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by vandahm 4y ago
I've never submitted anything to HN, but I think they want you to use the original title of the article, which is what the submitter did.
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by vandahm 4y ago
Honestly, if I was asked to choose between a 10% raise or a cubicle, I would take the cubicle in a heartbeat.
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by vandahm 4y ago
I didn't study physics in university, so please forgive this naïve question. Would an appropriate interpretation of quantum physics simply be that we don't have an interpretation of quantum physics? We have mathematical equation
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by vandahm 4y ago
This is great! I can remember how painful it was to figure this stuff out when I was a student. Even with what I know now, I still learned a few things from browsing through the material.
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by vandahm 4y ago
Why not?
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by vandahm 4y ago
I don't play violin, but I play guitar and have built guitars. There has always been a lot of magical thinking about vintage guitars (and the very specific species of rare woods that they are made from) that just doesn't seem righ
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by vandahm 4y ago
Cesium-137 is made in nuclear reactors, but some radioactive isotopes with shorter half lives (well, short compared to the age of the Earth) exist in nature because they are a product of the natural radioactive decay of other, long-lived ma
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by vandahm 4y ago
And yet, think of all the servers that get hacked today because they are running unpatched versions of their operating systems. I agree with you that there were lots of CCTV systems 30 years ago. I'm just pointing out that the fact the
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by vandahm 4y ago
Security cameras existed, but they very frequently didn't work. One of my college professors was murdered in a bank robbery around 20 years ago. The bank technically had cameras, but they didn't work and no one bothered to do anyt
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by vandahm 4y ago
Even before its current troubles, I'm pretty sure that Twitter never brought in the kind of ad revenue that Facebook enjoys. Twitter desperately needs its advertisers to survive, but those advertisers can easily survive without Twitter
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by vandahm 4y ago
Maybe I'm looking at this from the wrong perspective, but I don't see how Twitter is going to recover from the trajectory it is now on. What would it take to repair the damage to its brand or to get advertisers to return en force?
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by vandahm 4y ago
Hey, it was the 1950s -- why not double down on cancer?
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by vandahm 4y ago
> there is no one reason why we dont have basements, but it is more likely to do with the fact that up north they have to dig deep (3-4 ft) for the frost line. If you are digging that deep anyway, you might as well go an additional 4-5 f
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by vandahm 4y ago
I can only speak for myself, but even though I am very skeptical of DeFi and crypto, I don't look down my nose at people simply because they see it differently. I do look down my nose at people who are deliberately running scams, but
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by vandahm 4y ago
You don't see this every day: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc... Is this B, or is it BCPL? What would have compiled this code back in the day?
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by vandahm 4y ago
That's a lot of finger gymnastics, but it's probably better than `pbpaste|pbcopy`, which is how I've been doing it all these years.
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by vandahm 5y ago
That was the best computer I ever owned. I used it every day for seven years, long after it was obsolete.
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by vandahm 5y ago
I like having a separate physical and psychological space for my personal and professional lives, and remote work deprives me of that. I like having the freedom to work from home, if I'm expecting a delivery or there's a problem w
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by vandahm 6y ago
What's the best way to incinerate a `pom.xml` file?
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by vandahm 6y ago
I do the same. The people I blame for bad service are always outside my reach.
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by vandahm 6y ago
I used to be a software engineer at a nonprofit that handled a lot of customer care requests. I wanted to see what frustrated our users, and I also wanted insight into how we could better support the customer care team. So I talked to the v
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by vandahm 6y ago
I wish I could work on these magical projects that people with blogs work on, in which everything works like it's supposed to do. In my experience, though, it's not unusual to be forced by management to migrate to a new RDBMS a ye
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by vandahm 6y ago
I don't have anything to contribute to the greater discussion, but I just wanted to thank you for building your app and sharing a link to it. Making labels isn't something that I often do, but when I have to do it, I need to make
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by vandahm 6y ago
> "on computers you preferentially use base-10, even though said computers are going to store the values as base-2?" I don't understand this comment at all. Most people are not computer programmers and therefore have no in
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by vandahm 7y ago
To me, this reads like an argument for a serverless architecture and not a discussion about VPCs themselves. But that's not always on the table. Even if a serverless architecture is better for some use case, if you have a traditional a
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by vandahm 7y ago
At work, we have a Terraform module that receives a few input parameters and generates a VPC that complies with all of our corporate security guidelines. The module isn't complicated, and it ensures that we get it right every time. We
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by vandahm 7y ago
FAAN.+G
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by vandahm 8y ago
How does the microcontroller know the state of the cube?
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by vandahm 8y ago
In Brazil, in the 1980s, a couple of burglars broke into an abandoned hospital and stole a supply of cesium chloride from a radiotherapy machine. The difference between your scenario and this one is that the thieves didn't know what it
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by vandahm 8y ago
In response to Question 2, here's the best I've got: At a previous job, we used MongoDB with a write concern of 0 to store logs in such a way that we could more easily search through them later on. The information we were logging

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