Hacker News: stjohnswarts

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Google's TOS doesn't eliminate a user's Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf]"

stjohnswarts — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:10:31 +0000

they should as a matter of course. but I guess "papers" you entrust to someone else are a gray area. I personally think that it goes against the separation of police state and democracy, but I'm a nobody, so it doesn't matter I suppose.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

stjohnswarts — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:00:21 +0000

yeah I'm fine with just an ultra wide, no more stacked monitors for me

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Avoidance of sun exposure as a risk factor for major causes of death (2016)"

stjohnswarts — Mon, 20 May 2024 09:10:26 +0000

Seems kind of like a no brainer given what we know about skin cancer, but I'm kind of surprised if you control for that if it had any other great "opportunity" to increase your lifespan when you control for obvious ones like exercise, diet, and controlling stress. I'm not a big outside lover, but I do take a daily walk to hopefully get bit of vitamin D from it. I mostly exercise indoors and my hobbies are almost all indoors.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years"

stjohnswarts — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:55:20 +0000

this could definitely open me back up to android. I got tired of my device becoming hacker friendly and went over to iphone after my perfectly useful android device was outside of feature/security updates. I didn't want to install another OS android or root my device, I just want to use it and stick it back in my pocket. I will definitely look at samsung again with my next mobile "era" when my iphone dies/is too slow.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack"

stjohnswarts — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:36:00 +0000

those don't mean much with out at least a "out of X planes from manufacturer Y"

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Japan ANA Boeing 737-800 flight turns back due to cockpit window crack"

stjohnswarts — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:34:50 +0000

yeah anything to get them to start being an engineering company again instead of a "let's squeeze all we can out of this profit center and not listen to our engineers"

New comment by stjohnswarts in "95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa"

stjohnswarts — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 14:07:05 +0000

This is incorrect. Israel is at war with Hamas and they aren't holding back, and there is a large difference between what is going on and genocide. If Israel wanted to commit genocide then the entirety of Gaza would be leveled and 99% of the people dead indiscriminately. There are different levels of warfare.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections"

stjohnswarts — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:40:49 +0000

In some cases (some spark plugs are what I can think of) explicitly tell you NOT to grease them, as that will let you over-torque them and potentially damage threads (aluminum heads, steel plugs). So using grease is not always the recommended procedure.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections"

stjohnswarts — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 12:37:45 +0000

Did you torque every bolt every time before every flight?

New comment by stjohnswarts in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

stjohnswarts — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:38:14 +0000

Being a fat guy, I disregard that during flight other than takeoff, landing, and turbulence. I drive to work on most days, and the chance that I die that way is FAR, FAR higher than the few flights I take each year. I'll live with the odds. Yes, I wear my seat belt in my car, it's actually comfortable

New comment by stjohnswarts in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

stjohnswarts — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:35:28 +0000

That isn't going to happen, they are too many out there and they have too much money invested. It would take FAA action (or European I suppose)

New comment by stjohnswarts in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

stjohnswarts — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:33:13 +0000

Didn't it look like Brazilian government was almost 100% gonna have it called off because of the "hit" to national reputation? (losing one of their largest and most internationally famous powerhouses)

New comment by stjohnswarts in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

stjohnswarts — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:22:17 +0000

what? The death penalty is still around.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

stjohnswarts — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 02:19:28 +0000

Fixing known problems as you learn of them is maintenance is it not? That's just as important as changing out the lubricants and checking that the working parts are working.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Age verification is incompatible with the internet"

stjohnswarts — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:40:25 +0000

Sounds like fascism to me. More like what N. Korea does, you'd think that S. Korea would be averse to adding more fascism to their lives rather than less.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Age verification is incompatible with the internet"

stjohnswarts — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:38:48 +0000

Where does it stop next? Government telling us that we can't have our small piece of chocolate until we eat all our veggies and Mediterranean menu diet guide?

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Age verification is incompatible with the internet"

stjohnswarts — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:37:32 +0000

The adult sites will simply move offshore where the country trying to stop the flow of information doesn't have jurisdictions. It's whack-a-mole. The only solution is that parents control their kids, install nanny software, and teach them what is age appropriate. I chose to skip all that but supposedly I'm supposed to just accept that they are taking more of my freedom away and expect me to turn my ID over to random internet companies and trust that they'll "do the right thing"

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Age verification is incompatible with the internet"

stjohnswarts — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 01:34:02 +0000

It's up to parents to lock down their kids from tech they shouldn't be accessing, the rest of us shouldn't be harassed and inconvenienced for that. I hate to beat a dead horse, but it comes down to personal responsibility, "what are your kids doing right now?"

New comment by stjohnswarts in "Everything will be alright in Iceland"

stjohnswarts — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:26:19 +0000

I hear it more than anything about Biden. I personally think that it's an easy way to be racist without being pinned down on it because of the out that he was also a President.

New comment by stjohnswarts in "U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple"

stjohnswarts — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:29:04 +0000

If they would have allowed alternate web engines and excluded google then google could have easily sued the crap out of them. As it stands they can viably say it's for OS integrity and security by forcing everyone to use the say "guts"