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Elon Musk launched his career working illegally(washingtonpost.com)
30 points by notamy 2y ago|3 comments
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by notamy 2y ago
> The maintenance burden for a VPS: periodically run apt update upgrade. Use filesystem snapshots to create periodic backups. If something happens to your provider, spin up a new VM elsewhere with your last snapshot. And make sure it reb
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by notamy 2y ago
https://archive.is/oTH4M
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One Square Minesweeper(onesquareminesweeper.com)
104 points by notamy 2y ago|63 comments
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by notamy 2y ago
Probably, but Clickhouse has been zero-maintenance for me + my dataset is growing at 100~200GB/month. Having the Clickhouse automatic compression makes me worry a lot less about disk space.
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by notamy 2y ago
Clickhouse is great stuff. I use it for OLAP with a modest database (~600mil rows, ~300GB before compression) and it handles everything I throw at it without issues. I'm hopeful this new JSON data type will be better at a use-case that
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by notamy 2y ago
What an amazing name choice, certainly one way to end up at the top of search results :P To be serious, good job!! Building a good framework is a shockingly large task, and it’s always nice to see people exploring the design space and tryin
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Attempted Exclusion of Egon Kisch from Australia(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by notamy 2y ago|0 comments
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by notamy 2y ago
For a janky way of doing it, create a new mount namespace, then bind-mount $HOME/.tmp over /tmp. In practice better ways (ex. sibling comment) exist and you should use those.
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by notamy 2y ago
> I want a working environment where my "personal computer" is virtual, and it runs on whatever device I happen to be messing with, and it gives me my own personal workspace with access to my own personal stuff, without concer
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by notamy 2y ago
Coming back to this some time after my original comment, a few more thoughts in no particular order: > a modern, desktop-like UI that meets today's needs What are "today's needs"? Why does the standard desktop inter
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by notamy 2y ago
I struggle to understand the use-case. What does this actually offer me over just using a normal web browser with maybe a customised new tab page? I made an account with a throwaway email to play around with it, and I honestly didn't u
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MouthPad^(augmental.tech)
6 points by notamy 2y ago|2 comments
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World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating(theguardian.com)
424 points by notamy 2y ago|579 comments
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by notamy 2y ago
Look outside of tech. I found an area far outside of tech that had very real problems that nobody was really solving; in fact, the existing tools that should have solved this problem turned out to be a nightmare for the intended users. I&
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by notamy 2y ago
I imagine it's because 73k generations of bacteria takes a lot less time than 73k generations of coral or other larger organisms.
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by notamy 2y ago
Full text: > Im case you're wondering how it's going, one of my managers has just told me that Google has been messing with our ads, using its new AI features to invent and promote services that we do not offer, in order to get
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"One of my managers has just told me that Google has been messing with our ads"(final.town)
4 points by notamy 2y ago|1 comments
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by notamy 2y ago
Good lord, why?? That’s such a petty move and is just doing further damage to the WordPress ecosystem.
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by notamy 2y ago
> John Carlos Baez For those like me who didn't know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez > John Carlos Baez (/ˈbaɪ.ɛz/;[2] born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physicist and a pr
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by notamy 2y ago
Meilisearch is great when it works, but when it breaks it's a total nightmare. I've hit multiple bugs that destroyed my search index, I've hit multiple undocumented limits, ... that all required rebuilding my index from scrat
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by notamy 2y ago
It depends heavily on what kind of "high risk" business you have. In general the path forward aiui is to find a high-risk payment processor.
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Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"(404media.co)
212 points by notamy 2y ago|246 comments
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Cannabidiol-associated hepatotoxicity: A systematic review and meta-analysis(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by notamy 2y ago|0 comments
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Nate the Snake(natethesnake.com)
4 points by notamy 2y ago|3 comments
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by notamy 2y ago
If, like me, you don't have a Twitter account and want to see more than just the single post: https://xcancel.com/notengoprisa/status/1842550658102079556
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Game UI Database slowdown caused by relentless OpenAI scraping(gamedeveloper.com)
3 points by notamy 2y ago|0 comments
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Low-Background Steel(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by notamy 2y ago|0 comments
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by notamy 2y ago
I’ve been using https://clerk.com . Not needing to build authentication / the UI / … as well as not worrying about hosting it myself has been nice.
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by notamy 2y ago
> Under water submerged conditions (20˚C), hardened CoRncrete specimens showed partial to complete degradation within a day. While this certainly isn't great for most obvious building use-cases, I wonder if it would have utility for

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