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jWhick··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
I mean, a remote operator could either try to land it in life risking situation, salvaging some of that $200M, or do kamikaze style on a target, both feel quite useful for war situations.
jWhick··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
yeah like fuck this shit i'm ejecting
jWhick··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
I'm wondering why these days, when my washing machine has an internet connection, they can't take over control of a plane remotely. I guess it could be considered a security vulnerability, however i'm quite sure it could be done securely. Like let the pilot eject and you try to land a plane with remote control
jWhick··on Releasing everyone's SSN and the hacks used to acquire them
I am not American, so I don't know the rules of ssn. However, can someone calculate what are the chances I guess a valid ssn, if I know all the ssn rules?
jWhick··on The magic of small engineering teams
man posthog is one of the shittiest companies there is out there.
jWhick··on I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
I've found most of ukranians as well as russians love this style of interviews. I've also found them to be bad contributors to teams I've worked in.
jWhick··on Tom Dowdy (2022)
there are always torrents
jWhick··on How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger (2019)
I always think twice about my revenge and definitely serve it cold. However thinking about it, Inuit are some of the coolest cultures out the here, right next to Japanese. Their commitment to stay cold-headed and be hard working is something to we should all aspire to achieve.
jWhick··on 23andMe's Fall
I never got that company, to me it seemed foolish from start.
jWhick··on New exoplanets identified that could potentially harbor life
aren't new exoplanets being discovered at a monthly if not weekly basis?
jWhick··on What age is optimal for pregnancy? (study)
anyone with 2 brain cells will deduce what you said no matter the clickbait title.
jWhick··on What age is optimal for pregnancy? (study)
not rly, it is an American study, so it should target Americans, However it is a valid concern/hypothesis that women which give birth younger tend to be of lower health overall due to various socioeconomic conditions.
jWhick··on Should I open source my company? (2022)
The author is clearly a utopist, advertising and trying to promote his own oss views. However, while oss has its growing niche it's clear that it isn't for everyone. The thing to ask yourself before going oss path is what are you gaining by going oss and what are you trading for that gain. For supabase it's clearly beneficial to be oss, they are a niche database, and by going oss they can benefit a lot from integrations, not to mention they are basically ripping off the evil firebase. So by going oss they are perceived as heroes. On top of that who would use another closed firebase that isn't from google? They can't compete on pricing, nor the scale. I think supabase were even advertised as open source firbase at some point.

However if you are not ripping off some popular commercial tool and making it open source, and making open source as your main differentiator, in that case there is very little to gain by going oss. You might as well get most of authors advertised "oss benefits" by just having great developer experience and docs, while giving very little in return.

jWhick··on Fritzbox: AVM is threatened with a sales ban due to violations of Huawei patents
this site has 1 sentence than ad, and it contains like a 100 sentences which equals about 100 ads. wouldn't recommend visiting it.
jWhick··on Balkan genomes trace the rise/fall of Roman Empire's frontier, migrations
100% agree with this.
jWhick··on Cyborg cockroach could be the future of earthquake search and rescue
how is this any different or beneficial compared to having a small robot doing the same task?
jWhick··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
actually no, openai first did chess then dota, than chatgpt, it's years of effort and progression that didn't come overnight. It's probably you who first heard of them trough chatgpt
jWhick··on A Video Game That Pays: Lessons Learned from Working Remotely
Unlike the in office work which is totally different than videogame. I mean you can draw comparison between anything and a videogame, but honestly working in office just sucks.
jWhick··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
I think the key to it is that Gabe is a simple guy, not a wannabe like half of the investment firms buying stocks.
jWhick··on Global population could peak below 9B in 2050s
if, during the past, only the people that could afford children, had them, there would be no people today.
jWhick··on Global population could peak below 9B in 2050s
do you think real estate is still a safe investment considering the projection for population drops?
jWhick··on Google preemptively banned hundreds of millions of 'pirate' URLs last year
nothing new, I'm quite sure if you try to get to russian propaganda you would get to similar blockers.
jWhick··on Hacker News Fan Tribute T-shirt
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jWhick··on No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy
the thing is tech that is being forced is simply not there. I don't want to install app that asks for 1000 permissions just to pay for entrance, scaning qr code and being redirected to web payment form should be the maximum such venues should ask.
jWhick··on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
I'm quite sure they are not enforcing it since i was traveling to and walking with across spain with much more.
jWhick··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
feels like notion is gonna be the next evernote
jWhick··on The effect of deplatforming hate organizations on their online audience
I would be curious in research involving removal of online hate speech and how it correlates to in person violence, mental outbreaks and similar stuff.
jWhick··on Illustrated Whitehat Manifesto
There is also a blackhat version of it: https://www.devshirt.club/manifesto/blackhat/
jWhick··on Rimac Energy: Stationary Energy Storage Technology
they remind me so much of the Theranos.
jWhick··on Rimac Energy: Stationary Energy Storage Technology
I see your point about Tesla overpromising, however at least tesla has put into production some level of autonomy, these guys sell vehicles without any kind of driver assistance. At the same time there wasn't any kind of show by Rimac of the autonomous driving tech thats capable of at least holding the car in the same lane on a semi straight road. I think Tesla and others are miles away from where Rimac is today.
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