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by bsg75 6y ago
The lack of counterfeits is an advantage I did not consider, but is becoming more and more important. Goes in hand with not receiving goods that are obviously used and resold with zero apparent QC.
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by bsg75 6y ago
Yes, then upon clicking it my next thought was how to make this my Zoom background.
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by bsg75 6y ago
My observation in the years leading up to the online giants dominating some markets (electronics for example), was that retail stores that could adequately guide customers was rapidly declining. Medical supply is probably a different catego
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by bsg75 6y ago
It’s yet another symbol that we waste resources. Military and pork spending far outweigh the costs of things that could instead improve out quality of life (health) and the understanding of our universe.
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by bsg75 6y ago
If you work with management that base technical decisions on a single word name, one with relevance to its ability, then you have bigger problems than database platform names. "What is this Postgre thing? I can't pronounce it so i
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by bsg75 6y ago
> I know it's been said a million times before. But yet this a comment about CRDB's name finds it way to the top of the HN discussion once again. What does not die is the need to complain about a product name instead of a const
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by bsg75 6y ago
I hope so. I'm sitting at 68% memory utilization on a 16GB MBP _without_ any VMs running. Everytime a manufacturer limits a new model in 2020 to a max of 16GB, I wonder if they really understand with high end work laptops or desktop ar
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by bsg75 6y ago
What basis makes this comment apply to _everyone_ ?
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by bsg75 6y ago
> can't stick enough memory in one Sorely disappointed that the Mini is limited to 16GB. That alone makes it feel obsolete, because 16GB is the new 8GB with as much desktop virtualization I find myself doing.
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by bsg75 6y ago
> It's less a war at this point than a grumbling shuffle of ingrained habit and stubborn resistance to change. That is just silly. I have VSCode and the JetBrains IDEs on my desktop, but Vim is _everywhere_ I work - even Windows ser
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by bsg75 6y ago
No, because those concerns were based on investigations. Trup is simply throwing a tantrum online because he can’t behave like an adult in the face of defeat. Also based on evidence he knows he is potentially inciting violence, because any
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by bsg75 6y ago
Hype. Useful technologies see widespread adoption because of their utility. If something is useful it will get used. Bitcoin seems to have a number of advocates, but the number of use cases actually seen in the field are not growing as rapi
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by bsg75 6y ago
https://www.visidata.org/
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by bsg75 6y ago
> with an estimated storage size of 1.31TB. This dataset cannot be fit into memory nor on any machine local storage drive A MacPro can be configured with 1.5 TB of RAM (at significant cost), and 3+ TB drives are very common. What am I mi
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Ask HN: Have you forgone a telephone number with a transition to remote?
1 points by bsg75 6y ago|0 comments
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by bsg75 6y ago
How do you prevent business logic being inconsistently split (and duplicated) between the applications or libraries?
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by bsg75 6y ago
> I'm not debating if a 30% cut is reasonable
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by bsg75 6y ago
> I think that retention tactics that drag out the process might be more harmful in the future. I agree, but the case I directly observed was when the only focus was on the current period. What happened in the current month or quarter wa
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by bsg75 6y ago
I'm actually happier to pay a small premium for IAP based subscriptions because of the cancellation options. Having been subjected to asinine "retention" policies that make ending a subscription service an onerous and time co
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by bsg75 6y ago
On the other side of this, SeaweedFS appears to be largely implemented in Go, an useless keyword to search on. "Golang" works much better, but sometimes results in a pedantic correction "The language is Go not Golang", t
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by bsg75 6y ago
We renewed our marriage vows in a ceremony on the "bridge", including TNG uniforms in true nerd fashion just before "Star Trek: The Experience" was shut down. It was very well done. Although no where near the scale of th
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Terminator 2.0 – Migration to GTK 3 and Python 3 complete(github.com)
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by bsg75 6y ago
Apparently fvwm3 has been released: https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3
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by bsg75 6y ago
Enable showdead.
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by bsg75 6y ago
After finding a new gig, that perpetual all hands Zoom call would be convenient for submitting your resignation.
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by bsg75 6y ago
I am currently trying to add it as a secondary host to a principal Mac workstation. Have a few windows only apps that would be more perform it on a native OS instead of a VM. The first speedbump was the installation process was a massive co
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by bsg75 6y ago
What are you moving on to ? And can I come along (52) ?
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Ask HN: Technology Reasons for Snowflake Hype?
4 points by bsg75 6y ago|2 comments
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Xfce 4.16pre1 Released(andreldm.com)
3 points by bsg75 6y ago|1 comments
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by bsg75 6y ago
If you make that assumption based on a single thread comment, you lack domain knowledge on how candidates should be interviewed.

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