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by torton 9d ago
There's plenty of backup services and cloud solutions. The article mentions Borg and Restic, others like Backblaze are more consumer friendly. Which needs do you have that aren't met by any of these tools?
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by torton 14d ago
I left Evernote when it became increasingly bloated and clunky as a product (on iOS at the time), and as they started tightening the screws on the free plan. My current generic note-taker is SimpleNote. It is Multiplatform, it syncs, and it
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by torton 16d ago
Trader Joe's limited SKU model. They are also 4x more profitable than a standard supermarket per square foot of store space.
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by torton 18d ago
It's time for HN to build in blocking capability. It's a small percentage of people and it's often the same people repeatedly showing up making the same points but that's enough to discourage reading and participation.
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by torton 29d ago
> ... giant gates ... There's a big difference in antisocial behaviour and visible mental health issues between Tokyo and San Francisco. "San Francisco’s BART found that systemwide crime fell 41 percent after new gates were ins
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by torton 1mo ago
This might be so but I thought it refers to an ancient QA joke: > A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders O beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicksjdhd. > First real customer wa
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by torton 3mo ago
That's the nice part about having your own country -- no more systemic discrimination or prohibition on owning land, or joining professional guilds, or having some king being upset about his debts and organizing a small confiscation of
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by torton 3mo ago
In the age of AI, interchangeable content farms that earn pennies by filling 80% of the screen with ads are dead. In fact, the user hostility of those "blogs" is what pushes people even further towards AI interfaces that output wh
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by torton 4mo ago
Yes, the antisemites are rejoicing all over the world. Let's not confuse negativity and hatred with genuine popularity.
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by torton 5mo ago
> Also don't trust any of the managers. Don't take anything people say at face value. "Did you enjoy Game of Thrones? You'll love working here!"
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by torton 5mo ago
You can't rely on UDP experience.
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by torton 5mo ago
Did the flow ask them explicitly for scopes? If not, then they should know there are no restrictions. It also seems, from the post, that customers were "long asking for scoped tokens" so who and why assumed that this particular to
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by torton 5mo ago
Things have changed. I worked with a very senior and professional recruiter at FB during that time. While things didn't work out then, someone else reached maybe a year and a half ago for a fairly similar role -- massive difference, st
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by torton 5mo ago
iPad is the best consumption device in existence. Reading, video, casual games, it handles all without breaking a sweat. And as speech recognition and translation into intent using LLMs and other tools continues to improve, the keyboard wil
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by torton 5mo ago
People can have different lived experiences and it's OK; they are differently valuable and beneficial. I'm a certified unc, easily double the age of your oldest, and I have 0 animals depending on me for survival. It means, among o
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by torton 6mo ago
I think people living outside the US don't realize how few disputes here are actually allowed to use the official legal system when dealing with companies of non-trivial size. Many employment contracts, many service contracts, and even
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by torton 7mo ago
Apparently, OpenAI already folded. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/tech/openai-pentagon-deal-ai-... A unified front from tech companies could have stood a chance, but there's too much money to be mad
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by torton 7mo ago
The housing market is a textbook example of the opposite of a free market. In most markets, anything that does not "improve the character of the neighbourhood" is impossible to build by design.
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by torton 8mo ago
NotJustBikes doesn't have a particularly great reputation among transit enthusiasts. A lot of his videos have become repetitive and focused on complaints rather than specific ways of making things better. Understandably, few people are
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by torton 8mo ago
That is true for all algorithmic iterative learning. I'm sure early models from Tesla, Waymo, Zoox, etc. were also driving a few hundred feet before the operators had to take over at first as well.
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by torton 8mo ago
Some projects, where the constraints are hard (immovable deadlines, inflexible scope, etc.) can still benefit from detailed estimation as far as possible. This way any problems or misalignments have a chance to come out early. Most stuff I
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by torton 8mo ago
Even the most cursory research into mail-in voting shows a number of safeguards designed into the process; one summary can be found at https://responsivegov.org/research/why-mail-ballots-are-secu... . Instances of mail
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by torton 8mo ago
Isn't that the exact description of the current U.S. car market?
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by torton 8mo ago
Excellent troll post. I've had a good chuckle.
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by torton 10mo ago
iPhones and MacBooks can be serviced to replace the battery. My iPhones typically get a fresh battery around the 3-year mark, or whenever the battery health dips below 80%, and do a second tour of duty with someone in the family. In all cas
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by torton 10mo ago
I'm old enough to remember having an individual office (and, a bit later, two-person offices). Great for collaboration, because it had a whiteboard and enough space/furniture for a few people to huddle, and for focused individual
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by torton 10mo ago
On your desktop/laptop, most tasks probably don't run inside VMs or containers. Perhaps some applications use Flatpak or snaps or similar, but the default state for many currently popular Linux distributions is "no sandboxing
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by torton 10mo ago
I had a fairly fun time using Auth0 a few years back. The ability to run arbitrary code hooks at various points allowed us to do pretty interesting stuff in a managed way without resorting to writing or self-hosting something that was entir
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by torton 11mo ago
It is indeed a power of the province. I meant the shift in responsibility for funding the healthcare programs. The initial health transfers to the provinces in the 1970s covered approximately half the cost; now, the ratio is around 22% (and
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by torton 11mo ago
TL;DR chronic underfunding of the system, here's one example article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ambulance-response-ti... The federal government shifts the responsibility to the provinces, th

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