TheBill

144 karma · joined December 30, 2015

TheBill··on Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

Go to a praxair in the states and ask what the difference is: tested to 5x9's and loaded into a vacuum pulled bottle. ANY O2 at pressure is suitable to for human consumption at the surface because ANY impurities that are actually harmful would explode at 200 bar. Anything else (say from a PSA nitrox generator) would only be things like Argon.

Ad hoc O2 is better than no O2.

TheBill··on ‘Freeze the keys’ key-locking mechanism aims to prevent suicide among veterans

So, sidestepping the shit show that any 2A debate here is:

from a prior art perspective, the BDSM community has pretty much already discussed & detailed any form of ice lock on the planet. Not sure how any of this is novel, aside from keeping you from playing with yourself vs. your gun.

TheBill··on Iran Says It Will Enrich Uranium to 60%

Enoon. Take a look at China's activity in SEA.

TheBill··on 90-year-old man spends $10K on ads to tell AT&T CEO about slow internet service

AT&T's been so slow in getting fiber laid in the north and west suburbs of Chicago that I know more than a dozen homes in line for Starlink. Family's been puttering along on 25 down/5 up for the last 4 years with an annual angry phone call to keep it under $80. AT&T's done a half dozen neighborhoods that Comcast, RCA or Verizon haven't, but none their in.

TheBill··on US Federal judge rules warrantless phone searches of anyone at US border are ok

https://basecamp.com/handbook/15-international-travel-guide

Time to start wiping things before you go on trips again.

TheBill··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si

I don't think it does - I think this is just a grab to see what microsoft caves on.

TheBill··on Smart spaces will fine petrol car owners illegally parking in electric bays

Roundabouts. If it's that rural, why put in traffic lights?

TheBill··on Starship – SN8 – High-Altitude Flight Test

They might try, but they'll still be focused on looting the .gov & first try success. SpaceX will still be 2-3 decades ahead of them.

TheBill··on Dan Kohn has died

I had a chance to work with Dan on a small project at CNCF about this time last year. We hit a wall with how everything was setup, COVID hit and we shelved everything in late January as events started getting cancelled. He was very down to earth and wonderful to work with.

TheBill··on Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273482/segment-revenue-o... https://businessquant.com/microsoft-revenue-by-segment ~10B/quarter

TheBill··on Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features

Considering how much of the world runs on Excel? And the business process/productivity segment of MSFT had 46 Billion in rev?

TheBill··on Optimizely to be acquired by Episerver

Google Optimize & VWO hurt them. Free, or low price, low friction won at scale with smaller teams running 1-2 experiments or low level personalization. Everyone I know who's going to high volume testing is either on a hosted CMS that has this baked into their offering or JAMStack.

No one I know has deployed Optimizely since 15/16.

TheBill··on Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government

the one in Hawaii is currently pointed at the SN & access info for the cell data connection...

This is going to get interesting.

TheBill··on Launch HN: Goodcover (YC S17) – Cooperative renters insurance for half the price

Hey, product looks awesome, something I would put time into:

Large landlords: They often mandate specific coverage, and will cross sell & promote you into their tennant email/welcome kits.

EQR requires something like 100K of liability in the bay area, gives you 30 days from lease effective or so to secure a policy or they auto enroll you in a $10/Mo from another vendor.

TheBill··on Slack Says It's Filed to Go Public

Nothing is wrong with the market: Slack may have decided that this is the best way for them to create liquidity. There is also a cap (2000) on the number of shareholders a company can have before they have to abide by what amounts to the same reporting requirements as a publicly traded company.

Slack also get the advantage of the usual market pop of acquiring companies share prices that usually amounts to a significant % of the cash value of the transaction.

TheBill··on Pigeon Towers: A Low-Tech Alternative to Synthetic Fertilizers

Bird droppings & phosphate were in such high demand that entire islands like Naru were strip mined for it up into the early 1900's. Haber/Bosch did not kick off until 1909 leading to manufactured fertilizer.

Also death from starvation is a pretty serious health risk.

TheBill··on Saudi Thirst for Water Is Creating a Toxic Brine Problem

IMO the right direction is not conventional treatment, but as Swebs said, either create new salt flats, or use it as feedstock for algae or other single cell organisms that can be converted to feed, or biofuel.

TheBill··on Saudi Thirst for Water Is Creating a Toxic Brine Problem

It's also done in freshwater (great lakes) to prevent zebra mussels from clogging the intake pipes. Things like to grow where other things bring food by for free, and are sheltered from predators.

TheBill··on Ask HN: Going from Developer to Manager. What should I know or learn?

Take a look at https://www.harrisonmetal.com/ - even if you're not in the bay area.

I had a chance to sit in on a dinner of General Management students from a ~dozen companies. The vast majority were going from individual contributor to management roles.

TheBill··on ‘Dead Skunk’ Stench from Marijuana Farms Outrages Californians

As a former resident of Indiana, no, it's not. Different, yes, but nothing is quite as bad as a holding pond at a hog farm on a hot summer's day.

TheBill··on Logitech disables local access on Harmony Hubs, breaks automation systems

Google completely bricked their home hub, so on the bright side at least Logitech users can still use the damn thing.

This reinforces my belief that unless there's officially supported API/CLI access & the end user can control (should they opt to) the cadence of updates - you don't own the hardware.

TheBill··on Registry Agreement Termination Information Page

I'm surprised at how many techco's let go of their own gtld - from a security standpoint wouldn't it make sense for them to maintain their own SSL & Domains, especially for deployed hardware - URL must match regex of domain & SSL = list of valid certs?

TheBill··on “Sand Dams” Are Transforming African Drylands

IIRC there was a post on something similar being done in the times prior to the British Raj - small valleys would be damed off to capture the monsoon rains & insure that rivers & springs flowed year round.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40278311?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...

TheBill··on Someone Is Waging a Secret War to Undermine the Pentagon’s Huge Cloud Contract

https://goo.gl/MZFbQ9

Manager, Startup Ecosystem Business Development, Oracle San Fransisco

TheBill··on IBM-Maersk blockchain alliance cuts oceanic shipping times by 40%

Probably by paying IBM & Maersk. It has to reflect reality otherwise since you signed it everyone else will know you signed off on bad or invalid docs. No more missing or smeared paperwork.

TheBill··on MySpace Tom beat Facebook in the long run

Seneca the Younger

TheBill··on Probes Point to Northrop Grumman Errors in January SpaceX Spy-Satellite Failure

Plus take the fact that Lockheed/Boeing/ULA are public and SpaceX is not. Take the fall long and public enough that by the time the market would adjust their pricing it's largely been forgotten.

TheBill··on Governments turn tables by suing public records requesters

metaleaks?

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