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by sharken 6y ago
Speaking of luck, the Formula 3 crash involving Sophia Floersch is one of the craziest displays of luck I can think of. All of it documented here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2020/04/23/sophia-f
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by sharken 6y ago
Comparing the French and the Swedish numbers seem to indicate that the virus ran rampant in France for a shorter period, while it was less severe but was active over a twice as long period in Sweden. To me it is a bit of a mystery why Franc
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by sharken 6y ago
Good data point ! Maybe next time try it with a top loaded freezer instead and see what happens. Sorry about the freezer, but it was in the interest of science.
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by sharken 6y ago
It looks like the API is open to the public although it looks like that access is currently closed, source: https://www.sandiego.gov/sustainability/energy-and-water-eff... Found some perhaps outdated info on setting up
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by sharken 6y ago
The reporters strength is not tech it seems, it is indeed a 512 GB hard drive that is part of the system. Additionally it has a range of detectors, even a Gunshot detector. Source http://www.smartercity.tech/smart-pole-node&
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by sharken 6y ago
In the same boat but more a DevOps type here (split time between developing and doing operations). Have some offers already due to being fortunate enough to have someone recommend me in those companies, i think that is still the best way to
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by sharken 6y ago
Quite, just looked at Slashdot.org which I used a lot before discovering Hacker News and would add the lack of ads and a long title as killer features on HN. And the great discussions obviously. But good effort still.
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by sharken 6y ago
Not sure I get the question, both George Floyd and Michael Brown were killed by white cops was my point.
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by sharken 6y ago
Indeed, waiting a bit would have been a reasonable thing to do, instead the change was sanctioned on the same day. The Santa Hat change most likely also made it so much easier to move forward with the renaming of the master branch on GitHub
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by sharken 6y ago
Tell that to Microsoft who removed the santa hat from Visual Studio Code due to one user. Ironically the issue currently has 18 down-votes. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
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by sharken 6y ago
A Javascript warning when using AMP links in a post could help.
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by sharken 6y ago
Ransomware that is a result of users clicking on update notices they should not click is very hard to protect against. Even Stuxnet was successful in crossing over to a separate network through the use of USB sticks. Source: https:/&#
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by sharken 6y ago
Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998781
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by sharken 6y ago
Which is an attitude that i can totally understand, even though when you are at risk both with age and a comorbidity (cancer in the case of Cain), it is not such a great idea.
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by sharken 6y ago
Actually the product is called AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ by AMD, see https://www.amd.com/en/products/ryzen-threadripper , in general that is reduced to Threadripper for sanity :) I found a nice walkthrough of Ryzen
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by sharken 6y ago
Always interesting to learn more about the virus and that there is a lot of knowledge about handling ventilators. But even so, the numbers from New York say that 80% of people over 80 years do not make it once they are on the ventilator. So
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by sharken 6y ago
According to Symantec attackers first gain entry and then explores the network. This process will take anything from days to weeks. By the time the encryption begins they have explored every way possible into critical systems. Preventing th
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by sharken 6y ago
Good catch, did not see that initially in the article.
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by sharken 6y ago
I would think not :) Much better if it was the Arnie watch: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/seiko-prospex-snj025-aka-t...
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by sharken 6y ago
Heh, next up could be a story about the AK-47 rifle using the same premise.
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by sharken 6y ago
EDIT: Point taken with the downvotes. This feels very similar to the Intel story, except it seems that Intel is aware and will rectify the problem. But less gun companies overall is a Good Thing in my opinion.
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by sharken 6y ago
Sadly a very effective strategy until you develop critical thinking, some struggle their entire life to achieve it.
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by sharken 6y ago
Good insight, I feel like engineers/developers would benefit from basic business classes, just to understand the thinking that can lead to the downfall of great engineering companies and hopefully how to avoid it. Having recently seen
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by sharken 6y ago
I care if stuff breaks for no good reason and this is one of them. But Microsoft is establishing a history of being political correct instead of doing the sensible thing. Calling the default branch master is a design choice and nothing more
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by sharken 6y ago
For the usual VCS operations such as adding files, committing and pushing i’d say they are quite similar. If you’re doing really complicated merges (which you should avoid anyway), then yes Mercurial is better in my opinion. But given the p
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by sharken 6y ago
And getting a lesson in security for free it seems, it sucks but security is important.
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by sharken 6y ago
Having worked with multiple Mercurial repositories managed by a custom tool which is now also being converted to Git, I can confirm that the smart choice for a new developer is to choose Git. It’s no longer “Choose Git or Mercurial?” that i
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by sharken 6y ago
You’re right about the first part, but large global social networks are quite close to phone networks in importance now. Though cases like the recent bipolar tweets from Kanye West on Twitter does seem to support your point. You could have
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by sharken 6y ago
This case is similar to the discussion of online shooters and whether they should be banned or not. It is sad that a vocal minority can sway the public opinion and force companies into submission. Too many people are ready to be offended ov
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by sharken 6y ago
You’re not the only one, coworkers that i only see online feels as distant as most Facebook contacts. Ultimately this leads to less enjoyable work experience and thus more likely that workers switch jobs earlier than before.

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