pseudobry

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by pseudobry 2mo ago
Diaspora by Greg Egan is a good book related to some of the themes I see in the comments, such as the whether an advanced civilization would even want to expand.
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by pseudobry 9mo ago
I also switched to controld after a period of unreliability from from NextDNS. NextDNS is a little easier and a little faster, and perhaps better for auditing a network, but controld overall has more features. Differentiators: more granular
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by pseudobry 2y ago
Descent holds a special place for me, as it was the first game I ever saw played on a PC (I watched my dad play when I was five, ~30 years ago). I recently was able to reminisce by playing the modern successor, Overload: https://
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by pseudobry 2y ago
Yes, from the original creators of Descent: https://store.steampowered.com/app/448850/Overload/
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by pseudobry 3y ago
I'd recommend "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt as some pre-work. It's about the psychological foundations of morality and ethics which factor into the formation of religions and rituals, including rituals like coll
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by pseudobry 4y ago
> the uniform ultimate backdrop we have when looking in any direction Is the CMB exactly uniform in every direction? Or is this early light slightly more redshifted when we look up versus when we look down or left or right? Does the olde
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by pseudobry 4y ago
I've driven past Oso many times in the last few years—it's a solemn drive. It's also a tiny reminder of the planet's ability to shrug its shoulders and wipe out civilizations.
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by pseudobry 4y ago
We recently had a maddening experience with Airbnb. We booked a long-term rental (~3 months) while our home got worked on, costing $10k+ USD (so Airbnb made a couple thousand bucks?). During our stay, we paid for our OWN cleaners to clean t
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by pseudobry 4y ago
Question for the crowd: I read HN often but rarely comment, so I'm curious what I did wrong in my comment to merit the downvotes. I was initially excited to see someone asking a question about a topic that I had _just_ read a book on (
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by pseudobry 4y ago
I mostly found the book enlightening because it was a calm, rational voice amidst the constant stream of the-world-is-ending-by-fire/water/drought/heat/cold news that my tech bubble sends my way. I didn't find anyth
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by pseudobry 4y ago
Annual GDP of a country != the current sum total net worth of its population. Deleting the poorest half of the US population would destroy the annual GDP, which is built on the labor of said population. Theoretically, as the GDP of a nation
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by pseudobry 4y ago
An enlightening book I read on this topic is "False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" by Bjorn Lomborg. The book explores the cost of: doing nothing to fight climate c
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Google Cloud Functions 2nd Gen is now GA(cloud.google.com)
5 points by pseudobry 4y ago|0 comments
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by pseudobry 4y ago
I'm glad I saw this, it looks like an excellent resource. However, I can't help but feel a bit of despair while looking at it. There is so much stuff to do / know about, that it's incredibly far beyond what the average p
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by pseudobry 5y ago
Looks like the future of the Internet as imagined by Vernor Vinge's book "Rainbows End" (set in 2025, written in 2006) just got a lot closer.
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The New Firebase JavaScript SDK(firebase.googleblog.com)
2 points by pseudobry 5y ago|0 comments
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by pseudobry 5y ago
I recently finished The Three-Body Problem and The Dark Forest, which explore the concept of aliens using their super advanced technology to mess with the results of Earth's particle accelerators, thereby stopping humanity's abili
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by pseudobry 6y ago
Couldn't agree more.
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Ask HN: Team fun event ideas during WFH?
216 points by pseudobry 6y ago|265 comments
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by pseudobry 6y ago
Our app went from 3.5 MB to 2.3 MB when we switched to Ivy. Our app is ~73k lines of code (not sure what "size" that makes it) and uses Angular Material heavily. It's a corp app though, not too concerned about bundle performa
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by pseudobry 6y ago
Noise cancelling headphones, my most valuable earthly possession (I have 3 small children).
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Ask HN: Who was hired via 'Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?'
5 points by pseudobry 6y ago|2 comments
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by pseudobry 6y ago
Have you watched https://www.youtube.com/c/Rizpol ?
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by pseudobry 6y ago
I've been listening to Volbeat almost non-stop since I first heard them a few weeks ago.
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by pseudobry 6y ago
I get sleep paralysis all the time, and have experienced everything described in this thread. One thing for me though is that as the paralysis starts to wane, I get a feeling of euphoria that permeates my muscles and lasts for several minut
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by pseudobry 6y ago
For commuting, the Crosscurrent by Juiced Bikes
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by pseudobry 6y ago
I recently had fun cancelling my Comcast internet after switching to fiber. When asked why, I said "4x the download speed and 20x the upload speed for half the price". The tech just said "can't argue with that..."
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by pseudobry 6y ago
Disclaimer: I work in Google Cloud, my opinions are my own. Great stuff! I use Google Cloud Scheduler a lot (manage dozens of cron configs) so have some thoughts on how they compare: For monitoring, I definitely like what CronHub supports.
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by pseudobry 6y ago
Why is this flagged? I'm a web developer and think this was hilarious!
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by pseudobry 6y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but I'm having a hard time finding GCP products that had paying enterprise customers at the link you provided, at least none with Greek names.

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