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by slyall 4y ago
I don't think this is entirely new. One thing that confuses people is that social media (ie twitter) is all shared, so if a scandal happens anywhere you see it. So 20+ years ago I wouldn't be getting bombarded by scandals surround
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by slyall 4y ago
Bit ironic that somebody who has problems keeping up with the fast changing world became a patent attorney..
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by slyall 4y ago
There are some bits and pieces on archive.org and other places. Unfortunately the completer archives that people had (magtapes etc) got donated to dejanews (which later became google groups) or Google directly. This was about 20 years ago w
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by slyall 4y ago
15 years in tech is a good time to start rounding down your age.
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by slyall 4y ago
When he says "Not too long ago" he is talking 20 years ago, not 200.
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by slyall 4y ago
I assume you are talking about the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam? The Queen's involvement seems to have been little or none. They is some suggestion that her advisors might have know that the Govenor General was contemplati
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by slyall 4y ago
At least it's a bit nicer than JWZ (whose car got cut off by some techbro once) does. His site (not linked to obviously) displays a rude image if it detects a HN link incoming.
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by slyall 4y ago
One thing to remember is that Wikipedia prefers free photographs. Non-free photographs can be used but the preference is towards free ones. The availability of free photographs varies a lot. Often the best source for politicians is when the
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by slyall 4y ago
Have you looked at who you are replying to?
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by slyall 4y ago
HN Story (from a couple of months ago) about the huge gains in competitive Tetris over the last few years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32196129
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by slyall 4y ago
As a non-US worker I definitely agree. My big advantage over US-based employees is that I'll work for less. Why would I insist on getting paid exactly the same as a Bay-area employee when I could ask for significantly less and be well
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by slyall 4y ago
"Tolkien Fans" might be painting it a little broad, how about "a vocal subset of fans". As for source material, there isn't a lot of source material on the Second Age. Also original movie trilogy didn't always
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by slyall 4y ago
So not: "Your random VPS can just send email from any address you like and expect it to be delivered"
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by slyall 4y ago
What do you picture when you see words like "Elvis Presley" , "Game of Thrones" or "The Google logo"? Explain how you are not a copyright violating machine.
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A History of Silicon Innovation at AWS [video](youtube.com)
38 points by slyall 4y ago|2 comments
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by slyall 4y ago
That story is enough for a whole collection of books... But one explanation is that China didn't see the need to grow or improve their technology. They could afford to stay stagnant or even suppress technology because they didn't
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by slyall 4y ago
The tweet search function has been broken for a few years (yes I reported it).
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by slyall 4y ago
Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (who was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor) is well known for doing this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Prinz_von_A...
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by slyall 4y ago
I've seen several people say this. Given that SUVs kill more pedestrians and cyclists I wonder if makes the policy even worse than the article states.
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by slyall 4y ago
My top ones would be: Tech: - Kubernetes Podcast from Google - O11ycast - The Kubelist podcast Non Tech: - Exploring the Lord of the Rings - Tolkien with lots of Dad Jokes - The Prancing Pony Podcast - Tolkien line by line
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by slyall 4y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31764015 ( 238 comments, 2 months ago ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29807022 ( 419 comments, 7 months ago ) https://news.ycombinator.co
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by slyall 4y ago
I remember a comic where a pilot had to get out of P-38 Lightning. Earlier in the comic another pilot had hit the boom when bailing out. He got the inspiration of inverting the aircraft so gravity helped him clear the aircraft's boom.
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by slyall 4y ago
Not sure what you mean by "tiny dataset" by DynamboDB is great for something with 100 or a few thousand items. Especially if these are only occasionally accessed but need to be shared. Half the time it'll be in the Free Quota
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by slyall 4y ago
At work we use meet.google.com for our standard chats. I've read a few articles and I'm still not sure what is happening to that. Annoyingly meet.google.com kills my machine since Chrome on Linux has spotty hardware acceleration s
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by slyall 4y ago
"Front fell off" is probably a reference to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
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by slyall 4y ago
Python - I'm in the Sysadmin/DevOps/CloundEng space and bash/ansible/terraform isn't enough any more. Need to learn to do "real" programming. I also have a side project that requires a proper interact
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by slyall 4y ago
Pretty sure this sort of thing was proposed a few times. On the simpler scale People would even make pieces of killfiles you could copy. But like I said the problem was the new people. They'd open up the group see 90% junk and not both
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by slyall 4y ago
That was the problem. The regulars had killfiles to filter out the problem users and topics but somebody new just saw lots of junk (and if they posted the trolls would be the first to reply). Thus nobody new joined the groups and they stagn
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by slyall 4y ago
I was thinking that if Covid continues at it's current level we are going to see a huge drop in the number of people reaching 100. Not many people are going to survive catching covid 20 times in their 80s and 90s.
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by slyall 4y ago
I'll raise you Brazil: https://youtu.be/LFlFIG22Y9E?t=139

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