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by wolfgang42 3y ago
A lot of the systems involved were designed in an era before ubiquitous connectivity, when electronic data transfer involved calling a mainframe over the phone with a modem or sometimes even mailing magnetic tape. In that world the answer t
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
I’ll second the comments that $2k/month is alarmingly high, especially for the performance that you seem to be getting. When I shoved ~40M webpages into a stock ElasticSearch instance running on a 2013-era server I bought for $200 (o
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The process of making Windows 11 tolerable(exple.tive.org)
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
The Mac had a distinction between “Eject” and “Put away” mostly as a relic of the days when it had a single 400k floppy drive, so “ghost” disks were used to keep track of however many disks you needed to juggle whatever task you were doing.
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
There’s a huge international conference with a bunch of world leaders happening in SF this week, so a large chunk of downtown has a security cordon around it with police and Secret Service agents all over the place: https://sfsta
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
This happens if you use 1.1.1.1 as your DNS resolver, the result of a long-running dispute between Cloudflare and Archive.is[1]; searching HN for “archive cloudflare” will get you lots of discussion. As I understand it: the technical cause
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
> Containers, btw, cannot be snapshotted. lxc-snapshot(1), podman-container-checkpoint(1), and docker-checkpoint-create(1) all beg to differ.
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Maybe something like the Geniac[1] or a Paperclip Computer[2]? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac [2]: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/paperclip/
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Amtrak says[1] that while they technically have priority, they have no power to enforce it (and the DoJ isn’t doing anything about the problem); so the best they can do is write an irritated-sounding PDF[2]. I think they’d like you to call
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Here are some pointers to why HN doesn’t have comments on job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32586658
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
It’s certainly not new; here’s dang explaining to someone that you can’t comment on job posts back in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298769 And here he is explaining why: https://news.ycombinator.co
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
> When people say they find the "very idea of billionaires" abhorrent, what exactly is the solution here? There’s a quote[1] which makes the rounds occasionally and I think sums up the sentiment pretty well: > Ok how about
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
boppo1 is a bot account. The spamming of identical comments is a dead giveaway. There, see how easy and unhelpful that was? ;-) Also, slinging spurious accusations at someone who’s written some quite interesting comments doesn’t seem like i
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
A “sufficiently smart compiler” is a (frequently mythical) one that can implement some difficult optimization on its own, rather than needing hints from the programmer. (See e.g. https://prog21.dadgum.com/40.html?0 for some
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Assuming this[1] is the report you’re referring to: > By the 2000s, so much information was being generated worldwide that only a small fraction (0.5% in 2015) of the digital data generated was being analyzed at all. [emphasis mine
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Working backwards from the header in the linked PDF, I found “University studies, Cambridge, 1933”: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1197571 (Contents: Introduction, by Harold Wright; Philosophy, by R.B. Braithwaite; Mat
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Resource forks are something different; the parent is referring to type and creator codes, which are part of the metadata for a file. (Type codes were also used to identify types inside the resource fork, which is maybe what you’re thinking
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
I think if someone had tried to make encoding-in-filename a common convention it would have just resulted in people writing “.txt.ASCII” without understanding what that meant, and we’d have the same charset sniffing we have now plus another
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
My favorite bug report in this vein: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug... > Steps to reproduce: > 1. Leave laptop unattended in a cold room with a warm cat. > 2. Cat will s
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
It still seems like useful feedback that this is something some people might find concerning.
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Original New Yorker cartoon, since it took me a moment to place where I’d heard this before: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995 (Transcription: a man in a tattered business suit sits across a campfire from some
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Cite for this figure: https://web.archive.org/web/20170710191300/https://b8f65cb37... Yes, if you attribute all emissions to the company that originally took the fossil fuels out of the ground (“Scope 3
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
I hear that depression is often comorbid with ADHD, since people who struggle with executive function to the point where they’re having trouble keeping their life in order are also likely to get depressed about their inability do do anythin
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
“Cannot provide any advice or guidance” is an exaggeration; that quote excludes (a) medical advice and (b) important decisions. It does not, for example, exclude advice on making un important decisions, which is a skill that a lot of p
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Some pointers to dang’s comments on the topic: “notice-dislike bias”: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... “hostile media effect”: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22host
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
We put a lot of effort into not using rail for freight, it stands to reason that if we actually set our minds to it we could start using it more again. (At least, I think that the argument you’re making is about modern logistics and moder
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Original publication: Kovar, L. “Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass.” Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 7, no. 3, May/June 2001, p. 4, https://web.archive.org/web/20010620051228/http://
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
I think they’re talking about the coloring in `git diff`, `git log --patch`, etc, which defaults to red/green for removed/added lines, respectively. (This can be changed with the `color.diff.*` config options, as seen in git-confi
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
The pressed state for the close box was a sort of starburst thing, not an X. (Possibly you’re thinking of checkboxes, which were squares that got crossed out when they were checked.)
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
That’s not an advantage of ADHD, it’s an advantage of off-label use of ADHD medication. For people who do have ADHD, Adderall brings them closer to the neurotypical baseline; in fact one of the common helpful effects is less concentra

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