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by jcims 3y ago
Kubernetes gets a lot of shit on HN but for all of its challenges it has proven to be a fantastic method to abstract many of the idiosyncrasies of hosting on-prem vs various cloud providers. I've worked for two companies now with 8 fi
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by jcims 3y ago
My last airbnb was a beautiful four bedroom home on a secluded lakefront property in Maine. It was beautifully decorated, topped off with nice little amenities throughout the house. There were several canoes and kayaks available for use,
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by jcims 3y ago
That’s exactly what stuck in my head. I’m 99.9% sure the answer is no. That little tickle in my brain is the interesting part to think about.
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by jcims 3y ago
For business travel I’m not going to risk it. But for personal travel I’m still finding the vast majority of properties are well maintained and, for me anyway, multitudes more comfortable than a hotel room. Just the fact that i can stop a
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by jcims 3y ago
Feels like they have to boot a VM every time you click something. Their cloud CMDB offerings are horrendous, and in my experience get bought before anyone gets a chance to let the blood out.
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by jcims 3y ago
Watching the little worm writhe on the screen made me realize that you could just sit there and torture it with impunity. Kinda creepy.
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by jcims 3y ago
Any Harry Mack fans in here? I feel like he sustains the information processing throughput that happens when an olympic gymnast or diver is mid-air, but for minutes at a time with remarkable ability to pocket information for later recall. E
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by jcims 3y ago
I wonder about that frequently. The universe 'executes' physics in, as far as I can tell, a realtime basis (at least within the local reference frame). What is that called as compared to computing a model of the same.
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by jcims 3y ago
I used to work for a very large financial institution. Scraping from finance apps was a material source of load even with substantial countermeasures in place. I can’t imagine what it does to sites like Twitter and Reddit (and HN).
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by jcims 3y ago
Wikipedia has it has a pretty great article on sunspots. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot Your question got me curious, those are called penumbral filaments. Their form has to do with the orientation of the magn
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by jcims 3y ago
That’s wild!
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Nicely done! Any idea what the field of view is?
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by jcims 3y ago
Astrobin is an amazing resource. Like Flickr for astronomers https://www.astrobin.com/search/?d=i It's amazing what some people are able to do with relatively modest (and not-so-modest) equipment.
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by jcims 3y ago
The description might be a bit indulgent, but the experience resonates. Having a conversation about flowers and your mind wants to talk about why there seems to be an innate attraction towards the scent of certain flowers. Like what is the
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by jcims 3y ago
At least they named it appropriately.
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by jcims 3y ago
This comment reminded me that for the past few years I’ve been using a hand crank coffee grinder for my pepper and i don’t think I’ll ever go back. It’s perfect.
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by jcims 3y ago
Plus who wants to eat unlucky popcorn?
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by jcims 3y ago
Absolutely https://www.youtube.com/@thethoughtemporium/playlists Homeboy genetically modified a virus that would repair his lactose intolerance and then tried it on himself. It worked (until the stomach lining wore dow
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by jcims 3y ago
It's wild to think that biology is basically built through molecular additive manufacturing. Converting nature's 3d printer into a technology that we can leverage for the fabrication of materials and structures seems inevitable.
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by jcims 3y ago
You beat me to it. It’s wild seeing big heavy things move that fast.
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I find it extremely difficult to reliably find roses for sale that actually smell like anything at all.
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A 4oz pull that moves a trigger a small faction of an inch can release a thousand foot pounds of energy.
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by jcims 3y ago
>I don't know what the architecture of IAM looks like, but somehow it's never suffered a global outage. Authentication possibly, but the control plane has gone down preventing changes.
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by jcims 3y ago
Reddit is basically successful despite itself. It's wild.
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by jcims 3y ago
I think that’s part of the reason I would love to see somebody try it, because intuitively I think it would make a difference, but it may not. To me it’s like changing the periodic table, at the macroscopic scale it may or may not make a di
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by jcims 3y ago
I really really wish someone would try tokenizing off of a phonetic representation rather than textual one. I think it would be interesting to compare the output
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by jcims 3y ago
As a redditor from 2008 that still uses it too much every day, I kind of hope it dies and stops sucking up the attention from good ideas on how to run a similar smorgasboard of a site.
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by jcims 3y ago
I've lived in the rural midwest almost all of my life and have never really had the option to not have a vehicle. I lived in Mountain View, CA for six months to try a relocation experiment and was quite happy with my bike and using pub
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by jcims 3y ago
>Started commuting w/ my wife when I changed jobs and rather miss the bike. I did this for a while when I was first married and I missed it for a very long time after we stopped. It was a 30 minute commute each way and gave us an h
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by jcims 3y ago
It's opening up a perceptual time domain that is not available in a sober state. That's not 'slower processing speed'.

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