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by penglish1 23d ago
I agree and disagree. Easy management of server apps IS a hard part. Domain registration, DNS management and port-forwarding are ALSO hard parts. For 99.99% of the humans on earth, their primary computer is a smartphone. Anything that they
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by penglish1 1mo ago
This is pretty amazing and immediately prompted other questions for me. The foremost being how do I get one of those 5th generation batteries in a 12V automotive drop-in format? It seems like the answer at the moment is that I can't th
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by penglish1 6mo ago
Exactly. It might be fine. It might even be great! But no matter how much code, including tests that AI can generate there was only one human thinking about those prompts, for a few months. Any defects in that single human's thought pr
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by penglish1 7mo ago
I don't post much on HN, but this topic is near and dear to my heart, so here we go. Context: been helpdesk, sysadmin & network admin, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer, in that progression, starting in the 90's. Max on-prem w
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by penglish1 6y ago
A few of these examples are great reasons to Google - but also to remember that for many new-to-you activities, you'll be very bad at it at first. And the feeling of being bad at it often causes people to drop it before getting past
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by penglish1 6y ago
Googling is great, but I'd like to highlight that two distinct examples weren't necessarily Google at all. Sure - The Wirecutter appears in the first page of Google search for "best dishwasher" but you could also simply
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by penglish1 6y ago
Q: 1a. How come today, for home use, WiFi seems to exceed the price/performance of hard-wired? Is the Ethernet standard lagging, or lack of interest/demand, or some more physical barrier? A: WiFi does not exceed the price/per
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by penglish1 7y ago
And what happens when the 2 computers disagree? I thought 3 was standard practice for this sort of thing.
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by penglish1 8y ago
The internet may get better, but it is not not guaranteed. And I predict that if it does it will be despite Facebook, not because of, or with it. Social networking was NOT an enormous pain in the ass. Everybody had, and still has email - it
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by penglish1 8y ago
I really thought this would be about something else, given the title, but oh well. As others have pointed out, this has been going on since.. the beginning of IT. I got my start in the 90's, working for an employer that sold tech softw
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by penglish1 8y ago
The article says that Americans never really regained trust in American manufactured sedans since the 60s/70s. But then doesn't explain.. who exactly was buying all those sedans.. while not trusting them? There definitely were a L
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by penglish1 8y ago
The companies appear to be complaining that they can't hire skilled people. Paying more is one solution - hire the skilled people away from their current job. But so is training. Training could be considered a benefit, but at one time
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by penglish1 8y ago
Thank you for this public service!
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by penglish1 8y ago
I could use an overview that includes an update to the Computer Architecture class I took in the early 90's. This is good - for "general purpose" microprocessors. At that time, nothing at all was said about GPUs - they basica
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by penglish1 8y ago
Don't ask us.. ask.. Hacker News? LMHNTFY? https://pwnaccelerator.github.io/2018/webusb-yubico-disclosu... https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/10/08/securitykeytest.ht... The second
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by penglish1 8y ago
The article doesn't make it clear - but "elsewhere" seems like it would clearly be better than urban busses. They assert that even in areas where grid electricity to charge the busses comes entirely from fossil fuels, there i
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by penglish1 8y ago
Hugo is nifty. It is in Golang. It is wicked fast. But. Like most of the static site generators out there, it is so hyper-focussed on some aspects that it stumbles or completely misses others. I believe that Hugo (and others) take Markdown
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by penglish1 8y ago
Another happy fastmail.com customer here. I'd like to point out to those fluffing about the price for fastmail - Google Apps For Business (aka: pay-for-gmail) runs $5/person/month, minimum. It does have additional services (
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by penglish1 8y ago
I meant to add - Chrome has maybe crashed on me a couple of times in that same year (versus one or more crashes per day from FF!), despite arguably much much heavier use, including all of my Youtube, social networking with infinity scroll e
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by penglish1 8y ago
Firefox is indeed, much faster and less memory intensive than it used to be. I started using it heavily (again) roughly when Quantum came out after giving up on it for years as unusable. (like many, I think - hence the article). However. I
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by penglish1 8y ago
"on the market" isn't.. really. If you're guaranteed a wait. So, to rephrase your reply: "It is so cool it is worth waiting for, versus the other ones which look so much like garbage, they aren't worth having r
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by penglish1 8y ago
Too engaging is part of the problem, of course. A public park or beach might arguably less engaging than the commercially driven next season of that show on Netflix. Doesn't mean that there shouldn't be thriving parks/beachs.
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by penglish1 9y ago
First, do no harm. But, sure, this seems like a good idea. But first, stop all the horrible stuff, currently hurting prisoners.
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by penglish1 9y ago
Okay, don't ask customers, but do think about it a bit. They don't want yet another smartphone, physically embedded in their car running crappy, insecure, counterintuitive, out of date software. They've already got a smartpho
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by penglish1 9y ago
Maybe. Without a broad consensus from all the involved individuals at Chevy, we'll never know. Were they looking more at the (first edition at the time?) Leaf or the hypothetical and probably unnamed at the time "Tesla mass market
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by penglish1 9y ago
Fair enough - I did fail to give Toyota credit, where credit is definitely due. But I would say it is more a case of "necessary, but not sufficient." Toyota unarguably pushed electric into the unsexy, mass production, mass consump
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by penglish1 9y ago
The great thing about corporate missions & goals is that they are written so broadly: "Our goal when we created Tesla a decade ago was the same as it is today: to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport by bringing compellin
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by penglish1 9y ago
Thanks IEEE. While we're at it, we'd also like it if you opened your standards process, and included the general public and especially security researchers in all your drafts.
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by penglish1 9y ago
>You may have heard something along the lines of “Most >startups fail, so just join a team you like and enjoy > wherever it goes.” or “The equity is just a bonus in case >something comes of it.” These assume you are incapable o
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by penglish1 9y ago
There probably should be a robot that responds about Facebook posts "you aren't the customer, you are the product." The article is pretty careful to use the term user - undoubtedly we are users. But here is the problematic st

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