danielparks (u/danielparks)

danielparks commented on Best Gas Masks theverge.com/policy/86857... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

malacola · a month ago

Does anyone know if any of these respirators can be sized to fit a smaller than average 4-year-old?

If they start rolling through random neighborhoods and gassing people in their homes like they did in Minneapolis, I’d like to be prepared.

danielparks · a month ago

Mira makes a few options for children. https://www.mirasafety.com/products/cbrn-child-escape-respir...

I have no personal experience with Mira; I’ve been looking for a respirator myself because I live in Portland.

danielparks commented on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? · Posted by u/pugworthy

jonathanlb · 4 months ago

> Have you tried the non-over-the-ear cochlear devices?

No, I have not, but from what I've heard, the sound processing isn't as strong because with the BTE (Behind the ear) models, the microphone is unobstructed and can pick up sound coming from the front. With the all-in-one devices, the microphone sits slightly behind the head and has a horizon (and hair) obstructing the audio.

If I'm wrong and the sound processing is actually decent, I'll be willing to give it a shot provided my insurer decides to carry Med-El.

danielparks · 4 months ago

Yeah, I’ve wondered about that. Apparently it works for her, but… everybody’s different.

I actually know a number of people with CIs, but everyone else is at ASL club, so we’re not doing a lot of speaking. I’ll have to ask folks what they’ve tried, if only for my own curiosity.

danielparks commented on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? · Posted by u/pugworthy

jonathanlb · 4 months ago

I'll tell you what's not hot: cochlear implants. I wore hearing aids since the late '80s. I wear CIs as of about 5 years ago, and while my hearing is much better and stable than it used to be, I've found that UX for CIs is pretty bad.

For one, unless you use Med-El's Rondo processeor, you're going to have a thin cable connecting your processor to the coil. Taking off your CIs and putting them back on (as one does every day) is going to put stress on the cable. Sometimes the cable frays and you find that out with sound cutting in and out. There's nothing you can do until the manufacturer sends you a replacement cable in exchange for your frayed one. If you want a backup, be ready to shell out $250 for each cable.

Another UX issue is that processors depend on gravity to stay on your ears. Since there's no earmold to anchor to, processors can easily be jostled off and left hanging precariously. Wearing hearing aids, I never had to worry that my hearing devices would fall off if I rode my bike on a bumpy road. Also with cochlear implants, high-intensity interval training requires some kind of hat or bandana to make sure that the processors don't fly out.

Battery life is another disappointment. Rechargeable batteries don't last a full day. If I put them in at 6:30a, they'll last until about 4:30p. With disposable zinc air batteries, I can squeeze out about a day and a half, but then I'm having to dispose batteries. And while I can track processor battery levels with the rechargeable batteries on my phone, disposable batteries are opaque to the app.

One new thing that would be useful in terms of UX would be an configurable indicator, e.g., a blinking LED, signaling that audio streaming is occurring. It's awkward to find oneself in a conversation that already started and having to excuse oneself to turn off the stream.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I have my cochlear implants, but they're way behind hearing aids in terms of UX.

danielparks · 4 months ago

Have you tried the non-over-the-ear cochlear devices? The kind that have everything built into the part that sticks magnetically to your implant — I don’t know what the term is; I don’t use them myself.

I know somebody who really dislikes the over-the-ear type devices and swears by the all-in-one kind.

She seems to get a full day of battery out of hers, but I don’t know what kind they are and I imagine usage patterns make a big difference.

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imiric · 5 months ago

I like that as well, but it's exhausting having to explain every time that, no, I don't in fact work at randoburgerspot...

danielparks · 5 months ago

I’ve been surprised how infrequently I need to explain this — definitely fewer than 10 times in the last 20 years of doing some variation if this consistently.

I keep expecting to have to explain, but the vast majority of the time people don’t ask.

danielparks commented on There are two types of dishwasher people theatlantic.com/family/ar... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

dfxm12 · a year ago

I used to be uptight about how to load the dishwater until I put away a load that was packed by my partner, "like a raccoon on meth", and noticed there wasn't a difference in the cleanliness.

Now I just worry about buying new bowls. Will the bowls fit nicely given pitch and angle of the of the dealies on the rack? The bowls I inherited from my grandmother fit so nicely in any dishwasher I've loaded them into, but now they're starting to crack...

danielparks · a year ago

Similarly, I used to stress about loading the dishwasher when I was a teen. I would spend so much time loading it that I have myself a neck ache from leaning over and I could have saved time by washing the dishes by hand.

I still try to be somewhat efficient about loading the dishwasher, but… if I notice myself stressing I just say “screw it”, run it, and wash the rest by hand.

The other thing I’ve realized is that sometimes things don’t get clean if you load them properly. For example, tall glasses that had smoothies in them. It’s a little gross if you don’t notice it until you’re about to use it, but… you can just look at them and wash them by hand when you unload the dishwasher.

I guess this is all to say that sometimes the best optimization is to not think about it too much.

danielparks commented on Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing github.com/c0stya/trre... · Posted by u/c0nstantine

andrewla · a year ago

I feel like this is very underspecified, The very first example:

    $ echo 'cat' | trre 'c:da:ot:g'
    dog

Feels strange. What is happening here; the grammar says

    TRRE    <- TRRE* TRRE|TRRE TRRE.TRRE
    TRRE    <- REGEX REGEX:REGEX

What is the parse tree here? Why is "c" not being replaced with "da"? Or why isn't c being removed and "da" being replaced by "ot"?

I do like the idea of having a search/replace semantic that is more intuitive than grouping operators; back in MS-DOS days you could do "ren .log .txt" and this would work which feels bananas to my modern bash-minded way of thinking, but it's very obvious looking at this what it is supposed to do.

danielparks · a year ago

This is a matter of operator precedence and tokenization. Tokens are single characters in this language, and there is an invisible operator between them.

If the operator were explicit (let’s call it ~), the example would look like this:

    $ echo 'cat' | trre 'c:d~a:o~t:g'
    dog

With unnecessary parentheses:

    $ echo 'cat' | trre '(c:d)~(a:o)~(t:g)'
    dog

danielparks commented on Show HN: Transductive regular expressions for text editing github.com/c0stya/trre... · Posted by u/c0nstantine

danielparks · a year ago

Cool, I’m interested to see where you go with this.

I found the operator precedence unnatural, and it looks like a lot of other folks in this thread did too. I would naturally assume `cat:dog` would be equivalent to `(cat):(dog)` rather than `ca(t:d)og`.

danielparks commented on 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms gist.github.com/hackermon... · Posted by u/hackermondev

LWIRVoltage · a year ago

Hold on, someone else in this thread noted this does exist

" You can disable the auto-download. Settings > Data and storage > Media auto-download, you can choose what to auto download for mobile data/wifi/roaming."

So, that part is there, but my question is, it's still aissue when they manually download the image, right? Unless something never accepts images from someone they aren't expecting, who 's number or unique created ID has never been seen before

danielparks · a year ago

Oh, nice. I looked under Settings > Privacy and didn’t see anything. For me it was under Settings > Data Usage.

Yes, this still an issue if you manually download an attachment, but that’s a lot better than automatically when you open a conversation.

danielparks commented on 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms gist.github.com/hackermon... · Posted by u/hackermondev

gobip · a year ago

"Signal instantly dismissed my report"

"Telegram, another privacy-focused application, is completely invulnerable to this attack"

"Discord […] citing this as a Cloudflare issue other consumers are also vulnerable to"

"Cloudflare ended up completing patching the bug"

I wish Signal would react differently. I still remember the bubble color controversy when they changed their mind after the backlash and not before. :-)

danielparks · a year ago

I just sent a feature request[1] to Signal with the following text:

    I understand that Signal does not consider this
    https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/45a3cdfa52246f1d1201c1e8cdef6117 to be
    a valid security bug, but it would be helpful to at least be able to
    mitigate it.

    Please add an option in settings to disable automatically downloading
    attachments.

    That should be enough to change the attack from 0-click (just opening the
    conversation) to 1-click (click the attachment). Most people won’t care
    about this, but for some every little bit of privacy is important.

[1]: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/requests/new

danielparks commented on Muxfs – a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD sdadams.org/blog/introduc... · Posted by u/ciprian_craciun

ikiris · 4 years ago

i can't find "zfs" mentioned once in this guy's doc so my first question is... why not?

danielparks · 4 years ago

From the page:

> I decided it was finally time to build a file server to centralize my files and guard them against bit-rot. Although I would have preferred to use OpenBSD due to its straightforward configuration and sane defaults, I was surprised to find that none of the typical NAS filesystems were supported.

OpenBSD does not support ZFS.