Hacker News: thspimpolds

New comment by thspimpolds in "Tinygrad"

thspimpolds — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:54:30 +0000

Having gone to college and knowing this guy personally from then, you would have a much different opinion... Maybe he has grown up, but back then... yeeesh

New comment by thspimpolds in "U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy"

thspimpolds — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 13:44:16 +0000

Phew, I was wondering when they closed the sale. I swear I would have remembered that

New comment by thspimpolds in "Train Wheels Are Cones"

thspimpolds — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 17:43:23 +0000

They are also pressure fitted onto the axles. They are not bolted or otherwise fixed. The only thing which keeps them on the train is friction and the rail itself.

I was on a commuter train which derailed because it LOST a wheel. I don't understand why they aren't at least locked in mechanically. That wheel went rolling at 80MPH and blasted straight through trees near the tracks.

New comment by thspimpolds in "Tesla Project Dojo Overview"

thspimpolds — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 12:40:27 +0000

How ironic... James is VP and DE at AWS...

New comment by thspimpolds in "Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building"

thspimpolds — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:07:34 +0000

The "gas" is more like a fog of capsules. FM-200 is a common one. Basically it has a Fire suppression agent inside crystals which are blasted into the room by compressed air. These crystals melt when they get over a certain temperature and therefore won't kill you; however, breathing that in isn't really pleasant.

Source: I've been in an FM-200 discharge

New comment by thspimpolds in "AWS CloudShell"

thspimpolds — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:51:12 +0000

At least with Azure the new Windows Terminal App has Azure Cloud Shell in it. So you can use it like it was just a different session target and less fuss...

New comment by thspimpolds in "Arecibo Observatory Collapsed"

thspimpolds — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:40:25 +0000

the NSF confirmed the cables failed sometime over night, this wasn't the planned decommissioning. They noticed with drone flights the cable exteriors which remained on tower 4 were showing pre-failure conditions over the past few days.

New comment by thspimpolds in "Arecibo Observatory Collapsed"

thspimpolds — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 13:22:11 +0000

As sad as this is, I'm glad the NSF didn't try to repair it now. There could have been people on the platform when it gave way.

New comment by thspimpolds in "Romain Grosjean walked away from F1’s scariest crash in decades"

thspimpolds — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 19:57:00 +0000

It caught his nose between one of the ribbons of rail. That caused his car to pierce the barrier instead of having its energy dissipated.

Also there is a theory that the pole holding up the rails didnt shear off at all and thats why the car got snapped in half.

New comment by thspimpolds in "4000° Plasma Lightsaber Build (Retractable Blade) [video]"

thspimpolds — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:29:00 +0000

Which in this case is tomorrow. The original video was posted last week

New comment by thspimpolds in "Chef to be acquired by Progress"

thspimpolds — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:06:17 +0000

I actually miss using Razor. That was the best Pxeboot based system I have run into

New comment by thspimpolds in "Secret Landscape: America's cold war infrastructure"

thspimpolds — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:51:29 +0000

If you liked the stuff here, I would highly encourage you to read this: https://www.amazon.com/Raven-Rock-Governments-Secret-Itself-...

It's very well written and lots of pictures (half the book)

New comment by thspimpolds in "Decision for 2020-21 Academic Year"

thspimpolds — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 17:21:01 +0000

The average student at Harvard doesn't pay even close to actual tuition, most of the endowment is earmarked for student aid.

If I remember right, something like under 90k earned by the student's family, they pay nothing. I haven't worked there in 2 years, so the math is a bit fuzzy but the concepts are accurate.

New comment by thspimpolds in "AWS Ground Station"

thspimpolds — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:52:44 +0000

That would not be done on Ground Station, at least in standard regions. Once you hit that level, you are into at least the Gov region.

That being said, those agencies already have huge ground stations at their disposal run by NASA and other "groups". They don't need this service, they would ingest them over NIPRNet or SIPRNet directly into AWS Gov or AWS Gov Secret for processing.

New comment by thspimpolds in "How 2 M.T.A. Decisions Pushed the Subway into Crisis"

thspimpolds — Wed, 09 May 2018 20:24:16 +0000

Montreal is on tires which gives a predictable stop, it’s not metal on metal which varies based on atmospherics

New comment by thspimpolds in "Ask HN: Weirdest hack that you ever saw in production?"

thspimpolds — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 17:12:17 +0000

Similar but inverse to this, I was fixing a critical server and it usually came up in a minute or less. 5 minutes later I get concerned, I walk into the server room and it’s still trying to boot. I scratch my head and see a usb keyboard attached.... with a screwdriver sitting on my space bar.

Yup, I IRQ-DOSS’ed myself.

New comment by thspimpolds in "Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1B Deal"

thspimpolds — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:42:36 +0000

NZ was the Fuji Xerox partnership. Fuji ran that from all accounts. I worked in the Developing Markets Org at Xerox (proper), Asia Pacific was its own silo and they did their own thing. It’s one of the areas I didn’t work with, others were Western Europe, Russia, and Canada. Pretty much everything else, I knew all the marketing people for the countries.

New comment by thspimpolds in "Fujifilm to take over Xerox in $6.1B Deal"

thspimpolds — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:39:20 +0000

This is pretty accurate. I mean, I’m sure you remember the xww intranet prefix. Such odd quirks there

New comment by thspimpolds in "Get Rich Quick by Mining Ether with AWS Spot"

thspimpolds — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:38:15 +0000

This

New comment by thspimpolds in "The nationwide roll-out of the 911 system was a difficult endeavor"

thspimpolds — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:19:48 +0000

while I want to read this article, that font makes it impossible.