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krilly commented on Navy speaks up about its “UFO patent” experiments thedrive.com/the-war-zone... · Posted by u/samizdis

darkphoton · 5 years ago

My comment will be flagged and removed which will cause me to reach out to Dang, pg, Jessica and others.

Also watch Under the Silver Lake and read the book Ready Player Two. Plus music is a good way to try to understand the nature of reality.

I cannot believe that Hacker News has become infected by authoritarianism. At least the IRC is still free. Come to EFNet if you want to find real hackers and cypherpunks.

krilly · 5 years ago

Ryan, take your pills.

krilly commented on Little known features of iTerm2 banga.github.io/blog/2020... · Posted by u/milkbikis

saagarjha · 5 years ago

A couple more that I use often:

* imgcat: you can view images without leaving your terminal. Somehow this works even across SSH connections…

* Python scripting API: basically AppleScript for iTerm except it lets you touch pretty much everything and it's not soul-crushing to write. I have mine switch between themes based on the system appearance (which changes based on the time of day).

krilly · 5 years ago

On imgcat, those extensions to the xterm protocol[0] seem really nice. I've long thought that there needs to be a simple escape sequence for a horizontal divider that doesn't break upon resizing, they should do that next!

Also check out tiv[1] which is an alternative that works with any unicode terminal.

[0]: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

[1]:https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

krilly commented on A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools acrossapp.com/blog/how-a-... · Posted by u/ksj2114

bad_user · 6 years ago

IMO many people end up with a tool fetish, but some of these tools aren't worth it in a small startup:

1. You don't need Slack ($13 / month) as a two person startup — just do email and Skype

2. Notion ($16 / month) — this sounds like a glorified shared note taking app — just use Google Docs, or Dropbox Paper, or text files in a Dropbox folder

3. Sentry ($26 / month) — OK, this might be worth it, but if you have a high volume then it gets expensive — we host our own Sentry instance and past the initial setup it has mostly been a hands off deployment

4. Cloudflare ($20 / month) — not sure why they felt the need to go with the Pro account, maybe they have a lot of page rules, but for us the free account has been more than enough

5. LinkedIn Sales Navigator ($80 / month), SalesQL ($29 / month), Hubspot ($45 per month) — these are sales tools that should pay for themselves and evaluating that is easy, they either get you the leads to monetize or they don't and if not, then they aren't worth the monthly subscription

6. Figma ($24 / month) — I have mixed feelings about it, I haven't seen instances in which such software helped; might be worth it if the results are tangible and it saves you the cost of a designer; this too should be easy to evaluate and if it gets you the same results as drawing on whiteboard or paper, then get rid of it

krilly · 6 years ago

Why is Discord always ignored in discussions of slack alternatives? It's literally a slack clone. Are you all just put off by the marketing or the fact that it's not exclusively used by 'professionals'?

krilly commented on A hacker's mom broke into a prison and the warden's computer wired.com/story/hackers-m... · Posted by u/professor_panic

oceanghost · 6 years ago

This is absolutely a thing.

I worked at a fortune small-cap where the IT department was absolutely insidious. They would undermine anyone who they didn't like, or who opposed their nonsense. I wrote a lot of backend stuff, and they would spend far more effort and money denying us servers and resources than it would have taken to simply get those things for us. They'd tell us developers we couldn't use the OS's our products targeted, and yet they'd be using them.

They undermined their own CIO time after time; most lasted about 18 months.

Then, the company hired a sociable, intelligent, woman as CIO.

Within six months, she'd (rightly) fired the ENTIRE department. They just didn't see it coming.

krilly · 6 years ago

Wait, what was your point here? That women actually are wonderful?

krilly commented on Hydraulic Telegraph en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyd... · Posted by u/tikwidd

JoeAltmaier · 6 years ago

Could have used the aqueduct as a telegraph as early as 7th century BCE - put a written message in the equivalent of a rubber duck, drop it in. A spotter on the other end dips it out and delivers the message. How could no one have thought of that?

krilly · 6 years ago

I was just about to ask HN to come up with some communication devices using only ancient technology.

Although your rubber duck system would require less manpower than a system of signal fires, it would be MUCH slower, and probably even slower than the chains of horse riders that delivered messages Pony Express-style across the Roman Empire. In an emergency, a message could be transferred over 100 miles a day.

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

krilly commented on Cursed Adapters twitter.com/Foone/status/... · Posted by u/dsr_

scoutt · 6 years ago

Why the negativity? Why the "OH FUCK YOU - FUCK YOU, IT EXISTS (author words)" tone when there are entire markets/areas where retro-compatibility and weird conversions are a requirement?

I know that an average user won't buy many of these adapters, but for a person doing that kind of research, is it really that weird? I mean, the author is a "Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators."

We're retrofitting 18K devices with SSDs through a M2-to-USB converter (we have reasons to do it that way). Someone is selling my company 18K of those boards. So, not bad at all. And that's just us.

krilly · 6 years ago

This isn't even a strange adapter, I'd be surprised if this didn't exist. Why not get excited about cassette tape to 3.5mm adapters (very real and also very useful)?

krilly commented on The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business) businessfinancing.co.uk/t... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

dredmorbius · 6 years ago

The oldest continuously operating university in the Western Hemisphere is in Peru, established in 1551.

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

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

The Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico, in Mexico City, was founded several months later, the same year.

krilly · 6 years ago

If I were feeling pedantic I'd mention the universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen... As well as a handful in Spain and Portugal ;)

krilly commented on ‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially marker.medium.com/the-unt... · Posted by u/one-possibility

choward · 6 years ago

They kept sending me "do you know [person I probably don't know]" as notifications on my phone! This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago.

One of the big annoyances in life is being notified or bugged about something I don't need to be notified about. This keeps getting worse with modern tech all the time which has slowly led me to stop using anything I don't have full control over.

krilly · 6 years ago

>This was the last straw that made me delete the app and my account entirely a few years ago.

Why not just disable notifications, or just uninstall the app without deleting your account? Facebook can still be of use to you without you being of use to it.

I've long used Facebook only for messaging and managing events because it's an effective and ubiquitous platform for both of these things.

krilly commented on Monobloc chair en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon... · Posted by u/ZeljkoS

krilly · 6 years ago

I wish to share the world's foremost authority on chairs, Bryan Ropar

https://youtube.com/channel/UCAajKTeS-mCS3PccJUrrIzw

krilly commented on Discord is not an acceptable choice for free software projects sneak.berlin/20200220/dis... · Posted by u/rauhl

NoodleIncident · 6 years ago

Even only hearing your side of this, I think Discord is being reasonable. It sounds like anyone could grab a cheat from your server and go wreak havoc on an unmodded server for this game... surely your mod isn't universally used?

krilly · 6 years ago

Yeah, I'm sure that kind of thing could be shared privately by email between the relevant parties