HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

fivelessminutes

252 karma · joined October 16, 2021

submissionscomments
fivelessminutes··on Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon
From May 2021
fivelessminutes··on Personal computer maker Raspberry Pi plans London listing
I just don't get why the world needs another fabless arm embedded silicon company reliant on East Asian fabs. It's not like they're doing anything better than the others.

Risc-V, special sauce, from a European or American fab, sure, it has a wider meaning.

fivelessminutes··on A Case for Asynchronous Computer Architecture (2000) [pdf]
This seems to be from 20 years ago, the most recent citation was from 2000 and it describes a MIPS chip built on a 1998 process.
fivelessminutes··on Tell HN: GitHub is down again
If something you control, manage and backup goes down, you can fix it.

It won't go away on its own, or like Travis make you dependent on it, get bought out by VCs who milk your dependency for money.

When it goes down, it only impacts your jobs until you solve it, not single-point-of-failues the whole internet and whole programming languages.

Your self-sufficiency also acts to stop all software endevour concentrating in the hands of one monopolistic American company.

fivelessminutes··on Fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law
Hopefully this brings an end to pi:raspberry and pals so beloved of ssh botnet scanners.

https://tutorials-raspberrypi.com/raspberry-pi-default-login...

Raspbian 'set the tone' of insecure by default and it seems it took legislation to improve matters.

fivelessminutes··on Take action to protect Open Source today
This is just a subscription drive for OSI.

If you want to 'protect' FOSS projects you care about, take some time to find out what help is useful to the maintainers and contribute towards items that make sense to you. Joining OSI won't help those struggling projects you gain from using.

fivelessminutes··on Rust Moderation Team Resigns
'Core team' as a concept naturally leads to elitism.
fivelessminutes··on When are enums not a code smell?
> "WARNING As a rule of thumb, enums are code smells and should be refactored to polymorphic classes. [8]" Seemann, Mark, Dependency Injection in .Net, 2011, p. 342

Gosh, what a load of baloney from a frog in a well.

fivelessminutes··on Disney Imagineering has created autonomous robot stunt doubles
(2018)
fivelessminutes··on VC Needs Web3 More Than Web3 Needs VC
... nobody needs 'web3', just like nobody needed the blockchain grifters.
fivelessminutes··on The Filecoin Virtual Machine
> Today, the Filecoin network is a robust platform to verifiably store and access NFTs, public good datasets, web3 and Metaverse assets, and more.

I won Buzzword Bingo on the first sentence alone.

fivelessminutes··on Communication by means of Modulated Johnson Noise [pdf]
This is amazing, but by the end they seem to gloss that some power is needed at the tx side to produce the modulation clock and perform switching the resistor.
fivelessminutes··on Octi puts the metaverse in your pocket
Some kind of low-effort walled garden with 'coins' and 'nft' pasted on.
fivelessminutes··on Show HN: I made a London centered projection of the world map
> This has the nuance of distorting the polls

POLES

fivelessminutes··on Thousands of phone boxes around the UK will be protected from closure
Just wouldn't be the same without the fellow reek of stale urine.
fivelessminutes··on Signal devs don't intend to support Apple M1
They clearly have their own m1 implementation and the contributed one is 'not invented here'.
fivelessminutes··on Will ITER make more energy than it consumes?
> A reactor operating for only 7 minutes every 30 minutes is not attractive

It just means have 4 reactors on site operating sequentially, doesn't it?

fivelessminutes··on Who does that server serve?
> As with any issue, there's a balance, too far disagree or too far agree and it just can't work.

If I want your bank credentials so I can spend your money, you are going to give me half your money? Or you will get into contact with your inner absolutist...

fivelessminutes··on Shocked: X32 can be 10% faster, but musl Libc 40% slower
"10% faster" than... "40% slower" than...

A lot of people who have time to scan an article to find out what the title should have said, have no time to do the same for video.

fivelessminutes··on Investing in Friends with Benefits (A DAO)
> The next frontier in computing, which will take shape this decade, is building apps on programmable blockchains.

I feel sorry for companies that pay AH for this.

fivelessminutes··on Ask HN: Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?
I would start looking...
fivelessminutes··on Ask HN: Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?
Have you raised your perspective on their problems with your manager?

If they don't care, leaving is not unreasonable (although the 6 months might seem like a ding on your resume). But usually, people know. Whether they know and just want to keep turning up and take the money without rocking the boat, or want to rescue it but don't know how.

fivelessminutes··on Kerla: Monolithic kernel in Rust, aiming for Linux ABI compatibility
It is possible to overstate a valid case until it becomes meaningless... are modern OS IP stacks written in C really 'crash'ing or 'full of security vulnerabilities'? No.
fivelessminutes··on Security Headers: Scan your site now
'Sorry about that, something went wrong'
← PreviousPage 4 of 4