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by hnbear 2y ago
5 Gbps fiber connections just became available in my area but they're basically unusable because internal home networking just isn't there yet. 2.5 Gbps switches only recently became cheap enough for consumer purchasing, and the N
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by hnbear 2y ago
Yes, I does strike me as someone only someone very undertrained would put in. I found it funny at the time, aged 10 or so. It wasn't bad. I'd rather have letters from him than not, even with odd secretarial additions.
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by hnbear 2y ago
Land Rover beats Mercedes?
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by hnbear 2y ago
Yes, aged 8 went to boarding school. There was no phone for the kids. They did have phones for staff, obviously. In our case they’d call a parent if you broke something. But, communication was a weekly letter. We had letter writing every Su
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by hnbear 2y ago
I was so happy opening a Sun box and wondering what tools I'd need to do whatever job I was doing, and discovered a Sun-branded screwdriver mounted inside the case. It made it clear that someone had really cared about the user it when
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by hnbear 2y ago
Poles on horseback fought Germans in WWII. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_at_Krojanty And, volunteering is easy, especially for a group pre-disposed to defending their land. I’d be more surprised about them not
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by hnbear 2y ago
I had a similar start, probably similar era, maybe a '98ish. My mom grabbed me one day and said I had to meet the new neighbors. So, I went round and they had a front room full of a whole crazy mix of stuff. Some Next machines, Macs, A
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by hnbear 2y ago
Less fun with a 10 minute lockup till the next block
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by hnbear 2y ago
Time for a new investment strategy that involves buying whatever (index funds?) then losing your password to force a hold till the encryption algo has been cracked or compute power makes it easy to brute-force. Call it the Moore’s Law Fund.
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by hnbear 2y ago
Modern example: AirPods Pro.
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by hnbear 2y ago
They lost the fun snark and just went pissy and needlessly edgelordy 10 years ago. It’s not the great site it was in the 90s anymore when it was fair, balanced and fun, along with having accurate news.
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by hnbear 2y ago
These sorts of errors are frequent and pervasive in finance. Not just numbers. I worked on a ref dare system with minimal input validation. Copy/pastes would leave in white spaces, new lines, etc. This would then break trading which tr
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by hnbear 2y ago
I wouldn’t want to guess orientation from email or emoji usage. That said, I hadn’t done the comms or calls, she had. That’s also why I commented - emoji usage is very confusing in some instances. Our recruiter took it as a fairly chauvinis
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by hnbear 2y ago
Maybe I’m old, but traditionally monitors where 4:3 until mid to late 2000s when they shifted to 16:10 then 16:9.
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by hnbear 2y ago
Always dreaded having to explain things like the thumbs up emoji or ship it squirrel to regulators, auditors, compliance and how that technically meets the change policy definition of “approved by senior technology leadership in writing on
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by hnbear 2y ago
I had a candidate apply for a role and in his comms with our female recruiter sent a fairly ambiguous response and finished it up with the nail polish emoji. That definitely ended his candidacy. Not sure exactly what it meant, but couldn’t
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by hnbear 2y ago
I really loved the bread and iron series too. He breaks down very important but generally overlooked day to day retirements into very digestible detail.
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by hnbear 2y ago
I thought Numberphile is sponsored by Jane St. Another math focused quant firm.
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by hnbear 2y ago
Also what looks like insane scope creep. "The full-sized ship would also need to have a range of 7,000 miles, support heavy bombers and be torpedo-proof. It was to be over a mile in length, weigh as much as 2.2 million tons and require
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by hnbear 2y ago
Hello on Windows is fantastic. I’m logged in before my monitor has woken up. It’s never unlocked when I’m further away than seated distance. I wish I had it on my Mac.
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by hnbear 2y ago
Something like: https://www.bikeperfect.com/features/bespoken-word-computer-... I agree, some campaign around being actually build for real use would be interesting. A whole series of well loved and heavily used machin
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by hnbear 2y ago
Having used small claims a couple of times I’ve found it easy enough to write the petition. Small claims is designed to be lawyer free. There are gotchas but the judges seem to be more lenient. I’m not a lawyer and don’t have much court exp
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by hnbear 2y ago
Given Gentoo is a non-corporate, all volunteer project I think this is the salient point: “ In his RFC, he laid out three broad areas of concern: copyrights, quality, and ethics. On the copyright front, he argued that LLMs are trained on co
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by hnbear 2y ago
The same in crypto too. The big exchanges function much like a traditional exchange and Jane St, Virtu, etc all connect the same way (FIX) to make the market. Really crypto exchanges are just like FX markets. Very little difference. They li
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by hnbear 3y ago
Similar fun story - I was working out how to embed jQuery into a Twiki site and how to do mouse-overs on content for some reason, no idea what any more. I needed some tests with different content. Our boss had just got a bulldog puppy that
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by hnbear 3y ago
In CT for $350 you can take your car to Lime Rock Park to go snow racing in winter. https://limerock.com/drive/driving-programs/winter-autocross... “ Our six-hour program is managed by pro driving coaches who prov
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by hnbear 3y ago
Seems weird to talk about the deep sea and miss Challenger Deep/Marianas trench, and the Trieste completely.
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by hnbear 3y ago
NYC has steam as a utility, pumped into buildings for heat, cooling, etc The pipes run underground. Leaks come up out of manholes. The funnel keeps it above human head height,
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by hnbear 3y ago
"The result is that US wages for fully in-office roles are surging. According to ZipRecruiter data, seen by the BBC, companies were offering on average $82,037 (£64,562) for fully in-person roles by March 2024 – an increase of more tha
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by hnbear 3y ago
No, but you have 6 or so years of use before you need to switch to Asahi and maybe it'll be a daily driver by then.

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