walterlb's comments

walterlb | 2 years ago | on: Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation

The countries that have "developed" have increased pressures on less developed nations, and caused or exacerbated problemsin the areas they have exploited in order to develop.

walterlb | 2 years ago | on: Telling the Bees

This Is It, by Alan Watts also describes some of the same feelings. I picked it up recently and am still trying to digest the concepts he describes.

walterlb | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can you relate to the following issues? How did you deal with it?

Thank you for this. I've been dealing with these issues more than usual lately and this was helpful to read.

walterlb | 3 years ago | on: Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport?

You can bring food into a movie theater without too much trouble in my experience.

walterlb | 3 years ago | on: Chicxulub Google Search Easter Egg

It would be cool to learn if there are other easter eggs like this in Google search. Is there a list somewhere?

[edit] Yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_Easter_eggs

walterlb | 3 years ago | on: O Holy Crap

I noticed the "only one on sale" thing too. I suspect the author meant it was the only one for sale at the store, period, not that it was the only one with a sale/discounted price.

walterlb | 3 years ago | on: Why mathematicians study knots

I saw "The Ashley Book of Knots" mentioned on another post, and it has some interesting history of knots. Especially that the introduction of books led to sailors spending more time not knotting.

walterlb | 3 years ago | on: A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

I wonder if there's some link to rate of footsteps? The step rate of an approaching/retreating human or animal would have been relevant to survival.

walterlb | 3 years ago | on: Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?

> Today at another McDonald's I observed the entire bootstrap process and can confirm that the kiosk indeed is responsible for installing “custom firmware” on the card reader

If this part is correct, it seems like an attacker could compromise the reader itself.

walterlb | 3 years ago | on: Mermaid: Create diagrams and visualizations using text and code

It's also supported in Azure Devops wikis

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: Why are some egg yolks so orange?

We just started smelling/tasting some fishy flavor with eggs from one of our hens. We suspected flaxseed in the feed we were giving, and switching feeds seems to have fixed it.

Brown egg layers are apparently more prone to this issue

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: Twitter board adopts poison pill after Musk’s $43B bid to buy company

If Musk fails, are there likely to be any lasting effects to Twitter or more generally to the market?

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who has given up looking for work?

Failing to answer Leetcode questions doesn't mean anything is wrong with you. Many will be difficult without spending a lot of time practicing similar problems.

If they were "easy"-ish Leetcode questions, it might not be a bad idea to practice some basics.

Many interviewers are looking at your thought process and ability to transfer your ideas into, not just whether or not you solved the problem.

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: A Good Idea?

OT, but this era of WP website was quite nice looking and readable. Refreshing!

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?

Your username also tells me you have gotten over the "holy shit WTF is Kubernetes" part.

I think I'm headed somewhere similar shortly. Hopefully I have the same success as you!

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: A wiper attack paralyzed the Iranian train system

I'm not sure what 'all consuming' would mean exactly. But excess complexity might also indicate fragility, in which case breaking an entire system/subsystem might come fairly easily

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: Full Throttle

Never got around to playing it, but I probably spent 10+ hours trying to get the demo to run on the family PC. Unsuccessfully.

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: The Windows 11 insider build is surprisingly unpolished and unfinished

The picture at the top of the article has the caption "Setting Windows 11 to one of its dark themes also darkens the background of the Settings app—but not the background of most traditional apps, like Resource Monitor".

This doesn't seem like news.. Dark theme has been in Win 10 for a while and didn't apply to old style apps. Did they specifically promise to do this?

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2

That's my number one gripe. Searching message history is absolutely terrible.

walterlb | 4 years ago | on: Sublime Text

This was oddly fun.. It inspired me to keep writing a stream of thought that I normally wouldn't do anything like:

hello, my name is sublime text, and I don't know what I'm doing. I have to keep typing to listen to this song I'm not sure I actually like.. But I have to at least get to the chorus, I guess. Paused for a few seconds there.. Guess I'll keep going. Still going. Well, this isn't so bad since I don't listen the radio anymore and hear this twice a day. Matter of fact I was thinking of going back and listening to some Sublime albums just a few days ago. Hope this doesn't send me on a full-day exploration of 90s music. Ok chorus has started, almost there, then I'll stop, I think. Ok, yep thats it done now :)