captainoats
Re:AWS CEO to Step Down
on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:02PM (#40358087)
Garman was one of the first PMs at AWS. He was sent over to lead Sales/Marketing relatively recently to get demand side experience presumably in preparation to take over as CEO.
Re:Turn Your Flipper Zero into a Controller with the New Video Game Mo...
on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @01:25PM (#39360913)
I wonder if part of the motivation in releasing this is legitimizing the Flipper as a hobby/development product and not a tool for crime, as it’s been depicted in media recently. I personally appreciate the Flipper in that it’s shedding light on how insecure common RF technology is.
Re:Appeals Court: FBI's Safe-Deposit Box Seizures Violated Fourth Amen...
on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:27PM (#39120847)
Reason is an American libertarian publication
Re:iMessage Key Verification
on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:58PM (#38716523)
Yep, I have an 2017 iMac at home and won’t be able to use CKV unless a sign out of iCloud on that machine.
Re:A first look at the plans for our new Chicago office
on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @10:12PM (#38637349)
The Thompson Center has been dilapidated for a long time and used a tremendous amount of energy to heat and cool. It needs to be replaced.
Re:Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff
on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @09:59PM (#36515419)
The issue you mentioned is why I can’t use the Plex client for playback. I use Infuse which handles seeking fine so clearly it’s not an unsolvable problem. Crazy Plex hasn’t addressed it.
Re:I’m an ER doctor. Here’s how I’m already using ChatGPT to help trea...
on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:14PM (#36335987)
The FDA regulates bringing a device to market commercially, doctors can use regular COTS software.
Re:NSA asks Congress to let it get on with that warrantless data harve...
on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:52PM (#34417792)
I think OP is referencing how the royal/political class and clergy shared power in a sort of adversarial relationship in classical European society.
Re:Deadly, dirty, indispensable: the nitrogen industry has changed the...
on Sunday December 25, 2022 @02:18PM (#34130224)
Isn’t selling milk powder to China feeding the world?
Re:France starts a debate on legalising assisted dying
on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:58PM (#34110547)
Lots of peoples reaction to this is that suicide is always bad when done by firearm because it’s gruesome or frightening to them. I would ask that these people introspect and ask if their own emotions and biases are leading them to this conclusion. If the goal here is to let people live and die on their own terms, then this seems like a particularly hypocritical take. I think to many, suicide by gun is favorable as more immediate, private, and time and place are entirely within your own control.
Re:Cops Can Extract Data from 10k Different Car Models’ Infotainment S...
on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:48AM (#33868016)
Since 2018
Re:Software engineers: consider working on genomics
on Saturday November 19, 2022 @03:49PM (#33674517)
If you’re interested in genomics I’d recommend working for a commercial entity in clinical/translational genomics side rather than in academia. I have worked for a few of the big names in the space and although they had their problems the work was very rewarding as you’re closer to the patient impact.
Re:Exxon’s Exodus: Employees Have Finally Had Enough of Its Toxic Culture
on Thursday October 27, 2022 @01:00PM (#33360579)
Renewable energy investment makes up about 80% of investment in the power sector, and annual increases continue to outpace oil and gas investment (this year may be weird because of the Energy crisis in Europe). Renewables are not everywhere today because it takes time for the industry to mature and for utilization to increase, not because there is a conspiracy by Big Oil to somehow control investment flows.
Re:When Elites Tried to Monopolize Hunting
on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @09:14PM (#33351782)
Always been fascinating to me as an American to see how hunting and shooting gear is marketed and sold in Europe. It’s closer to luxury goods retail than the American experience where it’s all generally treated as sporting equipment no matter if it’s at a “luxury” price point.
Re:The reality of celebratory gunfire
on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:11PM (#33030434)
Ya, their predicted descent velocity/lethality is not right. Most ammunition will destabilize and begin to tumble long before it reaches its peak as it transitions from supersonic to subsonic.
My guess would be the dangerous situation here is intoxicated people shooting up in the air but then also in other directions in a careless inebriated state.
Re:What is a Stave Church? (2019)
on Thursday September 29, 2022 @10:12PM (#33030066)
and if you make it to Washington Island, also worth checking out the boathouse on neighboring Rock Island if you like cool buildings built by Scandinavians.
Re:Cirrus Vision Jet Pilot Pulls Chute in Florida
on Sunday September 11, 2022 @04:54PM (#32803180)
Certification is the process of getting an aircraft design/model approved by the FAA for sale/use. There are 3 phases for GA commercially available aircraft, type certification (design approved), production certification (manufacturing approved), and airworthiness certification (plane tested, and ready for sale to the public)
Usually when someone says a plane has received its certification they mean it’s ‘airworthiness certification’, so the final approval by the FAA.
Re:FedNow FAQ
on Thursday August 18, 2022 @02:50PM (#32513436)
The government is naturally incentivized to maximize revenue. Individuals are incentivized to pay as little tax as they can, legally. Private tax prep software is pretty aggressive about identifying all possible deductions to reported income. The government would not be as motivated in designing their own system. You can see this in the paper filing forms, they have detailed instructions, but almost nothing on how to reduce tax paid, besides things like the child tax credit and earned income tax credit.
Re:I assure you, medieval people bathed (2019)
on Saturday August 06, 2022 @01:05AM (#32364981)
Humans are pretty unique in being (relatively) hairless and sweating as our primary method of keeping cool. Sweat invited bacteria and traps dirt. I’m no anthropologist but I’d guess manual bathing became a regular thing when early humans developed these traits.
Re:Ask HN: How do defense startups work?
on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:09PM (#31173206)
Ronnie Barrett’s story might interest you, he was working as a photographer when he began development on what would become the M82 rifle. His company is now well known in both the commercial and .gov small arms world.
At a federal level in the US, licensing for traditional weapons development (outside of nuke/chem/bio) is pretty accessible and relatively cheap. Dual use tech and services work mostly just like any other consumer startup. The marketing and sales/RFP process for the government is what’s unique.
Re:Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?
on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:10PM (#31008268)
Most things stop being cool when they become mainstream. Tech used to be exclusive to a small group of people who understood it, the hacker counter culture grew from this and for a while gated entry into the tech community. Now tech careers are considered akin to any other good white collar job. You don’t have to have a specific personality to discover it or thrive within it. Its pedestrian now and has be very successfully commercialized.
Re:Why I'll never use Affirm again
on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:24PM (#30961423)
For people who have the money and plan these 0% interest short/medium term loans can be a good deal. However, like this story shows you have to evaluate the reputation of the company because problems can happen. Personally if I were the author I would have just repaid the final payment, waited for the chargeback reversal to put me in a positive balance situation, then worked with Affirm to get a refund. That obviously assumes you have the cash to cover remaking the final payment but that’s just another part of risk mitigation when taking on debt.
Re:Serotonin selectively influences moral judgment and behavior
on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:27PM (#29866511)
Mirtazapine is a great example of this and can have profound effects on behavior
Re:Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected (2020)
on Friday January 07, 2022 @04:07PM (#29844828)
I live in a very cold part of the US but for a couple years traveled frequently to the south of Israel for work. I think a lot of people don’t consider dressing or designing spaces for high heats because most people live in temperate climates. It wasn’t unusual to have 113+ days there in the summer and no one but me (the American) seemed phased by it.
Re:New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
on Saturday December 25, 2021 @09:06PM (#29689024)
The original comment is comparing to radiator heat not forced air.
Re:Reddit's antiwork sub and the online movement to end work
on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:37PM (#29668431)
I’m amazed at how people see themselves as stuck or forced into their job, especially the younger ones and especially people without kids. For people in that position there are almost endless possibilities for ways to make a living. I’m concerned that many of the people in these communities are depressed and suffering from anhedonia and a self reinforcing cycle of hopelessness.
Re:Google Drive could soon start locking your files
on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:40PM (#29595475)
Yes, for US citizens the right to information is almost unlimited. Even plans for (nuclear) weapons is protected unless it’s stolen classified material, you intend to develop a nuclear weapon, or you intend to export that information.
Re:Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks...
on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:19PM (#29595170)
Specific anti-kickback laws only exist at the federal level for specific industries within federal purview like healthcare (through departments like CMS). Wire fraud is more general but is an avenue for the justice department to prosecute behavior like this (the crime is not specific to orchestrating a kickback scheme but defrauding his employer for personal gain).
Re:Sex Differences in Adolescents’ Occupational Aspirations
on Saturday October 30, 2021 @05:17PM (#29052363)
Realtor and accountant (the majority that are personal/small business accountants, not big 4/corporate) are both jobs you can do part time and out of your home and are very people focused.
Re:Car accidents cause death, injury and trauma. Why do we shrug them ...
on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:00PM (#28991037)
I’d like to remind people that this type of sentiment has existed for over 100 years, before the introduction of the automobile in America. Before the turn of the 20th century people in cities were furious about the amount of horse manure in the streets and the amount of pedestrians killed by carriages.