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by hnbear 4y ago
I think this depends most on your personal dev workflow and where heavier tasks are happening. At one then of the spectrum you can just be browsing for info, then writing code in vim, and that's it locally, if you push code up to a rem
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by hnbear 4y ago
I don’t think it’s necessary in most cases, although oddly I recently had a medical insurance claim rejected because of a gender mismatch for my wife. (USA and all the health insurance mess) Turns out that my employer deliberately doesn’t s
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by hnbear 4y ago
In my last three roles I've gone from: - Fixed allowance, which included sick time in the bucket, but you could sell time back each December Shortly after I joined HR decided to just merge the 5 days of sick time, and whatever the vaca
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by hnbear 4y ago
And interestingly, given that's a Cyan game, their more famous title, Myst, was also just HyperCard stacks behind the scenes, with each world being it's own deck.
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by hnbear 4y ago
“…driving salinity to levels incompatible with the lake’s food webs” - this is a fantastic was of saying everything will die. Although in a doc titled “Emergency Measures Needed” it might more useful to have less euphemism.
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by hnbear 4y ago
And I’m not sure which is worse here. Devices on my network I can’t control, or protocols so easily circumvented.
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by hnbear 4y ago
You could catch and redirect all port 53 traffic to a local Pi-hole (or similar dns server) to respond with whatever you want
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by hnbear 4y ago
Didn't mean to correct you, just that I didn't get one until 2008 (checked my email). And yes, they were great. Region free and HD up-conversion to full 1080p built in, along with digital 5.1 audio as well. Was a really nice DVD p
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by hnbear 4y ago
And region free too, which is why I had one. But in 2006 or so.
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by hnbear 4y ago
1Pass, a family account, primarily for the sharing features, and the good integrations into iOS. The biggest challenge with passwords was finding a tool for the whole family, which is more important than the most secure. If not, then it won
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by hnbear 4y ago
I keep a Windows machine around purely for games, mostly Ubisoft, COD, and miscellaneous Steam titles. But that's it - everything else is on a remote Linux machine via putty, or in the browser. I have a Mac for the rest of my life. I&#
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by hnbear 4y ago
Dark Sky was fantastic, and their API was great to use. They provided a very intuitive way to get both hyperlocal, and general forecast data, along with their nice graphics and icons as well. Way back when I built a bunch of geeklets for ge
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by hnbear 4y ago
It's still around: https://www.usds.gov/ , and similar to the UK system, there's a US Gov equivalent: https://designsystem.digital.gov/ The UK one: https://www.gov.uk/government&#x2
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by hnbear 4y ago
Looks like both are external then. StatusPage (api.twitterstat.us) is Atlassian hosted, and looks like it's just the API status. status.io (status.twitterstat.us) is another SaaS vendor and is the the main status page for Twitter (as l
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by hnbear 4y ago
I wonder if anyone left knows about the status page, or has access/ability to edit it. Or, more cynically, even cares. Sometimes these parts of the processes, especially where there's external comms, are controlled so only specifi
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by hnbear 4y ago
Also the original iMac was Bondi Blue, named for beach (or rather sea by the beach)
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by hnbear 4y ago
Why does the Active-Surfaces website explicitly call out that it’s unavailable in the USA? That’s the site for the startup developing this tech, linked from the article. Active-Surfaces.com —— The Active Surfaces® brand is not available for
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by hnbear 4y ago
Somewhat depressing that the "how we'll actually tell if you're good or bad" is the shortest paragraph in the whole thing. And while it stresses the need for transparency, it's actually incredibly opaque and provide
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by hnbear 4y ago
A huge number of current rude terms have medical origin, including an entire measured scale, including idiot, as you called out: Moron (from Wikipedia): --- It was once applied to people with an IQ of 51–70, being superior in one degree to
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by hnbear 4y ago
Consider Phlebas - Amazon picked it up, it’s the show I’ve been waiting for for years. I think it’s incredibly TV-able. Great story and lots of fun: aliens, spaceships, spies, changing, fancy weapons, funny AIs. With enough money could make
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by hnbear 4y ago
More focused on Arts than a lot of the discussion below, which is more STEMmy (not surprising given this is HN), but there’s a good acoup.blog post discussing the PhD process: https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/col
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by hnbear 4y ago
In a previous role at a Macbook only shop one team requiring linux machines got X1 Carbons as they best linux machine generally available and easily supportable. Through a roughly 5 year period of trying various models they were consistentl
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by hnbear 4y ago
What about other students? Specifying MIT et al. makes it look like it’s a specific flaw in stereotypically ‘smart’ people, rather than the general population. Curious if this is more generally tested and known, or what biases are in place
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by hnbear 4y ago
The amount of effort put into getting reference data correct at big banks is huge, but the volume of data is insane and often there are no good places to verify it. I had similar experiences when supporting the ref data platform. On one sys
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by hnbear 4y ago
Also: yesterdays discussion on the original Apple press release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33774685
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by hnbear 4y ago
I hope someone makes a Bluetooth add-on to make an air-integrated component for this (or a new app).
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That's addressed in the article, which recommends and explains SMB too. --- Using Samba instead of AFP (recommended in 2021) As pointed out by many people on Reddit that Apple has effectively deprecated AFP, I would like to add this se
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by hnbear 4y ago
At companies I've worked at with mainframes the teams running them were typically very well tenured on both the systems and software running on them. They weren't the types to go looking on StackOverflow or Youtube for answers. Th
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by hnbear 4y ago
I was getting ads for this on LinkedIn, including SBF, before the FTX crash. Pretty sure this is just that they haven't updated the content and pre-exists FTX imploding. Would be great if he still showed up though. Would make for an am
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by hnbear 4y ago
Bright Ages (The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe https://a.co/d/0axSFSi ) is a fantastic book on this. It highlights the growing, current historical view of continued European growth and development and no

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