Hacker News: throw3838

New comment by throw3838 in "An enhancement request I submitted to Bugzilla 15 years ago was just closed"

throw3838 — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:42:04 +0000

Some active bugs on my github repo are 9 years old. Pretty common with long lived OS projects.

New comment by throw3838 in "Ukraine Conflict Live Map"

throw3838 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:55:19 +0000

Not really. Maidan would never happen if Ukraine had nukes.

New comment by throw3838 in "I have no capslock and I must scream"

throw3838 — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 23:03:13 +0000

I use it for drop down terminal, pretty useful.

New comment by throw3838 in "Americans Will Need to Register to Travel to Europe in 2023"

throw3838 — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 07:34:45 +0000

Yes, but if US ever finds out, it could get pretty nasty. US entry ban is pretty limiting career move for programmer.

New comment by throw3838 in "Americans Will Need to Register to Travel to Europe in 2023"

throw3838 — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 06:54:56 +0000

Seems fair. I am EU citizen, can go to US visa free, but ESTA is required. It should be the same from the other side.

And US limits countries I can visit. Iran is great holiday destination, but after visit I would need US visa.

New comment by throw3838 in "Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war"

throw3838 — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 15:12:13 +0000

I read crazy theory conspiracy this is about destabilising EU and our energy policy. US can not put sanctions on closest allies directly (NS2), so there has to be war. Just crazy conspiracy theory though...

New comment by throw3838 in "Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline"

throw3838 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:20:45 +0000

Or just install opensource ROM without this stuff.

New comment by throw3838 in "Why are young people having so little sex? (2018)"

throw3838 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:42:13 +0000

To enjoy sex, or to even have a sex drive, you have to be fit. Maybe it is obesity.

New comment by throw3838 in "Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared"

throw3838 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:39:57 +0000

Well, bitcoin mining is not going to be here forever. It could be time limited thing.

And knowing Montana, it is difficult to get electricity connection there.

New comment by throw3838 in "Bitcoin miners revived a dying fossil fuel plant – then CO2 emissions soared"

throw3838 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:08:46 +0000

They recycled old power plant. That is a huge CO2 offset, building new plant would had huge emmisions.

New comment by throw3838 in "“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about research or merit.”"

throw3838 — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:20:53 +0000

》I was the only Hispanic faculty at my department, had 13k+ citations, 2 books, & papers in Nature, Science, & PNAS

Author complains about merit, but list his race BEFORE his credentials.

New comment by throw3838 in "Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity"

throw3838 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:14:11 +0000

How exactly this is clever? Maybe on some toy, not on workstation!

New comment by throw3838 in "Cryptocurrencies – An Assessment by Reserve Bank of India"

throw3838 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:11:24 +0000

Blockchain does not make banking obsolete. We can already do business by moving raw currency around, but hardly anyone does that. There is a whole crypt banking sector that provides exchanges, custody, lending...

And if you take inflation overhead, consumed by miners and other services to keep BTC or ETH running (5% to 10% annually), there is not much advantage over existing banking.

New comment by throw3838 in "LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly"

throw3838 — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:06:28 +0000

Not from OS, it uses opensource library.

New comment by throw3838 in "Why introverts excelled at working from home"

throw3838 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:46:52 +0000

Person does not get the attention it needs, so it must mean other person is angry...

New comment by throw3838 in "Why introverts excelled at working from home"

throw3838 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:45:47 +0000

Is there something wrong about being small and insecure?

Extroverts are not uber or lesser, they are not even different, they are just people. My social obligation to my work colleagues ends at remembering their names! I do not even care if they are intro or extroverts.

New comment by throw3838 in "Ask HN: Should we own the free stuff we pay for?"

throw3838 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:37:09 +0000

And as always it will backfire on users!

Now it is impossible to find unlimited rentals, every contract has yearly extensions! In some countries landlords even rotate tenants every two years, else they would get extra rights from long stay.

New comment by throw3838 in "Why introverts excelled at working from home"

throw3838 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:31:55 +0000

Excelled? Maybe we are not miserable people who need constant support from others. We really do not care about your family situation or hobbies. It is easy to do productive work, when you do not have to be unpaid therapist for your work colleagues!

New comment by throw3838 in "Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums (2020)"

throw3838 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:15:00 +0000

I gave up on Web long time ago, too much shallow garbage. Books are much better.

New comment by throw3838 in "NFT marketplace shuts, citing 'rampant' fakes, plagiarism problem"

throw3838 — Sat, 12 Feb 2022 12:16:32 +0000

NFT are really just used for tax evasion and money laundering, similar to physical art scene. There is not real NFT market!