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mxvzron Expensive fridges are dying, leading to fraud claims

I've noticed this too. I always assumed it was meant to make price comparison more difficult for consumers.

A recent FTC lawsuit [1] made me realize it could also be meant to prevent the seller's platform from doing price comparison ("if Amazon discovers that a seller is offering lower-priced goods elsewhere, Amazon can bury discounting sellers so far down in Amazon’s search results that they become effectively invisible")

mxvzron Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?

    json2yaml() {
        python3 -c "import json,sys,yaml; print(yaml.dump(json.load(sys.stdin)))"
    }
    export -f json2yaml

    yaml2json() {
        python3 -c "import json,sys,yaml; json.dump(yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin), sys.stdout, default=str)"
    }
    export -f yaml2json

    httping() {
        while true; do
            curl $@ -so /dev/null \
                -w "connected to %{remote_ip}:%{remote_port}, code=%{response_code} time=%{time_total}s\n" \
                || return $?
            sleep 1
        done
    }
    [[ ! $(>&/dev/null type httping) ]] && export -f httping

    redis-cli() {
        REDIS_HOST="${1:-127.0.0.1}"
        REDIS_PORT="${2:-6379}"  
        rlwrap -S "${REDIS_HOST}:${REDIS_PORT}> " socat tcp:${REDIS_HOST}:${REDIS_PORT} STDIO
    }
    [[ ! $(>&/dev/null type redis-cli) ]] && export -f redis-cli

mxvzron French Nuclear Outages Risk Making Europe’s Gas Crisis Worse

France has 56 reactors, of which 29 are currently shutdown.

My understanding is that they are closed for maintenance rather than due to the on-going heatwave.

It has been described as the perfect storm: some reactors have reached the 10yr mark (so extensive maintenance is to be done on these), lockdowns have slowed the progress of regular maintenance (possibly introducing a backlog?), and finally corrosion was found in secondary cooling systems used during emergencies leading to further (12) shutdowns.

mxvzron Ask HN: Has YouTube peaked?

pi-hole can still help with that, unless the client is running on android.

mxvzron Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out office workers

My understanding is that even once the manager has filled their team with top performers they'll keep hiring every year for the sole purpose of firing them later in order to meet the quota

mxvzron One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet

In the same vein take a look at tvmountain, also on YouTube. Little to no talking, almost never any music, just the sound of crampons & the ice axe. I find it strangely relaxing.

mxvzron Rapidly cooling trauma victims to buy more time for surgery

Still better than "Amputated the leg in under 2 1⁄2 minutes (the patient died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene; they usually did in those pre-Listerian days). He amputated in addition the fingers of his young assistant (who died afterwards in the ward from hospital gangrene). He also slashed through the coat tails of a distinguished surgical spectator, who was so terrified that the knife had pierced his vitals he dropped dead from fright. That was the only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Liston

mxvzron Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Profitable

Wouldn't the harmful stuff eventually dissipate? How long would one have to wait to safely scavenge a booster sitting in the open?

mxvzron Scavenging Russia’s Rocket Graveyard Is Dangerous and Profitable

Altai Territory, Russia: https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellites/64

Kazakhstan: https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellites/63 https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellites/62 https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellites/61

mxvzron Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

I'd remove Ghostery. Not only is it useless once you are running uMatrix & uBlock Origin, they also used to sells your data (page visit, blocking, and advertising statistics) if you activated a feature called "GhostRank". Not sure whether it's still true or not.

mxvzron Air Force tests two turboprops as potential A-10 “replacements”

They are, but ever since [1] they only do so at night.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khafji

mxvzron Amazon2csv: Amazon products scraper to CSV (no API token required)

Yes they allow it. It often leads to "product listing hijacking": another seller sends a counterfeit/similar product to amazon using the UPC of your (private label) product. Product & review pages are then shared between all these different products. AFAIK the only way to combat this is purchasing the other product, document how if differs from your product, report it all to amazon and hope they act before too much damage is done to your product listing.

mxvzron Amazon2csv: Amazon products scraper to CSV (no API token required)

Are you able to share some details? How often did you have to get new IP addresses? What about user agent? Were the scapers "straight to the point" like amazon2csv (ie: make a request directly to the search page) or did they have randomized behavior (eg: re-use sessions from time to time; click a random link on the page; start from the homepage...)? Did the scrapers ever went against amz's robots.txt directives (eg: interacting with the cart page)? Ever heard from amz itself about your employer's activities on their site?

mxvzron Deno, a secure TypeScript runtime using V8 and Go

looks like it is using the typescript API to compile the TS code at runtime

mxvzron Raspberry Pi microSD card performance comparison

Thank you so much for posting these two options; The RPI kept sending TFTP requests to the machine running the DHCP server despite my attempts to specify another IP (the "official" documentation specifies pxe-service=0,"Raspberry Pi Boot" to which I added the filename & ip as per dnsmasq man page; same thing with dhcp-boot parameter)

mxvzron SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

If I understood properly none of the boosters were block 5 so they weren't looking at re-flying them.

They are however interested in recovering the grid fins on the side boosters, which were redesigned to accommodate for the nose cones now sitting on top of them.

mxvzron My Arch Linux Setup with Plasma 5

If the machine is turned off and only the home directory is encrypted, I am at liberty to patch the kernel or binaries, update your package manager or dns settings, or anything in between really. I can do none of that with FDE (assuming I don't already know the key of course).

What am I missing here?

mxvzron My Arch Linux Setup with Plasma 5

Encrypting the home directory ensures the privacy of your data should someone get his hands on your machine. Under the same scenario, full disk encryption would also gives you the guarantee the system hasn't been tampered with.

mxvzron Node.js Compiler – Compiling your Node.js application into a single executable

AFAIK Alpine Linux is using musl which would explain the low binary size.

mxvzron Self-Healing Transistors for Chip-Scale Starships

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13161879

mxvzron With latency as low as 25ms, SpaceX to launch broadband satellites in 2019

Couldn't a municipality/HOA/whatever put in place restrictions on what kind of satellite dishes you may setup on your property?

mxvzron Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work?

Mens sana in corpore sano: a healthy mind in a healthy body

mxvzron Ask HN: What do you do when you've lost motivation at work?

IMO this attitude (ie. deception) is not okay. Whatever the frequency of it, it sounds dishonest. Besides I think you're overlooking the impact it has on your peers: it is very likely someone with similar skillset will see right through the padded estimates and/or can tell the difference between bogus and actual work. Some may have trouble keeping their heads down once they've figured this out. When uninspired I think it's best to openly admit it and fallback to more menial tasks while you wait for the energy to comes back than to engage in this kind of behavior. Personally I wouldn't put up with it for very long, for fear of seeing it spread to other team members.

mxvzron Best Linux Distros for Gaming in 2017

I tried it two years ago. I couldn't tell the difference performance wise. A large majority of the games in my (extensive) stream library worked. Some wouldn't stream to my Steam Link [1] (black screen). Couldn't get controllers to work on a few of them. One or two didn't have sound. One in particular would crash and somehow make the VM unbootable. Made two attempts with that game and ended up giving up after that.

The host system was Arch, the guest was Windows 7. Fedora is the only other distro I ever heard being it done on. This page [2] was very helpful.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/353380/

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM...

mxvzron Shutting down public FTP services

and it does checksum for you.

edit: thinking about it not sure I agree with the anonymous part considering the swarm can be monitored. the access log is essentially publicly distributed.

mxvzron Devuan Jessie 1.0.0 stable release candidate

It's primal; something you can scream out during intercourse.

mxvzron Systemd-free Devuan announces its first stable release candidate 'Jessie' 1.0.0

While you can find stage3 tarballs for systemd, OpenRC is still the default for Gentoo AFAIK. (And speaking of Arch Linux, I can't really say I miss initscripts)