Hacker News: xchaotic

New comment by xchaotic in "Sony Unlocks In-Camera Forgery-Proof Technology"

xchaotic — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 22:18:34 +0000

What’s is the supposed business case for sharing raw, unmodified 42Mpix photos? And if they are still modified later on, and perhaps re-signed, that’s where I would attack.

New comment by xchaotic in "Given Apple's behaviour adding ads, what are the best Linux phones?"

xchaotic — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 22:15:07 +0000

I think rather than looking for a Linux flavour you want to look at various companies business models and size to see if it can sustain the ongoing cost of releasing and supporting a phone, OS, security patches etc. So far, Apple still has a pretty low % of revenue coming from ads.

New comment by xchaotic in "It’s raining PFAS: rainwater is unsafe to drink even in Antarctica and Tibet"

xchaotic — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 17:04:05 +0000

Exactly - lead was known to cause harm since well late Roman times I guess.

New comment by xchaotic in "Homebrew Bluetooth Headphones"

xchaotic — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:10:38 +0000

These are overkill and way too heavy for headphones

New comment by xchaotic in "Cognitive decline linked to ultraprocessed food, study finds"

xchaotic — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:13:18 +0000

I (and other) call Bs on classifying something as processed or ultra processed as inherently bad. Baby formulas, workout premixes, and also home cooking are all forms of processed food. It’s what you put in it and also at what ratio is what matters most. If you get processed food that has all the good oils and fiber and proteins like YFood or Soylent that’s actually more healthy than say eating “unprocessed” fried potatoes for example.

New comment by xchaotic in "AWS us-east-2 outage"

xchaotic — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:19:18 +0000

Write an article on that because you make it sound simple. Or better yet, start a company that configures this for companies.

New comment by xchaotic in "Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z"

xchaotic — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:09:04 +0000

Investing into an illegally tapped coal power plant in Mongolia is about as safe an investment as investment in crypto itself.

New comment by xchaotic in "The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Home – Part I"

xchaotic — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 21:24:30 +0000

It’s really simple- real estate is the only casino where you are almost guaranteed a leveraged payout in the long run. So as soon as houses became an investment, the way to maximise profit is not to go for the cheapest but for the most expensive house you can afford.

New comment by xchaotic in "Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it"

xchaotic — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:09:52 +0000

Almost any beginner programming course states that algorithms are like recipes for a computer. Conversely a recipe is an algorithm meant for imperfect humans. If a recipe isn’t code then what is ?

New comment by xchaotic in "High-intensity exercise, some new news"

xchaotic — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 07:32:26 +0000

As he correctly states- even n1 can lead to science, especially if everyone published similar journals there’d be a lot of ns.

New comment by xchaotic in "High-intensity exercise, some new news"

xchaotic — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:01:59 +0000

There’s the concept of Zones and you can measure the intensity directly with a power meter or indirectly with HR. Anything that reaches close to your sustained max HR or max power is considered high intensity as it uses different energy systems to produce muscle energy And yes there’s overwhelming research that for a non pro athlete you should only do one or two high intensity workouts per week (and pad with low intensity sessions to get enough training time)

New comment by xchaotic in "High-intensity exercise, some new news"

xchaotic — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 05:59:33 +0000

Fat oxidation only ramps up once you depleted your glycogen stores. That usually happens an hour into an exercise or so. So doing short hiit session does not directly burn fat but does ramp up your metabolism for the rest of the day.

New comment by xchaotic in "ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed"

xchaotic — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 13:29:44 +0000

ShotSpotter execs learn about Streisand effect the hard way. Living in Europe, I have never heard of the company, now I have.

New comment by xchaotic in "Purdue Starts Comprehensive Semiconductor Degree Programs in U.S."

xchaotic — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:29:50 +0000

Most people here are dunking on this specific industry not paying enough for skilled labour but the problem is more generic- that’s how we build the society around capitalism and we still seem to value capital more than labour.

New comment by xchaotic in "Inflation, part 1: On shelter futures"

xchaotic — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 13:48:01 +0000

Ha, same here - read two articles and signed up. I really like the writing style.

New comment by xchaotic in "Ask HN: How did you find your current job?"

xchaotic — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 16:38:55 +0000

Real life networking. Someone recommended me to another person who reached out directly to me. 7 years later I’m still loving the job.

New comment by xchaotic in "Ask HN: New job at BigCo. Everything has friction"

xchaotic — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:40:57 +0000

A lot of the friction in the banks is for legal reasons - they HAVE to abide by certain protocols. If you treat that as an extra challenge rather than a hindrance it will be more rewarding.

New comment by xchaotic in "How This Ends"

xchaotic — Sun, 22 May 2022 22:53:28 +0000

I actually agree that hiking too high is a very poor policy choice for a number of reasons but for your example of fuel, if you kill the demand for it, the price will not skyrocket. On the other hand, however this would also mean that the economy as a whole is dead so again not the best policy choice (but it is likely to rein in inflation)

New comment by xchaotic in "The new and upgraded Framework Laptop"

xchaotic — Thu, 19 May 2022 18:30:12 +0000

I had a look and it looks like everything is upgraded- the chassis, the motherboard etc. So if you wanted to take advantage of all of the improvements you’d need to buy them all. At which point it might be less materially wasteful to but another, less recyclable laptop that uses fewer parts ?

New comment by xchaotic in "Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic"

xchaotic — Mon, 16 May 2022 10:04:04 +0000

It could also be a simple user error- there’s been stories on HN on how people racked up massive bills for example because CI was running continuously etc.