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btgeekboyon If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity

Another way to think about it is cars allow people who live further from the campus along routes not served by transit (either at all or in a timely and convenient manner) to still work for the company. A multi-story parking structure would also have reduced the amount of surface area dedicated to vehicles.

btgeekboyon Record 4 Camera Angles at Once Using Only iPhones and iPads

I admit I have no idea how it's actually working, but Apple does have experience keeping audio in sync: AirPods. I suspect video's a similar process.

btgeekboyon Show HN: Safe Routes. real time turbulence data, ML predictions with an iPad

Didn’t ForeFlight just come out with something similar recently? https://blog.foreflight.com/2024/05/07/smooth-skies/ They don’t mention ML specifically, but I imagine their install base is a tad larger and can therefore gather more real data. Is your solution different?

btgeekboyon Julian Assange Is Free

I’m not saying Assange is fully responsible for the outcome of the 2016 election. But when you directly attack one party of a two party race, you’re actively giving the edge to the other. He clearly held a grudge against Clinton (https://wikileaks.org/hillary-war/) and continued to act upon it.

Now that this multi-decade saga is coming to an end, and we have the benefit of hindsight, I’m wondering if he still thinks that the blast radius of his actions were acceptable, or if perhaps he thinks he should have been more cautious before standing for his principles and acting upon that grudge. From what I know, I’d be remorseful and regret having done it, but I am not him.

btgeekboyon Julian Assange Is Free

In 2016, Julian Assange intentionally timed the release of Hillary Clinton's emails in an attempt to harm her presidential campaign, after she condemned the diplomatic cable releases during her tenure of Secretary of State.

Whether directly or otherwise, even if only the smallest amount, his vendetta led to her loss, and Trump's subsequent win. In 2016, the NYT wrote, "First, citing his 'personal perspective,' Mr. Assange accused Mrs. Clinton of having been among those pushing to indict him after WikiLeaks disseminated a quarter of a million diplomatic cables during her tenure as secretary of state. 'We do see her as a bit of a problem for freedom of the press more generally,' Mr. Assange said." (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/assange-timed...)

Is there any evidence that he's shown a reconsideration for that position?

btgeekboyon Twonkie: A USB-PD sniffer/injector/sink based on Google's Twinkie open hardware

I combined one of those cheap breakouts with this variable voltage power supply - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0861LGM15 - and a 3d printed enclosure to make a benchtop power supply pretty affordably. Just use your laptop's power supply and now you can have any voltage and limited amperage.

btgeekboyon Astronauts stranded, multiple issues w Starliner – return flight window closing

This one’s been on my wishlist for a bit:

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

btgeekboyon AMD Unveils Ryzen 9000 CPUs for Desktop, Zen 5

Yeah - I've been waiting to see what this release would entail as I kinda want to build a SFF PC. But now that I know what's in it, and since they didn't come out with anything really special chipset-wise, I'll probably just see if I can get some current-get stuff at discounted prices during the usual summer sales.

btgeekboyon The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number

Kinda like this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_SIM

btgeekboyon Ask HN: How do I stop political SMS spam?

No, that’s not the only way. “STOP” is a keyword that most carriers/providers will respect and handle automatically. “You have the wrong number” requires all that human involvement.

btgeekboyon The greenest car in America isn't an EV

Anecdotally, I recently rented a Jeep Wrangler PHEV. Didn’t choose that model specifically; was expecting a Prius but it’s what the rental counter gave me.

The battery was dead when I picked it up. It was dead when I returned it, despite me actually looking for a L2 charger just to see what it would be like to drive fully on battery. It did drive as a hybrid (I could feel the ICE stop and start) but it wasn’t nearly as efficient as it could have been, especially considering my entire rental was probably under 100 miles.

btgeekboyon Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death

Landing there is part of it, yes, as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.

It brought along a bunch of NASA and commercial payloads as well.

https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-lande...

btgeekboyon I turned my ThinkPad into a programmable USB device

That's basically what I do as well. I combined a similar HDMI dongle with a Logitech K400 Plus wireless keyboard+trackpad combo. It's an absolutely terrible membrane keyboard for everyday use, but having the trackpad and keyboard in the same device, using the same single dongle that has a storage slot in the keyboard makes things really easy for light, occasional use.

btgeekboyon Coding in Vision Pro

Are you referring to the U3224KB? It's $2500, which seems a bit steep.

btgeekboyon You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl"

https://duckduckgo.com/?va=c&t=ha&q=site%3Awww.apple.com+sma...

Lots of results there, especially press releases.

btgeekboyon FAA Aviation Maps

Yep. Here's a few links to get you started:

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/aero_dat... https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/digital_...

btgeekboyon Tell HN: Hacker News now supports IPv6

I turned it off on my home network. I have a multi-wan setup (fiber + 5g). The 5g provider supports v6, but only delegates a /64. The fiber provider will delegate me a /56, which is plenty for both my home and guest networks. Failover for v4 works great, as everything's behind NAT so the route just changes when my firewall detects an issue, but clients accessing v6 resources have a hard time, as you're waiting on each device to figure out that the old route is dead. So that's problem number one.

Problem number two is that the fiber provider doesn't support native v6; it's actually a 6rd tunnel. Latency isn't great compared to v4.

I need to go figure out the ULA situation and do NPTv6. But last I checked, my firewall wasn't able to do NPTv6 with delegated ranges. That may have changed, but I've not found any substantial reason to actually put in the effort to figure out it when my v4 network works fine.

btgeekboyon Ask HN: Why do computers/tablets/etc "freeze up" as they get older?

The connection itself wouldn't get slower, but the outer mechanism using that connection may retry, and the retry may be successful. The appearance to the user is one of slowness.

For example, one of the symptoms of networking packet is slowness. Assume 2% of packets are lost. A packet is lost, the receiver re-requests it, and the retry has a 98% chance of being successful. End result: the transmission completes, but at a slower pace.

btgeekboyon United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections

They’re final-assembled in WA. The plug is installed by Spirit Aerosystems in Kansas.

btgeekboyon United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections

It’s a current Fox News talking point. Don’t have a link at hand currently, but one host in a recent segment drew an explicit line between this disaster and DEI initiatives in general, with zero evidence. (As always, it was under the guise of “just asking questions.”)

btgeekboyon Alaska Airlines 737 Max makes emergency landing due to depressurization

Your assumption is correct - air is pushed into the cabin by the engines, and the pressure is controlled by an outflow valve. An unanticipated hole, assuming it was small enough, would just be compensated for.

btgeekboyon Google Fiber - 20 Gig + Wi-Fi 7 will be available to select customers

What are people doing with this sort of connectivity? It still feels niche with the ubiquity of wifi and 1gig Ethernet in the home.

btgeekboyon Ask HN: What photo sharing solution should we use for our destination wedding?

We used GuestPix recently, which fulfills both of your requirements - original quality uploads, no apps to download. I’m overall pleased with the site, and the $50 was a drop in the bucket all things considered.

One thing we learned is that even though our crowd is tech savvy, we still had to hound people to upload stuff after the fact.

btgeekboyon Addressing Changes to PfSense Plus Home+Lab

OPNsense is working towards that vision. They're rebuilding the car while it's driving down the road, so while some things aren't supported, many things can be done through the REST API. See https://docs.opnsense.org/development/architecture.html and https://docs.opnsense.org/development/api.html

btgeekboyon Dagor Engine and Tools source code from Gaijin Games KFT

I assume it’s a tongue-in-cheek reference to how the War Thunder forums have recently been used for multiple leaks of US military classified information.

btgeekboyon Ask HN: Is anyone using cloud dev environments (e.g. Codespaces/Replit) at work?

Can't answer the latter questions as I'm not OP, but you could start finding a colo here if you're looking at the cheaper end of things:

https://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=131

Also just googling "[major city name] colocation" will usually find results, though be warned pricing is often "call us" vs. stated upfront.

btgeekboyon LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

There are monthly who’s hiring and who wants to be hired threads that seem to fill that niche.

btgeekboyon FBI warns against using public USB charging ports

Between the advances in modern phone battery life over the years, and the relative affordability (cost, size, weight) of USB batteries, I can't recall the last time I actually used public ports. Why be tethered to a port on a wall when you can walk anywhere with an external battery temporarily in your back pocket or backpack? Get a battery that supports fast charging, and you'll be able to recharge a lot faster than most of those public ports anyway.

btgeekboyon 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack

23andMe is a 17 year old public company with almost $300m in revenue. I’d hardly call that a startup.

btgeekboyon The spotted lanternfly is now in Illinois

I just grab a sheet of paper, scoop them up, take them outside, then squish as they go into the trash. They’re usually quite content to just walk up onto the paper and go for a ride.