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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
I can't resist this bikeshed, but you've written the Maximum Hacker News aside of the week. I have several car factory service manuals. They do not include cost benefit analyses on when to remove a vehicle from service. Instead, t
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
Wow! Is the trick that we now have powerful microcomputers small enough to fit into a USB plug? That's pretty incredible technology. How many years ago did this become possible? My IT security training is dated, I am aware of the risks
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
+1. Their droppers are whitelabeled TransX, but the other components appear to have actually been designed by PNW and manufactured by various suppliers in Taiwan like most high quality, high volume bike parts. But they're still a busin
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
I have one: Ping Pong, the Japanese film from 2002. After watching the bonus features about how they developed the actors' individual playing styles, they revealed that the balls were entirely CGI animated. That let the actors focus on
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
What are some competitors in this space? I would be a customer of one of these businesses.
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by Eiriksmal 5y ago
At Lawn Love, we naively coupled our listening code directly to the Stripe webhook... but it worked flawlessly for years. I wasn't a big fan of the product changes necessitating us switching from the Transfer API for sending money to t
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by Eiriksmal 6y ago
I've often thought about this same point. Isn't interesting that last week, an article summarizing the soft sciences' best attempt at determining whether allowing children to play violent video games makes them actually vio
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by Eiriksmal 6y ago
I also find your first point to be a truly indispensable tool. How else do you know what they call carbon fiber in German? [0] But the second is a touchy area. In fact, Wikipedia's co-founder recently wrote a blog post detailing how it
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by Eiriksmal 6y ago
I've stopped clicking on any Krebs links after reading the comments about his doxxing behavior last week. The thread is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23865035 The main article about it is here: https:&#x2
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by Eiriksmal 6y ago
The iridescent blue color of the massive Steel-Blue Cricket Hunter wasp is stunning to see in real life: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=steel+blue+cricket+hunter&i...
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by Eiriksmal 6y ago
I'm also not a fan of this phrase, which is whipped out to be "helpful" in reviews at my current employer--probably after the last time this website or one similar to it bubbled up on HN. To be clear, the (American) dictionar
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
Silversheet | Full Stack Engineers, Product Managers, Senior QA | Los Angeles, CA + San Diego, CA + Portland, OR | REMOTE Silversheet is a healthcare SAAS startup, creating modern medical credentialing software. We make it easier for hospit
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
I'm not familiar enough with Ubuntu's installer capabilities, but Fedora's has made huge advances in the past 5 years. I went in to the setup fearing the worst (that is, the struggle that was doing a secure boot, UEFI Windows
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
>market was already fairly saturated ... did not appear to be seriously hiring ... an employers market This was my experience in the job market last year, as well. A lot of open listings, but curiously picky requirements for who would
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
Typing this from Fedora 31 running on a dual-boot, 4-month old XPS 15 (LCD screen, not 4K OLED). The only configuration change that has to be made on a new XPS is switching the SATA mode to AHCI. Fedora signs the kernel correctly--you don&#
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Production-Oriented Devops Strategies(paulosman.me)
9 points by Eiriksmal 7y ago|1 comments
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
I didn't fully understand the cognitive dissonance and Orwellian doublespeak going on in Mozilla until I began researching the jabs n-gate's author embeds into everything he writes concerning the company. Beacons, Google's Sa
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
I could never think of why Mozilla and friends are so aggressively pushing DoH, but I think you nailed it when you pointed out they can tie a specific device's DNS requests to its other data. I run Unbound and Pi-Hole to do my own recu
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
>Technically, what my source did was wire fraud (obtaining something of value via the Internet/telephone/fax through false pretenses); had he done it through the U.S. mail, he could be facing mail fraud charges if caught. Yeah,
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
We started using Kodiak after the Auto Rebase bot was discontinued a few weeks ago. Other than confusing me with a normal merge when I thought it had been configured to do squash-merges, it works great. Thanks for releasing it!
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
My favorite one-man (I think?) MMO was Cursors.io: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8477124 The genius of that game cannot be overstated. Its ludicrously simple mechanics somehow resulted in emergent gameplay that was d
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
Not to be that guy , but what bugs have you experienced in XFCE? I've been using XFCE since Fedora 14. With the recent upgrade to Fedora 30 (from 28), I noticed they addressed my only beef with the environment by adding a greatly-impr
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
A markdown-based blog lets you preview, if you're typing into an editor that supports previewing markdown. I do my long-form writing in LibreOffice Writer (because Fedora), then the "blogging"/translating bit in PyCharm
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
Fascinating. For those who click to read the comments before the actual article, this is Mr. Preston-Werner's introduction of Jekyll, the Ruby static site generator, to the world. He lays out his reasons for creating the tech: >>
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Welcome to San Diego. Don't Mind the Scooters(nytimes.com)
2 points by Eiriksmal 7y ago|0 comments
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
My experience is that many areas along San Diego's coast have weird deadzones because of its topography. When I was on Verizon, any time I went to the southernmost parts of Point Loma, my phone would roam to Tijuana and throw up warnin
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
I clicked the link to download the report. The disclosure you have to agree to is very interesting: >Prior to the initial distribution of this Report on August 15, 2019, the Company entered into an agreement with a third-party entity t
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
Deeply impressed by the author's dedication to fleshing out this story. Learning about n-gate's existence, and then tracking down the creator to get his take on Hacker News? Excellent work. N-gate's comments are an excellent
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
Location: San Diego, CA Remote: Maybe. I prefer in-person. Willing to relocate: San Diego > San Fransisco. :) Technologies: Ruby on Rails + PHP + deep SQL (I prefer MySQL to Postgres) + obligatory JS front-end bits Resume: I've done
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by Eiriksmal 7y ago
https://twitter.com/testflyjets Close. Chris McCann lives in Point Loma, directly under the SAN flight path. :) Edit: Oh, nope. You're right, he is in La Jolla.

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