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by Jedd 3y ago
17 days ago - The Guardian's story about this same find: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39350700
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by Jedd 3y ago
My favourite take on this was by Neal Stephenson in his excellent novel Reamde - wherein we have several pages building up to an argument between a linguist and a fiction-creator about the (mis)use of apostrophe in an online game's fic
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by Jedd 3y ago
The fact 'troll' is not found on that page suggests they're missing some of the history. 'Debian' is mentioned twice, in quick succession, including a suggestion that Debian 'adopted GNOME 3 and systemd' (
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by Jedd 3y ago
There's a chrome extension called Fluff Busting Purity [0] that seems to still be alive, but evidently struggles to respond quickly to the ever-increasingly user-hostile coin-chasing changes coming out of the mothership. It doesn&#x27
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by Jedd 3y ago
21 metres deep, 6 miles? We have to commit to metric, every inch of the way. Anyway, from Wikipedia: "During the most recent ice age (at its maximum about 20,000 years ago) the world's sea level was about 130 m lower than today, d
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by Jedd 3y ago
Oh, I am no great fan. Plus I have a nascent blog post on the subject of 'can you believe ...?' items around this subject. I suppose it comes back to the comparative priorities (as evaluated by recurrent revenue) of ticking rfq bo
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> Atlassian also just launched an integration with OpsGenie. Given Atlassian bought OpsGenie in 2018, this either somewhere between quite late and unsurprising .
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Thanks for the recommendation - added to my burgeoning tbr list. I've seen some dramatised documentaries on the subject (I think it's pulled ahead of Theranos documentaries now), and I'm sure there's a lot more nuance t
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Illusory? Perhaps. Certainly 'self-sufficient' is inaccurate, given the reliance on external inputs. If other nation states are also not self-sufficient for fissionable materials, and/or other fuel types, then I would also no
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From TFA: “It’s so easy to demonise Purdue and the Sacklers. I agree that what they did was terrible. I think a number of them should be in jail. But I’ve thought for some time that the issue behind it all is the structure of the system,” h
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by Jedd 3y ago
This reminds me of wholinator2's comment two days ago on the 'Apple announces...' thread, regarding the received wisdom that Apple is more secure because it's a walled garden fallacy. https://news.ycombinato
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> Finland achieved energy self sufficiency last year thanks to a good combination of nuclear Is this a fission plant that uses fuel mined in Canada, Kazakhstan, and Australia?
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As a sibling noted, messages on the receivers end are time-stamped with the receive time, not the send time. To your specific suggestion, how do you identify if the messages arrived late because of a server-side issue, rather than a client-
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by Jedd 3y ago
If you think everything is fine, presumably that's because every metric you have available is indicating fine-ness. That's probably sufficient for most users. There'll be some edge cases, but the brief write-up in some obscur
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How would that work? You'd get an in-app message in 40 minutes saying there's a problem 40 minutes ago? Anyway, this is what status pages are for: https://admin.microsoft.com/servicestatus (currently showing a w
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The problem as I see it is that 'text is good' has two distinct meanings - first, it doesn't sound like an AI wrote it, it's interesting, entertaining, in word 'readable'. The second is that it's accurate
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https://huggingface.co/spaces/tomg-group-umd/Binoculars
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Yes, sorry, hot water system.
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{rolls eyes} This is precisely the kind of 1990's level basic heuristic that this company cites as part of their Sentinel security system. Trying to excuse a breach by 'the attacker tried a few passwords against lots of differen
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by Jedd 3y ago
Do you have a conventional HWS? These are notoriously power-hungry, often poorly maintained and calibrated, and hard to monitor. You can buy a power meter plug - that sits between appliance and socket - and work your way around almost all y
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by Jedd 3y ago
Phrasing like 'Now businesses are attempting to capitalise on this ancient method ...' is true, but as others here have noted, this is not a new area of research, or a new area of business. Can recommend "Burn - Using Fire to
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by Jedd 3y ago
Oftentimes when Luddite comes up on HN I quote a bit of John Ralston Saul - today will be no different. From his most excellent book 'The Doubter's Companion', an alphabetically ordered series of delightful rants on various t
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by Jedd 3y ago
Great, thanks. Economics on IT h/w this side of the pond are often extra-complicated. And as a casual watcher of the space it feels like a lot of discussion and focus has turned towards, the past few months, optimising performance.
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by Jedd 3y ago
Really great write-up, thank you John. Two naive questions. First, with the 4060 Ti, are those the 16gb models? (I'm idly comparing pricing in Australia, as I've started toying with LM-Studio and lack of VRAM is, as you say, awfu
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I get your point - though neither company was young a decade ago (QNAP founded 2004, Synology in 2000) - and my problems were not related to ' what technology was like in the old days ', rather the device was advertised with a f
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I bought a QNAP about a decade ago under the same assumption, but my experiences [0] there means I'm unlikely to buy a SOHO-level storage appliance ever again. The tl;dr of my rant was around shortcomings in NFS permission configuratio
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The same way backups are most rigorously performed by people who've lost data, ECC is a non-negotiable requirement for people who've suffered slow data corruption via silent memory failures. It surprises me that people are happy w
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by Jedd 3y ago
Lewis Dartnell's 2016 story published in Aeon (and based on his 2014 book) pops up periodically - eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25187100 The title of the piece is Could we reboot a modern civilisation with
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Are you suggesting there was a correlated and comparable increase in 'stealing from stores' during this period? Do you have any data for that? All the reports mentioning 'shoplifting on the rise' I've seen have been
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Worship? I appreciate I only have a sample size of one - but then, so does the 'it's no big deal' crowd. On this planet we have no alternative routes to the same outcome, and no clear evidence that alternative routes a) could

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