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whydoineedthis··on Is remote sensing through 5G antennas possible?
Your not paranoid, it's a thing. Look at company called Polte - they do 'inventory tracking' using 5g. It's far more accurate for geolocation than anything prior.

They can find your cellphone -ane any other 5g device, within meters.

Personally, I think the marketing video here https://www.o-ran.org/ Is one of the creepiest things out there. Yes, it's 'open' - as in the collusion of all relevant companies in the space have agreed on a standard to sell your data faster, and more openly, than ever before. Oran is a specification for building 3rd party apps that sit inside the antennas compute hardware themselves. Not only can your carrier now track the living shit out of you, but so can hundreds of third parties that have 'obtained your permission'.

5g is creepy as fuck, and absolutely promises the cel network will not be usable for a revolution.

whydoineedthis··on Building Container Images with Nix
But it is reflective. I've found that sort of thing rampant in it's community, and sometimes it's own docs. It doesn't mean it's bad tech, but will be hard to convince a corporate group to want to use it.
whydoineedthis··on Building Container Images with Nix
The problem with Nix still remains it's documention, as this blog illustrates so well.

- MAny links points to a bunch of 404's. - The links that don't 404 go to ubiquitous readme's that have so much information it's hardly a good place to start. - The demo he provided is the easiest of use cases with a single package and static files. How do I actually build a binary? How to accomplish the pip installs he shows with the Docker file? Why not show a really 1:1 example if it's so easy?

And even if I work through all that for this blog, fat chance I'm going to convince my whole team to do so.

whydoineedthis··on Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
Literally the first sentence under the article headline

"More than 90 policy and rights groups ask company to abandon plans for scanning phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.". Maybe YOU weren't talking about csam, but everyone else was including the article author, if you even read it.

whydoineedthis··on Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
The rest of the csam monitoring does. And nice that you abuse your karma to downvote people who don't agree with you.
whydoineedthis··on Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
I don't think it reports those links back to big brother though. Keen difference.
whydoineedthis··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Workona tab manager does most of that for free. It doesn't have split screen, but it has better bookmark management.

Without personal discipline, niether of them solve my real problem of tab diahria as I go down 6 nested rabbit holes trying to solve multiple problems, some which do get solved, and some need exploring later, some which need to be archived.

Please, for the love of God ditch messaging. I don't need 1 more place to get a message from someone. If they are too lazy to copy pasta a link, I don't need to see it.

whydoineedthis··on Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]
The crackdown is not to reduce prices, the free market does that. The crackdown is to discourage/control learning western language and culture, as well as keep money from leaving the country for a service that reduces it's grip.
whydoineedthis··on Sri Lankan teenager builds solar-powered tuk-tuk from scraps [video]
Don't you think he has them on the roof as well? While not optimal, he will get some power no matter what direction he's facing, and that may be enough for the small task. Sri Lanka is ridiculously sunny.
whydoineedthis··on Texting really is ruining personal relationships
Opposite for my wife and I.

Texting removes all the negative emotion from our voices and lets us stay focused on the important words. Because it takes effort to type, way more than speaking, we are more cautious and selective, only using words that are necessary. Also, we each have time to think about our responses, since we don't expect immediate replies. That tends to lead to more thoughtful responses, rather than reactionary.

In a way, I think texting has brought us closer to a more Native American way of communicating, where long silences between pensive responses is looked positively upon.

whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Notes.cx – A simple, anonymous online notepad \w Markdown support
404. Paid version for longer retention coming soon?
whydoineedthis··on Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence
as others have noted, the house stuff is wrong.

- compound interest should be the default.

- when asked rent and house expenses as a percentage, is it a percentage of initial cost? current value? future value? It doesn't really make sense as a percentage. I don't charge a tenant X% of my cost, I charge market rate which may be more, or less than my actual expenses.

- same for taxes. it's a nearly fixed amount that increases over time, but trying to do it as a % calculation of actual dollars is often incorrect because that's not how it's calculated in real life.

whydoineedthis··on Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance and financial independence
you ask a lot of questions in the funnel that if I knew the answer to, I would likely have an accounting degree and certainly not need this software.
whydoineedthis··on Tesla’s new patent involves using table salt to mine lithium
GM, Ford, and every other car company enter the chat. "It's impossible to make electric vehicles work. There is no charging network, it's too difficult to build, no one likes it". Blah blah blah. Boing enters the chat "rockets that land on their arse are impossible. it can't be done." blah blah blah blah.

Excuse me if I could care less what old industry experts have to say - time and time and time and time and time again, he has proven them wrong.

whydoineedthis··on People Staring at Computers
Apple consented to his usage of the computers within the store...they actually put them there for the purpose of being used.

I'm sorry that photography offends you. Wait till you see what those new fanged house door bells are doing!

whydoineedthis··on People Staring at Computers
except - his software didn't have any remote administrative capabilities. - all photographers take pictures in public and then post them for profit, there is nothing new about that whatsoever. - There were no disclaimers on the computers in Apple's store that would prevent him from installing such software. Matter of fact, they are available for people to use and test in any way they see fit.

He's getting a free pass because he broke 0 laws. Zero.

whydoineedthis··on People Staring at Computers
Taking selfies in an apple store reminds you of child murder? You consider these things the same, or even similar?

Hrm, yeah, based on that I'm not going to consider your opinion very important.

whydoineedthis··on Extremely burnt out at 25. Considering quitting job and taking an extended break
Let me offer a different perspective to therapy. From my experience, having access to a doctorate trained person in behavior science is akin to an advisor that a King (or Queen) would gainfully employ. For a $20 co-pays, you have access to a life advisor that would typically only be afforded by the absolute wealthiest in feudal times. Your standard of living (with your insurance) affords you nearly the same benefit that only Kings would enjoy - that's quite a jump in standard of living.

With regards to being guarded toward people you don't know,please know that therapy doesn't start this way - with a dump of your intermost secrets. It's starts with talking about everyone else in your life. Over time, report builds and this person is now a friend firmly committed to seeing you succeed.

A note on choosing a therapist -find an actual doctorate that could prescribe pills (speaks to their level of education) but prefers not to. They often state this in their bio/website, and this way you can avoid any pill pushers, while getting the highest caliber of advisor.

I wish you luck, King Adepressedthrow.

whydoineedthis··on Tesla Says Autopilot Makes Its Cars Safer. Crash Victims Say It Kills
Tl;Dr a driver in a pickup truck cut off a Tesla at high speed, got rear ended. Pickup truck passenger wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was ejected during the collision.

Rest of the article is copy pasta of all the usual talking points of musk, Tesla, autopilot, etc.

whydoineedthis··on Show HN: Less Addictive YouTube – a cross-browser plugin
This is beautiful. So easy and so clean. Terrific project.
whydoineedthis··on Lessons from Building a Static Site Generator (2020)
Thank you, very helpful explanation.
whydoineedthis··on Lessons from Building a Static Site Generator (2020)
What is hydration? You talk a lot about it, but I've never had to add water to my websites before.
whydoineedthis··on Show HN: I Want to Build This: A Gamified Landing Page Builder
It seems like product hunt, with extra steps.
whydoineedthis··on Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
I had already resigned. First day of the last two weeks. I was updating a firewall rules in Cloudpassage. Their UI sucks, and doesn't make it clear what changes were made when you click "save". Apparently, I had accidentally changed port 443 from allow to block.

Well, when the site goes down the CEO charges into the DevOps eng room and starts screaming "we're under DDOS attack!" This was his go-to cause of any problem ever, and of course is never true.

Well anyway, with all the screaming and ruckus I had forgotten that I was just in Cloudpassage a few minutes prior changing something unrelated. So we are investigating the problem for almost an hour.

As services in AWS autoscale - they work for about 15 seconds, and then are no longer reachable. That's when I realize....once cloudpassage updates the firewall rules, the instance becomes blocked. Doh. I switched it back and everything went back to normal.

Two years without incident and then boom, ruined in the last two weeks. Felt awful, but fortunately they were cool about it.

whydoineedthis··on Hodlers beware: China is gunning for you
Totally agree.
whydoineedthis··on Roblox on Linux with recent Wine 6.11
No, it has probably replaced most 'gaming' activities kids used to do in the 80s/90s/00s - like Atari, GameBoy, Nintendo, Sega Genesis, etc.
whydoineedthis··on Hodlers beware: China is gunning for you
> An estimated 65% of global Bitcoin mining takes place in China, which requires huge amounts of electricity and has strained China’s State Grid. > While China has been transitioning to renewable energy, the vast majority of power generation still comes from dirty coal. > Bitcoin has become a direct challenger to China’s 2060 carbon neutrality pledge.

This actually makes China sound like a good guy, not a bad guy.

whydoineedthis··on The school for sysadmins who can’t timesync good
Just hanged, never loaded.
whydoineedthis··on The school for sysadmins who can’t timesync good
Hrm, couldn't get to page 3. Guess he needs a school for scaling static content delivery.
whydoineedthis··on How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart (1994) [pdf]
Thank you!
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