Hacker News: swixmix

New comment by swixmix in "A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years"

swixmix — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:18:28 +0000

For extra clarity:

> Nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers are powered by onboard nuclear reactors. Atoms in the nuclear reactor split, which releases energy as heat. This heat is used to create high-pressured steam. The steam turns propulsion turbines that provide the power to turn the propeller. Additional turbines also make electricity for the ship. As the steam cools and condenses back into water, the water is directed back through the system, and the process starts again.

https://www.epa.gov/radtown/nuclear-submarines-and-aircraft-....

New comment by swixmix in "Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts"

swixmix — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:14:40 +0000

And receiving email at your own server is trivial.

New comment by swixmix in "ARRL hails FCC action to remove symbol rate restrictions"

swixmix — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 00:48:22 +0000

There is no restriction on encryption, just a restriction to not obscure the meaning.

See (PDF) https://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/Data%20Encrypti...

New comment by swixmix in "Unpacking Elixir: Real-Time and Latency"

swixmix — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 02:54:02 +0000

"Elixir compiles into BEAM byte code (via Erlang Abstract Format). This means that Elixir code can be called from Erlang and vice versa, without the need to write any bindings. All Elixir modules start with the Elixir. prefix followed by the regular Elixir name."

From https://elixir-lang.org/crash-course.html "Erlang/Elixir Syntax: A Crash Course"

New comment by swixmix in "Johannesburg: Video captures moment suspected gas explosion threw buses into air"

swixmix — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:34:17 +0000

You could become a volunteer EMT.

New comment by swixmix in "Thousands of early-career NIH researchers forming union for first time"

swixmix — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 16:35:52 +0000

> Ultimately, unions' power comes from the threat of striking.

The power comes from the NLRA, a federal law, which is enforced by the NLRB, a federal agency. It’s about agreeing to and enforcing a contract between the workers and the employer.

Whether or not to strike then becomes a part of contract negotiation.

New comment by swixmix in "Random bit-flip invalidates certificate transparency log – again?"

swixmix — Wed, 10 May 2023 06:47:32 +0000

an append-only log became non-writable earlier than expected

New comment by swixmix in "Are sockets the wave of the future? (1990)"

swixmix — Tue, 09 May 2023 05:40:15 +0000

An implementation of auth is identd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident_protocol

It is a way for the server to verify which username initiated a connection from the client by connecting back to the client on a privileged port and ask, referencing the local and remote port of the target connection.

New comment by swixmix in "Engineers develop water filtration that removes “forever chemicals”"

swixmix — Mon, 01 May 2023 01:13:16 +0000

"phlebotomy [...] A procedure in which a needle is used to take blood from a vein, usually for laboratory testing. Phlebotomy may also be done to remove extra red blood cells from the blood, to treat certain blood disorders. Also called blood draw and venipuncture."

https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-term...

New comment by swixmix in "Thomas Midgley Jr. invented leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons"

swixmix — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 08:07:22 +0000

Polio was absolutely terrible for those who had it. I wouldn’t blame him for having it. Or for ending it. However, for other reasons, I agree with you.

http://acshist.scs.illinois.edu/bulletin_open_access/v31-2/v...

New comment by swixmix in "Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide"

swixmix — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 04:43:24 +0000

The government incentives were based on employees.

New comment by swixmix in "Ask HN: What “special” app you are using?"

swixmix — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 11:02:19 +0000

Many gauges are typically designed to work best in the center 50% of their range.

New comment by swixmix in "OpenSMTPD"

swixmix — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 15:34:02 +0000

Or try https://openports.se/mail/opensmtpd-filters/dkimsign

And it has support for ed25519.

New comment by swixmix in "OpenSMTPD"

swixmix — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 15:08:49 +0000

OpenSMTPD is the right answer if you want a general purpose mail server [1] that is secure by default. [2]

[1]: https://poolp.org/posts/2021-01-31/january-2021-opensmtpd-li...

[2]: https://www.openbsd.org/security.html

New comment by swixmix in "Oxygen Candles: Providing Emergency Air"

swixmix — Tue, 10 May 2022 07:00:53 +0000

Oxygen candles smell bad. I would never want to use one except in an emergency situation. No scrubber necessary if I’m just evacuation.

New comment by swixmix in "Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email?"

swixmix — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:16:54 +0000

I also self host but on a VPS. Incoming mail works great. Outgoing mail not so much unless I send it to a trusted third party SMTP server. No outgoing mail fees if low traffic. Might be an option to consider while building up reputation?

New comment by swixmix in "The economics of pumpkin patches"

swixmix — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:03:22 +0000

A pumpkin size detector is also known as an eyeball.

New comment by swixmix in "The economics of pumpkin patches"

swixmix — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 17:00:52 +0000

I’ve sold pumpkins on a farm before. It’s a social experience where you pay for the pumpkin “ticket” at the end.

Whole families dress up for the experience. People love being in a pumpkin patch and searching for their favorite pumpkin. They love doing it with their family. They enjoy the risk of wheeling them and guessing how much they weigh.

And the farm makes more money when they grow heavier pumpkins.

This isn’t an activity to be taken so seriously.

Scales and measurement aren’t really necessary. I could eyeball and wobble a pumpkin very quickly and give a fair price. But then I am having all the fun, not the customer.

Put the tech into making it a better experience!

Oh is that tractor pulling a wagon? Got to go!

New comment by swixmix in "The economics of pumpkin patches"

swixmix — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 16:26:35 +0000

How do we know what the environment wants? When we are saving it, it’s from our perspective. We are saving our environment. There are plenty of pests that don’t like what we’re up to.

We are important. :)

New comment by swixmix in "For a legally blind player, Far Cry 6’s accessibility options are empowering"

swixmix — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 14:36:35 +0000

Here's an example of legally blind...

  Higher Standard Deduction for Blindness
  ...
  1. You can't see better than 20/200 in the
     better eye with glasses or contact lenses, or
  2. Your field of vision is 20 degrees or less.

See https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p501.pdf

I believe 20/200 means you can read only the top letter, E, on vision charts.