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Spooks commented on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data   krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/whalesalad
karel-3d · 5 months ago
Move fast, break things
Spooks · 5 months ago
While bad in sensitive systems, breaking things seems preferable to blatantly giving account information to another country.

> There were more than 20 such attempts, and what is particularly concerning is that many of these login attempts occurred within 15 minutes of the accounts being created by DOGE engineers.

Spooks commented on Audiobooks vs. Printed Books: a debate as a reader and an author   newsandreviews.substack.c... · Posted by u/zeristor
chistev · 5 months ago
How do you listen to audio books when you're engaged in other activities? You'll be distracted and won't get everything. That's important to me.
Spooks · 5 months ago
The activities are mindless. Cutting grass, shoveling snow, cleaning the house, gardening, painting, and going on a run. Sure, I'll get distracted by something and need to rewind it back in 20 seconds, but that happens in books, and I'll need to re-read a page.
Spooks commented on Malls adding apartments to offset dwindling numbers of shoppers   ocregister.com/2022/01/25... · Posted by u/prostoalex
JimA · 4 years ago
I read the title and had a vision of a "community" built in a mail - where you would walk out of your apartment and be able to visit your local coffee bar, diner, park, grocery store, etc all within a mall. That sounded fabulous and something I would be interested in. The article left me disappointed, not much happening along those lines.
Spooks · 4 years ago
That does sounds great. Though I'd imagine trying to retro fit plumbing for each apartment would be a nightmare
Spooks commented on LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/perihelions
joe_guy · 4 years ago
Is the irony of you posting this on HN intended?
Spooks · 4 years ago
but... you can post on HN pretty anonymously if you wanted, so that is a bit different
Spooks commented on Panasonic sells its $3.6B Tesla stake   finbold.com/panasonic-dum... · Posted by u/sammyaxe
Spooks · 4 years ago
"The Japanese firm paid $21.15 per share for around 1.4 million shares"

That is some decent profit

Spooks commented on Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone   alvarez.io/posts/living-l... · Posted by u/betaman0
everdrive · 4 years ago
Does your 7 year old android phone receive security patches?
Spooks · 4 years ago
At least for me, I don't do banking on my phone and my main email is not tied to my phone.
Spooks commented on Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed   eu.usatoday.com/in-depth/... · Posted by u/ruaraidh
trynton · 4 years ago
Without any verifiable evident, it just doesn't make sense. There is a continual exchange of information between Wuhan and other centers of disease control. So it would be very difficult to keep such a secret. Besides, if it was a virus that escaped, then the Chinese would already have the means to create a vaccine and so save the planet. Instead they did nothing and sat on it.
Spooks · 4 years ago
>have the means to create a vaccine and so save the planet

is that true though? Aren't a lot of diseases being worked on in labs without the means to cure them yet

Spooks commented on Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone   shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/02/... · Posted by u/edent
dahfizz · 5 years ago
The real real problem is that so many sites overcomplicate their design.

HN works beautifully on any window / screen size.

Spooks · 5 years ago
HN is a pretty minimal site though - it is just a message board.
Spooks commented on Is carbon capture a viable solution?   thedetechtor.com/post/car... · Posted by u/scottbucks
markkat · 5 years ago
>In the IEA's "Clean Technology Scenario", more than 28 GtCO2 could be captured from industrial facilities between now and 2060.

We emit about 35-40 GtCO2 per year. So in 40 years, we might expect carbon capture to remove less than one year of emissions.

Not useless, but close, considering the investment which could be used instead to more rapidly reduce emissions by installing/improving solar, wind, geothermal, etc.

Spooks · 5 years ago
Would the increase in investment have a better chance to facilitate research and development? As with more research comes the possibility of a better capture rate down the road
Spooks commented on Why I chose Electron.js for my side business   getloaf.io/blog/why-i-cho... · Posted by u/knowingathing
cocoa19 · 5 years ago
Perfectly valid decision.

For my own desktop apps, I'd choose Qt, since cross platform support is top notch.

With that said, I understand that nowadays, C++ developers are harder to come by, and memory corruption issues are not fun to work with.

Spooks · 5 years ago
I started working with C++ several months ago, mostly due to curiosity.

Though I haven't done anything that I would consider extremely complex, memory corruption seems easy enough to deal with by planning.

Maybe because it is so ingrained as whenever I heard discussions of C++, memory (de)allocation and memory corruption was always the first thing people talked about. Dealing with de-allocation feels like closing a curly brace, almost automatic.

u/Spooks

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