thecosmicfrog

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Fresh version of Canonical's Wayland compositor is here(theregister.com)
2 points by thecosmicfrog 3y ago|0 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
It's a play on "Route 66": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66
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Google abandons work to move Assistant smart speakers to Fuchsia(9to5google.com)
210 points by thecosmicfrog 3y ago|199 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
One incident lowers your opinion of a busy international airport?
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
> fragile and overcomplicated Couldn't that description be applied to the existing Linux packaging ecosystem? It seems that "fragile and complicated" dependency graphs are exactly what Snap/Flatpak/AppImage are t
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
My understanding is that IoT devices are a big reason for Snap's existence.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
The Boeing 787 is apparently using INTEGRITY-178, a realtime OS from Green Hills Software: https://www.ghs.com/customers/boeing_787.html
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
I wish more programs had an obvious way of showing what configuration values are currently set. Something like `program --config` with no arguments should print all configuration keys and their current values.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
What happened to Salt? I felt like it was everywhere in 2015, but I almost never hear of it anymore. Even their official documentation site has an ad promoting "SaltConf 2021", a conference from nearly two years ago.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
I wonder if this is the first time Supermac's has been mentioned on Hacker News! I have to say, I'm fond of a Snack Box or a chicken breast sandwich on occasion. Something fierce nostalgic about it.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
Those are probably subs that are in read-only mode. Private subs are completely inaccessible.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
That would be a g̶i̶b̶i̶ kibizip.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
I got excited by your username and thought I had found a bug in Hacker News.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
MVG on YouTube did a great video on this exact problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH03ht2fVqI&pp=ygUKbXZnIHN3a...
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
This project is being led by Tim Berners-Lee, for those who weren't aware.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
I'd say yes and no. It's on the pricier side compared to a lot of butters, but people here seem to buy an awful lot of "almost butter" products like Dairygold and Kerrymaid, which add some oil.
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
I always pronounce this project as "soccer copy".
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
Intel Galileo [1] too. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Galileo
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by thecosmicfrog 3y ago
Correct - that was what I meant. I remember the init system debates all too well.
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
Canonical only settled on systemd when Debian decided to adopt it, though.
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Rodney Mullen: Pop an ollie and innovate [TED talk](youtube.com)
1 points by thecosmicfrog 4y ago|0 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
I've found that Snip & Sketch occasionally just doesn't save my screenshots. I'll click Save, it'll open the file dialog, I'll choose the directory and click Save. But, every now and again, nothing. The file jus
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
Interestingly, ChatGPT has no idea if it's running GPT-3 or GPT-4, since it has no concept of GPT-4 existing in September 2021 (its knowledge cutoff). Me: Are you running on GPT-3 or GPT-4? ChatGPT: As of my knowledge cutoff in Septemb
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
SOPS has been excellent for us in Terraform/Terragrunt infrastructure-as-code scenarios. Glad to see it on HN.
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
Let's just call them "forii" and call it a day.
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Patcher, a new tool for keeping infrastructure code up-to-date(blog.gruntwork.io)
1 points by thecosmicfrog 4y ago|0 comments
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
It made me laugh imagining an "enterprise grade" commercial version of curl. What features would it have? SAML integration? Support for Kensington locks?
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
Why?
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
Curious about the name. Why just "Rest"?
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by thecosmicfrog 4y ago
Before takeoff on all modern airliners, the autobrake system is set to a mode called "RTO" (Rejected Take Off). If at any stage during the takeoff roll the throttles are pulled back to their idle position (an instinctive move duri

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