yingw787

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by yingw787 6y ago
...do you have a GitHub repo for checklisting items for building a custom house like this? I'm nowhere near financially secure enough to even begin planning for something like this. But it'd be cool to look through the checklist a
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by yingw787 6y ago
CDNs are the best thing since sliced bread. Found this out both from ease of setting up frontends and the pain of setting up backends. I wonder if there's a way to build a database on top of a CDN, or a webapp backend (might just be so
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by yingw787 6y ago
Oh there's significant structural differences between cruise ships and ocean liners. Ocean liner's bow is strengthened for travel in adverse seas, and the stern is cupped rather than box-shaped to reduce roll. The superstructure i
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by yingw787 6y ago
I wonder if there will be a Cunard-like airline that flies older planes because people want to experience them. I believe Cunard (part of Carnival) operates the Queen Mary 2, the last running ocean liner on Earth. It does Southampton to New
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by yingw787 6y ago
Yeah this isn't a viable way to formulate public policy. It isn't new either, happened with the travel ban early on. Soft power, and even the viability of a country, depends on certain long-term guarantees, guarantees that the cur
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by yingw787 6y ago
I think this would be the first U.S. capital ship lost since WWII. It's also interesting that China, Russia, and now the U.S. have all lost carriers while undergoing construction / maintenaince in just the past few years: https:&
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by yingw787 6y ago
Python folks with their strong + dynamic typing: (O.O') I will say from exp. that @anyfoo has a point. In the end, even webapp backends are clients, worker nodes within a much larger system infra. Anything that has to do with data that
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by yingw787 6y ago
I remember one inspiring story from a few years ago, a student who did janitor work to pay family bills before going to Harvard: https://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/us/from-janitor-to-harvard/in... Hope
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by yingw787 6y ago
Oh interesting. I'm part of the Dominion Energy Green Power initiative. I have no idea whether I'm actually making a difference...but I pay more and get a green sticker + pamphlet, so that's cool. Saving one starfish and all
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by yingw787 6y ago
I don't think there's any harm in having an internal all-hands where labor and management can discuss how a company can forward social aims. Having a ban hammer come down like this gives the impression the company doesn't car
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by yingw787 6y ago
I've personally found that once I'm comfortable with something, I don't care for the freedom for something else. If I have a car I like, I don't care for the freedom to get another car. Freedom is really only useful to t
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by yingw787 6y ago
Aren't states prematurely lifting lockdowns to horrific infection increases due to budgetary concerns?
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by yingw787 6y ago
I remember talking to a technically minded friend about my clinical depression, and I remember how she mentioned building an app to help solve it. I remember thinking at the time how sometimes building an app isn't the solution to a pr
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by yingw787 6y ago
I've made neither ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by yingw787 6y ago
Yeah, a guy from my home high school built a nuclear fusion reactor: https://www.wired.com/2007/03/high-school-stu/ It's pretty cool. It's really cool.
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by yingw787 6y ago
There's some quality (?) bootleg stuff out there today. The other big one I've heard of is narco subs, not semi-submersible, but fully submersible: https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Ecu
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by yingw787 6y ago
I feel like the more a head of state is punched from below without doing anything, the better he or she is. I think each insult that runs down the back is a great way to measure the worse paths and timelines not taken, a physical manifestat
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by yingw787 6y ago
https://jqterm.com is also a good one :)
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by yingw787 6y ago
Yup, CDNs and object stores are a dime a dozen these days. If one's too expensive or unreliable just move on to the next one. I believe this free tier doesn't run out after 12 months either.
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by yingw787 6y ago
To clarify, the $12 / year would be the cost of the domain name, running the stack should be close to free.
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by yingw787 6y ago
This is really cool, definitely see some of the polish come out since the last version published here. If you wanted to host this indefinitely for $12 / year, you could buy a domain like hackernewspaper.com or something similar, and ho
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by yingw787 6y ago
I think the author linked a Rust example of a query-based compiler: https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa
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by yingw787 6y ago
How feasible would it be for a city to build publicly available wireless access points so that anybody who wanted to run a WISP can do so? I'd really like the option to walk away from a commercial ISP entirely if it's too painful.
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by yingw787 6y ago
I have a P1 Gen 2 with Ubuntu installed. My USB-C ports on the left side of my computer don't work for some reason (might be a cable issue). There really isn't any support from Lenovo for Linux. I'm fine with it for now, but
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by yingw787 6y ago
I actually wanted a 1080p screen, because resolution scaling support on Linux may not be all that great. At least it broke somewhat on a 4k laptop I used. I like the freedom of Linux, but I find the best support to be for the least common d
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by yingw787 6y ago
That's great, thanks for the better link! The image did look a bit weird to me (I don't think the facility would be usable in that condition), and it seemed a bit incredible that there would be that much settling after only 10 yea
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by yingw787 6y ago
Apparently there's chatter in recent days on China's internet regarding the Three Gorges Dam, and how it's setting / warping due to reservoir backpressure (pictures in link): https://www.theepochtimes.com&#x2F
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by yingw787 6y ago
Older article, but apparently Pakistan carts its nuclear weapons around in regular delivery vans: https://www.wired.com/2011/11/pakistan-nukes-delivery-vans/ I personally think this is a bad idea.
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by yingw787 6y ago
Have you tried absentee voting? It's honestly pretty great. I spend maybe three hours at my computer googling the people I don't know, then send it back. Not sure if it makes a difference in the end but it's cool to know who&
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by yingw787 6y ago
The more I think about this the less it makes sense to me. My understanding of UDP is it's supposed to be for heavy, lossy traffic where late traffic is pointless or harmful (like video streaming frames, if your frame is late better to

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