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syrgian··on Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
I bought a few of them to try them out and I'm disappointed currently. I tried to make them switch temperature automatically through the day, and nothing is working. I've only found people saying that there's no way without custom scripts that attempt to change the temperature continuously, which is very surprising. (I've only done an hour of research and tried around 3 different methods).

Only one of the lights, which uses a dimmer switch, changes automatically, but only if I turn it off and on again.

Other than that, the quality of the light is good.

syrgian··on Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google
I have heard anecdotes of them linking accounts together and banning them all at once if one of the algorithms deems you unworthy.

Unless you are really splitting them, by using a different IP and browser characteristics for each of them... But then you are very likely to have them banned separately, due to suspicious behavior.

syrgian··on Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations
However, the probability of the DNA getting hit would increase linearly with the amount of junk DNA, wouldn't it? So the chance of good DNA getting hit is exactly the same as without junk.

Not sure how it would help shielding the good DNA, unless it acted as a barrier.

syrgian··on Why forex trading is exploding across Africa
Long term non-trader money is also part of the market (stock buybacks, dividends).
syrgian··on We’re building a high performance electric trike from scratch
You say 200 hp, website says 200 kW. Which is it?

The specs do look fantastic.

syrgian··on “I will slaughter you”
If he's the one using cURL, does that mean that he is one of the kids in the phrase 'You built a formula 1 race car and tossed the keys to kids with ego problems.'?
syrgian··on Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto
I would have slept a lot worse if people thought that I held millions in an asset that can be easily stolen by invading my home and putting my family at risk. I would only be happy if I was very careful with not revealing who I was, ever (hard to do if a exchange gets compromised).

It helps that I have all my necessities well covered.

syrgian··on Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online
That's not how Amazon works, they take a lot of 'short term losses in exchange for trust' decisions, like warning you if a product has increased in price since you added it to the wish list, possibly triggering additional research of competitors that might have it cheaper.
syrgian··on Amazon competitor got our belt listing taken down by saying it contains drugs
Has this been fixed already? I can easily find those products (associated with 'BeltBro' seller). https://www.amazon.com/s?k=beltbro
syrgian··on GameStop appoints chief technology officer and two additional executive hires
Pump and dump is fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump But the effort was distributed and hard to track and prove, so the scammers that knew what they were doing are most likely safe.
syrgian··on Signal community: Reminder: Please be nice
If you are willing to share, when you say that you get FAANG salary you mean FAANG-level or actually from one of those companies?
syrgian··on Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
Long term that should net them a lot more money. Having and keeping a true mission will allow them to leave all competitors behind. Because even if competitors can seem strong from time to time (VS Code and Atom recently) they will end up dying because of de-prioritization and leadership without vision (Atom).
syrgian··on Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market
You mean that's the mission the want to sell. I mean, can you tell me of even one company that states their mission is 'increase the share value'? Or even something close to that?
syrgian··on Chadwick Boseman Is Dead
This reminds me of when a French coworker tried to translate an item in a restaurant menu which said 'cabrit al forn', Catalan for 'roasted goat'. Google first translated it to English ('baked kid') and then to French 'enfant cuit au four'. His incredulous face was on point.

I just checked and it still happens today, it probably happens with many other indirect translations with ambiguous intermediate words.

syrgian··on Canon's cloud platform has lost users' files and can't restore them
Wouldn't you need to edit every single backup where the key is stored in order to comply?
syrgian··on A Surprise AWS Bill
To be fair, CloudFront's limit is 20GB.
syrgian··on Ask HN: Best Video Call Solution for Elderly
I think the Amazon account does need a phone number, but it could be any phone number you have access to, or the phone number used by the hotspot.
syrgian··on Ask HN: Best Video Call Solution for Elderly
An Echo Show device matches most of your requirements: low configuration, remotely manageable, plus it's voice-managed. Sadly there are no 4G versions, but you could solve it with a small plugged 4G router.
syrgian··on WeChat permanently closes account after user sets offensive password
I've used systems in the past that analyze them server side for similitude with previous passwords of your own (or perhaps only your last password? if that's the case, requiring current password would be enough, no need to store it in plain text).

They might also want to check it against a list of most used passwords.

syrgian··on Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots
Once you add things like clickstream, email, ip address and user agent to the data used, it should be very easy to pick set with negligible false positives.
syrgian··on Two Years with Rust
It's somewhat small, for optimal reading I zoomed to 130%.
syrgian··on Show HN: Zoom Redirector
Thanks a lot! I had been bypassing manually the zoom client, but lately I felt like they were hiding more and more the browser option (up to the point that sometimes I had to run Chrome to have two chances for the non-client link to appear).
syrgian··on [dead]
I agree, people are arguing in favor of self-moderation, but if we are here is precisely because we like the moderation.

Pay-walled and lower-than-average quality articles promote people judging the article by the title, going to the comments to actually understand the article's content or post without enough information.

Banning NYTimes would increase average comment quality by forcing the link-poster to find an article readable by everyone, possibly higher quality and less click-baity.

syrgian··on MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
So any bump on the aluminum that the store clerk doesn't approve of would cost you around $800? (since I assume the only way out would be selling it second-hand with a huge discount)
syrgian··on Michael Dell Gets $12B Richer with Break from Public Eye
That's probably his point. Bonds have less return than shares because they have less risk.

A single company is always going to be riskier and more volatile than the sp500.

syrgian··on Employees at Amazon's New NYC Warehouse Launch Unionization Push
By your description of the problem it matches better the "Tragedy of the commons" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons) than a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A self-fulfilling prophecy would be if the belief that unions fail to help workers made them fail to help workers (which also happens).

syrgian··on No, you don't need a blockchain
Have database replicas that only listen to INSERT statements (easy to implement in My/Maria SQL with BEFORE triggers), and design the software that works with the DB as append-only.
syrgian··on Intel: We 'Forgot' to Mention 28-Core, 5-GHz CPU Demo Was Overclocked
Many times the announced max frequency is for single-core usage. If you're using all the cores they all have to slow down collectively so the whole CPU doesn't overheat.
syrgian··on Firefox updates its iOS web browser to turn Tracking Protection on by default
Firefox on Android has plugins (such as uBlock). I assume it's the same on iOS.
syrgian··on Moscow may use Ethereum based voting blockchain system in upcoming election
It also means that you can prove to others that you voted the "right" thing. With all its implications.
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