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by alberth 3y ago
That's correct for all BSD's, not just OpenBSD. BSD = kernel + userland
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by alberth 3y ago
Since you're clearly knowledgable ... What's your take on http://cheribsd.org (and CHERI as a concept overall)?
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by alberth 3y ago
I think this will be difficult to know, because IIRC, to commit to OpenBSD you must use an @openbsd.org account. So it's not like you can just look at the commit log and search for private company @names http://cdn.openbsd.o
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by alberth 3y ago
Dreaming People typically talk about how it doesn’t make any financial sense to ever buy a lotto ticket. But they are missing the point. An often overlooked aspect of lotteries is … for just $1-2, it gives you the ability to dream “what i
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by alberth 3y ago
I just signed up for Polar and am confused. I was under the impression, maybe wrongly, that this was a kickstarter-like service but for software. Now after logging in, if I’m understanding correctly, it seems to be a paid newsletter platfor
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by alberth 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912916
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by alberth 3y ago
Web At times, I feel like I’m only person who makes SaaS app for mobile, but on the Web (no App Store need).
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by alberth 3y ago
Cloudflare Workers IIRC, Cloudflare Workers are based on V8 sandboxing ... which is in part why the cold starts are so fast. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/reference/how-work...
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by alberth 3y ago
Cross border interchange & scheme fees are a whole other category. FX is expensive in general regardless of the way you do it.
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by alberth 3y ago
> The money extracted by the credit card companies and Visa causes merchants to raise prices for everyone regardless of whether they have a rewards card or use a credit card at all. Case studies indicate otherwise. Dodd-Frank Act postul
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by alberth 3y ago
> In industry, we sometimes distinguish interchange—which mostly goes to the issuing bank—and scheme fees—which mostly go to the credit card brand itself—but as interchange is much larger, let’s just call them both interchange for simpli
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by alberth 3y ago
It’s because America is a Republic, not a true democracy. And any democracy traits it might have are representative democracy.
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by alberth 3y ago
Just because someone asks you to do something (who you have no obligation to help), doesn’t mean you must help. And if FFmpeg was so passionate to get a support contract from Microsoft, that should have been a requirement first before they
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by alberth 3y ago
Let me get this right … FFmpeg open sourced their software for all to use without having to pay for it. This was a choice they made. Then on their own web site, they only accept 1-time donations and state “If you find FFmpeg useful, you are
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by alberth 3y ago
HN 5-days ago | 47 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39864107
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by alberth 3y ago
It’s hosted at Vercel (AWS). At least based on the IP address.
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by alberth 3y ago
> The company generated $886,000 in revenue Plenty of companies spend more than that on just AWS egress fees. I’m not saying money spent on a private jet is right or wrong. But when a company is not profitable, you could compare this to
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by alberth 3y ago
Johnny 5 So basically “Johnny 5”. https://youtu.be/lv9owSY015w?feature=shared
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by alberth 3y ago
Most people wrongly price storage cost. E.g., IMGZ charges $34/500GB storage = $0.068/GB. https://imgz.org/money/ When you factor in credit card fees, server cost, storage costs, bandwidth, customer support,
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by alberth 3y ago
I realize this is an April Fools Post … But with that being said, media hosting sites (image, video, even email hosting) become deceptively low margin very fast. With no ability to purge a users catalog of media, over time - a user become L
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by alberth 3y ago
Javascript edge hosting. Bun team stated that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35966373
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by alberth 3y ago
Child Support Important missing context, failure to pay child support is the most common “debt-related drivers license suspension”. This is about creating incentives that help ensure children get the financial support they are entitled via
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by alberth 3y ago
$94B https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/
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by alberth 3y ago
Another thing, semantically - the HEADER and FOOTER should go before & after, respectively, the MAIN tag
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by alberth 3y ago
> the frame that interest rates are like a little knob that the central planning committee adjusts is suspect … IMO it'd be sensible to let the markets set the interest rate Are you suggesting there’s no correlation between market s
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by alberth 3y ago
Since you use to use Focalboard, do use your Mattermost (chat)? Curious what your experience has been like using it?
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by alberth 3y ago
FYI - 2600 Hz is a common handshake tone used in telco. Hence why “2600” is referenced. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600_hertz
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by alberth 3y ago
old.reddit.com What’s are the chances just before/after IPO, old.reddit.com shuts down?
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by alberth 3y ago
Would you mind sharing some examples. I’m genuinely curious to learn true facts. (Would this be like dinosaurs might have actually had feathers/fur, and not just look reptilian)
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by alberth 3y ago
Most CEOs are focused on top-line (revenue) growth, instead of bottom-line (COGS) savings. Reason being, you have unlimited potential to growth your revenue. The max you can save, is 100% (fire everyone).

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