<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: zmix</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zmix</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:03:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zmix" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure, how active development is right now, but EdgeOS got forked from an open source devian based distro after that went commercial.<p>But EdgeOS was not the only fork, another one was VyOS (vyos.io). Pretty sure, that EdgeOS has done larger steps forward, especially, since it was bound to the hardware's developer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 10:13:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754887</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44754887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the examples he mentions, aren't these just "race conditions"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:33:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41845585</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41845585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41845585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "Genetic variants for male bisexuality, risk-taking linked to more children"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The research implies, that bi-sexuality is based on genes, rather than psychological development. Did I miss something?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 23:53:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38886710</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38886710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38886710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "Germany hits 80 GW milestone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Renewables are not a complete solution, you need a backup for when the wind down't blow and the sun don't shine.<p>You can't just switch off and oon a nuclear plant. It is not good as a backup solution.<p>> But turning <i>off</i> perfectly fine reactors that have already been paid for and are producing tons of CO2 free electricity in a so-called "climate emergency" is incompetence that's indistinguishable from malice.<p>Well, while this is by no means scientifically sound, between 2011 (the year Merkel decided to get rid of the nuclear power plants) and 1954 (the year the first such power plant got available for civilian production) there were two worst accidents and one half. Using this data there was a catastrophic accident every 22.8 years, luckily not in our neighbourhood.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2023 01:07:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758631</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38758631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Hamas definitely started this particular fist-fight.<p>A few months before the Hamas attack, the Israeli minister of finances, Bezalel Smotrich (who also is tasked with the responsibility for administrating the occupied West Bank) said: "There is no such thing as the Palestinian people":<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-minister-says-no-such-thing-palestinian-people-2023-03-20/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-minister-s...</a><p>I am horrified by the Hamas attack, shocked and sad, but not surprised.<p><a href="https://twitter.com/mabintou/status/1717987416252817891" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://twitter.com/mabintou/status/1717987416252817891</a><p>Did you know, that the British, during WWII, bombarded German settlements, holding mostly women, children and elderly, on purpose ("Area bombing directive")? In Germany they still call it: "Bombenterror gegen die Zivilbevölkerung", or, "Bombing terror against the civilian population". Here is the Wikipedia article on it: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_bombing_directive" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_bombing_directive</a><p>I do not take any side in this conflict. I think, both sides are monsters. But feeling this way, I can not tolerate one sided commenting, that paints one side as "reasonable" while not accepting what the other side has to endure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:13:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558072</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "Charted: 50 Years of Music Industry Revenues, by Format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was always a vinyl guy. At least up into the late 90's, when digital sound engineering started to become on par with analog. At least for my taste.<p>I will never forgive myself, that I didn't buy tons and tons of vinyl at the end of the 80's, early 90's, when they could be had for cents/piece. Admittedly I was a very poor student back then, but I should have spent less money on party and more money on vinyl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:28:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971790</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please integrate up to date XML technologies. In addition, please make it like the XUL based Mozilla.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 11:27:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610605</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37610605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "Theft of the Mona Lisa  (2000)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For me it was the opposite!<p>I wandered around the Louvre and didn't even think about the Mona Lisa being part of the exhibition. So I came from rooms, filled with huge paintings of old masters, into this small room, that was packed with visitors. I was astound and asked myself: "What is going on in here?", turned around and...THERE SHE WAS <gasp>!<p>Well placed beneath a sheet of the thickest armored glass I've ever seen! And she was <i>so</i> tiny! But: she smiled at me. And it was real! As, if this woman would be alive and you see her in a cafe two desks next to you!<p>I don't think she is so famous, because of this theft. She is famous, because she gives the viewer the impression of a real, alive person looking at you.</p>
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<p>Will OSM incorporate this information into their own map?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36886732</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36886732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36886732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "Beyond Markdown (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Evernote<p>Since when?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2023 08:13:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36559420</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36559420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36559420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, it's the fact, that microbes, that have been outside of our ecosystem for so long remind a lot of people on the fall of the Aztec Empire...</p>
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<p>LOL, wanted to say the same: DO NOT TOUCH!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:02:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36390579</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36390579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36390579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "WinUAE 5.0.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's a shame it's a Windows-only product.<p>WinUAE: yes. But UAE, the core, is multi-platform.</p>
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<p>I don't think Usenet failed. It declined.
It was a platform for "first hour" internet users, the early "internet natives", mostly nerds, like us.<p>When the masses appeared on the "intarwebs" the web would be the place to go, with all it's flashy hypermedia and uniform way of use (no separate client needed, same philosophy, etc.)<p>The Usenet simply got replaced by web forums.</p>
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<p>Each time I search for something, the first two, three pages, maybe even more, are just shops and affiliate link sites, that offer the thing I want information about. At least, if thing is a product. Not a single forum reference. I need to add the keyword "forum" in order to get such results. To me that is typical corporate degeneration and decline. Too big to fail, to trashy to be relevant any longer, instead, however, omnipresent.</p>
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<p>Or your children lost/forgot the key and nobody is at home.</p>
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<p>It's not. It's much more simple, than anything else I know. XPath, and its higher-up XQuery make it a breeze! XSD, while not perfect, can be easily displayed as a graphical diagram. What you, however, need, and there is no way around it, is a specialized XML IDE or an IDE, that has "understood" XML.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 05:06:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35382826</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35382826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35382826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "XML Appliance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Human readable" in XML lingo means, actually, "Human readable after transformation". Or: add some CSS to it and it's easily consumable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:57:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35382772</link><dc:creator>zmix</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35382772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35382772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zmix in "How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I said:
> I do not think one should reject any social privileges one has<p>to which you replied:
> Putting barriers up to prevent this sort of thing<p>If you reread my comment, you may find, that I mentioned explicetly, not to put barriers on "this sort of thing" but instead respecting the fact, that some people just have no chance to enter a group, without the group taking additional steps in finding them.</p>
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<p>Americans (just a wild guess, that he is one) seem to have two strange phobiae: Herpes and French people.</p>
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