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by jachee 8mo ago
Why create Windows when MacOS exists? Why create Linux when UNIX exists? Why create Firefox when Internet Explorer exists? Why Create a Pontiac when Ford exists? Why do anything you think can be done better when someone else has done it wor
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by jachee 8mo ago
The entire reason "storage vendors prefer" 1000-based kilobytes is so that they could misrepresent and over-market their storage capacities, getting that 24-bytes per-kb of expectation-vs-reality profit. It's the same reason—
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by jachee 8mo ago
…and off-by-one errors.
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by jachee 9mo ago
Not everyone sees the HN frontpage every day, and sometimes especially-esoteric things spend a fairly short timespan on there.
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by jachee 9mo ago
>>> That makes a lot of sense for regular ssh sessions, where privacy is critical. But it’s a lot of overhead for an open-to-the-whole-internet game where latency is critical. Switching to telnet instead of SSH might be an option.
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by jachee 9mo ago
Very few mayors have as many constituents as NYC, though. So of all mayoral inaugurations, this one has among the most potential people thinking about it, even disregarding how on-the-national-stage the election played out.
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by jachee 10mo ago
I probably need to learn Go.
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by jachee 10mo ago
LOADING. . . READY > RUN
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by jachee 10mo ago
And by “suspicious of” you mean “bigoted against”.
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by jachee 10mo ago
The Invisible Hand demands its tribute. It’s giving us the Invisible Middle Finger again.
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by jachee 10mo ago
Update title to “Tell HN: Cloudflare was down”
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by jachee 10mo ago
Management is always going to take too long (in an engineer’s opinion) to manually throw the alerts on. They’re pressing people for quick fixes so they can claim their SLAs are intact.
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by jachee 10mo ago
How about Assembly?
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by jachee 11mo ago
There is exactly one game keeping me from running Linux as my main OS… and that’s iRacing. Sadly, they won’t (not can’t …) ship the flag in EOS (née EAC) that enables anti-cheat support on Linux. It would work, but they just don’t have the
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by jachee 11mo ago
Alas, that's just the nature of precipitation maps. When radar is the only true source of what's coming down where, you're a the mercy of the laws of physics, and we don't have a large enough array of stations to give hy
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by jachee 11mo ago
Apple integrated the hyperlocal darksky stuff into their native Weather app. It had a few growing pains, but it's as good as it ever was, imho.
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by jachee 11mo ago
Yeah… just in the use of those glorified nicknames tells me a lot about the author’s standpoints, and dictates the size of the grain of salt I take their opinions with.
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by jachee 11mo ago
Zenni Optical is the antidote. Even my too-blind-for-Zeiss-VisionPro-inserts prescription in the highest refractive index lenses is under $100 for a full pair.
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by jachee 11mo ago
> I'm not going to list specific apps since I don't want to be a shill If you’re not getting paid to promote them, you’re not a shill. Honest recommendations are welcome!
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by jachee 1y ago
More explicitly so. The Dutch go rodent where Americans go feline.
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by jachee 1y ago
Depends on the style guide you’re following, apparently: The AP style guide says space around them[0]. Chicago Manual of Style says not to[1]. 0: https://www.prdaily.com/dashes-hyphens-ap-style/ 1: https://w
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by jachee 1y ago
That’s a funny typo in the HN headline. :D
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by jachee 1y ago
Like a cross between anagrams and palindromes. Most of the images on the site are interactable, and doing so will help visualize the various ways you get multiple meanings from a single "gram".
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by jachee 1y ago
Propaganda, mostly.
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by jachee 1y ago
You don't think people with the planning skills and intelligence to real-time coordinate and sequence air traffic have the skills to foresee an impending event and start planning, coordinating and sequencing their personal responses to
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by jachee 1y ago
I'd hardly call the Guardian mainstream. I'm talking about the places the septuagenarians get their news. The three-letter places with shows. That is the mainstream media. Guardian's an underdog upstart in that landscape. E
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by jachee 1y ago
It’s almost as though the mainstream media are all controlled by huge conglomerates run by multimillionaires or billionaires who have a strong political interest in keeping “the narrative” skewed against the Dems.
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by jachee 1y ago
Could you link some of your sources please?
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by jachee 1y ago
I got to 30 before I called it. Been too long since I’ve done sliding-tile puzzles to remember the algorithms.
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by jachee 1y ago
Yeah, but facebook^WMeta didn’t develop those… they bought them to stifle competition.

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