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by metafunctor 4y ago
Counterpoint of one, my dad's in in his 70s, and seems sharp as ever. Last summer, he took upon a project of building a protocol converter between a GPS device and some kind of sailing computer in his sailboat. I politely listened to
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by metafunctor 4y ago
I count HN as a social media, so no.
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by metafunctor 4y ago
Yeah. I mostly left Twitter about 9 years ago (!) for the same reasons. I wonder if a celebrity like Musk is overestimating how important Twitter really is. Because in my view, it's a cesspool of self-promoters, hate, corporate marke
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by metafunctor 5y ago
I guess it’s no surprise that a shorter wavelength kills more stuff. That said, I’m not super convinced that it’s safe, if it’s not something we normally have in our environment… the stuff being killed might be you.
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Interesting that you see yourself as being more employable. And if you say so, probably it's true! So, I'm wondering what you bring to the teams you're hired into. When I hire, staying at previous jobs for only 1—2 years i
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Wasn't there a study or two that living on the western edge of a time zone poses higher health risks, presumably because people have to get up before sunrise to get to work. This why I, personally, would prefer standard time over DST.
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Doesn’t that mean you should prefer standard time? DST moves the clock forwards, so the sun won’t be as high at, say, 7am.
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by metafunctor 5y ago
My vote goes to the “Org Too Big, Nobody Cares” explanation. Or, perhaps, just the blissful America-centric ignorance about how there are regions in the world with multiple official languages. Haven't checked this recently, but a while
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Perhaps try a different brand. The one I usually get lists milk, cream, whey, salt, carob powder, citric acid, and culture. So fermented milk products plus a bit of things to make it more stable.
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by metafunctor 5y ago
I used rsync 20 years ago, switched to Borg, then switched to Restic. It’s nice to send backups to destinations like B2 or S3 without any special requirements. But the Hetzner Storage Box is good deal. Now all I need is better client side
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Building software is typically a process of discovery. Usually you don’t know beforehand exactly what code you need to write, even if it was crystal clear what the requirements are. So as you explore the space of programs that solve your pr
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Even if it's all documented with a README, with container images and Ansible playbooks or whatever to make it all happen… still people will be complaining that it's oh so complex and that's not how we did it in my previous j
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by metafunctor 5y ago
It tells the agent to confirm each use of a key using ssh-askpass. The same can be achieved with the -c option for ssh-add. If the confirmation dialog really also showed a host name then yeah, this is not strictly the same. But it's
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by metafunctor 5y ago
No need for a modified agent, just put this in your ~/.ssh/config: AddKeysToAgent confirm You may need to separately install ssh-askpass.
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by metafunctor 5y ago
That’s what I’ve gathered. That still seems stupid to me. Why does the Ruby/Rails community do that?
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by metafunctor 5y ago
You're right that the language isn't to blame as such. But if a change like this doesn't cause some kind of uproar in the Ruby community, then the community has a problem.
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by metafunctor 5y ago
This is the correct answer ;) If you're going to run a serious internal network, you'll need the basic things like NTP, DNS, a CA server, and, yes, some kind of MDM to distribute internal CA certificates to your people. The real
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by metafunctor 5y ago
My Safari doesn't, in private mode, eventually, open the link at all: after customizing the privacy options (all off), Google still tries to bounce me through googleads.g.doubleclick.net, and I have that blocked. The way I “deal with t
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by metafunctor 5y ago
The latest data released on Friday by the U.K. Health Security Agency indicates that 54% of positive tests in England taken on Tuesday and Wednesday were of Omicron, and more than 80% of cases in London.
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Most "LiPo" batteries are typically the same chemistry as your "Lithium-ion" but without the puncture and pressure resistant casing. The plastic pouch is the "polymer" part. LiPo batteries are lighter and can
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Fireproof bags and boxes already exist and are widely used for LiPo batteries commonly used in RC products.
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The Ribbon Mic Mod(riikari.fi)
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by metafunctor 5y ago
You can already order two dedicated servers and request them to be on the same rack: https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/faq/faq/#can... I'd assume you might be able to tell them to plea
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Hetzner also recently added “placement groups” to influence the distribution of virtual servers in their data centers. Useful for HA clusters, mostly. Free, too. https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/placement-groups/ov
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Yep, you said it, the pricing page is, in fact, an advertisement of the product. It's not like you can easily compare the prices between two different products in the same segment. It's an ad. Embrace it. Leaving out the GIFs do
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by metafunctor 5y ago
I feel the same about consuming any kind of information. Most of the time, a well written article trumps a podcast or video 6:1. It's the same for a text message vs. voice message.
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Still not uncoupled, but rather an estimate of future reference interest rates (which is strongly coupled to inflation).
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Are you assuming interest rates and inflation are somehow uncoupled?
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by metafunctor 5y ago
Zefort | https://zefort.com/ | Multiple positions | REMOTE | Full-Time Zefort is a SaaS app for organizations of all sizes to keep track of legal agreements, official documents, files, etc. We are bootstrapped, growing quic
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by metafunctor 5y ago
I think the karma from a story is more or less capped to the number of comments on the story. At the same time, a story which gets more comments than upvotes quickly vanishes from the front page. Both modulo moderation, of course.

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