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by elevenbits 5y ago
replying to my own comment, from oldskool
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by elevenbits 5y ago
First comment from OldSkool :)
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Show HN: OldSkool, an old-style forum viewer for Hacker News(hn.shiftedbits.org)
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by elevenbits 5y ago
Hi HN, I made this as an experiment to see if a older style (PHPBB-alike) format would enhance readability of posts on Hacker News. To me the present style represents a discussion room in which members form nested cliques, which means that
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by elevenbits 6y ago
I have a different view than captured by your A-E options. 1) The climate, or really the whole earth, has some background rate of change, that itself changes over time. 2) On top of that, there is change, ranging from significant to insigni
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by elevenbits 6y ago
Hi HN, I'm the founder of AgMaps ( https://agmaps.us ) -- simple and fast drone mapping software for Agriculture. Map 160 acres in as little as 15 minutes on your iPad while the drone flies, then locate areas of stress or dam
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by elevenbits 7y ago
I read that part the same way; for standard remote ID drones, transmission over internet to a USS should be made if possible, but as long as the drone can continue an ADS-B like (but specifically NOT ADS-B) transmission it remains compliant
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by elevenbits 7y ago
It's temping to treat this as more of the same "Catalina is buggy, Apple is doomed" news, but note that Mail.app has ALWAYS been less than rock solid. For some reason, it seems to be a prime target for new features and reconf
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by elevenbits 7y ago
> that governments need to put some "guardrails" around engineers and the tech titans they serve No. We don't need "guardrails" at all. We have an existing legal system that works quite well to discourage compani
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by elevenbits 7y ago
This is better than most of these "tips for a good life" lists, but I feel like it too misses a certain level of overarching consistency. Almost every item has a situation in which the "correct" thing to do is exactly th
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by elevenbits 7y ago
I can offer a personal anecdote here on my experience with code reviews, on both sides. I was the primary architect and reviewer for a complex real-time mathematical application. When reviewing code, I was pretty much a tyrant: the code had
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by elevenbits 7y ago
I've noticed a number of sites now are doing something that interferes with the password manager (Lastpass in this case). Common problems are either that autofill doesn't work (even explicitly clicking autofill does nothing), or t
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by elevenbits 7y ago
The more I think about it, the more I'm thinking that allowing SSDs to present a higher level API than block storage would be an incredible win. Consider: - Currently, SSD controller firmware goes to incredible lengths to present somet
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by elevenbits 7y ago
Key word being "on linux". On the other 99.9% of devices, I have no such choice and the filesystem required by the OS simply presents a layer of incompatibility. Modern OSs all run on essentially the same hardware (same CPU archit
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by elevenbits 7y ago
Absolutely. SSDs have gone from 100+MB/s random (already a huge improvement over the spinning rust of the time) to maxing out PCIe x4. Over the same timeline, what have filesystems done? - Apple made APFS, which seems to show roughly t
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by elevenbits 7y ago
Would be interesting if this evolves into a full filesystem implementation in hardware (they talk about Object Drive but aren't focused on that yet). Some interesting future possibilities: - A cross-platform filesystem that you could r
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by elevenbits 7y ago
I can't speak for others, but while this is true in aggregate, I'm not personally willing to stake my life on a system that can, on a 1-in-a-million event and with no warning, accelerate into a fatal collision. An otherwise 100% a
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by elevenbits 7y ago
I think companies experimenting with licenses like the AGPL are trying to suss out what open source means in the cloud age. When the GPL came to be and software ran on people's computers, there was no way to distribute software that di
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by elevenbits 7y ago
I'm astonished at all the comments that vilify MongoDB Inc and then talk about moving to AWS's MongoDB clone. What sort of twisted world are we living in where a company makes a service, tries to sell the service, and then are lam
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by elevenbits 7y ago
The point I think is that as GitHub adds more and more integrations (git + issues + fork graph + CI/CI + ...) then it's not so simple to move to another service. The vertical is more convenient until you realize you're an Ora
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by elevenbits 7y ago
I use streaming radio to find songs that are similar to a song I like, then look up the artists for some of the new songs that caught my attention. This allows me to find both new songs (immediate win), but artists whose other songs may inf