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thendrill··on Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
We make it legal when we click agree on the TOS
thendrill··on Coinbase’s listing may break records
But wait... That is an entire company, valued for over 1bn usd. That can "potentialy" ( but yet not realistically, yet for now) be compeletley wiped out to 0 if someone managed to "guess" their cold wallet priv key....

Interesting......

Edit: my bad, binance has a single cold wallet (165k btc) , coinbase I think keeps their btc in 8k btc wallets each.

Still that is 500k mil for each key guess

thendrill··on Äike – First e-scooter developed and assembled in Europe
Ok...

But it is priced like it is made in Europe too...

Why would I pay 6 times the price for something I can get for a fraction of the cost?

thendrill··on Stuxnet sibling theory surges after Iran says nuke facility shut down
I can offer a different theory.

You have a bunch of overworked underpaid and under qualified engineers in charge of deploying a nuclear facility with a ton of political pressure, and some crazy ass deadline.

On day one, your systems compeletley fold... Because of reasons. Do you admit fault and face political regime consequences?

Or... Do you blame it on a "system fault caused by hackers"

thendrill··on Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
This exactly. I am not asking my employer to spend so much money on something I am not using for free in my free time.
thendrill··on An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
So it is ok for bloggers, journalists, fan sites, meme sites, meme factories etc. To take someone's publicly posted pic and use it for amusement or personal gain?

But it is not ok for a group of collectors to organize collections on internet out of crops of publicy posted photos, for something completely legal?

thendrill··on An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
Nahh nahh. You are absolutely right. I love it when the techno "elite" throws out their principles the moment something feels icky but has no set social norms only parallels that are to icky to think about in an objective way.

So you are absolutely correct. Hn is just reddit suddenly

thendrill··on An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
The images were publicly posted. How much more of a consent do we need?

The images are not altered only cropped.

According to this logic when journalists crop a picture of celebrities they should ask for dress designer consent to not include the dress?

Some people like faces some people like feet. Why do we need consent for liking a certain part of picture?

thendrill··on An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
I loved the article. More people should devote to their passions.
thendrill··on An interview with the man who keeps uploading my feet to WikiFeet
As long as you don't frame it as data gathering for targeted ads.
thendrill··on The Daily Standup Is a Waste of Time
Well yeh but the author is wrong.

Most children think that school isnt necessary. But from a social stand point, we don't need some ace students. We just need all students to be good enough to finish certain simple tasks.

So yeh, agile and standups are necessary social constructs, like taxes and insurance.

thendrill··on Ask HN: How to relocate to Europe as a software developer
Depends where you are from, and where in Europe you want to move to.

If you are from India/Middle East/Africa... Be prepared for a 10x effort if you are male. If you are a female, young, good looking, will make things much much easier thou, and can be an advantage.

I guess you want to relocate to western Europe and not eastern.

You need to find a country and then find the biggest it consultancy there. That is your best option. Big multinational it firms hire alot. The only hurdle I see is the lack of degree. That is a piece of paper that would expedite things.

thendrill··on The Daily Standup Is a Waste of Time
It is not a waste of time if you are getting payed for that time.
thendrill··on Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential of humanity?
I was going to write something but then I started reading your comment.

I couldn't agree more, and I couldn't write it better myself.

Thank you

thendrill··on A Bayesian Approach to the Simulation Argument
This. In sense we are always thinking some cpu simulation. Where in fact can be more of edge computing case. As in you only need to simulate the whole personal experience.

In computer graphics terms. Culling. Objects are not simulated if u have no direct observer.

thendrill··on Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage
That is true. And no worries about apologies.

In the end someone said that what we all do in the comment section is basically a self monologue, I do the same, and the more I realize that more nicer we would be in textual discord ;)

You are correct, politicians will be politicians. Problem is that arabic politicians are so driven by archaic traditional means like bloodlines and honor, that sometimes I wonder if it is as obvious for a person with non-arabic background as it is for a everyone else.

The problem with arabic governments is that they are, firsty, not really democratic, no matter what is being said. Second, alot of governence revolves around tradional and party relegious norms. Watch an Arabic debate on TV about homesexuality...

And third. They last for a very short time in comparison to the countries in power over them (France, GB, US)

There is alot of social and relational ties that end up being very important for people in power. In turn this translate to alot of "actions" that are easily seen as just a show from an Arabic perspective.

The problem for me arises of how far from what is said the final result would be, because most of it will be dictated by bribery in internal dealings.

thendrill··on Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage
Overruled.

Not doxing because I have previously posted it on a public comment related to my Public Id.

thendrill··on Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage
I am arabic. I grew up in Libya.

I have crossed arbic borders many times. Bribery is basically standard operating procedure.

Bottom line is Egypt will say many things just to "save face".

So off personal experience I wager that the settlement will be off the books...

If it is proven true it is not racist.

https://eu-asia.essca.fr/the-marlboro-canal-or-the-standardi...

Edit: just to one more thing... Yes Egypt is in theory in control of the Suez canal. But legaly they are just an operator operating under colonial rule. They never fully nationalized the Suze after the 57 wars.

thendrill··on Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage
It IS mind boggling. Just the engine on these ships is the size of a 3 story building.

Passage fees on the Suez can run up to half a million usd for a ship this size.

thendrill··on Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage
Pretty standard.

A couple of containers filled with Cpus, Gpus or other small pricy items adds quickly up hundreds of millions of usd.

The Ever Given was carrying around approx. 18 000 containers

So that is an avarage price of around 150 000 usd, per container. That is equal to around 150 iphones. Or 300 ryzen 5950x cpus.

Here is a reference pic to see how much volume are 150 iphones.

https://images.app.goo.gl/gsykpZZcSdQqDD7A9

thendrill··on Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage
This exactly....

The whole statement was target towards the Egyptian audiance. Standard Arabic propaganda show.

Knowing how things work in Egypt. I bet the whole thing will be settled for a couple of million usd and an undisclosed amount of Marlboro packets...

thendrill··on Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?
I can't belive no has yet mentioned Litestep

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiteStep

It was my favorite ui replacement on Win98/95 until Win2k come out.

thendrill··on Ask HN: I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?
Just realizing this and being able to verbalize this makes you way better than 90% of people in IT.

Most senior consultants in Accenture are big dummies that know tech buzzwords. Most of them have never used an IDE.

So I would say your doing good. Don't worry you are good software engineer.

thendrill··on The uninvited Internet of things
I have also been looking for "custom firmwares" or "roms" for TVs. Sadly to no fruitful success.

As I understand it. Nobody bothers since there are som many different versions of TVs ( even same model different region) that hacking and developing new os would just never catch up. So instead people opt out of smart TVs and instead buy "digital signage screens" basically a dum TV....

thendrill··on The uninvited Internet of things
Usually eSIM cards are data only.
thendrill··on Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?
> Where the opportunities for sex exist in multitudes?

But porn is easier...

thendrill··on Is Consciousness Everywhere?
I don't understand your logic.

The chance of being and ant or a human is the same....

thendrill··on OctoPrint
You forgot to mention Klipper which is an amazin project and firmware.
thendrill··on Great Man-Made River
I am pretty sure I deleted this comment. I waited 20 min and the comment never showed up. Then I assumed I am shadowbanned or something on this account because of negative karma.... So I deleted this and posted it on the other account.

Appologies for the mess up.

Another thing ? How can I request full account deletion from hacker news ?

thendrill··on Great Man-Made River
I grew up in Libya during the building of the GMMR.

I still remember the size of the pipes and the amount of trucks hauling them. One truck one pipe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone_Aquifer_Sys...

The Korean companies building the project were massive. They would build a double lane road. One side would be used exclusively for one direction pipe supplies and machines. Eventually when the section completed they would just open the road as a public highway. This really helped Libya build up reach and infrastructure. The truck lines were endless... We are talking km long here...

Eventually when the water reached the coast, I remember I was in Benghazi then. It was good and drinkable from the spring ( this is usually not possible since the water is still salty from the sea) after about a week the sweet water stopped because they started mixing it with the old supply to conserve the desert supplies, the water amount in the desert was over estimated...

All in all Libya was a great country. My family moved to Europe and I remember how much miss information there was about Libya. The 2012 happened...

Ama about the GMMR. I ll try to answer as best as I can and remember.

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