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by Exmoor 6y ago
Just the fact that they knew enough to buy the naming rights to the Microprose name gives me a fair amount of hope as to where they plan on going. Microprose released a huge amount of really good (for the time) flight simulators.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
The map is nice, but usability is a bit lacking since it's very hard to pick out some of the smaller countries.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I have some spreadsheets* that have every charting hit on the billboard charts. I haven't gone through the general charts that much, but I'd say the ones I have gone through are really surprising. We tend to think we know what the
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Repost of flagged post from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23330146
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by Exmoor 6y ago
The article cites the figure of 7 Amazon worker deaths as of 5/20. No idea if that's accurate, but we can come back to that. As of 5/20 the USA, population 330,000,000 had ~93,000 COVID-19 deaths. If we take a guess that Amaz
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by Exmoor 6y ago
What kind of bulbs are you using? I've had a similar experience the OP with LED bulbs using the Feit ones sold at Costco. At some point I read about a design issue where manufacturers are using cheap components which die much faster th
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by Exmoor 6y ago
>“What’s worrying is the effect this situation is clearly having on young adults.” I wonder if this is a perverse side effect of normalcy bias [0]? For me, a person in middle age, I can look back at my life and see a lifetime of fairly s
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by Exmoor 6y ago
http://archive.vn/7dj2r
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Source?
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Slack CEO: Microsoft is ‘unhealthily preoccupied with killing us’(theverge.com)
16 points by Exmoor 6y ago|16 comments
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Upside: Doing things at scale is a huge plus for me. The field I work in is mostly made up of companies deploying things piecemeal with little standardization. At the two FAANG-scale companies I've worked for, a ton of the work is fig
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I don't actually remember much about config.sys, despite spending much of my formative years editing it in the attempt to claw back as much of that 640k as possible. But I do remember "copy con filename.txt", which I'm h
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Amazon’s Kindle and Echo team working on the company’s Covid-19 testing project(theverge.com)
1 points by Exmoor 6y ago|0 comments
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by Exmoor 6y ago
>Last updated on Friday, January 1, 1999. This is a walk down memory lane, but not in a good way. I'm very, very glad to no longer have to remember anything about config.sys.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Mandated, automatic updates have their downsides, especially for some of the HN crowd, but for 99% of the population I really appreciate that patching is automatic for the other 95%+ of users. Getting the vast majority of computers in wor
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by Exmoor 6y ago
As a lifelong resident of the Seattle area, eastern Washington would be very high on my list. Arguably better weather (less rain, not too cold in the winter, and not extremely hot most of the summer), much cheaper cost of living, lots of na
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Honestly, people working out of the main office for their first 6mo-1y would probably a really advantageous scenario for all involved. The first year is when learning tools and culture as well as developing relationships is most crucial. I
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Indeed, fixed. Thanks.
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by Exmoor 6y ago
The overall premise of this article is good and needs to be said, but the author missed an opportunity by lumping traditional hardware RAID solutions with software solutions like ZFS. The general consensus I've seen from people spinnin
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by Exmoor 6y ago
Your definition of "crazy" huge amount of data is pretty conservative. Your proposed solution would top out at 4TB, while most people I know who spinning up their own RAID at home are looking to store multiple tens of TB. For the
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by Exmoor 6y ago
At this point it's ancient history, but at the point I first came into contact with various electronic bulletin boards (FidoNet, Usenet) in the mid-90s FAQs were a ubiquitous thing. For many topics, just reading the official FAQ for th
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by Exmoor 6y ago
High level developments: * AMD introduced their Ryzen architecture ~3 years ago. This was the first time in years that their chips were competitive with Intel chips. * AMD's newfound competitiveness forced Intel to increase core counts
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I haven't rented for business in a few years, but every time I did the difference in cost between a "compact" and a few sizes up was trivial, perhaps two or three dollars a day. I generally jumped up to the largest sedan size
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by Exmoor 6y ago
At least at Microsoft it was called "stack ranking." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve
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Outlook for Windows will soon sync email signatures across devices(theverge.com)
1 points by Exmoor 6y ago|0 comments
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by Exmoor 6y ago
>a handful of systems (13.56 million Wii U's, 101.63 million Wii's, 32.93 million N64's) I get that you're speaking relatively, but you and I have a very different idea of what qualifies as "a handful". Al
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I also doubt we'll see widespread food riots in the rich world. Our issues are mostly specific food scarcity due to supply chain issues and increases in food prices that likely won't be too painful for people who are still employe
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by Exmoor 6y ago
It's odd to me that they would give current local employees living in high-cost areas a significant incentive to not transfer to remote when a remote worker arguably costs significantly less to employ. The costs keeping a building in
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by Exmoor 6y ago
I agree, the idea of my podcasts becoming infected with non-stop ads keeps me up at night. But you know what doesn't keep me up all night? My Eliza mattress. You see the folks at Eliza designed a mattress that allows you to create your
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by Exmoor 6y ago
The fact that the first half of the article is spent complaining about political matters and seeming almost gleeful that a therapy that was backed by a political opponent has not proven effective, despite the fact that the end result is con

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