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by jacobkg 4y ago
I just ordered from this company. Shipping was $15 for USPS priority. Will see how the quality is though… https://www.thetasteofgermany.com/
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by jacobkg 4y ago
I used to work with someone who was an expert in writing cryptography libraries. He insisted on never using any system calls for maximum portability (he also wrote his own memory allocators and optimized for small binary size). Seemed quirk
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by jacobkg 4y ago
This is the thesis of the excellent book on financial fraud “Lying for Money”
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by jacobkg 4y ago
When someone pitched the idea of cloud kitchens to me a few years ago, the idea was you would have a centralized facility running multiple kitchens each of which was a single restaurant entity. It made sense as a way to run takeout only ope
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by jacobkg 4y ago
Anecdata: My wife is a doctor AT A HOSPITAL and someone yelped at her a couple weeks ago as she was leaving the parking lot: “Chinese, they don’t f*ing win! You don’t f*ing win!” Made us both very upset
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by jacobkg 4y ago
I lived in Loma Linda for a few years (in Southern California, 60 miles east of LA), which is one of the blue zones It is predominantly a 7th day Adventist community. Notably they prioritize healthy lifestyle and typically are vegetarian as
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by jacobkg 4y ago
I couldn’t tell from the video, what do you see inside the link? Just the gauges? Is the idea to simulate flying in total darkness or cloud cover?
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by jacobkg 4y ago
This caused our servers running docker on Ubuntu 20.04 to start entering reboot loops after our security update today. Showed up in the serial console as a Kernel Panic. Per this bug report, it affects AWS, GCP, and Azure.
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Docker container creation causes kernel oops Linux-AWS 5.13.0.1028.31~20.04.22(bugs.launchpad.net)
5 points by jacobkg 4y ago|1 comments
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by jacobkg 4y ago
Is there a reasonable alternative to Google Maps API for traffic aware routing and duration estimates?
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by jacobkg 4y ago
My take on the Dad joke: A “Dad” joke is usually characterized by relying heavily on dumb puns and wordplay. I now believe that this is not because Dads inherently like puns but rather that two aspects of child development happen to coincid
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Tech workers with Ukrainian roots help build website to ease donation process(geekwire.com)
5 points by jacobkg 5y ago|0 comments
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by jacobkg 5y ago
“customer service agent: would you be able to participate in a customer satisfaction survey to provide feedback on how we did after this call? you: if I don’t give you a good rating in this survey will you get fired? customer service agent:
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by jacobkg 5y ago
I have this strong memory of playing tons of SimCity on my dad’s mac and then it stopped working when he upgraded his computer from 16 to 256 colors. It was a sad day.
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by jacobkg 5y ago
All of the above. Dodgers signed a massive $8B TV deal and also routinely fill their stadium which has the second largest capacity in MLB
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by jacobkg 5y ago
I laughed so hard
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by jacobkg 5y ago
Bogleheads has my favorite forum feature (which I haven’t seen elsewhere) which is that their home page is all posts from all sub forums ordered by most recent so you rarely have to click around to find updates. That and absurdly good conte
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by jacobkg 5y ago
I finally upgraded to Monterey from Mojave this past weekend. I somehow didn’t get the memo that it was no longer getting security updates until my head security engineer said it last week
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by jacobkg 5y ago
‘The Peacemaker’s Code’ is a fantastic sci-fi book. It is reminiscent of a business novel like ‘The Goal’, being written by a Harvard negotiation expert. I can best describe it as a cross between ‘Arrival’, ‘The Three-Body Problem’, and ‘Th
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by jacobkg 5y ago
Thanks! I was looking for a book like this and for some reason this one eluded my searches.
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Ask HN: Is your company planning a larger cost of living increase?
2 points by jacobkg 5y ago|1 comments
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by jacobkg 5y ago
Thanks, will definitely do that!
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by jacobkg 5y ago
AWS Connect is down, so our customer support phone system is down with it
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by jacobkg 5y ago
We bypassed our Google load balancer and pointed DNS directly at the IP addresses of our servers and that seems to have helped
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by jacobkg 5y ago
I learned about this mnemonic as a kid for doing frequency analysis on simple substitution ciphers. (Also when I saw my first R rated movie I apparently quipped: “It should be fetaoin shrdlu”)
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by jacobkg 5y ago
Agreed. This was a fantastic class when I took it. The textbook written by Sipser is also extremely good and could stand alone. Fun fact: I got to have dinner with Sipser once and he told us that he had wagered an ounce of gold back in the
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by jacobkg 5y ago
I remember I was doing an internship when the iPhone came out. Several of the people there had bought apple stock in anticipation of the iPhone’s announcement and then sold afterwards to turn a quick profit. As you suggest, in retrospect le
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by jacobkg 5y ago
Is it a handgun? My understanding is that the best firearm for home defense is a shotgun because it has high stopping power, doesn’t require as much accuracy, and is less likely to penetrate walls. Therefore I don’t particularly take people
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by jacobkg 5y ago
Another kind of down-leveling is switching from IC to Manager and back. This doesn’t necessarily mean a pay decrease but I’ve gone back and forth multiple times in my career and so have several of my peers. E.g One of the senior engineers a
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by jacobkg 5y ago
My grandmother had very serious dementia. I remember a year or so before we were aware of it that she almost ran a cyclist off the road which was very uncharacteristic.

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