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New comment by zajio1am in "49,000 Lake Tahoe residents will lose power to data centers"

zajio1am — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:37:04 +0000

These constraints, at least for electricity, are usually in end distribution networks, not in production. High-powered datacenter would get (and pay for) its own substation/transformer from higher-voltage network, thus avoiding the limitation.

New comment by zajio1am in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

zajio1am — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:42:04 +0000

The main point of ENUM was compatibility with open SIP, unfortunately that never really happened and most SIP operators do not accept incoming calls from public internet (and do not route outgoing calls based on ENUM).

New comment by zajio1am in "I hate soldering"

zajio1am — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:06:10 +0000

IMHO soldering two wires together (or wires to connectors) is much harder and requires higher dexterity than through-hole soldering on PCB, which is really easy. PCB holds parts in place and directs solder where it belongs.

Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations

zajio1am — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:25:50 +0000

Article URL: https://ubuntu.com/blog/dirty-frag-linux-vulnerability-fixes-available

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070454

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by zajio1am in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

zajio1am — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:47:23 +0000

You pretty much do that with wireless devices as a wISP.

New comment by zajio1am in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

zajio1am — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:22:51 +0000

Well, Meta also shared their AI models freely with world

New comment by zajio1am in "Maladaptive Frugality"

zajio1am — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:33:44 +0000

Even if the house prices stayed the same, it would make sense to keep the low interest debt and invest in other assets that have higher yield, like shares.

New comment by zajio1am in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

zajio1am — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:40:33 +0000

Power distribution is a natural monopoly, power production is commodified/competitive business.

New comment by zajio1am in "Generative AI Vegetarianism"

zajio1am — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:12:53 +0000

As a vegetarian, i am a bit annoyed by this term as i do not want to be associated with AI moral panic.

New comment by zajio1am in "Generative AI Vegetarianism"

zajio1am — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:09:02 +0000

And internet was full of human slop already before LLMs came.

New comment by zajio1am in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

zajio1am — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:13:26 +0000

Here in EU, in order to take official sick days, i would have visit doctor to get confirmation document. Which means that for simple cases i would rather take unofficial sick days (sometimes provided by employer, like in US) or just leave.

New comment by zajio1am in "TN's Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers"

zajio1am — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:09:16 +0000

Why? Disrupting a speaker to the level that prevents them speaking (or prevents listening) is an action that clearly infringes on rights of others and restricts freedom of speech. Regardless of content.

New comment by zajio1am in "Programming Used to Be Free"

zajio1am — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:06:15 +0000

Programming is free if you do not consider price of your time. If you consider it, it is much higher than AI-associated costs. And even with AI-associated costs, it is still much cheaper than most other engineering professions, where physical realization is orders of magnitude more costly.

Data centers' heat exhaust is not raising the land temperature

zajio1am — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:39:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-not

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750597

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zajio1am in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

zajio1am — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:48:07 +0000

> As a non-English speaker I can really relate to this.I think the real mistake was Apple allowing to enter a non-ASCII password in the first place.

As a non-English speaker (Czech, actually), it is clear to me to not use non-ASCII characters in passwords, or generally not use characters that are at different position on default English keyboard and locally used keyboards, i.e. use only ASCII alphanumeric chars except 'Y' and 'Z'.

As keyboard setting is per-user setting, keyboard may be different on login screen than on regular desktop (and once-login password prompts).

New comment by zajio1am in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

zajio1am — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:58:17 +0000

A related quote from A. N. Whitehead:

> It is a profoundly erroneous truism ... that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

New comment by zajio1am in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

zajio1am — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:02:33 +0000

Note that for eIDAS 1, a Czechia e-identity provider uses U2F tokens.

New comment by zajio1am in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

zajio1am — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:01:02 +0000

Why not just use U2F or certificates on crypto-tokens?

New comment by zajio1am in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

zajio1am — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:42:53 +0000

As bits are generally not addressable / not ordered, it makes no sense to call CPU architecture big/little bit-endian. That makes sense only for serial lines/buses.

New comment by zajio1am in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

zajio1am — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:11:16 +0000

'Arabic' numbers comes originally from India, from Brahmi numerals. And Brahmi script was left to right. So big-endian was 'normal' even originally, it was Arabs who kept left-to-right numbers within right-to-left script (and therefore use little-endian relative to direction of Arabic script).