phrotoma

16 ms·

241.
by phrotoma 4y ago
One of my favourite things on youtube: “You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are” https://youtu.be/E8V8rtdXnLA
242.
by phrotoma 4y ago
Yeah, I gave up trying immediately upon realizing this.
243.
by phrotoma 4y ago
Could you elaborate on the poor usability of the --purge flag?
244.
by phrotoma 5y ago
I live in Canada but haven't heard of the hydro houses you mentioned ("hydro" here is confusingly a synonym for electricity so google isn't helping either), can you provide specifics?
245.
by phrotoma 6y ago
Same. Fiction helps me wind down at the end of the day. Nonfiction gets my mind whirring with ideas and is not helpful at bed time.
246.
by phrotoma 6y ago
Awesome, thank you!
247.
by phrotoma 6y ago
That sounds interesting, are there specific episodes you could suggest which dig into that topic?
248.
by phrotoma 6y ago
It's there in the saltwater electrolysis diagram on the right hand side, but probably worth calling out in big scary letters. Separating saltwater this way produces chlorine gas as a byproduct.
249.
by phrotoma 6y ago
I still don't _really_ understand why all those matrix multiplications can reliably determine which handwritten digit they've just seen but having implemented it from the ground up in his class I feel like I at least understand th
250.
by phrotoma 6y ago
Yesterday during Hashiconf Q&A for one of the Terraform sessions somebody asked what the plan was for supporting more providers and the answer was basically "We want to get better at supporting the community to maintain as many pro
251.
by phrotoma 6y ago
At a Canadian company? A while ago I took a position with a US company who offered quite a bit more than the Canadian org I left. Would be happy to return to Canadian tech but haven't found shops where the money is comparable. TBF have
252.
by phrotoma 6y ago
Probably this clip of Tavis - https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI?t=530 ?
253.
by phrotoma 6y ago
Check out Cory Doctorow's novella "Unauthorized Bread". It's about _exactly_ this problem.
254.
by phrotoma 7y ago
The value of $HOST vs <host> isn't jumping out at me. Can you elaborate?
255.
by phrotoma 7y ago
For the Black Mirror fans, Charlie talks about using Twine to help write Bandersnatch in this interview: https://www.wired.com/story/black-mirror-bandersnatch-intera... .
256.
by phrotoma 7y ago
This was my first intro to Keybase as well. I believe it is still limited to the AWS provider (Google provider maintainers are dead set against it last I checked) but for resources like `aws_iam_user` you can specify either a GPG pubkey or
257.
by phrotoma 10y ago
Wow! I have a few friends who teach in Ontario, will be interested to hear their thoughts. Thanks for the background info.
258.
by phrotoma 10y ago
I worked at RBC during that time and can add a bit of context. Rumour was the CIO at the time (Morteza Mahjour) had staked his job on reducing operating costs of the tech services & operations division by bringing in an offshore firm ca
259.
by phrotoma 11y ago
Heads up if you're using opsworks your instances may have been removed from their ELB.
260.
by phrotoma 13y ago
Maybe at one point they didn't but Spreeder has had multiword support for some time.
261.
by phrotoma 13y ago
For anyone interested in doing this on the cheap I recently hacked up a hubot script which does pretty much the same thing for stashboard, fork away. https://github.com/appneta/hubot-scripts/blob/master/s
262.
by phrotoma 15y ago
This fairly reeks of awesome. If the ones I don't recognize are as great as the ones I do, I'd say you have a damn fine site there!
263.
by phrotoma 15y ago
Anyone have details on the documentary? It sounds like it'll be worth a look.
264.
by phrotoma 15y ago
I've been doing this too but I'm happy to see someone has taken the time to correct this. Missing out on IO9 has been upsetting. Thanks isofarro!
265.
by phrotoma 16y ago
HN knows what I've clicked when logged in, seems like the sort of thing that could be used to hide resubmissions if desired ...
266.
by phrotoma 16y ago
Worked for me, win 7, chrome 10, java 1.6. Looks useful, I'll be watching their progress.
267.
by phrotoma 16y ago
Or various commodoties or stocks perhaps? "You've just spent two barrels of oil, or one share of google stock."
268.
by phrotoma 16y ago
They make the Unreal game engine. It's been powering dozens of console and PC games for years.
269.
by phrotoma 16y ago
I don't think he means they're impeding access to hardware. I think he's talking about resources used up by bloatware.
270.
by phrotoma 16y ago
The section on experts is fascinating!

More ›