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ateng··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
It _almost_ sounds like you're suggesting the fire was deliberate!
ateng··on Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own
Youtuber Jay Foreman made a video about fake alleys in maps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiATy-FfjI
ateng··on ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database
I used to work at Man, and they have been using ArcticDB (including the earlier iteration) for over 10 years now.
ateng··on How to avoid losing items? Holding pens
I applied this rule to microfibre cloth for my glasses. I bulk buy 100 of these online and place one each in every jacket I have, plus a few more around drawers at my home
ateng··on 7.4 earthquake in Taiwan, 34km depth
Not a live one, but this vid is from 2022 when there was a 6.8 magnitude earthquake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkz6b7Q3dRk

ateng··on Apple pays out over claims it deliberately slowed down iPhones
There are multiple definitions of lying. Some people would use the stricter form of 'making a knowingly false statement', and those people are likely to confidently denied they lied when they were accused lying, when they think they only not telling the whole truth.

John Mearsheimer's book "Why Leaders Lie" has a great definition on three forms of deception [1]:

* Lying - Making a knowingly false statement to deceive

* Spinning - Emphasis / de-emphasis certain parts of fact to tell a favorable story

* Concealment - Hiding certain facts to deceive

If I detect someone is "lying" (in your broader definition) I would now use the word 'dishonest' instead.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2013/05/20/deceiving-withou...

ateng··on Cisco Acquires Splunk
I was going to ask the same! What killer feature does Splunk has that could justify its hefty price tag, that Elastic couldn't do?
ateng··on The Sound Proof Booths of Silence
Could you delay the large screens, commentaries, and live broadcast by 3-5 seconds (or more) such that any information gained from leaked noise would have minimal impact to the players? This would make ANS headphones viable
ateng··on Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
Why isn’t there a charity that specialise in “liberating” IPs & patents into public domain?
ateng··on Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
>if you don't trust a provider, not only it's not safe to run the program, but it's also unsafe to install it

Isn't it same for windows right now? `.msi` and `.exe` can execute arbitrary code right?

ateng··on UK air traffic control meltdown
Hold on, I think we take cheap shots at French people, but _expensive_ shots on the food and wine
ateng··on UK air traffic control meltdown
One important software engineering skill that is often overlook is the art of writing just the right amount of log, such that one could have sufficient information to debug easily when things go wrong, but not too verbose such that it will be ignored or pruned in production.
ateng··on Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
Even if you ignore the difficulties of start / stop the factories and imagine we have a new manufacturing process that can be restarted immediately, having idle factories and employees sitting around doing nothing for half a day would be a huge money sink
ateng··on Hacker News Guidelines
The world of internet would be a _much_ better place if everyone at least have read this. I tried my best to adhere to these rules in any social network.
ateng··on Ten killed in private jet crash – Wagner leader Prigozhin 'on passenger list'
Lin Biao, the second in command in China back in 1971, allegedly attempted a coup , and when he's defecting to USSR his plane crashed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao#%22Lin_Biao_incident%...

ateng··on Why is desalination so difficult?
Agriculture and industry can use _a lot_ of water. Likely the 4000l figure includes that.
ateng··on Plastics are poisoning us
> 5. Collect rain water and/or use less water

Not sure about that -- With modern pollution rain water is not likely to be safe to drink (depends on your location)

> 9. fuck sugary drinks

Massive yes! Amazing for your own health too.

ateng··on Royal Navy says quantum navigation test a success
What about diesel boats? They are exclusively attack subs but fuel is relatively limited.
ateng··on Intel One Mono Typeface
Probably not the font itself but the environment around it when you see it?

You usually sees it as the default monospace typeface in an old windows environment, probably with no anti-aliasing and with low resolution screen. That combination is an eyesore.

Courier New in an modern environment, with modern text rendering and anti-aliasing on high res screen is actually not bad at all.

ateng··on Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years
Despite the negative dismissal (which gets rightly downvoted), I think there’s a good point here - your phone probably needs to have stronger security requirement than your gaming device?
ateng··on Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?
Yes! My contact info is in my profile
ateng··on Colour evolution of Betelgeuse over two millennia, derived from records
And the abstract mentioned the colour changes are compared with Saturn. Surely that’s sufficient to address your concern on linguistics and cultural drift?
ateng··on Show HN: IoT device to warn you of a supernova hours before Earth is destroyed
While what you said is true, I don’t think anyone has done any research on neutrino’s spectrum impact on human tissue? Partly due to this being nearly impossible to experiment on.
ateng··on Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
Isn’t what we’re doing right now is essentially dumping used fuel into a monitored and confined ocean (ie water tank on site)
ateng··on Audiblegate
If you just model rocket science as a point mass with variable m then yes…

But it’s more than that. To name a few: * How does one raise the thrust temperature as high as possible without melting the engine to maximise thrust? (The burning temperature IS already higher than the engine material melting point) * how does one reduce the redundancy (both system wise and material wise) to minimise weight while ensuring the rocket won’t fail?

ateng··on A New Coefficient of Correlation
I think pointing out that it is published on a known journal is to display the fact that the paper is now peer-reviewed
ateng··on Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful
This is done “accidentally” with major conflicts in history. Post WWII Soviet, for example. Lots more men than women got killed during the war and the post war male:female ratio is (from memory) around 1:1.15
ateng··on I keep making things out of checkboxes
Running Doom to hackers is the equivalent of Turing completeness proof to theoretical computer scientists.
ateng··on Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse
My mother just unplug the keyboard and take it away. She underestimated my ability to navigate Windows 98 and play AoE I using only mouse...
ateng··on MS Paint IDE
Legendary. Please scroll to the comments of the top answer if you haven’t. There’s another “MS Paint IDE” there
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