Hacker News: the_trapper

New comment by the_trapper in "CGI with Awk on OpenBSD Httpd (2020)"

the_trapper — Tue, 04 May 2021 14:03:29 +0000

The author actually has it right due to OpenBSD's httpd running in a chroot of /var/www.

Edit: nevermind, you're right, just checked it again and the author put the copied awk under /usr/bin inside the chroot

New comment by the_trapper in "AI-powered cameras become new tool against mass shootings"

the_trapper — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 13:00:56 +0000

Insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have held up pretty well against the US military over all. Pervasive gun ownership in these countries prior to our involvement is a major part of this equation. I think a militia uprising in the US would fare even better because a substantial number of the members of said militia would have been trained by that very military they are fighting. I also believe that a substantial number of the National Guard units would be loyal to their state instead of a tyrannical federal government.

Let's also not forget that our country got its start by a scrappy group of farmers and tradesmen armed only with muskets and flintlock pistols that defeated the greatest world power at the time.

New comment by the_trapper in "AI-powered cameras become new tool against mass shootings"

the_trapper — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 02:06:23 +0000

I'm waiting for a politician to pass legislation requiring us to have the telescreens from 1984.

We already have thought crimes, I mean red flag laws and no fly lists.

People need to stop giving up their liberty and privacy for perceived safety.

You're much more likely to be killed by an automobile than a mass shooting. This is the new flavor of scare tactic.

New comment by the_trapper in "The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever"

the_trapper — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 18:00:53 +0000

The problem with property taxes as they are usually implemented is that they put a very high burden on farmers and are often passed on directly to renters by their landlords.

New comment by the_trapper in "VMware Workstation and Hyper-V – Working Together"

the_trapper — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:28:21 +0000

Why would they do that? Why would they care which hypervisor/VM solution you use?

New comment by the_trapper in "IBM Open-Sources Power Chip Instruction Set"

the_trapper — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:09:33 +0000

Interesting move by IBM.

New comment by the_trapper in "Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team"

the_trapper — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 23:53:15 +0000

For this reason I would never trust my livelihood with the Play Store. Beer money, yes, paying my bills, hell no.

New comment by the_trapper in "“Bicycle of the Mind”"

the_trapper — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 21:33:23 +0000

Also every release of the .NET framework to my knowledge ships with the "csc.exe" and "vbc.exe" compilers. So C# and Visual Basic.NET are available out of the box with modern versions of Windows as well. No IDE support, but you could whip up quick hello worlds with notepad without breaking a sweat.

New comment by the_trapper in "Windows or Chromebook? A Best Buy salesman told me it isn't even close"

the_trapper — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 20:41:26 +0000

Is Bill Nye's opinion relevant in this either?

New comment by the_trapper in "Senators demand Google make contractors full-time employees after 6 months"

the_trapper — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 23:23:10 +0000

This is rich, considering just how reliant Federal Government agencies like the Department of Defense are on contractors.

New comment by the_trapper in "Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model"

the_trapper — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 02:59:30 +0000

To continue this analogy. When I go to a restaurant and order a steak I don't get told by the waiter that I should really be eating vegan gluten free instead.

What really bothers me the most about modern "news" is that a lot of it is really just biased political commentary and editorials masquerading as news.

New comment by the_trapper in "A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud Hyperbole"

the_trapper — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 21:24:21 +0000

What concerns me about the Red Hat acquisition is just how much of what we consider "Linux" is developed and controlled by Red Hat employees. Look at things like Gnome, PulseAudio, and systemd. Canonical and other Linux companies very rarely have this kind of impact across the entire ecosystem.

New comment by the_trapper in "Microsoft Word for Android has been installed more than 1B times"

the_trapper — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 20:18:27 +0000

I'm not saying that just doing word processing on my phone is incredible. Microsoft Word is one of the most powerful word processors and I just find it incredible how many features from the traditional desktop version are supported on a mobile device.

New comment by the_trapper in "Microsoft Word for Android has been installed more than 1B times"

the_trapper — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 17:51:45 +0000

I find all of the negativity related to this very strange. Microsoft Word on Android is incredible (and the other MS Office apps for that matter). The ability to not only view, but even edit documents on my phone has come in handy many times. Google Docs is good for what it is, but it is not 100% compatible, and round tripping documents that contain complex formatting is risky.

Overall Microsoft's Android apps are of very high quality. I'm pretty certain that these 1 billion installs are not just bundling deals. The vast majority of businesses and governments rely upon Microsoft Office, so is it really that surprising that employees of these organizations would install these apps on their mobile devices?

New comment by the_trapper in "Windows 10 Calculator is now running on WebAssembly, natively on iOS and Android"

the_trapper — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 22:59:12 +0000

This is pretty incredible work.

I'm curious to hear how well Platform Uno works in practice with real world projects. The demos are quite impressive.

I always thought that UWP was a much nicer platform to develop for than Android. It's a shame that Microsoft's mismanagement pretty much killed Windows Mobile as a viable platform.

New comment by the_trapper in "Use of Bitcoin causes around 22 megatons in CO2 emissions annually"

the_trapper — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:14:55 +0000

Between the environmental impact mentioned here and the meteoric rise of ransomware that crypto currency has caused, I have a hard time believing that it is a net positive overall.

New comment by the_trapper in "An update on Python-for-android: v2019.06.06 released and future plans"

the_trapper — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 23:46:30 +0000

The problem is that the Android SDK is a Rube Goldberg machine full of layers of over engineered complexity. It does not work well with anything other than Kotlin, Java, and to a much lesser extent C++. Even other JVM languages have a hard time working properly on Android.

New comment by the_trapper in "Audit suggests Google favors a small number of major news outlets"

the_trapper — Mon, 13 May 2019 15:34:26 +0000

In their defense the vast majority of mainstream media in the United States is left wing biased. Fox news is pretty much the only major right wing counter balance.

New comment by the_trapper in "Google is starting to reveal the secrets of its experimental Fuchsia OS"

the_trapper — Fri, 10 May 2019 17:05:44 +0000

I think it's much simpler than that. The reason why Android updates are so broken compared to iOS and Windows is the lack of a stable driver ABI. Fuschia would fix that.

New comment by the_trapper in "Epic Games Is Acquiring Psyonix"

the_trapper — Wed, 01 May 2019 21:03:12 +0000

I will stop playing this game if I have to make an Epic account. Their security is a joke. Some Russian made a fake account using my email address without Epic ever actually verifying that the email address they used belonged to the individual that made the account.