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chrbr commented on Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs guru3d.com/story/synology... · Posted by u/baobun

rickdeckard · 4 months ago

While I see where you're coming from, in my experience ESPECIALLY Customer-Support is usually happy to have a clear-cut criteria to reject support-requests as "officially out-of-scope".

I wouldn't be surprised if the decision was made BECAUSE Customer Support highlighted the support-effort to debug all these unique customer-setups within warranty, and then someone stepped in and proposed to kill two birds with one stone and only support own HDD's...

chrbr · 4 months ago

I know nothing about the reasoning behind the original decision from Synology, nor the internal politics at play, but typically the customer support tail is not wagging the dog of the rest of the company. Might be bias/anecdata from the places I've worked, but product usually drives everything, and the support staff has to deal with the consequences.

chrbr commented on Tsunami warning was issued in Alaska after 7.3 magnitude earthquake [updated] tsunami.gov/... · Posted by u/notmysql_

dylan604 · 7 months ago

* A tsunami was generated by this event, but no longer poses a threat.

* This will be the final U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center message issued for this event.

I'm in danger of being "Warning-ed" out. Watches are different and will always get my attention. Especially after the recent overreaction to sending out way more flood warnings even when it is not any where near me is just getting me to not bother with them.

I know this is the danger the forecasters face. I can appreciate how they clearly stated the issue was now over in a very quick time though.

chrbr · 7 months ago

Aren't warnings always positioned as being a more immediate threat than watches?

https://www.weather.gov/safety/tsunami-alerts

chrbr commented on I deleted my second brain joanwestenberg.com/p/i-de... · Posted by u/MrVandemar

melodyogonna · 8 months ago

I have a simple philosophy in how I approach everything: Too much of anything is bad.

When I started taking notes with obsidian I almost fell into this trap of over-analysing everything in terms of what should go into a note, making folders and sub-folders. It became quickly obvious to me that the mental burden of this can accumulate quickly.

These days I store most of my notes in one folder. The only times I now make a note are: 1. When I'm reading. 2. Very rare these days, but sometimes I still have nagging thoughts that wants to be written down. 3. When I have important information that needs to be stored, like IP address, things like this.

I've found that not thinking about notes obsessively like this helps me better, most thoughts are useless and fleeting, they're not worth writing down imo. Best to be in your mind in those.

The outcome of this is that my vault has remained simple and small even after a year, and when I search it for information it is almost always for some important detail I knew I wrote down, I don't get overloaded with junk.

To keep my notes space clean I also regularly move things to archive, which I rarely check.

chrbr · 8 months ago

I’ve also struggled with over-analyzing where stuff should go. I’ve restarted a new Obsidian vault based on PARA [1], and am experimenting with using LLMs (both Cursor and Claude Code) to help me decide where stuff should go. Been a big help so far.

[1] https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/

chrbr commented on Lego built full-size F1 cars for the Miami GP drivers' parade nytimes.com/athletic/6331... · Posted by u/jakubmazanec

cjrp · 9 months ago

Even at 12mph, drivers couldn't help but race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXY40oiNhEA

chrbr · 9 months ago

F1TV had some fun with it in their usual post-race programming: Joylon Palmer (F1TV announcer) did a deadpan "breakdown" of the Lego race during his segment, and Sam Collins analyzed the aerodynamics of the Lego cars in his.

The drivers all said it was the best driver's parade they've been in. I don't know how marketing like this works, and if it was worth it for Lego in the end, but what a masterstroke. Lots of fun organic mentions of Lego over the past week because of it.

chrbr commented on Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left fortune.com/article/retai... · Posted by u/andrewfromx

wvenable · 9 months ago

The US unemployment rate was 4% in 2024. Why does America even need manufacturing jobs?

chrbr · 9 months ago

This is what I don't get. We don't have masses of unemployed people waiting in the ranks to fill a large amount of new jobs, as unlikely an outcome as that even is. Which means any large uptick in people working in manufacturing would have to come from some other industry. So what jobs would we give up for it?

chrbr commented on CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' pcgamer.com/gaming-indust... · Posted by u/ghuroo1

eykanal · a year ago

The problem with this paper is that, while technically true, there are many website owners who have found that CAPTCHAs have effectively reduced the spam on their site to zero. The fact that a CAPTCHA _can_ be bypassed doesn't mean that it _will_, and most spam bots are not using cutting-edge tech because that's expensive.

To say "it's worthless from a security perspective" is a pretty harsh and largely inaccurate representation. It's been tremendously useful to those who have used it. If it wasn't valuable, it wouldn't be so widely used.

Definitely agree with the whole "tons of free $$$ for Google", but that's kind of their business model, so yeah, Google is being Google. In other breaking news, water is still wet.

chrbr · a year ago

Yeah, we've used CAPTCHAs to great effect as gracefully-degraded service protection for unauthenticated form submissions. When we detect that a particular form is being spammed, we automatically flip on a feature flag for it to require CAPTCHAs to submit, and the flood immediately stops. Definitely saves our databases from being pummeled, and I haven't seen a scenario since we implemented it a few years ago where the CAPTCHA didn't help immediately.

Reminds me of the advice around the deadbolt on your house - it won't stop a determined attacker, but it will deter less-determined ones.

chrbr commented on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back spectrum.ieee.org/touchsc... · Posted by u/pseudolus

yabones · a year ago

I specifically bought a Mazda because it's the only car that feels safe to actually use. HVAC, audio, maps, calling, absolutely everything can be done with physical controls that minimize eyes-off-road time. There's no situation where you're sticking your arm out trying to tap some tiny on-screen button to get directions. Taking rides with other people in Teslas, subarus, fords, etc, is just wild. Having to go into a menu to change from vents to defrost is crazy, I don't understand how that's even legal.

chrbr · a year ago

I agree, I love the Mazda approach to this in my CX-50. I'm not even sure if the display is touchscreen or not, because I always use the wheel-clicker thingie in the console to control it.

This was an intentional design choice from Mazda, of course, that goes hand-in-hand with their philosophy of giving such control to the driver that they "[feel] oneness with the car, as if it is an extension of their body." [1]

When searching around for a quote like that, I found a HN discussion from 2019 about the Mazda decision to eliminate touchscreens. [2]

[1] https://www.mazdausa.com/discover/human-centric-design-puts-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20200335

chrbr commented on Study: Dark matter doesn't exist, the universe is 27B years old earth.com/news/study-dark... · Posted by u/msolujic

Filligree · a year ago

Thank you for your submission of a proposed revolutionary theory to replace dark matter. Your new theory claims to be superior to dark matter models and will transform our understanding of the universe. Unfortunately, your theory will likely fail, because:

[ ] It cannot explain galaxy rotation curves across all galaxy types.

[ ] It fails to account for gravitational lensing observed in galaxy clusters.

[ ] It cannot explain the Bullet Cluster observations where dark matter appears separated from normal matter.

[ ] It is inconsistent with the cosmic microwave background anisotropies.

[ ] It cannot explain the large-scale structure and formation of the universe.

[ ] It introduces arbitrary parameters without physical justification.

[ ] It lacks a sound theoretical foundation or violates established physics principles.

[ ] It fails to explain the observed velocity dispersions in dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

[ ] It cannot account for empirical relations like the Tully-Fisher relation.

[ ] It cannot be tested or falsified by current or near-future experiments.

[ ] Your claims are unfounded or exaggerated.

——

I’m not a physicist, and cannot fill this in, but I thought I’d provide the template for the first physicist who turns up.

chrbr · a year ago

The paper calls out a few things that they didn't cover:

> The CCC+TL model predicts the age of the Universe as 26.7 Gyr against the generally accepted value of 13.8 Gyr. This is of deep concern and needs the model validation against multiple observations, including BAOs, CMB, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN), and globular cluster ages. Our focus here is on BAOs.

I am not in academia and therefore am not qualified to have strong opinions on any of this, but I do like the idea of papers not swinging for home runs all the time by explaining everything, and instead being happy with hitting a single by proposing something intriguing and asking for others to chime in.

chrbr commented on Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell retractionwatch.com/2024/... · Posted by u/susam

chrbr · 2 years ago

Unfamiliar with academia here, and I can't quite figure it out from TFA - does a retraction always imply wrongdoing, instead of mere "wrongness?" Or are papers sometimes retracted for being egregiously wrong, even if their methods were not intentionally misleading?