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961.
by hinkley 11mo ago
14 years old is sadly pretty good by tech standards.
962.
by hinkley 11mo ago
No, I have two decades of negative experiences with them being belligerent assholes to the rest of IT and humanity in general.
963.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Just MSFT employees. Nobody important.
964.
by hinkley 11mo ago
GitHub is only nice if you’ve used bitbucket after Atlassian bought it. But that’s very faint praise.
965.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Just the fact of someone migrating a project to another platform during the last week of November suggests that last straws were involved. That’s more of a January or a June thing than November/December. Fury can be a powerful motivato
966.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Fans generally are used to move cold air from in front of a rack behind the rack. There appear to be no fans at all here except those in the mini,which would cause the problem you discuss. I’m talking about supplemental cooling with a high
967.
by hinkley 11mo ago
And yet they have the pi backward so the networking ports are buried. I have no idea what’s going on here.
968.
by hinkley 11mo ago
https://www-uploads.scaleway.com/Mac_mini_rack_1_e31ad1da6e.... This is not the image I expected to encounter under the title, “high density”. Make those sleds taller and do three, maybe four per sled with a pair of large d
969.
by hinkley 11mo ago
You’re conflating “knows the system” with benevolent dictator. It’s not the same. It’s down to whether in a planning or brainstorming session, there is anyone who can say that a plan won’t work or if there’s a better one. Also it doesn’t ha
970.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The humans will end up spending 99% of their aggregate time in locations that are large enough to bore habitat out of solid rock. Moons, planetoids, substantial asteroids.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
One of the problems with space stations is that we can make them longer, or we can pull off pieces and replace them with bigger ones. We don’t have a way to make them larger around. And the way contact points work, I don’t think we have a w
972.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The dominant factor is: there is a human who understands the entire system. That is vastly easier to achieve by making a small, successful system, which gets buy in from both users and builders to the extent that the former pay sufficient m
973.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Thinkpads also introduced accelerometers to park the heads when a laptop leaves a desk before it can hit the ground. Seems like at some point they decided the extra square millimeters were more useful for something else, like making the lap
974.
by hinkley 11mo ago
It seems like drives would be better off with their own built in isolation. Wonder why it doesn’t work out that way. Elasticity of the materials and the gap between the axle and the arm? Space?
975.
by hinkley 11mo ago
MRIs work because water molecules are tiny magnets.
976.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I think we can blame the IO streaming API in NodeJS on this. It’s a callback and you just know you got another block. My guess is chunked mode and not checking whether the bytes expected and the bytes received matched. Not to diminish the
977.
by hinkley 11mo ago
It’s called markdown because it contains simple markup. Some of that is structural, no argument, but it’s also layout. Just enough to keep readers on board with what you’re saying.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
When I worked in commercial aerospace, before we even shipped live there was an incident with a CERT advisory against the XML package we were using. But the fix was only added to the current major version and we were stuck one behind. It to
979.
by hinkley 11mo ago
This is now the main thread. Though dang likes to merge dupes.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Npm is what happens when you let tech debt stack up for years too far. It took them five attempts to get lock files to actually behave the way lock files are supposed to behave (lockfile version 3, + at least 2 unversioned attempts before t
981.
by hinkley 11mo ago
> bun_environment.js is a highly obfuscated malicious JavaScript file. It is over 10MB in size and contains a significant amount of built-in logic for information theft. That seems a bit silly. Even on the beefy boi I used to work on a 1
982.
by hinkley 11mo ago
CI fights this. But that’s peanuts compared to feature branches and nothing compared to lack of a monolith. We had so many distinct packages on my last project that I had to massively upgrade a tool a coworker started to track the dependenc
983.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The day I learned the Pythagorean theorem, I also learned the Triangle inequality. From then on every corner parking lot or diagonal sidewalk through a park became a shortcut to be taken, and enjoyed. Little wonder that the way I got throug
984.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The whole point is to dumb a problem down so that people can focus on substance instead of form. It’s typesetting for people who aren’t technical and to lower the barrier for technical people for documentation of what they’re working on so
985.
by hinkley 11mo ago
The cost of disgruntled customers is that they might work for a competitor or a company you have to work with, like a bank.
986.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Jeff Atwood is too nice for our own good.
987.
by hinkley 11mo ago
I already knew Zuck was a piece of shit before readying Careless People but holy shit.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
The only way to have privacy in a semi public location, like the Internet, is anonymity. Ask any celebrity how much privacy they have. They can’t even buy Starbucks without people commenting on how fat their comfy clothes make them look. Be
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by hinkley 1y ago
Defaults are always assumptions. Changing them usually means that you have new information.
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by hinkley 1y ago
There’s a sort of a chess clock that starts after the first injury. Every move adds a little more time to the clock but slowly runs down goodwill. It does seem to be that the later the clock starts the better things go. But analogies aside,

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