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by smartbit 8y ago
there are 2 kinds of startups: those with shitty software, and those with shitty software and customers
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by smartbit 8y ago
On MacOS I use Cookie of https://sweetpproductions.com On a regular timebase it removes all cookies and databases except my Favorites like HN, Docker, GitHub, Netflix, my newspaper , etc. Works like a charm, set-and-forget .
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by smartbit 8y ago
I have a huge pannier that fit a pair of large groceries bags. I fitted two large holes on the front side for a strap that goes around the saddle pin. On Saturdays we strap it on our bike, ride to the farmers market and fill the bags up wit
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by smartbit 9y ago
Two excellent talks from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) at 34c3 A hacker's guide to Climate Change - What do we know and how do we know it? An introduction to the basics of climate research and what we can do about
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by smartbit 9y ago
Rome popped up in the GDPR discussion some 30min after your wrote your text :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16606629#16609355
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by smartbit 9y ago
If you don’t keep the records of your customers, you’d answer those requests in no time. Aldi has become extremely succesfull without knowing their customer. Ikea probably the same.
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by smartbit 9y ago
GDPR concerns a human right ( civil rights in USA-parlance). Are you stating that human rights are a nuisance?
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by smartbit 9y ago
Thinking Functionally with Haskell, Richard Bird, 2015 [0] states The first edition was titled 'Introduction to Functional Programming', and was co-authored with Phil Wadler. It was published in 1988. This is the one linked and
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by smartbit 9y ago
Research by Homaan Behesti of Fastly (above at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16365413#16365605 ) suggest that you test h2 with your site and see how h2 compares to h1.
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by smartbit 9y ago
Excellent talk & speaker, slides https://www.slideshare.net/Fastly/http2-what-no-one-is-telli... Follow up talk Revisiting HTTP/2 given Jan 31, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR1gF5Lhcq
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by smartbit 9y ago
Can anyone tell how to measure the R1-R14 [0] values of a LED lamp? It seems like a sort of a Gretag-Macbeth [1] card is used. Can I use a photospectrometer [2]? I'd like to measure R9 [3] & R13 myself. [0] http://gc-lig
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by smartbit 9y ago
Beautifull documentairy Sud eau nord déplacer [0] on Nan Shui Bei Diao – North South Water Transfer [1] [0] https://www.idfa.nl/en/film/34d44e48-0092-4d5e-abdf-d501b524... & http://www.imdb.com&#x
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by smartbit 9y ago
Up from 30% in 2016, nowadays 40% of the instances on Azure run Linux http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-says-40-percent-of-al...
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by smartbit 9y ago
Miiskin tries to develop such a recognition algorithm [0]. To get the training sets they offer a app which allows you to take pictures, periodically reminds you and keep track of moles. The pictures are uploaded outside EU and linked with P
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by smartbit 9y ago
The youtube video mentions BDNF . The hilarious 'Exercise boosts brain power' video https://player.vimeo.com/video/16335377 of http://brainrules.net/brain-rules-video says "BDNF are cre
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by smartbit 9y ago
The Yubikey 4C Nano fits tight in the ports of a 2017 MBP. On the left ports it sticks out about half a mm, on the right ports it goes in all the way.
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by smartbit 9y ago
Same here with Netflix: their recommendations have been a complete failure. It seems like Netflix is pushing mostly their Netflix original series . What does works for me in Netflix are the similar to this below the movie, e.g. after you
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by smartbit 9y ago
I gave Class Central a try and searched for Kubernetes . First, it took quite a while to load, up to the point I was thinking the site was down. Then I had difficulty finding the tiny search button located at the top. When I started typing
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by smartbit 9y ago
Another filter: language. Many people don't speak English. Maybe you can automatically detect the language and add to your list of languages as you go ?
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by smartbit 9y ago
> What APFS does, however, is simply write in patterns known to be more easily handled by NAND. It's a file system with flash-aware characteristics from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/a-zfs-
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by smartbit 9y ago
> SFS drastically reduces the block erase count inside the SSD by up to 7.5 times. Did Apple implement algorithms with similar reductions in APFS?
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by smartbit 9y ago
I pivoted my career and got hired through networking (active attending meetups)
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by smartbit 9y ago
Dutch Bread: not as bad as US bread but still horrible compared to French or German. My baker backs once a week on Friday, transports it Saturday mornings and sells it in himself. On Saturday I cut the loafs, pack the loafs in a ziplock and
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by smartbit 9y ago
Discussed in January https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187315
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by smartbit 9y ago
Apple security questions are limited to 32 characters or the like. I used 5 words answers and they where accepted but not recorded in full length :-( One day I needed them and then I had to reverse engineer their security questions algorit
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by smartbit 9y ago
I would never recommend SQL Server on Linux for Enterprise production. - licensing costs are probably the same. If the cost of an additional Windows Server license is an argument, something else is going on. - recently having dealt with MS
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by smartbit 9y ago
The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum has a large collection of high resolution pictures available for download https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio without cost. If you make a collection that fit a screen or with proper crop
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by smartbit 9y ago
This review [1] compared the results of 6 sleep trackers with sleeping laboratorium measurements. It concludes that the trackers were able to track the lenght of the sleep quite accurately. OTOH all trackers displayed large errors in meas
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by smartbit 9y ago
This afternoon I was sitting next to a Maersk employee when people walked in with bricked laptops. This person didn't believe it immediately (with all the fake news these days), he tried to get it verified through some former college
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by smartbit 9y ago
Essence of Maersk attack in one tweet https://twitter.com/craiu/status/879690795946827776 New Petrwrap/Petya ransomware has a fake Microsoft digital signature appended. Copied from Sysinternals Utils. I was

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