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lostbit

852 karma · joined July 7, 2010

Network engineer. Plays with routers, servers, satellite communications and likes to go deep on packet captures.
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lostbit··on Show HN: Wordle style games are not dead. I collected 314 and looking for more
My girl plays Termo and Letroso everyday, as a dessert from lunch. :-) Just submitted letroso.com which was not there, BTW.
lostbit··on Successful First Observations of Galactic Centre with GRAVITY
I've been right in front of ESO VLT, during a long motorcycle ride. A remarkable place, rough and peaceful at the same time.
lostbit··on Unix Toolbox
It was on my bookmarks for a long time. I thought it would be nice to share with you guys.

There are so many times I do searches on HN to recall about some nice things I've seen oh the web... Quite often, the comments are the gems!

lostbit··on NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
True. We know our current offset from UTC (or legacy 'GMT'). I always use the real offset at that time. Thus, I just inform my clock saying UTC-3 (or UTC-2 when we are in daylight savings time).
lostbit··on Ask HN: How do you get people to pay you back? Tools?
I used http://tricount.com/ It can be web only or a mobile app.

I remember looking for the word "iou", meaning "I owe you" and found some apps regarding splitting the bills, but I ended up with Tricount.

lostbit··on Show HN: Hyperlax.tv – a real-time feed of Instagram's latest Hyperlapse videos
Nice! I will set it on my room TV as an ambient attaction while talking with friends. let's see how it goes.

This reminds me that project Hyperlapse.js on http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/. They used to have a working site where you could make your own (quick) hyperlapse using Street View's content.

lostbit··on Ask HN: What project management tool do you love?
If you are more focused on tasks than chats you might like trello.com or even just workflowy.com. I wouldn't say they are Project Management tools, but they can help the processes go forward.
lostbit··on The cubicle gym: How I used science to make my work day freakishly healthy
This matches some of the concepts I've got from the book "The 4-Hour Body" from Tim Ferriss. The fast-exercise stimulation also tells your body not to store energy into fat, which is one of the principles of the Slow Carb Diet.
lostbit··on A Call for a Low-Carb Diet
I've started Tim Ferriss diet on May/2013 and went strictly on it (no supplements, aka, PAGG) up to September/13 when I reached my goal (97->82kg). I did a body check-up (mostly on blood and urine tests) on November/13 and everything was fine. I never came back on milk+bread on breakfast and I got used to go low-fat 6 days a week. I'm not so strict on Tim's diet anymore but I'm still low-fat-oriented. I'm turning 40 this month. So far, this diet worked greatly for me. BTW: I got to know about Tim's book here in HN.

I must recall that the low-carb diet from Tim is focused on food with low glycemic index. The idea is to avoid the conversion of the carbs you eat into fat stored in your body.

lostbit··on Building Bigger Roads Makes Traffic Worse
It's probably the same reason why we just get bigger hard-drives instead of cleaning stuff we store in our current storage capacity.
lostbit··on 3D printing tiny human livers
I didn't have associated the idea of "printing" to a "human organ" yet. Very interesting. I wonder if, in the future, printing an organ would be easier than making it grow somehow until it gets functional for transplant.
lostbit··on Is LinkedIn down?
It was on maintenance with a neat parking page (Sit tight).
lostbit··on Genius use of Pinterest by UNIQLO. Keep scrolling down.
Some images are 192x8228 pixels. This is probably scrolling in the shop monitors (if there are any). It has a catchy effect.
lostbit··on Show HN: DueProps, my employee motivation startup after selling Hashrocket
This fits very well in with the article discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4042931. I've just told my company's HR to please evaluate DueProps. It seems to be very nice for this goal of recongition made fun.
lostbit··on My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000
I remember watching "Pirates of the Silicon Valley" some time ago. It was nice to see the battles between Gates and Jobs in the beginning of the PC era. That movie ended even before Apple's re-birth.
lostbit··on Show HN: Automatically add beards, mustaches, monocles, and more to any face
A little bit in the topic. Trustworthiness of Beards: http://visually.visually.netdna-cdn.com/2355_infographic.jpg
lostbit··on Ask HN: Review my chatroom web app
Clickable: http://www.rapportapp.com
lostbit··on Show HN: Our weekend project - HN Showcase, browse "Show HN" posts
I guess you haven't been on http://www.hnsearch.com/apps. It has not everything but is a good summary.
lostbit··on Automatoon.com, an Online HTML5 Animation Tool (we finally launched :-)
Congratulations! I have no skills and could do something. I guess this will help designers to add something different in their pages. I think a kid can play with it and make something nice too.
lostbit··on Kind of Screwed
I was thinking about this. A 'famous' work nowadays is something that is extensively copied, remixed, rebuilt and virally spread. Many previous century minds think they have to gain something by their re-crafted work being in the spotlight again. They should be satisfied with a citation and happy they were remembered.

I believe today's works are more complacent about this. The artists understand that their work is supposed to pay them one time, that is, they receive their payment as agreed before starting it. If their work suddenly goes far beyond its initial goal, they will get bonuses of fame but rarely direct payments of their work showing up everywhere. Not-artist people usually don't even care.

lostbit··on Should I Change My Password?
Sources are mentioned in the FAQ and top page: https://shouldichangemypassword.com/sources.php

It's checking the e-mails on those databases.

lostbit··on Just launched geo.gy - a location shortener
I didn't think it would be able to "find me" accurately, but it did. Now I'm kind of worried :) I thought Google Location Service would not have this precision.
lostbit··on Show HN: HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News
It seems that this one has just arrived: http://hnmood.com/
lostbit··on An Open Letter To LulzSec
I thought it was a video card issue! I even refreshed the page. Tsc, tsc...
lostbit··on Share and Collaborate On Your WorkFlowy Lists
When it was released 224 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1870473), I remember this "mimics your brain" idea but it never bothered me. I did not feel invited to compare it to mind-mapping products. I took Workflowy as a nice dynamic lists software. I like it because of that. It really helps. It was made with the principle that Almost everything you create on Google Docs is a list, so they made Workflowy[1].

I also find mind-mapping studies fascinating. Many times I find myself starting to write in the middle of a sheet of paper and then making connections. I know this is not Workflowy. Can you give some good suggestions on mind-mapping software?

[1] TechCrunch article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/04/workflow/

lostbit··on [video] WebGL Techniques And Performance
Embarassing... Windows Update at 10:15. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfQ8rKGTVlg&feature=playe...
lostbit··on Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday
Today (1 dat after) the record/play button started to work for me. I guess they decided to make it available in other countries too. I finally could listen to your compositions.
lostbit··on Happy IPv6 Day
Today, big Internet portals are supposed to resolve to AAAA (IPv6) DNS queries in their main site. Thus, if your computer is enabled, it should try to access it using IPv6. It's also a good chance to see if AAAA responses to any machine (IPv6 or not) would cause any trouble in their OS or applications.

It's also some type of marketing to make the crowd aware about it. Many companies may have started on IPv6 because there was a day dedicated to test it.

lostbit··on Monitoring World IPv6 Day
So much ssh for native IPv6. That could only mean we - few tech people - are more concerned about using it. In the future, with dual stack, I hope people will use IPv6 without knowing it. Maybe someday we will think about IPv4 the way we see IPX today: obsolete, nobody uses it.
lostbit··on IPv6 Day Has Started
Some sites that don't have AAAA DNS today:

www.apple.com

www.amazon.com

www.sony.com

www.oracle.com

www.ibm.com

www.intel.com

www.adobe.com

www.ebay.com

www.dell.com

www.hp.com

www.nasa.gov

www.hotmail.com

www.wikipedia.org

news.ycombinator.com

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