Hacker News: zionic

New comment by zionic in "Engine makers sound downbeat on supersonic, leaving Boom in a bind"

zionic — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 03:34:20 +0000

Sorry, it took me a bit to reply to you on this censorship laden bullshit “you’re replying to fast by posting more than 3 times a day” website.

Fuck dang, time to cycle residential proxies.

That said, see sibling comments about fineness. In addition to being fine in the shiny variety, starship is a portly fellow. It will be able to land in anything less than a hurricane.

New comment by zionic in "Gender and Age Differences in Love Styles and Attitudes"

zionic — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 17:45:06 +0000

Honestly I find most studies based solely on self-reported data worthless.

What people say they’ll do/buy is often only loosely correlated with what actually happens.

See:

-YouTube thumbnail controversy, vs what people actually click on

-/r/apple and other comment section’s obsession with the commercially-failed mini lineup of iPhones

-everyone says ads don’t work on them, but ads work

I could go on

New comment by zionic in "Some statistics about BTRFS compression"

zionic — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:50:37 +0000

It's not proprietary, you can hook up the drives to a linux box and pull files off them just fine if your box dies. I've never had to do this, but I've seen others say they've done so successfully.

New comment by zionic in "Engine makers sound downbeat on supersonic, leaving Boom in a bind"

zionic — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:42:26 +0000

Should be much better, you spend most of the time coasting and most of your acceleration in very thin atmosphere, vs a plane that has to cruise down in the soup.

Also, starship has more pressurized volume than a 747. You can fit a lot of people.

New comment by zionic in "Engine makers sound downbeat on supersonic, leaving Boom in a bind"

zionic — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:40:52 +0000

A short boat ride off the coast is all it will take to get form NY to Tokyo in 40 minutes or less. Worth it.

New comment by zionic in "Engine makers sound downbeat on supersonic, leaving Boom in a bind"

zionic — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:40:09 +0000

E2E payload weight will be much lower than typical LEO configs, total altitude lower. You don't need to circularize etc etc.

This means you can spend more fuel/be less efficient overall for a much more comfortable acceleration profile.

In terms of safety, starship will fly hundreds, perhaps thousands of times before people fly on them. They'll get there.

New comment by zionic in "Engine makers sound downbeat on supersonic, leaving Boom in a bind"

zionic — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:14:00 +0000

Starship E2E (earth 2 earth) will make in-atmo supersonic pointless.

New comment by zionic in "Some statistics about BTRFS compression"

zionic — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 22:20:05 +0000

>btrfs is a horrible mess that will likely lose your data.

Meanwhile the bazillion petabytes on the world's synology NAS run fine, and are BTRFS.

New comment by zionic in "U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech"

zionic — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:36:56 +0000

As opposed to the centralized extremism export machine we have now.

New comment by zionic in "U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech"

zionic — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:35:48 +0000

If they don’t censor, they’re not liable. If they censor, they are liable.

New comment by zionic in "U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate online speech"

zionic — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:33:31 +0000

> Corporations are not bound by the restrictions laid out in the first amendment; only the government is.

I think that is no longer the consensus. We have corporations that rival governments now.

New comment by zionic in "Merge soon"

zionic — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:46:32 +0000

This couldn’t be more wrong or dishonest. The merge has been part of the plan since 2016. The users were onboard with this from the beginning.

New comment by zionic in "The Ethereum merge is done"

zionic — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:43:29 +0000

Not yet, but when the combined effects of the merge + EIP 1559 drive ETH to flip BTC _and_ the ever-increasing "BTC wastes X countries worth of power per day" it will eventually happen.

No chance at all while BTC remains top dog (in market cap)

New comment by zionic in "The Ethereum merge is done"

zionic — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:39:41 +0000

3x hash rate @ same $USD value == 1/3rd the rewards per hash

New comment by zionic in "Merge soon"

zionic — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:30:26 +0000

Exactly. This is a triumph and the entire open source community should be celebrating

New comment by zionic in "Merge soon"

zionic — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:27:05 +0000

>after years of the merge being “months” away

It's only been months aways for a few months though. I have endured years of gaslighting comments like this _specifically_ from this asymmetrically moderated community, despite knowing for example in 2017 that PoS was years away. The "maybe this year" started in Jan 2020. COVID happened. They didn't start saying "within a year" again until end of 2021.

Meanwhile the _beacon_ chain launched in 2020, which is what's taking over for the PoW chain in ... 1 hour.

Maybe you're acting in good faith and you misheard that the beacon chain was launching 2 years ago and thought that was this. But how likely is that really?

New comment by zionic in "Merge soon"

zionic — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:23:33 +0000

Perhaps that nuance is achievable, but I have seen none of that here.

That said, I fundamentally disagree that crypto is "overall negative", and with the move to PoS the largest negative aspect of crytpo (the environmental cost of PoW) goes away.

New comment by zionic in "iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: Scotland"

zionic — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:17:08 +0000

AirDrop is 100x slower than the equivalent wired solution. I say this as someone transfering 350GB of media off their phone on friday, Apple needs to fix wired file access from mac to phone.

New comment by zionic in "Merge soon"

zionic — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 05:14:38 +0000

This deserves to be the top spot on HN right now. Years of countless replies and mockery here across N accounts telling me this day would _never_ happen. Yet here we are, we're finally about to break away from the shackles of PoW and the crypto skeptics are silent.

EDIT: I'm rate limited/soft banned so I can't reply to most of you/anyone until tomorrow. While I can still edit:

-Cash is the ultimate scammer currency, it would take a ages for crypto to match or replace cash as the best "scam" currency"

-Privacy =/= laundering. Privately transacting is not implicitly a crime.

-Crypto has value as trustless value transfer outside the nation-state system, especially in these uncertain times

-Smart contracts are criminally undervalued. Programmable money is the future.

New comment by zionic in "Pre-exposure to mRNA-LNP inhibits adaptive immune responses in mice"

zionic — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 14:48:56 +0000

HN moderation has seriously diminished the value of this site to me, putting it nicely.