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by hnbear 2y ago
I love seeing articles where someone clearly really loves something and has thought deeply about it, internalized all the lessons, and then gone out of their way to share it all in detail. The Airforce museum in Dayton is amazing. We stoppe
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by hnbear 2y ago
They also make great noises: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sea+robbin+noises&t=osx&iax=videos...
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by hnbear 2y ago
At most firms the money was never earmarked for saving lives and there's no expectation it ever would have. By not earning the money (or losing it), you're not actually impacting anyone's life.
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by hnbear 2y ago
A while ago at a company selling monitoring software I deployed an updated agent out to clients and immediately a large number of their Solaris (SPARC) servers went orange or red. Pretty quickly worried about what I'd done. But, it tur
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by hnbear 2y ago
I had an ex-marine boss leading QA and Prod support. Every time someone would go nuts about incidents being the end of the world, especially our biz users, he'd just ask if anyone was at risk of getting shot. If not, focus up and solve
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by hnbear 2y ago
At one company an excel add-in with a >$1M support cost was found to have a single user. Turned out to be the CEO so we have to keep paying for it. Back around 2009ish the company I was at sold a single enterprise license for our softwar
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by hnbear 2y ago
I hope it works. This problem is all over the place. Close to London lies the Richard Montgomery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery One ship with 1400 tonnes of TNT still in it rusting away. This so
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by hnbear 2y ago
Whenever I’m asked the sort of generic icebreaker questions like “what fictional thing do you wish you had” a neural lace is one of my first answers, short of membership in the Culture or access to a GSV or a Mind. I also love Consider Phle
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by hnbear 2y ago
That’s great. I loved the Division games and most of the mechanics in them. I don’t play online and still really enjoyed playing through the stories. I thought it was so much as an NYC dweller to walk around the city in chaos. They early Co
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by hnbear 2y ago
Is it a mammoth or an elephant that looks like a mammoth: "To produce the calves, Colossal scientists will first identify the genes encoding the woolly mammoth's most emblematic physical traits, such as shaggy hair, curved tusks,
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by hnbear 2y ago
With old systems the catches always seem to be knowing the deep hidden why's to the encoded business rules and all the bugs, not just the high level goals and basic code. Older systems have tons and tons of business logic encoded in th
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The PDF a couple of weeks ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41159075 Not sure if that counts as a dupe. Also, it needs [2002] tagging.
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by hnbear 2y ago
I walked into the Emperors New Grove as a late teen when it was in theatres. We just wanted to see a movie, didn’t matter what. We laughed so hard we got evil looks from kids in the theatre. I still love it to this day. Worth a read: https
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by hnbear 2y ago
There’s a movie version of Smiley’s People? I love Tinker Tailor and have watched it many times too. I’d love a sequel.
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by hnbear 2y ago
There's a fantastic associated YouTube video that talks through these too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio It's a rabbit hole that had be fascinated for quite a while.
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by hnbear 2y ago
and now it's Pro - https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/Pro/New.html and it was a cheaper upgrade for pre-existing users. Seconded as a great tool.
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by hnbear 2y ago
There are and have been browsers that work like this. Opera Mini worked like this for optimization of sites for limited cell phone bandwidth and processing years ago. You would get a pre-processed and rendered site as an image. https:&#x2F
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by hnbear 2y ago
I created a VM and then just duped the VM. Definitely overkill for this purpose, but nicely segregates them out. Right now I run three instances. Pretty low resource utilization and they're totally segregated into their own instances s
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by hnbear 2y ago
Having lived in various different places - dense city, suburban town, more rural town, for us it all came down to the city planning, far more than any other factor. Living in a small but dense NJ town with close town-houses and good sidewal
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by hnbear 2y ago
Because some of the requirements and solutions are so niche as to appear invented. It’s not parody and appears earnest, but deeply specific to this one individual. Examples: “I believe that a phone should offer very reliably just these feat
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by hnbear 2y ago
Articles like this never really cover the downsides of self-hosted setups, and the real time, effort, and costs that'll go into it. Statements like this are so disingenuous: "Monitor Your Services: Set up monitoring to keep track
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by hnbear 2y ago
Property taxation based on income location? If you’re earning out of state, or neighboring state, get a high property tax bill. Or, non-primary residence high bills? Much lower property tax bills for working in-state?
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by hnbear 2y ago
Reminded me of Lester’s comments in The Wire that he makes substantially more money making miniatures for dollhouse collectors than he does working as a cop.
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by hnbear 2y ago
A neighbor gave me his aging Apple ColorSync 850 back around 1999/2000 - https://everymac.com/monitors/apple/applevision_colorsync/sp... 67.4 lbs, but 20" and 1600x1200, which was incredible 25 year
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by hnbear 2y ago
I moved to mini-pcs for home servers a while ago. They're silent, very powerful these days, and pretty affordable. I gave away my rack-mounts and haven't looked back. Pis for smaller/dedicated workloads. All the other family&
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by hnbear 2y ago
Yes, and most of the robots I've seen tend to have a certain heavyweight chunkiness to them. I assume to keep them firmly planted and stable when around humans, lest they be knocked down and left unable to move. Trundle seemed appropri
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by hnbear 2y ago
I run three archive warrior instances on virts already. But, yes, that’s a good suggestion. I don’t notice their bandwidth impact at all.
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> the robots use the same walkways as the humans. How much of this is that the robots are far newer than the buildings? How soon till new buildings are designed with designated robotic paths? Plenty of buildings are designed with hidden
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by hnbear 2y ago
Yeah, at some point soon I'll have to go upgrade my APs at home with Wifi 7 ones, currently running a Unifi mix, with them all backhauled through Cat6 and PoE. It's interesting to see wireless moving faster than ethernet now altho
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In NYC Rsosevelt Island solved their trash problems (which plague the rest of the city) with an underground pneumatic trash network: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/suck-it-roosevelt-isla... Buildings have a conn

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