KZeillmann (u/KZeillmann)

KZeillmann commented on Pixel sent to Google for replacement. They used it to post wife's nudes online old.reddit.com/r/legaladv... · Posted by u/po1nter

paulgdp · 4 years ago

To be fair, when sending a Pixel for reparations, Google very clearly and explicitly asks to factory_reset the phone.

I personally didn't reset it when I sent my Pixel 3 to fix the charging port because my Pixel was fully encrypted.

All Pixels are encrypted by default as long as you have any kind of lock method enabled (PIN, password, shape...).

I don't really understand how this person got his files in cleartext and accessible.

KZeillmann · 4 years ago

My impression from the (now deleted) text is that the phone wasn't booting or in a state where it could be factory reset, at least not without considerable effort.

KZeillmann commented on Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s most innovative drug lord torontolife.com/city/this... · Posted by u/Geekette

imbnwa · 4 years ago

> But it also has the negative consequence of putting additional financial strain on the people who already have the most financial strain and it's hard to tell if the added funding to schools cancels out the additional financial strain placed on the lower classes.

This reads as patronizing. Somebody wants to buy a lotto ticket, that's their business. The alternative to lotto are the numbers games they replaced which were backed by violence.

KZeillmann · 4 years ago

Another way to look at it is that lotteries are a way for poorer people to subsidize college education for richer people.

KZeillmann commented on Backblaze IPO sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da... · Posted by u/hippich

KZeillmann · 4 years ago

It seems there's a lot of criticism here about Backblaze - about how other services do it better, etc.

I'm a current Backblaze customer, not a data hoarder, etc. If you're not using Backblaze to back up your data, what are you using? Backblaze is great for me cause all I want it to do is back up my docs, files, etc. and there's very little maintenance I have to do. Is there something out there that does it better?

KZeillmann commented on Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness neverworkintheory.org/202... · Posted by u/zdw

KZeillmann · 4 years ago

A team getting to 100% test coverage and enforcing it feels like an application of Goodhart's Law.

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

At my last job, we required 100% code coverage for most code, and the other parts of the code (in ideality) were marked with ignores that were well-thought-through.

In practice, I ended up writing a bunch of test cases only to hit the if blocks. It didn't mean that the tests I wrote were any good. I'm still a fan of 100% test coverage, but with some leeway for what needs to be ignored, and what needs to be tested later (non-critical paths, if you have a deadline, perhaps)

KZeillmann commented on Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir? · Posted by u/sdiw

KZeillmann · 5 years ago

We tried it and moved away from it. A few reasons - one is IDE support, which has been mentioned in this thread. The other was release configuration. At the time we were working on it, it was more difficult than it should have been to use env variables at runtime (rather than build time).

I'm used to the Spring Boot approach - start with having different Spring profiles for different environments, and then let your secrets come in via env vars, but doing this via Distillery at the time required some hackery - they wanted you to build a QA build and a prod build, which didn't make much sense. Maybe it's better now, but that turned me off a lot to using it.

KZeillmann commented on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S. apnews.com/article/joe-bi... · Posted by u/granzymes

evgen · 5 years ago

I really have no idea where this idea that the polls failed comes from. There were only two bad calls this cycle and every other outcome was within the margin of error. It was pretty much the same case in 2016 where people who had no idea what they were talking about suddenly decided they were certain polling failed because they are unable to grasp the concept of margin of error and sample size.

Polls can only guess about turnout and the try to work backwards from there. The turnout estimates were wrong but not shockingly so, and as a consequence a lot of polls ended up having the result be at the far end of their margin of error. Nothing went wrong. Polling is hard. Get over this idea that you can have some sort of certainty regarding an election until we actually hold the election.

KZeillmann · 5 years ago

My issue with polling is that many races were well beyond the margin of error. The Senate polling in particular was bad this year.

Sara Gideon was favored to win the Maine race in the polling, because there hadn't been a single poll showing Collins in the lead since July. She lost her race by 9 points.

It's also strange to see the region makes a difference in the poll error. The polls in Minnesota were basically spot-on, but in Wisconsin (demographically very similar), the polling average was Biden +8, with one ABC news poll showing him +17, the kind of outlier result you'd expect with a +8 average. He's gonna win there by ~1 percentage point.

There's something wrong with how a lot of these pollsters determine samples, or how they judge someone's likeliness to vote.

KZeillmann commented on I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? twitter.com/kaydo/status/... · Posted by u/Kroeler

wccrawford · 6 years ago

Why would an IOT thermometer be any better than one that just has a readout on the lid?

I understand that if the thermometer is on th lid and not actually measuring the meat it's crap, but if it's measuring the same way as the IOT version, then the readout is fine on the lid.

KZeillmann · 6 years ago

Placement. Either you want a probe thermometer measuring the internal temperature of the meat or an air temperature probe on the indirect side of grill. The gauge on the grill is likely to be off 50-100 degrees F. They're often cheaply made and not as high quality as something like a probe themometer from Thermoworks, or presumably this Weber device.

KZeillmann commented on I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? twitter.com/kaydo/status/... · Posted by u/Kroeler

flukus · 6 years ago

A meat gauge connected to the thermometer on the lid then.

This whole attitude to cooking is also weird. Cooking is in large part experimenting, seeing what works and what doesn't, learning and iterating. Sometimes the results will be bad, often they'll be sub-optimal but the variance is part of what makes it and we lose something by trying to turn it into an exact science. If you want something precisely timed and always the same I suggest McDonalds.

KZeillmann · 6 years ago

Using a meat thermometer (leave-in probe or instant) is a fantastic element of modern cooking, and a huge advancement in food safety. I can't imagine cooking without it. It doesn't mean I don't enjoy experimenting - but it does mean my chicken doesn't dry out or come out undercooked.

KZeillmann commented on I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? twitter.com/kaydo/status/... · Posted by u/Kroeler

youngNed · 6 years ago

a guage. On the bbq lid. No, i can't check it while i sit inside, this is true, there is, however a very good argument that says, maybe i shouldn't actually be inside while the bbq is on though.

KZeillmann · 6 years ago

The temperature gauge on the lid is a terrible judge of what the actual air temperature is inside your grill. It's often low quality and not in a proper placement for your indirect heat. Depending on placement, it can be off by more than 100 degrees F

KZeillmann commented on Zoom still claims ability to “secure a meeting with end-to-end encryption” zoom.us/security... · Posted by u/tony101

slovenlyrobot · 6 years ago

Entirely shoot from the hip comment, but at this point I feel it's warranted..

What is with all the Zoom hate? The company have been around for a decade, enjoyed relatively mediocre success until the outbreak of Covid, and suddenly apparently since they're experiencing huge demand and press coverage, every man and his dog is finding reasons to write a blog post complaining about them.

I've read some article splitting hairs over the nuances of "end to end encryption" and how Zoom is so horrible, evil and wrong because they, like almost every telecommunication provider under the sun, can intercept your calls. What makes Zoom so special?

What's driving all this hate? Because it's a far more interesting question than what technical flaws Zoom, or any other product in this category, almost certainly suffer from.

Has someone done any security analysis of Houseparty? It's experienced surge growth in the same period. But in the time I've seen maybe 20 Zoom-hate articles on HN I haven't seen a single mention of Houseparty. What about Google Hangouts: is it "end"-to-"end" "encrypted"? What about its recording feature? Where are the articles? Where is all the hate?

Why?

KZeillmann · 6 years ago

It's probably because HN is a particularly privacy-focused community and Zoom's privacy policy is a bit more questionable than other companies