Hacker News: soggybread

New comment by soggybread in "Surface Laptop Ultra"

soggybread — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:49:01 +0000

You're likely thinking of a Piezo fan or solid state fan. It uses a thin membrane that vibrates and moves air though small spaces. Frore Systems had their Airjet Mini make the rounds in reviews and demos a couple years ago (2?).

New comment by soggybread in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

soggybread — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:17:46 +0000

Honestly the only thing keeping me from bringing up the idea of moving to linux is that Windows has active directory and domain wide group policies - if linux had something similar that was easy to manage I'm sure a lot more corporations would move to linux. The ease at which I can adjust system settings throughout the company or within each department such as disabling/enabling features, mapping drives or printers. I haven't found a better alternative than active directory

New comment by soggybread in "Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab"

soggybread — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:14:45 +0000

What part of this would be illegal? It's just a zigbee door sensor. The only issue I could see is the college getting upset but if anything they'd just say 'take it down'

New comment by soggybread in "Employees who stay in companies longer than two years get paid 50% less (2014)"

soggybread — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:20:53 +0000

I can't imagine it would be too much, depending on how it's worded it could show that the applicant has a 'wide range of experience'. Plus I kind of wonder if HR would already take that into account, it's not just software engineers and salespeople doing it, it's everyone, HR and Execs included

New comment by soggybread in "TORAX is a differentiable tokamak core transport simulator"

soggybread — Fri, 03 May 2024 20:45:20 +0000

Here's an archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220217012159/https://www.wired...

New comment by soggybread in ""Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks"

soggybread — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:27:02 +0000

>For example should non-residents not be allowed to purchase vacation properties and lease them?

AirB&B has been a terrible experience, so many people buying up houses just to lease them out for a weekend has definitely contributed to rising housing costs and over-all cost of living

New comment by soggybread in "Americans don't believe middle class can afford homes"

soggybread — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:22:27 +0000

I've been saving up for the past 8 years and have got a pretty decent deposit built up but the costs of houses in my area are just so expensive that the deposit barely makes a scratch in the overall mortgage costs and I wouldn't be able to afford the mortgage, seems like the more I save up the higher the housing prices go. It absolutely amazes (and infuriates) me that some of the houses I see going for 400-500k now went for 150-200k 10 years ago.

New comment by soggybread in "VMware Kills Off 56 Products"

soggybread — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:50:49 +0000

a lot of it is vcenter/vsan/vrealize so pretty big stuff. That being said, they aren't killing it off just killing off the perpetual ownership of those products when you buy a license, now it's subscription based

New comment by soggybread in "Cloudflare Gen 12 Server: Bigger, Better, Cooler in a 2U1N Form Factor"

soggybread — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:10:09 +0000

You're right and while it might take up valuable rack space I would imagine there are some rack-based solutions that have most of the stuff included so that you don't have to rely on the dc providing it, pretty sure ServeTheHome has done a couple reports on them

New comment by soggybread in "Cloudflare Gen 12 Server: Bigger, Better, Cooler in a 2U1N Form Factor"

soggybread — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:58:18 +0000

I'm surprised. They mention that cooling is only going to get worse and that fans consume a lot of power, should liquid cooling not be something to look at? Maybe they did and found it either unnecessary or improbable to do at a colo depending on how many servers they have at the data center it might not be worthwhile but if they have 10 or 20 servers surely it would be worth while no?

New comment by soggybread in "Global CO2 Levels"

soggybread — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:46:57 +0000

Even better it seems to spike in May almost every year. I didn't see if it mentioned where these measurements were taken but typically July/August are the hottest months so if it was AC, we should see the spike in those two months, no?

New comment by soggybread in "Why is text of sumissions in low-contrast grey on HN?"

soggybread — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 13:11:56 +0000

I second that. Didn't even realize I could do that, just copied

news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(95%) hue-rotate(200deg); background: white)

into My Filters section, refreshed the page and it worked. It's so simple.

New comment by soggybread in "Scientists unveil fire-safe fuel"

soggybread — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:42:28 +0000

Youtube reccomended one of their videos and they are really well done with layman's explanations of everything and CG re-enactments, video evidence, and report evidence. They set a high bar for investigation videos

New comment by soggybread in "Ask HN: Where to find open-source house plans?"

soggybread — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 11:51:33 +0000

Sorry, tech support can't help with that, you'll need to call pest control

New comment by soggybread in "Owner of hydrogen-powered Hyundai quoted $175,000 to replace fuel cell"

soggybread — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:01:46 +0000

It likely uses liquid hydrogen for fuel which can be difficult to come by as there aren't a lot of fuel stations that have that available. I found this video interesting and informative and it goes over some of the pros and cons of owning a hydrogen powered car - https://youtu.be/rtZQLUtckS4

New comment by soggybread in "Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office"

soggybread — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:31:37 +0000

Being a level-1 helpdesk tech I never got to work from home as my job requires hands on work with servers, swapping drives, plugging in cables, etc. I haven't seen my coworker in 3 years though. We like to joke that he finally ditched the buzz cut and grew it out like Fabio

New comment by soggybread in "Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society”"

soggybread — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:54:57 +0000

It's gotten to the point where I feel like I'm being greedy driving my little '09 eco hatchback instead of my motorcycle and how much weight a subsequent fuel is being carried around and burnt to move me through the town on my way to work. 2800lbs vs 366lbs

New comment by soggybread in "Intermittent fasting is as effective as counting calories, new study finds"

soggybread — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:20:05 +0000

I've been mostly doing this, I typically skip breakfast and lunch and eat dinner with my family. The first week or so I was really hungry between meals but it's not so bad anymore. When I get a craving a sip of water usually helps and I like to chew gum to help as well. The weight isn't falling off but I was losing about a pound a week. It's slowed down a bit to maybe a pound every two weeks but at the same time, I'm keeping a consistent weight without having to go to the gym and only walking about 3 miles (sometimes more) a day

New comment by soggybread in "Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments"

soggybread — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:27:13 +0000

I wonder if this includes content that was removed for violating terms and conditions like threats, doxxed info, images. If so, there might be some legal issues that arise from this no?

New comment by soggybread in "Raspberry Pi production rate rising to a million a month"

soggybread — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 12:32:19 +0000

jesus, you're right.

RaspberryPI>"We hired a former cop who used our SBCs to spy on people"

Everyone> "That's concerning"

RaspberryPI> "Do you want to block us or should we block you?"