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by infofarmer 3y ago
https://youtu.be/9ihHJoSHfzU the original youtube upload from the same person
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by infofarmer 3y ago
Almost like those annoying neurosurgeons taking 18 hours to perform a brain surgery that could've been 30 minutes. Network configuration changes are the reason for 90%+ of domain-wide multi-hour outages. You can remote-reset everything
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by infofarmer 3y ago
You also don't understand how 95% of the world or 80% of HN lives. $5/month is a very significant expense.
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Yep, I have happy exceptions like that as well. Average has been getting worse though. Lots of travel in hot humid climates might be contributing, but unintuitively that's where the majority of apple product usage happens.
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Sample size of one. Both standard AppleCare and AppleCare+ have been increasingly indispensable for me in the last decade as the quality of all Apple hardware has been in steady decline. On average my macbooks, iphones, watches don't
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Any chance for a dedicated section?
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Reduced to "you are as good as next quarter" these days
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by infofarmer 4y ago
At certain levels of power, all you need to achieve virtual sainthood is to remain a decent human being.
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Is San Francisco “back”? I audited its parties to find out(ed.blog)
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by infofarmer 4y ago
if you don't look at SMTP alone, but at the whole suite of protocols and best practices, email spam has been a solved problem for over a decade compared to my gmail, protonmail and other email clients/services, the signal-to-spam
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by infofarmer 4y ago
email does all three reasonably well
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Anecdotally, in China, 4G and 5G work quite decently on high-speed rail up to 300 km/h, and Shanghai maglev at 400 km/h. For publicity Huawei demonstrated sustained 40 Mbit/s on the maglev back in 2010 and they did similar st
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Yes. Not yet.
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by infofarmer 4y ago
If you're looking into bodypack, why not just carry the phone around? Spotty Wi-Fi / 4G coverage?
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by infofarmer 4y ago
In Mainland China a multitude of tech and ad companies are working to ensure that every elevator in the country has a screen and audio for a never-ending loop of commercials. Depending on the city, the coverage of premium office and residen
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Loved my EeePC 1000HE back in the day, ran FreeBSD on it along with many other committers and we were all carefully tweaking the milli-amperage (power drain) to maximize battery life. I used to remember how many mA some kernel modules and d
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Aircraft in general were famously predicted to be impossible by multiple credible sources. https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp... Does any science claim or even attempt to estimate its own comp
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by infofarmer 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-history_illusion There's an even better cognitive bias than this describing your «optimism» about the future, but I fail to find its name.
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by infofarmer 4y ago
> Your gut bacteria is a jungle with many species of microbes, trillions of them. To clarify: modern science estimates 300–1000 species in gut microbiota, 99% by number of cells coming from 30-40 species. The total number of microbial an
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Sounds like you weren’t as techy through the 90s :-)
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by infofarmer 4y ago
I think I found a few rare old pictures online https://twitter.com/pandrewhk/status/1533366856635281408 But nothing recent. The innocent explanation would be — it's really desolate and the iPhone glitch was j
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Presumably this? https://www.facebook.com/groups/997443017293595/about/ «This Group is about the radar squadron at Hofn, Island a one time remote tour. Hofn Air Station (ADC/NATO ID: H-3) is a closed Uni
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by infofarmer 4y ago
For a perspective from within Mainland China — you’d expect these problems to be 10x worse there, but they’re largely solved for most items (on Taobao, JD, and Pinduoduo): - you can return almost any purchase within 7 days of receiving it,
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Loosely related, App Store is by far the worst of the top-1000 online stores. It almost sounds like proper competition would do some good here.
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Beggars in Mainland China have been presenting QR codes (for Alipay and WeChat Pay) for years now. https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/beggars-with-qr-co...
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Starting around 6.x, -CURRENT got ridiculously reliable (the infamously problematic 5.x release series informed the releng process a lot). By late 00s, if you were running FreeBSD and pushing it to its limits in terms of performance or feat
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by infofarmer 4y ago
> really crap ext3/4 filesystem support Sarcastic correction: almost decent support for really crap ext3/4 filesystem (As compared to either of UFS2 or ZFS) Fun fact: ~12 years ago I was able to recover 80%+ of data from some f
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by infofarmer 4y ago
There are many more types of active defenses other than reactive armor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_protection_system
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Tangent: HEPA filters are one of the best QoL investments you can make. You should start caring about what you breathe right now if you don’t already. WHO recently tightened PM2.5 guidance closer to zero and all the evidence so far is that
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by infofarmer 4y ago
Glad to learn more about polyester! Still slightly concerned with health and environmental effects, but Uniqlo largely changed my life and enabled me as a minimalistic nomad — 10 sets of base layers are almost ridiculously light and low-vol

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