wfleming

11 ms·

91.
by wfleming 5y ago
Something like that has impacted the status page in the past. There was a severe Kinesis outage last year ( https://aws.amazon.com/message/11201/ ), and they couldn't update the service dashboard for quite a wh
92.
by wfleming 5y ago
I realize this argument is probably tongue-in-cheek, but if we were to take it at face value it would be interesting to factor in energy costs required to feed/house/etc. the programmers for the additional time it would take to im
93.
by wfleming 5y ago
Yes, but Handbrake provides a GUI. Ffmpeg is fantastic, and I believe supports a wider range of formats than Handbrake, so it's the power user's tool of choice. But Handbrake is way more accessible for the average user, and is ver
94.
by wfleming 5y ago
Like others here, I'm a big fan of restic. I use it to backup to backblaze B2, and have systemd timer units to run it daily. I use it with pass ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ) for secrets management, my wrapper script
95.
by wfleming 5y ago
FlickType disputes this in the original Twitter thread that made it to the front page yesterday ( https://twitter.com/FlickType/status/1427292830523744257 on Twitter, https://news.ycombinator.com/it
96.
by wfleming 5y ago
> email subscriptions to RSS for example Feedbin does this, FWIW. You mentioned you had used Feedbin before, maybe they introduced the feature after you left? It's super useful, and justifies the cost of the subscription all by itse
97.
by wfleming 5y ago
Probably using the same fair market value that pre-IPO startups calculate to assess your tax liability when you exercise options.
98.
by wfleming 5y ago
Backblaze has usually sourced their own hard drives, and I suspect they still are/will. (The post didn't seem to indicate otherwise.) Every year they post a summary of what models they're working with and how they perform, wh
99.
by wfleming 5y ago
If they're in the camps, they are already being punished and abused. Might there be some retaliation? Yes, that's possible. But never calling out abusive behavior because then the abuser might escalate their abuse is a great way
100.
by wfleming 5y ago
If the victims can't document their own identities (and their still-victimized family members), it's harder to apply real political pressure to the CCP about the camps. They can keep claiming theyre not really camps, the escaped v
101.
by wfleming 5y ago
For a lot of services like this I think the value prop is not monetary cost but more "this is no longer your responsibility". Since you already have a custom-built solution that is stable & operating efficiently, switching doe
102.
by wfleming 5y ago
I'm aware of that approach for Python, and Bundler can be configured to do a similar thing for Ruby. Those are good approaches for development environments (though I generally prefer Docker for those these days), but for system tools I
103.
by wfleming 5y ago
Another comment already mentioned Khard, which has been around a while. [0] There's also Mates [1]. Less mature, very simple, but it's what I personally use. I try to steer away from relying on CLI tools implemented in python or r
104.
by wfleming 5y ago
As others have pointed out - that's not the constitution. From a philosophical perspective, though, I agree that Jefferson and others saw those rights as fundamental human truths. They were saying "people already have these rights
105.
by wfleming 5y ago
> but most in the US (myself included) would say that the US Constitution doesn't grant anybody any rights. It codified inalienable rights that exist for all people merely by virtue of their existence As an American I find this a ve
106.
by wfleming 5y ago
Each key is associated with a batch of devices, though. If you ban a key, you risk banning a bunch of legitimate users. It's an interesting trade-off. It seems like batch keys for device attestation was designed to help protect individ
107.
by wfleming 5y ago
My immediate reaction was "how?". (I presumed the organizers would not have accepted an arrangement where they expected to award silver and bronze posthumously.) Apparently they used wax bullets. Fascinating and hilarious. In 1906
108.
by wfleming 5y ago
Serialized novels used to be common, though. Many of Dickens's novels were famously serialized weekly. Alexandre Dumas' famous novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers were also published as serials. There are ple
109.
by wfleming 5y ago
For anyone who wants to try a Model M or had them and misses them, Unicomp continues to make them (in the original factory): https://www.pckeyboard.com/ . They're even made with USB now, so PS/2 adapters aren'
110.
by wfleming 5y ago
HHKB Professional 2 ( https://www.hhkeyboard.com/uk/products/pro2/ ). Likes: It's the best, most reliable 60% keyboard I've found, and that's the size I strongly prefer. It's very compact, i
111.
by wfleming 5y ago
It's not surprising you wouldn't see much difference between Kablock/Safari on desktop and content blockers/Safari on mobile - I believe they're basically the same kind of interface for providing blocking rules. FF&
112.
by wfleming 5y ago
That article goes over some problems with the initial study, and some issues replicating (although the follow up study did find a similar effect). Hardly seems like a slam dunk, though, and given those issues it seems the effect is likely w
113.
by wfleming 5y ago
Women's representation in CS was highest in the 60s and has fallen pretty consistently since then (starting to rise a bit recently as the industry has started to see the gap as a problem). The general prestige and economic rewards of C
114.
by wfleming 6y ago
I'm having trouble finding a good citation, but I think the GP is referring to a quirk of US accounting rules that causes crypto trades specifically to be counted as revenue. The same does not apply to traditional financial market tr
115.
by wfleming 6y ago
Unicorn isn't GitHub's code, though. So the object-reuse that was the root cause here wasn't their code, and treating your webserver as a working black box is pretty typical (right up until you hit an edge case like this). An
116.
by wfleming 6y ago
Does this vary more depending on the plywood grade, maybe? I have some shelving I made from AB birch, and it looks pretty close to .75. Maybe 1/64 scant. (Although I don't have calipers handy and just used a tape measure, so I&#x2
117.
by wfleming 6y ago
Fair enough, thanks for those details. Out of curiosity, do you know roughly what the target dimensions usually are now a days? I'm curious how much the efficiency gains are. It's interesting that lumber kind of looks like shrin
118.
by wfleming 6y ago
2x4s are 2x4 before they're seasoned, though. The lumber is dried after dimensioning and shrinks as it loses moisture. But we still label it by the original dimensions because lumber is priced by the board foot (which is itself a wei
119.
GitHub reportedly fired a Jewish employee who called Capitol rioters “Nazis”(theverge.com)
36 points by wfleming 6y ago|16 comments
120.
by wfleming 6y ago
But microwaves are the only one you'll still find in most homes. I think GP was implying that the author is relatively young.

More ›