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New comment by wolfendin in "The introverts are winning"

wolfendin — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 05:27:04 +0000

The way this article is written feels very selfish with a distinct lack of empathy for how so called introverts might have felt in a similar position

Thing like this feel especially disingenuous

> Living a real, physical life outside the home is good because humans need friction. Convenience is alluring but it is dangerous, because getting used to it means forgetting that being alive isn’t meant to always be easy. We should run our errands in person and queue at the Post Office and eat in restaurants because it is good to remember that sometimes we have to wait around, or go to several shops because the first one didn’t have what we needed.

These are things I was able and am able to do without have to go to the office five days a week

New comment by wolfendin in "The New Internet"

wolfendin — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 07:09:22 +0000

That’s because nobody normal— anyone who isn’t a tech person— remembers IP addresses.

Hell I can’t get tech people I work with to give me their public IP.

New comment by wolfendin in "The New Internet"

wolfendin — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 06:57:19 +0000

Because the fields are there for humans, in the packet itself it’s a 32bit integer, and you can’t just arbitrarily make the src/dest fields in the packet bigger— it stops being IPv4 then.

New comment by wolfendin in "Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning"

wolfendin — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:32:22 +0000

They are also a lot more vulnerable to flooding which is also a major issue in a hurricane

New comment by wolfendin in "Houston-area residents enter sixth day without power, air conditioning"

wolfendin — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 16:30:47 +0000

In a hurricane, 90% of the damage is in distribution, the only thing that fixes it are boots on the ground

New comment by wolfendin in "Dark mode is not as good for your eyes as you believe"

wolfendin — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:49:19 +0000

They would almost be writing it like that, if they were making statements without qualification.

But luckily they were not.

New comment by wolfendin in "AI's $600B Question"

wolfendin — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 06:18:51 +0000

That really does say something about how unrealistic house prices are nowadays, doesn’t it?

New comment by wolfendin in "All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second"

wolfendin — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:54:07 +0000

Handheld was never specified directly, just “stood with a” which can just mean “next to.”

The HP 5061 was introduced in 1964, why do you think a counter that can reference the frequency standard is not possible?

You might want to be more rigorous about reading specifications.

New comment by wolfendin in "25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite"

wolfendin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:16:49 +0000

It’s copyright. Not authorright.

The exclusive ability to copy is granted as a conceit.

The restriction only came about because publishers got mad.

New comment by wolfendin in "EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control"

wolfendin — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:14:19 +0000

Back when I ran a nitter instance, I’d get emails about the GDPR.

I’d simply delete them, no problem.

New comment by wolfendin in "The Lost Art of the Negative"

wolfendin — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 14:14:24 +0000

They’re not guessing:

https://www.laits.utexas.edu/~anorman/long.extra/Projects.F9....

https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ov...

New comment by wolfendin in "Forested wetlands are missing from maps"

wolfendin — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 01:50:48 +0000

Feels like?

What evidence do you have for the sloppiness and how does the current model fail to explain the deviation in observations?

New comment by wolfendin in "Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission"

wolfendin — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:12:49 +0000

The mission goal was to land a man on the moon and return him to earth safely.

Where’s the barely? What would you have done better?

New comment by wolfendin in "Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission"

wolfendin — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:06:02 +0000

Robots aren’t performing science, they’re doing one half of one step of the scientific method: collecting data in an experiment. It’s humans doing all the rest.

New comment by wolfendin in "Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission"

wolfendin — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:06:17 +0000

It can’t have “all the same problems” because a number of the engineering problems came from having the spacecraft on the side of the launch vehicle

New comment by wolfendin in "Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?"

wolfendin — Mon, 20 May 2024 02:55:01 +0000

You’re getting scammed with the AWS cost calculator or anything more than $20/mbps

New comment by wolfendin in "Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead""

wolfendin — Sun, 19 May 2024 08:15:56 +0000

Good for you, I can’t and now I have to deal with endless pop ups about cookies.

New comment by wolfendin in "Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android"

wolfendin — Tue, 14 May 2024 07:54:49 +0000

CIA/phone company/Apple/Google/FB/some rando are all different, independent, situations; as a reasonable adult I have decided that some of them are acceptable, some of them are not.

New comment by wolfendin in "I Built an Ld_preload Worm"

wolfendin — Wed, 01 May 2024 05:23:48 +0000

I think thres’s also been a large sea change in the thinking that happens in finding the reason for anomalous behavior. Nowadays remote compromise is one of the first things on my mind when troubleshooting but, back in the 90s it was much lower on the list. I think the tooling would have been there to find it easy, but I think getting in the mindset where it needs to be found would be harder.

New comment by wolfendin in "How ECMO is redefining death"

wolfendin — Wed, 01 May 2024 05:12:44 +0000

You get very close to the real issue here:

The important part of a flying machine wasn’t the machine itself, but the engine to run the machine itself. We’ve had flying machine designs for centuries but it only took 27 years after the Otto engine was invented to put one in the air.

ECMO is the flying machine design