop@domain.com)

New comment by snark42 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

snark42 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:17:37 +0000

You can proxy responses with a ton of e-mail clients, even Gmail supports it once you verify you can get a message sent to that address.

New comment by snark42 in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

snark42 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:53:06 +0000

That fact here was if Musk should have known about the potential breach of charitable trust before 2021 given it started in 2019, if not before, with Microsoft investment and he didn't sue until 2024. There is a 3 year statute of limitations.

New comment by snark42 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

snark42 — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:47:34 +0000

Much of those billions of dollars are contractually limited in how they can use both the principal and gains so it's really not that simple.

New comment by snark42 in "I want to live like Costco people"

snark42 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:02:47 +0000

I think so.

Stuff like USDA Prime meats are substantially cheaper and same quality as anywhere else. I smoke a lot of meats though.

Organic produce is super cheap. Especially stuff like pre-cut broccoli, lettuce mixes, etc.

Protein powders, crackers, chips, organic yogurt, organic milk, organic eggs, cheese, prosciutto, etc.

Also liquor including decent beer and wine selection.

I get all this stuff, mid to high quality compared to Whole Foods or whatever grocery store. Sure, I could buy higher quality organic meats directly from the farmer over USDA Prime at Costco or more sustainable seafood and what not, but it would easily cost 3-5x.

I don't buy it alot, but people love the bakery - croissants, pies, cakes, etc. and they're high quality, comparable to most local bakeries.

New comment by snark42 in "I want to live like Costco people"

snark42 — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:10:56 +0000

I hate going there and mostly use Instacart to avoid having to, but even with a Instacart mark-up and tip it's cheaper and higher quality than most other options, happy to pay someone else to do my shopping.

New comment by snark42 in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

snark42 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:15:35 +0000

That only happens when you have your own data center. That's a whole different issue and most people with their own hardware don't have their own data centers as it's not particularly cost efficient except at incredibly large scale.

New comment by snark42 in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

snark42 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:32:31 +0000

I have 3 different banks (well 2 banks and a credit union.) I can use Zelle in my browser from all 3. I don't even have the app installed for 2 of them.

New comment by snark42 in "Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres"

snark42 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:42:07 +0000

They at least partly figured out fluoride for brushing teeth and in drinking water was a net positive based on teeth health and natural fluoride levels in wells around the world. CDC estimates it reduces cavities by 25%.

New comment by snark42 in "Amazon buys stake in nuclear energy developer in push to power data centres"

snark42 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:38:07 +0000

So if you build a decent sized data center to consume 160 MWh you can get 2 SMRs and call it a day.

Or you can buy 480 Tesla MegaPacks (about 6 acres) and 1600 acres (it's roughly 1 MW per 5 acres) of solar panels to run the DC and charge the batteries during the day. Sure some can go on the building, but you'd still need way more acreage than that can provide.

I know what I would bet on too.

New comment by snark42 in "Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined"

snark42 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:00:09 +0000

Did you mean rhodium?

New comment by snark42 in "Debian celebrates 30 years"

snark42 — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:38:33 +0000

tsx was a MIT server that hosted minix, Linux, etc. It wasn't a distribution per se.

New comment by snark42 in "California Court of Appeal finds geofence warrant unconstitutional"

snark42 — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:23:50 +0000

It's the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule, you can thank the Supreme Court.

New comment by snark42 in "Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners"

snark42 — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 23:53:50 +0000

> What about those in the northern half of the US that also need back-up heat for when it is very cold?

This heat pump is supposed to work to -15F and includes back-up resistive heat. Theoretically it can replace a heater and air conditioner anywhere. I know people north of Chicago that use a similar heat pump and resistive backup system and it's been fine to -30F keeping the house at 69F.

> I don't know the contractors they are talking about, but I literally had to say the words "heat pump" to my local Carrier installer and they did all the rest.

There's definitely a bias against them when natural gas is available. Until probably the past 3-4 years very few HVAC contractors in the midwest were familiar with heat pumps or had bad experiences 5-15 years back and recommended against them as it's "too cold" for them to work here.

New comment by snark42 in "The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux"

snark42 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:52:50 +0000

Or make it available on DVD.

I know this was the incentive behind a lot of the people financially supporting the warez scene in the past.

New comment by snark42 in "Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range"

snark42 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 18:32:49 +0000

> but I have not heard one ounce of buyer's remorse from any of the other brands.

The only solid reason I've heard to buy Tesla over others is for the Supercharger network if you travel a lot or can't charge at home. Everything else comes down to preference.

New comment by snark42 in "Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic"

snark42 — Mon, 16 May 2022 20:36:25 +0000

You forgot play the peering game which can lead to substantially cheaper bandwidth when you connect to enough Tier1/2 ISPs. I think Hetzner does this some as well.

New comment by snark42 in "Inside the longest Atlassian outage"

snark42 — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:56:03 +0000

I would assume the MSP is running a dedicated instance and can do a full/backup restore just for the user they're supporting.

If it's some multi-tenant solution it's no better.

New comment by snark42 in "Inside the longest Atlassian outage"

snark42 — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:55:00 +0000

> but I don't understand why a medium/large business would choose anything but an on-premises setup.

Atlassian is in the process of killing the on-premise small/medium business option, already announced an EOL date.

Move to the cloud, buy a 500+ user solution for a much higher price or migrate away are my choices. Of course I use the local database and have local services JIRA/Confluence talk to so it's not really an option to move to the cloud.

I assume lack of competent on-site staff 24/7, having someone else to blame as well as lower costs are why people choose the cloud over on-premise though.