Hacker News: thirsteh

New comment by thirsteh in "South Korea's biggest telco says 5G has failed to deliver"

thirsteh — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:15:51 +0000

For everything to become incredibly amazing. 5G was more pumped than AI, especially in Europe. For some reason people kept mentioning robo-surgery as a use case...

New comment by thirsteh in "Windows 96"

thirsteh — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:00:05 +0000

wow went to package manager, installed Half-Life Uplink, and it's playable..

and a Windows 95 emulator! lol

New comment by thirsteh in "Pharo 9"

thirsteh — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:40:38 +0000

Great talk by deech on Pharo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w

New comment by thirsteh in "Software Developer Shortage Is Coming"

thirsteh — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 16:46:40 +0000

"Glorified auto mechanic" is exactly how I'd describe how software development is viewed in Europe. There is a much bigger emphasis on "just" buying software from Microsoft and SAP to "solve" problems.

New comment by thirsteh in "Ask HN: Post Burnout Ideas"

thirsteh — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 06:06:50 +0000

Picking up other hobbies got me back into software side projects but not as an end in themselves as they used to be (and I'm pretty tired of "learning" new tech at this point -- it's just the same things over and over and over again, usually with even more complexity); rather, I feel compelled to write little pieces of software that vastly improve my experience of the new, interesting hobbies.

Avoid competitiveness and "getting ahead" -- pursue mastery the same way a zen gardener does. It's very enjoyable to be good at useless things.

New comment by thirsteh in "Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal"

thirsteh — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 22:07:31 +0000

Yeah, there are not many moving parts now. It messed with read heads in HDDs as well as CRT monitors.

I still get nervous if there are magnets around cause I don't know how they work.

New comment by thirsteh in "Cloudera taken private for $5.3B, acquires Datacoral and Cazena"

thirsteh — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 18:30:17 +0000

Serious question: Has PE M&A ever led to an improved product?

(Maybe that's just a stupid rather than a serious question)

New comment by thirsteh in "Sign a PDF document client-side with no data leaving the computer"

thirsteh — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 04:31:31 +0000

This is for signing a document with a "hand" signature, not cryptographically signing it with a cryptographic signature. Besides, if you don't trust in-browser JS then you shouldn't trust any site on the web, e.g. online banking.

That this is running completely locally without any software to install is pretty useful and cool. Your criticism isn't great (IMO borders on concern-trolling) because the alternative is something where the docs go to some centralized SaaS that store everything including your signature for an unknown period of time.

New comment by thirsteh in "It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency"

thirsteh — Mon, 31 May 2021 00:17:43 +0000

This battle has been lost my friend. The new cyber and crypto are here to stay :)

New comment by thirsteh in "It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency"

thirsteh — Mon, 31 May 2021 00:12:58 +0000

Yield farming carries a similar or greater risk to investing in stocks and sector ETFs, and that is certainly not what retail banks do with customer funds (that was outlawed by the Volcker Rule in Dodd-Frank), nor is retail banking how investment banks make money. Nevermind that there obviously is no FDIC insurance for these crypto "savings accounts".

You're asking good questions, but be careful not to jump to easy answers -- you might lose your money!

New comment by thirsteh in "GitHub's Web Component Collection"

thirsteh — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:46:31 +0000

I suppose it makes sense if you're issuing semantically versioned releases of each module and you want the GitHub releases to match, but the trend of turning everything into its own module until there's nothing left can be very frustrating. This seems very common in JavaScript and Rust.

Rust at least compensates for it in its generated docs. PureScript OTOH... Sometimes modules are literally just one type or one function, and the docs don't consolidate them. Whyyyyyyyy.

New comment by thirsteh in "Goodbye Marco"

thirsteh — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:12:56 +0000

It's not even technically accurate. At the very least it's a draw :)

New comment by thirsteh in "Go in Go"

thirsteh — Wed, 27 May 2015 04:25:00 +0000

https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present

New comment by thirsteh in "Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange in Plain English"

thirsteh — Sat, 23 May 2015 23:12:10 +0000

https://youtu.be/6NcDVERzMGw?t=165

New comment by thirsteh in "Interoperable Telesurgery Protocol Plaintext Unauthenticated MitM Hijacking"

thirsteh — Fri, 22 May 2015 16:05:56 +0000

You must not have gotten the memo: Google exposed some of their corporate systems to everyone, therefore VPNs are now useless and have always been useless.

New comment by thirsteh in "PayPal penalised for 'deceptive' practices"

thirsteh — Wed, 20 May 2015 15:37:14 +0000

So how do you like the PayPal campus?

;)

New comment by thirsteh in "How World of Warcraft led to Glassdoor"

thirsteh — Mon, 11 May 2015 14:14:48 +0000

Generally, there's a good chance that most of these kinds of "Wtf?" logic errors are on the part of the journalist, not the person being interviewed. In the U.S, journalists don't send drafts over for comments, and rarely change published material, so there's little opportunity to get misleading stuff corrected.

New comment by thirsteh in "How I Got Converted to G.M.O. Food"

thirsteh — Sat, 09 May 2015 17:50:09 +0000

Chipotle's "No more GMO food" announcement was the worst "great news" I'd heard in a long time. It was clearly just for PR and nothing else. It's good to see some sanity--this obsession with "clean/pristine nature" which has no rational basis has to stop.

New comment by thirsteh in "Mass Incarceration: The Silence of the Judges"

thirsteh — Mon, 04 May 2015 22:42:06 +0000

Why use Gitmo as an example when there are plenty of other areas where you can bash Obama, like continuing many of the Executive Order programs? At least he genuinely tried to shut down Gitmo and was blocked from doing so.

I think believing a single person/president/whatever can fix all problems is wishful thinking, and indeed a system in which that was possible would likely not be a democracy.

Start by blaming all the representatives who pushed for or voted against ending the programs you don't like, and voting accordingly. Look at the voting histories of candidates rather than what they say. Look at who funds the candidates , not at what the candidates say. Actually, listen to everything other than what candidates say during election season; the game is set up in such a way that you will always be disappointed if you simply believe what is said, no matter the candidate.

New comment by thirsteh in "The ultimate OpenBSD router"

thirsteh — Mon, 04 May 2015 06:15:04 +0000

It turns out a lot of the processing is offloaded to proprietary drivers on the EdgeRouter board. It's great for running their stock firmware, but not so great running OpenBSD. Ended up going with the new PC Engines apu1d4 board (http://www.pcengines.ch/apu.htm) rather than a Soekris. I believe it's the best of the options for an OpenBSD router.