Hacker News: tiagod

New comment by tiagod in "Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia"

tiagod — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:14:59 +0000

That's also a joke

New comment by tiagod in "Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing"

tiagod — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:48:10 +0000

My LG G3 overheated so much that the screen unglued itself from the case.

Sent it to warranty 3 times, but it happened again every time. The middle of the screen got so hot I could barely hold my finger there.

New comment by tiagod in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

tiagod — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:26:04 +0000

The reason it sits at 8GB on idle is... optimization. The memory is there to be used, so the OS will use it to improve performance until it's needed for more important tasks.

New comment by tiagod in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

tiagod — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:33:49 +0000

His job involved driving every day around the same city he was modeling.

New comment by tiagod in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

tiagod — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:32:51 +0000

Many call centers have these privacy messages that play before you're actually put on hold. Just use the same feature with a 15min of waiting music.

New comment by tiagod in "Kona EV Hacking"

tiagod — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:33:21 +0000

For me, just removing "blonde" would be fine.

New comment by tiagod in "My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world"

tiagod — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:11:47 +0000

After reading the article, I was disappointed to find that there doesn't seem to exist any video of the egg (and the working mechanism) on YouTube.

EDIT: I have found a low-quality video on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChF_VDBo74j

New comment by tiagod in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

tiagod — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:26:45 +0000

Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

New comment by tiagod in "World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite"

tiagod — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:34:41 +0000

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I guess if you aim well enough, there could be a very long, narrow, non-reflective cylinder in front of the receiver that would block all light that is not coming exactly from the direction of the target satellite.

New comment by tiagod in "Xkcd: Suspicion (2009)"

tiagod — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:36:30 +0000

Scams have been using LLMs for a while. know of two people so far that got their card stolen and used to buy chatgpt subs.

New comment by tiagod in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

tiagod — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:19:12 +0000

Goring them is about sending a message.

New comment by tiagod in "Xkcd: Suspicion (2009)"

tiagod — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:40:05 +0000

(2009)

New comment by tiagod in "Exposure Simulator"

tiagod — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:15:41 +0000

High aperture = Blur

Unfortunately the lower number actually means bigger aperture.

New comment by tiagod in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

tiagod — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:05:17 +0000

It's a standalone network. Most Portuguese cards are also VISA/Mastercard, but payment terminals may only have a contract with Multibanco, meaning only Portuguese cards are accepted. It's quite common for foreign cards not to be accepted.

New comment by tiagod in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

tiagod — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:33:56 +0000

Problem with insurance companies measuring risk this way is that local government externalises costs of bad road design to the people who are unfortunate to have to drive there.

New comment by tiagod in "More Mac malware from Google search"

tiagod — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:50:06 +0000

If the attacker already controls the download link and has a valid https certificate, can't they just modify the published hash as well?

New comment by tiagod in "Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes"

tiagod — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:54:13 +0000

I've used the built-in H3 primitives in ClickHouse and it's a treat.

New comment by tiagod in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

tiagod — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:07:49 +0000

I misread. GA or GW is a perfectly valid SI unit as well, however.

New comment by tiagod in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

tiagod — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:01:52 +0000

I don't understand what you mean. kA is a perfectly valid SI unit.

New comment by tiagod in "The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75"

tiagod — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:35:40 +0000

"To be clear, we’re not just talking about length, although at 47 inches long it’s certainly substantial. But extremely long zip ties already exist for things like wrapping large bundles of cable. This one is also cartoonishly thick, and features a similarly upscaled locking mechanism that allows it to hold up to 2,000 pounds, according to the company."