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by heartag 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40521930
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by heartag 2y ago
Something that adjusted my cynical attitude as a college student was reading "Don't Blow Yourself Up" by Homer Hickam. He was an early role model of mine as a child watching October Sky on repeat, and in the book he describes
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by heartag 2y ago
I'm also interested in the answer to this. OSMand does an OK job of editing things on OSM, but whenever I use it I wind up hitting brick walls of things that aren't supported (like editing ways/roads). Streetcomplete is good
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by heartag 2y ago
Site is loading OK for me.
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by heartag 2y ago
If you're on Android with f-droid, the Silence app[1] has solved this exact problem for me. Numbers that I haven't called before and aren't in my contacts can still leave a voicemail but not ring the phone. *Edit, you said sm
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by heartag 3y ago
This doesn't pass the smell test. For constant light the satellites would need to be in something like geosynchronous orbits, which is "very far away"(tm). Closer in and you'd need Starlink 2.0 quantities to get coverage
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by heartag 3y ago
It's a shame ESR is insane. I gave up on him a few years back when he published on his blog clearly premeditated intent to shoot people he didn't like.
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by heartag 3y ago
This is just anecdotal, but LOS+migrog on my Oneplus 7 Pro hasn't failed on a banking app for me yet. Sometimes the setup is quirky, like needing to uncheck "remember me" to log in on Fidelity's app, but the app then doe
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by heartag 3y ago
Read: "I'm not donating in a manner that's easily or directly attributable to me."
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by heartag 3y ago
Reposting a previous answer of mine: [1] Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder - Nonfiction - I read this book between classes in college and love it. The way it illuminates factors and people around the early pc days is awesome, and I re
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by heartag 3y ago
I want wayland, but my current understanding is that it will have to wait until I don't have computers with nvidia cards anymore. Until then still running the same i3wm config since 2014.
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by heartag 3y ago
That's a fun idea, and well executed.
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by heartag 3y ago
Off the top of my head: Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine Dealers of Lightening - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1101
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by heartag 3y ago
It is insane to watch Musk, who has made billions of dollars from Tesla, equate himself sleeping under his desk to production line employees sleeping on the floor after 12 hours shifts.
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by heartag 3y ago
The update to Kenneth Eugene Smith's entry should be standalone as a separate botched operation: > Alabama Death Row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday night became the first prisoner to die using a new untested method of execu
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by heartag 3y ago
While you're waiting would you like to play a game of "is this cold-call email offering a return on investment phishing, or just poorly worded?" [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896833
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by heartag 3y ago
I don't. I just wing it month-to-month and hate every second of it.
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by heartag 3y ago
Here's a link to what I believe OP intends to show: https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&since=2023-1...
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by heartag 3y ago
That name is apt and functional, but after reading it I found myself saying "LinkSoapy" "SoapyLink" "LinkySoap" "LinkClean" "LinkStitch" to myself to try and find one that rolled off the ton
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by heartag 3y ago
I dig it. That's a good blog post.
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by heartag 3y ago
It's not even correct, much less principled.
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by heartag 3y ago
> The cause of the outage, which began a little after 12 am ET(0500 GMT), is not yet known, and emails to X's communications and support teams bounced back. Knee slapping good time
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by heartag 3y ago
See also https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nyc-bathhouse-mining-bitcoin-...
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by heartag 3y ago
I seriously doubt this is true, though I also couldn't find any readily available sources that seem credible. The closest seems to be a DIY comparison by Puget Systems[1]. A computer drawing 1000W is losing some energy to light and sou
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by heartag 3y ago
I dig it. ... IP security cameras do sound more appealing now though, that's a thought.
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by heartag 3y ago
My understanding is that the origin of that phrase came from "some engineers have 10x the output of the worst engineers" not the average engineer. Then it became a phrase to let people on social media self-identify as alpha-males
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by heartag 3y ago
This isn't really advice, but I just want to say I sympathize. I struggled quite a lot in learning C and C++ back in school. The thing that wound up helping most was to pick one or two projects that I actually wanted the results of (in
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by heartag 3y ago
I'm still side-eyeing the whole scene. I haven't used any yet.
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by heartag 3y ago
* Freed 12 years later The whole article is wild: > In an interview with CBS in 2019, Mr Saffold confirmed that he was indeed legally blind, saying that he has glaucoma. "They didn't do anything wrong because they didn't k
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by heartag 3y ago
That article has a perspective on crashes that's new to me. I like the idea of useful things coming from the ashes of tech bubbles.

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