Hacker News: xvf22

New comment by xvf22 in "Airbus Beluga"

xvf22 — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:51:19 +0000

The payload capacity is more based on volume/dimensions and not strictly weight.

New comment by xvf22 in "Airbus Beluga"

xvf22 — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:49:47 +0000

Saw it both in flight and on the ground in Toulouse and it was oddly majestic.

New comment by xvf22 in "Tell HN: Canada Posts systems to be down for 6 hours of “unplanned maintenance”"

xvf22 — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 23:43:30 +0000

And in Ontario public service, raises are capped to 1% yearly including benefits.

New comment by xvf22 in "An interview that disappeared – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022"

xvf22 — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 13:49:04 +0000

You wonder how many electrocutions are put down as 'cardiac arrest'. I mean yes, but not exactly natural.

New comment by xvf22 in "My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns"

xvf22 — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:15:40 +0000

Possibly when you were looking for the serial number?

New comment by xvf22 in "My Bose QC-35 II headphones burst into flames and left me with chemical burns"

xvf22 — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 13:11:19 +0000

The guy went digging for the serial number after the event.

New comment by xvf22 in "Pixel prevented me from calling 911"

xvf22 — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 13:18:24 +0000

And how many more years did they give people on the Google SOC?

New comment by xvf22 in "Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy"

xvf22 — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 02:11:09 +0000

I'll say this, the Ikea stuff my parents had incorporated a hell of a lot more solid wood than I see today.

New comment by xvf22 in "The fish shell is amazing"

xvf22 — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 17:49:16 +0000

I seriously hope you have automation to pull these in! Thanks!

New comment by xvf22 in "Cave-Link: Underground text communication system"

xvf22 — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:20:29 +0000

I'm reasonably sure VLF and ELF are very much in use but it seems as though ELF was abandoned by the US Navy. The Navy does continue to use VLF though.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/25728/chinas-new-york-...

http://www.nukeresister.org/static/nr135/135elfcloses.html

New comment by xvf22 in "An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor"

xvf22 — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 21:26:59 +0000

I can totally relate, I could also tell the link speed by the noises.

New comment by xvf22 in "It takes a PhD to develop that"

xvf22 — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 12:41:16 +0000

The damn downloader in MSFS is the most infuriating thing. In Canada on either of the main ISPs I too out at 40ish Mbps whereas Steam and anything else really does close to the full 500Mbps. It also only downloads sequentially, pausing to decrypt each tiny file. And the updates are huge so it takes a good long while to download 2+GB.

New comment by xvf22 in "End of the line for Japan's only all-double-decker 'Max' E4 series bullet train"

xvf22 — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 00:45:09 +0000

It's interesting that they wouldn't update it. The TGV duplex does 320km/h and is a workhorse for SNCF.

New comment by xvf22 in "LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop"

xvf22 — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 01:49:49 +0000

In their mind they are the law.

New comment by xvf22 in "MIT CSAIL network design principles"

xvf22 — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 15:03:17 +0000

We use the Wi-Spy DBx dongle for spectrum monitoring / analysis.

New comment by xvf22 in "The iPhone 13 Does Not Have Satellite Internet, Band N53 and Globalstar"

xvf22 — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 22:22:27 +0000

More thinking ubeam now sonicEnergy.

https://liesandstartuppr.blogspot.com/2017/06/arguing-point....

New comment by xvf22 in "The iPhone 13 Does Not Have Satellite Internet, Band N53 and Globalstar"

xvf22 — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 21:19:57 +0000

Plenty of startups works on impractical stuff. Not to pass judgement but the fact that startups are trying doesn't necessarily confirm validity. See wireless power.

New comment by xvf22 in "TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court"

xvf22 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 04:44:19 +0000

So yes, some are good. I had an issue where Rogers decided my modem didn't meet their channel bonding spec and capped me at 75ish Mbps silently even though I was paying for 150 even when I changed to a new modem with more channels. Teksavvy wanted to roll a tech (no matter the arguments and speculation about Rogers being a bad actor) at the height of the pandemic (disadvantages of being a reseller). I ended up having to change to a higher tier then back to prove it was a provisioning issue that Rogers had manually put in by forcing a reprovisioning.

New comment by xvf22 in "TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court"

xvf22 — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 03:11:26 +0000

I have Bell fibe but keep Teksavvy around as an automatic failover. Not just for practical reasons but I would like to give them money for advocacy but can't really stomach the objectively worse connectivity (not their fault).

New comment by xvf22 in "John Carmack visits Starbase"

xvf22 — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:06:51 +0000

I mean, they built the world's largest high speed rail network pretty damn quickly.