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Notes on Technical Writing
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Tech Writing is a waterfall job.What's needed is something more like peer review, where the "tech writer's" job is to ask hard question from the user POV during development - for varying values of "user", which would include customer, API consumer, and so on.This wouldn't be code review, because it's about features, interfaces, and expected behaviours, not the fine details of implementation. And it wouldn't be a PM job, because it would be peer feedback in the form of dialog, not management in the form of requirements and specs.And it should be continuous, so the doc base evolves in parallel with the code base.And it should not be an afterthought.This job does not exist yet. And it should, because virtually all orgs have a problem where individual developers become repositories of The Important Knowledge. If they leave it becomes hard to characterise system behaviours and architectures well enough to understand how they work well enough to replace/improve/reverse engineer them.So IMO there's a niche for people who are competent developers, competent listeners, and competent communicators, who can pull it all together, stay on top of changes, and leave a readable record of the current state of institutional knowledge about projects, practices, stacks, and interfaces.
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After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now free
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Wow, used this extensively in my undergrad. Always used the free version. I remember occasionally running into the "too many nodes" error. Thanks to the creator for releasing the full version for free. I'm sure many EE undergrads will be grateful.
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Smart homes will turn dumb overnight as Charter kills security service
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Spectrum partnered with Ring and Abode to transition the customers - they were offered free equipment with the purchase of 1 year monitoring. Glad that customers got to choose between systems and weren't just left to one.
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A Map of Mathematics
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This reminded me about Tegmark's map of relationships between various basic mathematical structures:https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9704009.pdf (on page 2)
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Washington governor announces shutdown of restaurants, bars
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22583594
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1.1.1.1 for Families
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1.1.1.2/1.0.0.2 & 1.1.1.3/1.0.0.3 DNS resolvers incorrectly resolves one of India's largest banks domain name "retail.onlinesbi.com" to 0.0.0.0
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A humble guide to database schema design
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“Beginning database design” By Clare Churcher is a really accessible book on these issues, very practical (starts off with simple spreadsheet tables!) and takes you through step by step to understanding the problems with and the need for the different levels of normalization.
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FCC must reveal IP addresses and user-agent headers of net neutrality commenters
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It would be hilarious and ever maddening if the user agent came back as "Puppeteer" and IP came back ::0Can't wait to see it.
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In Praise of AutoHotKey
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I have been a big fan of Macro Express which has a GUI so if you aren’t a developer, you can build Macros. Never used AHK myself. Anyone used both that can comment on strengths of AHK vs Macro Express?
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Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal
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I always download JRE as an MP3 rather than use a podcast platform or streaming service (or Youtube). Is this going to change that or is the MP3 still available? Joe must be making a frickin mint!
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How the most popular Chrome extensions affect browser performance
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Am I creating a bottleneck by running Ghostery with uBlock Origin?
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We Can Do Better Than SQL
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I'm a senior dev that up until recently managed to avoid having SQL in my knowledge stack as we've always used no-sql databases.I knew the basics but I took a weekend to catch up on some more advance use cases and I can really resonate with this article. Unsurprisingly I came down to a conclusion that SQL is just a bad language, no matter how you look at it. It throws away every code flow standard in favor of their own nonsensical flavor. Where normal synchronous programs go top-to-bottom SQL is a complete spaghetti of flow and logic.Just take a look at the most basic syntax: `SELECT person.name FROM person` The variable is defined at the end of the program which is just absolutely silly, what if the program is 100 lines long; do I need to start reading from the bottom? SQL must be the reason mouse scroll wheels were invented.As an alternative take a look at view based systems: `for person in people: yield person.name` — isn't it infinitely more understandable and readable?Unfortunately it seems SQL is here to stay as most people would rather work with this mess rather than invest some time to adopt something better.
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Epic direct payment on mobile
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If fortnite had an alternative payment method that wasn't exposed in the iOS app (e.g. only on the web, but you would buy credits that you could use in the app) then I don't see how Apple would have a leg to stand on.
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Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby
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I'm getting the impression that Elixir is Erlang in Ruby's clothing, a bit like Rust is (functional language) in C's clothing. Does that sound fair?
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Reddit’s About page doesn't include Aaron Swartz as a founder
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Reddit went full commie since about 3 years. It became super annoying to get hundreds of down votes because you are not a leftist bot
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San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.
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I know this sounds Strange. But isn't it the perfect time to build more Housing?The lead time from idea to actual property being available is very long. That is to say it is literally impossible to flatten the curve.So why not start planning and building?
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The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3
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So are the QUIC HTTP/3 Connection Migration IDs and end run around ad blockers and MAC spoofing, and other forms of anti-tracking measures? Long ago, I read these IDs are persistent across networks, etc.
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RIAA Abuses DMCA to Take Down Popular Tool for Downloading Online Videos
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I'm always wondering about the coincidence of calendar proximity of google music moving to youtube music and that takedown that explicitly mentions VEVO
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Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT
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My wife has noticed that her severe COVID patients all have vitamin-D levels in the single digits. YMMV.
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Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
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Finally, a tool with which to manage my private life just as I manage my corporate existence and my business customers. Amazing!
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If-then-else had to be invented
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That was a fun read. Was that original research? Great job if so.
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How to Turn an IKEA Coffee Table into a DIY Server Rack
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I've wanted to turn a 2u or 3u server into desk for quite some time now. Never considered the other way around
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DuckDuckGo – two non-JavaScript versions of search results
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If you want to add this as a search bar option in Firefox, you have to visit one of these pages first and then a green plus will appear in the search bar menu to (for example) add DuckDuckGo Lite. Then in settings you can also make it your new default.[When did Firefox remove the option to just type in a URL for this?]
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Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support
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Payments in chat is inevitable. I think that eventually all chat will have convenient payments or people will stop using it. Of course that doesn't necessarily mean cryptocurrencies, but until the large financial companies get involved (and they are notoriously risk averse), cryptocurrencies are a natural way to do this.As well as secure chat already needing much of the same key management infrastructure that cryptocurrencies need, it also hooks you into social networks - so you could have key recovery schemes where you trust a number of friends to hold portions of your backup keys (somewhat like what you probably do with your real life house keys).Trust, money and communication are all network phenomena, and using the same fabric for them all makes a lot of sense.
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What was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
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To me the question always was what’s the point of [ba]sh for non-interactive shell scripting, when there is perl (I’m aware that it has issues with versions, portability to non-PCs, etc, so think “theoretical standardized lightweight perl mode for sh”, not a real one). Shell syntax and semantics are a pile of ugly hacks and landmines, which were done because everyone wanted to program cli. When you want to program, just take a programming language, not a poor excuse of it. The amount of time you end up wasting with bash is much greater than reading perldoc *, and mastering bash never returns an investment.
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Zellij – A Terminal Workspace and Multiplexer
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How do I tell Zellij to passthru Ctrl+ArrowKeys ?
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Lego Microscope
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Dont forget that previously, Mekano pieces were used to build differential analyzers because they were cheaper.
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Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
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Why do we have to pay to see which ones brands have Benzene in them? The list should of just been put in text.
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Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
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It should be a crime to caramelize onions.
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Dad makes teddies with health conditions to help children with medical disorders
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Does anyone know how to donate to Mr. Hardman's efforts?I can't seem to find anywhere to do so and I don't use Facebook so I can't reach out to him via that platform.I appreciate in advance any help you can offer!
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FTC files new antitrust complaint against Facebook
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Seeing some weird comments that disregard a lot of public history about exactly why there are anticompetitive complaints about Facebook in the first place. A quick breakdown of some of the common criticisms I've been seeing about whether Facebook is anticompetitive, and why they don't really stand up to scrutiny:----1. The nature of social networks is such that the landscape can change overnight. Do we need anticompetitive enforcement?Correct, social networks can change overnight. But leaked documents[0] show that Facebook was aware of this (having gone through such a shift already with Myspace), and that they used purchases specifically as a defense against this phenomenon.Facebook's plan was to use purchases to slow down the market and to make sure that no other competitor could grow large enough to be a threat. Zuckerberg said of this:> "There are network effects around social products and a finite number of different social mechanics to invent. Once someone wins at a specific mechanic, it’s difficult for others to supplant them without doing something different."A large part of Facebook's strategy to avoid the fate of MySpace was to lock down the network effects and make sure that no other company had the time or resources to win at any social mechanic before Facebook got its foot in the door. It is specifically because of the ever-changing nature of the social landscape that Facebook pursued anticompetitive strategies and purchases.Their purchasing strategy was designed to make these kinds of large market shifts impossible, not because Facebook could compete with every one of these companies, but because they would fold any existing userbase/featureset into Facebook before competitors got a chance to build a competitive userbase.----2. But Instagram/WhatsApp weren't even competing in the same space! Why would Facebook target them?Facebook undeniably considered those companies to be competitors and threats. Again, this isn't theorizing, you can go read the leaked emails yourself if you don't believe me[1].Here's Zuckerberg again:> "Instagram can hurt us meaningfully without becoming a huge business."[2]A little while later, he responded to another internal email:> "I remember your internal post about how Instagram was our threat and not Google+. You were basically right. One thing about startups though is you can often acquire them. I think this is a good outcome for everyone."Even later, on messaging apps, he wrote:> I think we should block WeChat, Kakao, and Line ads. Those companies are trying to build social networks and replace us. The revenue is immaterial to us compared to any risk. I agree we should use ads to promote our own products, but I'd still block companies that compete with our core from gaining any advantage from us.----3. But is Facebook even a threat anymore? TikTok is where the kids are!Facebook spent around 6 months trying to buy TikTok early in its life[3], and (opinion me) I think the only reason it didn't pan out was because it was operating out of China and the deal was too complicated to close. After TikTok started to become a meaningful competitor, Facebook launched a public campaign painting the app as a national security threat.Personally, I don't think it's a good long-term trend in the market that the only upstart social networks that seem to be able to meaningfully threaten Facebook are the ones coming out of China. And it's not clear to me that a startup American company today could replicate TikTok's success against Facebook.----[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/facebook-sold-co...[1]: https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-com...[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/29/21345723/facebook-instagr...[3]: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/zuckerberg-musi...
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Google Docs in a clean-room browser
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> As with Gmail, I believe Flow is the only browser engine written after Google Docs that can run Google DocsThis is depressing.
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Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time
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And programmers who have to keep track of when events happened in the past grow a few more grey hairs.
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EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]
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artificial intelligence is mentioned a few times in the video but that's not even a thing yet. what we have now are just very fancy glorified algorithms
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Playstation 5 root keys obtained
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Easier to get than an actual PS5, apparently
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Amazon Ion – A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical serialization format
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I don't like ion. The added features (over json) don't pull their weight. Symbols, annotations and the binary format all add significant complexity but don't make the format much better. As a consequence of the added complexity language support is poor.For RPC the binary encoding compares poorly to external schema formats like protobuf. In this context binary ion is a poorly compressed text format.I don't think the partial document read capability of the binary format is all that important, but I've never worked on an application that would benefit from it either.
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Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice
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The title reads like a category error. Yes, expertise consists of tacit knowledge, but that doesn't tell you anything about whether deliberate practice is the way to acquire it or not. It only tells you that memorizing text won't get you there. To the extent that it's not a category error, it's a tautology: arriving at the office is more important than driving to the office, making a milkshake is more important than running the blender, and acquiring expertise is more important than any particular technique you might use to acquire expertise.At the bottom Chin says what he thinks is the way to acquire tacit knowledge: apprenticeship. He should have called the article "Apprenticeship is more important than deliberate practice," which hinges on precisely what you mean by "apprenticeship" and "deliberate practice," either of which can be defined in ways to make the statement true or false.
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37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home
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The company I work for had a "return to office" about two weeks ago, and while we still are 50%+ remote, those that aren't we're now in the office a lot more. My first impression after two weeks is how little the in office people get done. They spend a significant amount of time socializing and walking around to meetings and getting meeting rooms working and eating, and when they are in meetings, are less focused, and when they aren't in meetings, they talk about not being able to concentrate as well because of all the distractions.They also seem to be having a lot more fun!It should be interesting to see how it plays out in the next few years!
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Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls
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This is the fundamental problem with hybrid. It's the worst of both worlds, as it forces a regression to the most-accessible, which will always be video calls.I think a lot of the forced-hybrid environments are a result of companies waiting for their commercial leases to die.That said, I remember sitting on a lot of conference calls in the office pre-pandemmy, so... isn't video better?
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Turning back the clock: Human skin cells de-aged by 30 years in trial
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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
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The Uber Bubble
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Here is an issue I do not see anyone else mentioning.There is no way to contact them for unusual problems. You either have the chatbot solve your issue or you are f**ed.In my city, for some reason there is a location that is wrongly labeled as the railway station. There is nothing there, just residential blocks. Yet when searching, this option is always ahead of the real railway station. Triped me up several times already.
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Google's most ridiculous trick to force users into adding phone number
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It can't be helped I think. The chain of trust must start somewhere.What if someone secretly have your password and enable 2FA? The addition of the 2nd factor of auth is a big deal and the process should be as secure as possible.
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Bugs are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
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> The first bug that eats plastic was discovered in a Japanese waste dump in 2016.In 2009, a Taiwanese high-school student (Tseng I-ching) discovered a bacterium that decomposes polystyrene [0]. I think she deserves credit for starting this field of research.[0] https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10,23,45,10&post=15307
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Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)
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For some reason, this only seems to accepts my Apple Watch as authentication, but not the fingerprint sensor... any idea why? (fingerprint works to authenticate in System Preferences, etc.) $ cat sudo
# sudo: auth account password session
auth sufficient pam_tid.so
auth sufficient pam_smartcard.so
auth required pam_opendirectory.so
account required pam_permit.so
password required pam_deny.so
session required pam_permit.so
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Xbox Cloud throttles performance if user agent is Linux
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Everyone that feels like it is outrageous to believe this is evil and there is likely a super reasonable explanation for this should consider that this is not a novel thing. At Netflix and Amazon Prime limit the resolution on Linux to 1080p and 720 respectively. Of course the reason is a different one, but Xbox Cloud would simply get in line with other major video streaming providers. It's natural to assume that it might be true and the reasons are silly, just like they are for every other platform.
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Beej updated the classic Linux network programming guide
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Just wanted to say thanks. Your guides saved me during my OS/Networking class a few years back.
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Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z
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Building a market for bandwidth as a commodity was the last major initiative that Enron started. Didn’t go well for them, and I can’t see this going well for Helium.
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We clone a running VM in 2 seconds
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This is really cool. I've also been working with Firecracker, but for isolated CI runners with Docker and KinD/K3s support. Starting with GitHub Actions [1] I've also had interest in making OpenFaaS use pause/resume from Gatsby.js who wanted to reduce their hosting costs. The main challenges were around the networking - if you use CNI and the Go SDK [2] then restores simply don't work. Not sure if you're working with netlink and IMAP directly to get around it?My question is how are you guaranteeing uniqueness, or do you only clone snapshots for a single tenant? [3][1] https://github.com/self-actuated/actuated
[2] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-go-sdk
[3] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/main...
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Show HN: InvokeAI, an open source Stable Diffusion toolkit and WebUI
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How good are solutions like stable diffusion at inpainting nowadays? What about the watermarks of getty et at that have been part of some of dall-e 2.0 images. Could one feasably remove such watermarks or stuff like a white grid array with these solutions?So how convincing are these solutions in the worst case is what i am asking.
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How does GPT obtain its ability? Tracing emergent abilities of language models
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So training on source code is what gave ChatGPT the ability to reason? And before that it was just doing text autocomplete? That seems pretty incredible.
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Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend
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i escaped reality this week
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Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)
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I once met an angry drunk Czech who went on - at great length - about how their government is absolutely paralyzed because most positions are "management". Apparently, the communists wanted to employ everyone, so they set up thousands and thousands of pointless governmental middle-management jobs that never did anything.I wonder how he's doing? I bet he's on a corner somewhere, screaming about Russia.
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What is the minimal possible UK address?
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Very entertaining post and comments. :)Big old fashion corporation had sometime build up their on internal postal system.
Sometimes the try to reinvent the wheel instead of just reading about the estiablished postal system and get the best out of it.One time I worked in such a big corporation and I have written internal letters to the CEO during business trips to other locations with a big "Thank You Postal Office Operations Team" on the enevlope to increase their visibility.
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Cities: Skylines II
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This is just amazing. I still enjoy Cities Skylines I, have spent so many hours on it. A 2nd version can only be even more amazing. Understood that it will use Unreal engine 5.
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When “free forever” means “free for the next 4 months”
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Ah, Mattermost. Their philosophy is to get people involved on terms they do not intend to keep, and then pull the rug from beneath them and force them to pay up. It's the only chat program I know where they've rugpulled the same basic features and put them behind premiums more than once.
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How we hack Hacker News and consistently hit the front page
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> Obviously, the goal is to get traffic to your websiteok sure. Why not.> and increase brand awareness […]Hm. HN isn't Google. Brand awareness isn't always positive. There are several examples here where repeated coverage causes knee jerk negative reactions.> SEOYes, that is a problem. If every time someone posts about grammarly or whatnot, if the Google algorithm doesn't care that people are vomiting with disgust in the comments, and treats that as "engagement", that is a problem.Then again, you run the risk of having a page full of "omg grammarly is so shit" comments at the top of your Google ranking, so maybe that's appropriately Darwinian in a sense.(No hate on grammarly, I just couldn't think of something more HN specific right now)
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There oughta be a bullet time video booth
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I built one of these for a client a few years ago. Bought 10 refurb T2i kits and this software to stitch it together: https://www.breezesys.com/Here's it in action from:
https://insidethemagic.net/2017/07/d23-expo-2017-take-virtua...
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GPS (2022)
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That is a lovely page. I liked all the interactive toys to play with.
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Arwes: Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework
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Arwes is awesome. I built an internal tool using the previous version of Arwes[0].It's a visualization tool for a 3D scanner.[0]: https://scan-viewer.vercel.app/scans/1?tab=overview
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Nitter is working again
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It means anonymous access has been restored. Nitter does not use twitter API which is a goner anyway (but was restored for a little while).Twitter should provide a noscript/basic (x)html interop www portal.
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Brute-forcing a macOS user’s real name from a browser using mDNS
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Change your hostnames people, then you won't be "XXX's MacBook Pro.local"
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Anytype – local-first, P2P Notion alternative
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Interesting to read about AnyType's supposedly poor import of MD files – I imported a folder of MD files (from one of my large Obsidian repositories) with no problems whatsoever, at (very) impressive speed. So not quite sure what's going on there. In short: works for me ;-)
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Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)
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Also on codepoints.net:https://codepoints.net/U+1D54F
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Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier
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This is something a GPT would do way better.
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ZFS for Dummies
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"Also read up on the zpool add command."Haha, The only part of maintenance that I need to look up every time I do it is replacing a faulty hard drive.Even this guide skips that.
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Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts
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What if products' BOMs are not viable for 7 years? Parts go EOL all the time.
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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
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Why does this story have such a longer Front Page Life?
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Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?
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Is there anything particularly special about the code which would make it interesting? The value seems to be in the concept, and then the content produced by the large user base.
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Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?
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Move to Norway - the best place to live according to the UN: http://goo.gl/012eaJust be aware that while it might be a good place to live, Norwegians find lots to complain about anyway. Also, it's definitely not the most exciting place to live. You'll earn enough to buy a place to live, have kids and spend your five weeks of paid vacation somewhere warmer.FWIW, I've met Americans who have moved here because of our socialist values (yes, socialist... it's not a curse word where I come from ;)), and are pretty happy about it.
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Developer open-sources 200+ hr project after client refuses to pay
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Where can we see an online version of his project? The end product.
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The Greatest Customer Service Story Ever Told, Starring Morton’s Steakhouse
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This sounds more like a marketing stunt than a customer service story.
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I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone
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I got bitten by this same exact thing using Bucketwise a few months ago, but without the race condition: https://github.com/jamis/bucketwise/pull/27
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Facebook's S-1 Filing
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I put together a really quick valuation multiples analysis based on financial info from the S-1: https://twitter.com/#!/daranda/status/164854828957310978/pho...Disclaimer: This analysis is flawed- Using multiples is not a perfect method to understand the valuation of a business. It's one of many. It's a proxy. It's quick.- This chart uses 2011 financial data. Facebook is growing fast - their multiples would come down significantly if we used 2012 projections - which we don't have. If I had more than 10 minutes on this - I would use 2nd half of 2011 or Q4 2011 as a run rate.Quick Thoughts (Not Conclusions):- In Ben Horowitz's argument against the bubble - he says the valuations they were seeing at AH for large private tech companies (like facebook) is in line with large public tech companies (google). So just looking at the data quickly, I was disappointed that FB appeared to have higher multiples (his blog post: http://bhorowitz.com/2011/03/24/bubble-trouble-i-don%E2%80%9...)- DAYAM FB has a crazy operating margin- And they're getting better at monetizing each user. User growth was 40% from end of 2010 to end of 2011, while revenue grew 80% (http://allthingsd.com/20120201/facebook-has-845-million-user...)
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Bootstrap 2.1 released
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Looks like www.bootstrapcdn.com has already updated their files.
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Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?
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If I recall correctly, control-^ (i.e. 0x1e, aka control-~) would move the ADM-3A cursor to the "home" location on the screen (i.e. the top left) if sent from the host. If you were talking to a host that was echoing your keystrokes (and maybe if you set a DIP switch for half-duplex mode?) then typing control-^ (aka control-~) would do that too.The terminfo entry seems to confirm this (apt-get source ncurses-term && less +/^adm3a ncurses-5.9/misc/terminfo.src): adm3a|lsi adm3a,
OTbs, am,
cols#80, lines#24,
OTma=^K^P, OTnl=^J, bel=^G, clear=\032$, cr=^M, cub1=^H,
cud1=^J, cuf1=^L, cup=\E=%p1%{32}%+%c%p2%{32}%+%c,
cuu1=^K, home=^^, ind=^J, kcub1=^H, kcud1=^J, kcuf1=^L,
kcuu1=^K, rs2=^N,
I think the speculations about ^ in regexps coming from the same source are misplaced, because I think the ed editor was already using ^ to mean "beginning of line" before there were any CRT terminals.The ADM-3A had direct cursor addressing, as referenced in the "cup" capability in the above terminfo entry, so the "home" feature was, strictly speaking, redundant. As you can see from the simplicity of the terminfo entry (notably its almost complete lack of escape sequences) logic was aggressively minimized in this termainal. I seem to recall from glancing inside the ADM-3As I bought at auction in my childhood that it was built almost entirely out of discrete 7400-series logic, so every extra control character involved adding several chips.In light of this, I suspect that the "home" feature may have been retained for backwards compatibility with something else — maybe the ADM-3? But the ADM-3 terminfo entry doesn't mention "home", so I don't know.More details about the ADM-3A can be found at " rel="nofollow">http://manx.classiccmp.org/details/11,5618>.
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Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now
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The Tom Hanks movie "The Terminal" seems rather relevant here.
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Russian Man Changes Small Print in Credit Card Agreement, Then Sues
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Further developments in the story: http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/editors-pick/articl...
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Why Microsoft Word must die
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I bet you could raise money to buy word.ms domain and point it to this post :p
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My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love
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You have an awesome opportunity with your startup. I'm sure you'll turn something around with the lively discussion you kicked off.Have you considered non-ad-network revenue sources? What about running affiliate offers?I used to make 4 to 10 times more as a publisher with affiliate offers than adsense or other ad network placements. I don't affiliate (or publish) enough now to know if that would still happen or not.A quick idea for an affiliate test, although you may have already tried this:Given 6MM+ uniques/mo, and a somewhat adult-oriented audience, you may have a decent opportunity to push native ads with affiliate offers toward dating sites, event-themed sites (costumes for halloween trends), and more.Native ads could be custom, animated banners you create and fill the first, second or x picture spot in your search or tag results. Does that make sense? Your banners would be 100px x 100px on your home page and fill a standard picture spot or two or five instead of the images that might ordinarily go in that space, 150x150 banner ads could fit in well in random places on your tag image pages, etc.Also, advertisers might like to participate in native advertising on your website if the opportunity were available.Good luck!
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So very sad to hear about the passing of Ruby legend Jim Weirich
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I wish I had spent more time talking with him.
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Apple's SSL/TLS bug
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We can assume that all Apple devices have now been backdoored.
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“Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure
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My applications can't be "signed up" for, you have to be manually added to get access because it protects sensitive information. In my case and all others like it, at least, this is not useless.
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2015)
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Tumblr - NYC - Full-timePeople seem to really like this thing we’ve built, and we’re always looking for more engineers to keep it running and growing. We’re big enough to give you the resources you need and still small enough that you can work on things that matter. Apply now, why don’t ya?“They’re building a roof deck” —-Employee testimonial.tumblr.com/jobsⓣ-Android Engineer
-Weapons Engineer
-Hadoop Engineer
-iOS Engineer
-MySQL Engineer
-PHP Application Engineer
-Product Engineer (JavaScript)
-Security Engineer
-Senior Product Engineer
-Software Engineer (Scala)
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CSS Sans – A pure CSS font
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A stupid question I imagine, but wouldn't em be more appropriate than px for the defined units ?Couldn't the size be defined proportionally to the expected size ?
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Improve your touch typing
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Why do all typing programs force you to type in line with the text you are copying? Either one mistake propagates and you can ruin an entire line by double typing some letter or the thing blocks until you hit the correct one.Why is there not just a sample text and a simple text box that you type the entire sample into? Then your product can be diffed against the source and an accuracy rating calculated? This actually matches the normal typing experience.
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Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo Is Stepping Down
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I wrote a post in response to Costolo stepping down. Since the trendy thing is to post punditry about Twitter, I couldn't help but chime in."On Twitter" - http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/12/on-twitter/----------Also, you can make up your own mind about this:http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8761731/twitter-trouble-faceboo...http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2...https://medium.com/@michaeledwards/re-imaging-twitter-ea4e11...http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/why-twitters-engage...https://alexgaynor.net/2014/oct/30/i-hope-twitter-goes-away/http://blog.higg.im/twitters-self-immolation/http://john.do/twitter-quit/http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/22/twitters-dilemma/http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/04/a-eulo...http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2015/04/30/twitters-multi-b...
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Nylas N1 – extensible open-source mail client
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I thought this looked nice until I saw that it's not an email client at all, it's an interface to a backend service.
Sure, you can get the backend and run it yourself but who wants to do that. Pity, it looked nice.
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Why Go Is Not Good (2014)
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I tried Go, didn't really impressed me. I don't see any reason why now one should choose Go over C#, for example.
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Please do not delete this commented-out version
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Yes, VCS doesn't give you a guarantee of storing your history (in an accessible way, I mean - "if a tree falls in a forest...") FOREVER, especially if you switch VCS systems on the way.However, commenting some code out also doesn't mean it won't rot. Methods/procedures around it will be refactored, variables renamed - in long time perspective, in a different landscape it can become incomprehensible and useless anyway.Just because some abstraction (version control) can be a bit leaky and one shouldn't rely on it absolutely, doesn't justify succumbing to some other illusion.Commenting code out is not equal to hibernation and it doesn't make it immune to flowing time. You uncomment it one day, you discover it stinks to heaven high - especially if it was complex from the start - and isn't informative at all."But that's not the case here!" - well, guess what: version control failing to do what it's supposed to also isn't the case here, if you can still access commits from 1986, as someone pointed out: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?ofs=124080
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The Best Teacher I Never Had
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Unreal. Watching him speak about computers, while wearing his logo'd t-shirt, makes me imagine him giving this talk at a recent meetup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
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Ethereum: Rise of the World Computer
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Awesome Ethereum https://github.com/btomashvili/awesome-ethereum
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The Untold History of Arduino
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Genesis stories never match, but there is one thing to learn from many that I have read: if you want a place in the spotlight you have to take it. The value is not created in just making technology, leaning back and expecting the adoring masses to come flooding in the doors.Creating technology is part of the work, but sadly not the part that makes you successful. To be successful you need to get out and about and get in people's faces.
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The Sugar Conspiracy
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Mexico successfully increased their tax on sugary beverages, and companies threw relatively few hissy fits. I think a large part of the country's willingness to shoulder that tax, and the lack of push back from industry, came about as a result of positive leadership from Mexico's president at that time and the recognition that diabetes was becoming an epidemic.
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Browse Hacker News Like a Haxor
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Very neat, but am I missing something obvious... I can get the top 10, but how can I page through posts?I often find that if I've been away from HN for a day or two that there's interesting stuff way down the list.
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The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to leave it
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Haven't read all the comments here, but isn't it possible or even likely that it's Remain voters having an "oh shit what next" moment that are Googling the EU and the implications of leaving, as opposed to ignorant abstainers and Leave voters checking up on the consequences of their vote after the fact?The article doesn't actually take a position, but the tenor of the viral social media chatter seems to assume the latter case.
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Security experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys
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These consumer products are ‘peace of mind’ devices, not part
of TSA’s aviation security regime.
A bump key could open the majority of locks and yet we still put such locks into new doors? These flawed locks just serve the purpose of forcing whomever wants to enter to cross a psychological boundary from legal into illegal. And that is still a good reason to use flawed locks. In other words, you might as well not use locks at all.
Simply not true
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Nootropics
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My takeaway from this article: Ingesting 38 different purported nootropics may cause you to write super long rambling blog posts and inadvisably apply statistics to poorly designed experiments.
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Finance is Not the Economy
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Related: a very interesting visualization that shows all the "money" in the world: http://money.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-worlds-money-an...
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Appropriate Uses for SQLite
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fossil scm is a dvcs built around sqlite. one executable, very few dependencies and atomic transactional safety. workflow wise its more like cvs or svn properly converted into a dvcs. great for small teams, integrated web server, wiki issue tracking. http://fossil-scm.org
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How I stopped the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career
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A very simple way to fix wrist problems is to switch hands for the mouse. I had carpal tunnel bad enough to stop me from using a mouse at all and then I tried switching hands. At first my useless left had couldn't click on the side of a barn. After a week or so I was using my left hand with no problem and after a month I was as good as with my right.A year later I happened to be using a mouse with my right hand and I discovered there was no pain. So I actually fixed my problem.
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