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by schmichael 2y ago
Alternative title: antitrust works. It didn't kill Microsoft. Microsoft isn't dead. However Microsoft does now have competitors. The takeaway here is that antitrust is fantastic for consumers and innovation.
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by schmichael 2y ago
> Why spend 2-10x as much to live in one of four coastal metros I think you answered your own question: it’s not (entirely) an economic decision. Weather, culture, nature, civic amenities. There’s a lot in life that money can’t buy. Sure
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by schmichael 2y ago
There are many religious questions people probably are scared to ask a human. Imagine any closeted gay or trans kid wanting to know if the way they feel is “wrong.” Just asking the question to your parents or a faith leader could raise susp
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by schmichael 2y ago
Nuclear requires an extremely mature bureaucracy to handle the serious longterm risks efficiently. Here in the USA I'm just not sure our government is mature enough for the task. Every 4 years we may have someone come in to slash safet
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by schmichael 2y ago
I’ve never understood the use of SSE over ndjson. Builtin browser support for SSE might be nice, but it seems fairly easy to handle ndjson? For non-browser consumers ndjson is almost assuredly easier to handle. ndjson works over any transpo
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by schmichael 2y ago
The article goes into great detail about the benefits of an opaque api vs open structs. Somewhat unintuitively open structs are not necessarily the “fastest” largely due to pointers requiring heap allocations. Opaque APIs can also be “faste
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by schmichael 2y ago
A quick search of “c++” on HN shows many C++ related posts explicitly mention the language. I would assume many other language specific posts also name the language they’re using to save uninterested parties a click. There’s really nothing
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by schmichael 2y ago
The prices are just one click deeper. Hardly a nefarious dark pattern.
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by schmichael 2y ago
Yes, from the README: > Bocker runs as root and among other things needs to make changes to your network interfaces, routing table, and firewall rules. I can make no guarantees that it won't trash your system. Linux makes it quite h
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by schmichael 2y ago
Trucking is definitely not an efficient way of moving salmon past dams: https://www.opb.org/article/2023/10/31/willamette-river-salm...
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by schmichael 2y ago
The government, local, state, or federal, should have the opportunity to nationalize unused infrastructure like this. Give Chevron an opportunity to tear it down or turn it on, but otherwise pay a market rate just like with eminent domain a
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by schmichael 2y ago
Chevron is an oil and natural gas company, not an electricity production company. Directly producing green energy is a bit like Apple selling Windows PCs.
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by schmichael 2y ago
The author appears to be solidly millenial from their resume. As an Elder Millennial myself I hope HN and our industry is free of ageism against young and old. Comments like yours don’t help.
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by schmichael 2y ago
Just post your source. Benchmarks should be reproducible.
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by schmichael 2y ago
Flagged because without code or even binaries there's no way to learn anything from this. Is the code memory safe? Does it gracefully handle error conditions? What tradeoffs were chosen? Plenty of OSS "simple redis clones" ex
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by schmichael 2y ago
Also a fully remote company worker since pre-COVID, and I vastly prefer calls with the video on. It's the norm at our company. Facial expressions convey enormous amounts of information. Also our team silently claps for people which is
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by schmichael 2y ago
You misunderstand: the keyword in that quote is “project.” GitHub projects are boards, not repositories. I don’t know if there’s a limit on the number of issues repositories can have (nomad is over 5k). I’m not actually sure how valuable a
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by schmichael 2y ago
Why send agents with flipper zeros when American consumers willingly buy millions of consumer electronics from China every year that could be part of a supply chain attack? It’s really bizarre that you bring up physical border security when
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by schmichael 2y ago
> Does Telegram let them see it: I don't think so. This is exceptionally naive. Even if he was arrested for not sharing with the French, what about for other countries? Was he arrested for not ever sharing or not sharing enough? Eve
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by schmichael 2y ago
> The blue sphere over Kentucky represents the world's liquid fresh water (groundwater, lakes, swamp water, and rivers). So the medium blue sphere includes groundwater and swamp water while the tiny dot does not.
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by schmichael 2y ago
Why iSCSI instead of NVMEoF?
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by schmichael 2y ago
> There are plenty of poor countries (and folks) having children. Does having children impact their earning potential? The US offers a relatively high earning potential, and having children really directly interferes with that. If you do
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by schmichael 2y ago
I did a bike bus with my kids school elsewhere in Portland this year! Great way to get kids riding. We’d have 2-3 parents on cargo bikes block busy intersections for the kiddos to ride across at their own pace. Probably annoyed some drivers
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by schmichael 2y ago
That is their core problem! The good news is that anyone who knows 2 or more other people that share an interest can quickly and easily start a group chat. They're free and if no one ever posts again, nothing lost. I've started gr
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by schmichael 2y ago
I'd like to say it was the 2016 elections, 2020 pandemic, and 2022 Musk acquisition that killed Twitter for me, but the truth is exactly what this article points out: I replaced nearly all of my traditional public social media usage wi
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by schmichael 3y ago
I remember walking to every computer in primary schools to do operations in the 90s, so I figured might as well play it safe with “20 years.” :) There’s definitely been solutions to this problem since the dawn of computing, albeit with unev
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by schmichael 3y ago
Linux has directories and config/package/fleet management as well. No one in the past 20 years should be walking to every desk in 1,000 desk building installing software.
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by schmichael 3y ago
Citation needed (from a non-crypto-booster source)
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by schmichael 3y ago
Dell Precision 5570 is what work buys all Linux users at the moment. Dual Intel/nvidia GPU, but I only use the Intel. Works flawlessly that way but no clue how awful nvidia support is. I think coworkers use it. I do have to enable pow
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by schmichael 3y ago
> A few years later, after a woman in Pennsylvania sent Heinz a dozen bottles of her homemade, tastier, better-looking, benzoate-free ketchup, they adopted her recipe, which was also sweet, vinegary, and thick. This is a throwaway senten

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