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by oxplot 9y ago
On a related topic, competence, I have come to realise over time that I and many people I know have a bias towards people in professions they don't know much about, believing that most of them are good at their jobs. Reality is that as
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by oxplot 9y ago
There doesn't seem to be mention of few existing companies that have been producing notebooks and other products from limestone, for years now. One example: * http://nuco-direct.com/nu-stone/
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HTTP health check endpoint using socat(blog.oxplot.com)
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by oxplot 9y ago
I consider myself a power user and I've found Arch to be the only distro that doesn't get in my way. Everything is minimalist. My favorite feature is Arch's build system. It's sooo simple that it's in fact a pleasur
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by oxplot 9y ago
Most SSDs should be encrypted by default and all secure erase would do is to wipe the encryption key and generate a new one which takes no time and does effectively and securely wipe the entire disk.
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by oxplot 9y ago
I see this "quality" thing mentioned time and again about McDonald's, somehow assumed because McDonald's is a giant "fast food" joint. I have commented about this in the past [1]. Here's a brief recap: - M
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by oxplot 9y ago
Google Keep: - simple interface - can access it on multiple devices - shareable - can set time/location reminder - can pin/set color+picture for each note - checklist, audio note, etc.
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by oxplot 9y ago
For those interested, Cockroach DB whose version one stable just got released lately, is taking the same approach as Spanner and is open source. In fact, it was started by a few folks from Google who worked on Spanner and other related tech
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by oxplot 9y ago
My problem with this is how it's priced. Why am I paying for instance hours when I don't have/need instance access. I would have thought it'd be priced like Datastore per GB used and API calls made. As it sits right now,
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Please consider changing the name of PetSet before General Availability(github.com)
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Non-permanent Actions(blog.oxplot.com)
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A while ago, I had the "krazy" idea of writing my own single binary Go router software on top of linux kernel. Turns out it's fairly easy to get up and running with literally having nothing but a kernel image and a single exe
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Ask HN: What chair do you use for work?
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Git Koans (2013)(stevelosh.com)
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Awesome — appreciate it.
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After watching La La Land, I finally settled on the instrument I'd dabbled with for years - piano. So I enrolled in a music theory course and I'm gonna learn to play the piano along with it.
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* Listen to a lot of radio/movies/shows * Record own voice speaking passages of above material * Play back, compare, adjust and repeat Do above for countless hours
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by oxplot 10y ago
FYI: you can search for someone on Facebook (and perhaps elsewhere) by their cell phone.
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The saturated colors gave me a headache in the first hour of using the phone. Luckily, there is an option to turn on sRGB color profile buried in the developer tools menu (activated by tapping the build version in about phone menu multiple
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I haven't seen anyone working on a screen+touch surface that can be be programmed to change physical texture per pixel such that you can for instance raise the pixels forming the border of an onscreen button allowing the user to feel
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by oxplot 10y ago
I go somewhere where others are working on their own projects. Hackerspaces and coding meetup groups are examples.
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It depends on how much making decisions annoy you. For me, it's a great annoyance, not just in regards to what to wear, but what to eat, what brand to buy, etc. So I devise methods to limit my choices or eliminate it altogether. With
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by oxplot 10y ago
Happy to see 128GB versions at launch. I like to keep my stuff (including music etc) on my phone and I've had to resort to phones with microSD slots to date. If this is a "sensibly" specced phone, I might skip modding my N5 w
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Google Internet Connection Speed Test(google.com.au)
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I think it's mostly bullshit if you generalize the experience of the author for everyone. Anecdotally however, I saw the same improvements to the letter when I stopped sugar intake (not just refined but stopped eating fruits, etc.). I
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by oxplot 10y ago
The only way I know how this could work is if the two devices share, in realtime, the various parameters and timing information related to the active bluetooth stream (e.g. hopping to the same channel at the same exact time) since they won&
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by oxplot 10y ago
I can think of two: * Connecting an extra unpowered set of headphones will drop the overall impedance and depending on your source (e.g. a smart phone), you may not be able to get a reasonable volume. * Related to above, if you have to turn
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Standard practice to store a large number of files but in such a way that they don't end up in a single directory, is to create a crypto hash of your object names and use the first n characters as the directory name. Properties of ha
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What I don't get is, why don't browsers try https as well as http when bare/http URI is entered so we can simply make servers stop listening on 80.
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Dragon would have been out of there with margin to spare(twitter.com)
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