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by cube00 5d ago
> When it went to flip into the backup, we discovered that the backup fiber had a break Pretty grim that a life critical system wasn't designed to report that the backup fibre was unserviceable until they attempted to switch over to
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by cube00 5d ago
Sorry, lost the last digit, fixed now. This restored PDP-11/83 project is Dave Plummer's
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by cube00 5d ago
He also edits bug titles to reduce the appearance of the severity while not participating in the discussion to explain why. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948656
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by cube00 5d ago
While probably it's legit because I've seen Dave discussing the process on the YT channel (which I no longer watch) he unfortunately does have form https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813625 Having TMOG on a .o
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by cube00 5d ago
> You didn’t really have one big app that you could open and order it to entertain you. Instead, you had a few dozen of bookmarks to websites, each with a specific idea in mind. This overlooks how common custom homepages such as Lycos, Y
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by cube00 5d ago
If the driver wants you out, being unable to cancel the trip on the app won't stop them throwing you out.
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by cube00 5d ago
Louis founded the Consumer Rights wiki and also wrote the article that's the subject of this NH thread.
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by cube00 5d ago
Another frustrating aspect of forced arbitration is Uber can now avoid ever using that arbitrator ever again.
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by cube00 6d ago
I can't say I agree with forcing your team to use your own personal "framework" of approaching a problem or else you'll get "feedback". > Sometimes I will give feedback to people when they are missing steps
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by cube00 6d ago
If they're no longer using that model they may not be willing to continue using their storage for it.
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by cube00 8d ago
> You’d spend all your time managing the money and associated stresses. That's what your personal executive team is for.
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by cube00 8d ago
Not sure any chairman has their ear to the ground to fully understand the culture within their organization. I never saw our CEO in person, never saw our chairman even on a webinar. And yes it's not their job to be that low level, but
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by cube00 8d ago
Author needs to decide which end of the stratum stack they want as the top. > This design from 2010 had at the top stratum 1 sources at Australia's National Measurement Institute (NMI) > Among otherwise comparable candidates, the
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by cube00 9d ago
Depends on the library. If you appear to be sleeping, staff will check on your welfare, and wake you up. https://www.spl.org/about-us/policies/community-use-agreemen...
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by cube00 10d ago
21.37.42-SECONDARY is an interesting version number, don't they like final-final2 in their version numbers?
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by cube00 10d ago
Kind of surprised they admit they're going to try restarting and see what happens. I'm sure it happens everywhere but nobody admits it. > We've attempted a rolling restart on one of the impacted instances to see if that re
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by cube00 11d ago
I feel better about investing time when Linux breaks because it's for a reason that isn't rooted in user hostility. Windows breaks because something Microsoft wanted for themselves is broken.
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by cube00 11d ago
> These days everyone is just using the same five electron apps installed via flatpack anyway. > So a desktop environment with an bespoke suite of apps (text editor, video player, file manager etc), seem less and less important anyway
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by cube00 11d ago
Considering the post ends with a link to the author's consultancy page, I'm guessing not. If your team is rethinking its front-end foundation, get in touch.
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by cube00 11d ago
I try to warn my small business clients who ask for this. You know those annoying AI bots the big companies use? Well yours will be worse because you don't have their budget and it will drive what few customers who stumble upon your si
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by cube00 12d ago
Similar behaviour here: > Related tools, including Microsoft Management Console (MMC), RDS Licensing Diagnoser, and File Explorer might also become unresponsive," Microsoft admitted. > "Additionally, the Windows Update page
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by cube00 12d ago
I can't say I'm surprised when I see the 100+ function stack traces that Axum built on Tokio produces. Before you say Axum is "holding it wrong" the project lives under the tokio-rs GitHub org.
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by cube00 12d ago
Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788385
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by cube00 12d ago
The fact that so many large companies are still on X is so wrong.
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by cube00 12d ago
It's interesting that in the beginning Google would prominently display "Ads by Google" [1] which they've since hidden behind the "info" icon because they don't want their name associated with these scam a
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by cube00 14d ago
As much as I hate subscriptions, one time payment for ongoing access to a web service never lasts.
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by cube00 14d ago
What are you doing instead?
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by cube00 14d ago
It's somehow very expensive even for keywords that have no current ads so you're not in a real bidding marketplace.
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by cube00 14d ago
Then you get run out for self promotion.
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by cube00 14d ago
That's assuming you can get your ad seen, plenty of times I've seen Reddit's own ads for advertising on Reddit and I'll never see my ads. So I'm bidding against Reddit on Reddit's own platform.

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