News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

antiphase

Re:Easy RISC-V on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:24PM (#45727531)
Why wouldn't someone just do this with their brain?
Re:Take the Pedals Off the Bike on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @02:36PM (#42715872)
This is because gyroscopic forces are not significant except at high speed, and most of the forces relevant to cycling and which direction the bicycle goes are generated between the front tire and road surface. Turning the handlebars to change direction is also only relevant at low speed for the same reason.
Re:Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @07:59PM (#42706089)
The whole thing is full of speling and grammar errors. The author desperately needs a copy editor.
I can't really see how a craptocurrency attached to a messenger provides any sort of pseudonymity. If I can send money to you, I can later identify you in a ledger, which simply means I need to find some reason to converse with you and it's game over. If the ledger isn't public, you're back under corporate or Government control.
Re:Show HN: A Zero Spam Mail System on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:20PM (#19204439)
Is this related to dombox.com? They may not appreciate you muscling in on their business.
Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada on Monday December 24, 2018 @02:57PM (#18753949)
Is AWS not cloud-based any more?
More likely that it generates a massive amount of wideband noise that happens to be modulated at 120Hz in this case.
Re:Bitcoin Hash Rate Rapidly Growing Despite Price on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:45PM (#17527524)
Tell me more about this bacon mining.
Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:32PM (#16179879)
I can only assume this guy wears The Breeches Of Trust
Re:Nicehash down – rumors of $60M in Bitcoin stolen on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:29PM (#15865662)
They owed me, unless you are them.
Re:Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20% on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:43PM (#15614121)
This only applies to permanent workers though. Contractors or temporary staff may be employed on much shorter terms.
Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:34PM (#15419187)
Email by its very nature is asynchronous and was standardized in a time when "always-on" didn't exist, and it is provider-agnostic because of the standard protocol.

Email's maturity by the time that businesses all came online pretty much guaranteed it as the standard for business communication, and personal use was just a small step from there.

Expecting 20s RTT for email is a modern phenomenon, when you could expect replies on the timescale of days before.

The closest attempt to a standard for IM is probably XMPP, which providers have pretty much all ignored in favour of lock-in to their respective platforms.

Re:HM Prison – A Survival Guide (2015) on Thursday October 05, 2017 @04:10PM (#15412219)
Kick someone's ass the first day, or become someone's bitch.
It can't do any harm. Can it? :-O