My read is that a lot of content - specifically of the infinite-scroll variety - is very intentionally not designed to be printed. There are a number of Slack and Discord conversations I'd have liked to export off to…
Indeed! If they'd reached out and said "I need 128GB of RAM to do this work" (which, for reasons I won't get into, was the case), we'd have figured out a more tenable solution. Unfortunately, that conversation never…
I self-host e-mail, because I am stubborn - I have done it for 20 years. I would not recommend anyone do it if they aren't already, or if they well-and-truly want to be on call for their homelab. So as not to reiterate,…
There was a point where a coworker came to my team, complaining that our policies had erased an entire week's worth of high-priority work on him. We asked where this happened. He had done his work on an EC2 instance…
Obviously experiences will vary, but I have now had three organizations express concern (though not to the point of telling me I must stop) that I use third-party Firefox derivatives. This started with Pale Moon and…
As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. The ideal case is that a website gracefully degrades with JS disabled. That's largely a pipe dream with React usage being what it is, but…
I was briefly involved with WITR during my undergrad. Loved what they were doing, but at that time the station definitely bought into the hipster attitude, music you've never heard of and will never hear again. The only…
Well, sort of. My radio presets back in the 2000s were 101.7 WFNX, 104.1 WBCN, 107.3 WAAF, 100.7 WZLX, and 92.9 WBOS. Of those stations, only WZLX remains. The greats - in my opinion, WBCN and WFNX - are long off the…
Let's hypothesize this is true. I worked at a startup that had _money_ - a lot of it - flowing in. Stakeholders wanted to see growth, which meant features. They did not want to see us making platform improvements; those…
Morse code has some interesting properties that make it an ideal way to communicate when all else fails: 1. It can be transmitted by simple means through many mediums - radio waves (amateur radio, as in the article),…
I agree with you in regard to paying attention while driving, but the perception issue was actually around "you can't be bothered to be at your desk for meetings, so we perceive you as lazy", not "you're a risk to those…
I find driving to be one of the most useless ways of spending my time, and if it's for more than half an hour, I do try to figure out some way to increase the value of that time. I have a weekly commitment that leaves…
I agree with the author's premise - that one feedback loop optimizes for speed, and the other for scale - but I don't think the market is bearing the conclusion - that AI should be utilized to enable more rapid…
There was a point where two friends and I each lived alone in an apartment, and I was the only one who had a (2-door) car. We still occasionally did Costco runs. We'd go in and walk the store - the whole store - aisle…
My experience has been that it's easy to say, "oh, it's just me", but much harder to subject someone you care about to the same standard that you would yourself. I'm in a similar position with the thermostat, even…
I had the Treo until 2012; the Android headwinds were blowing full speed at that point. Before the Treo, I had a VisorPhone. Wonderful device, and fit a specific need (no phones allowed in school - great, I can slide…
I'm sort of curious where the law stands on this (I am not a lawyer). Since it has a license plate on it, it in theory displays some ownership info. Is that enough for me to say, "it's clearly not mine now"? If it…
This is one of the reasons I hung onto my Treo for so long. It was so much faster to do... well, basically anything that the device was capable of. With the physical keyboard, you actually didn't need to take the stylus…
There was an article a few years ago here on HN about "can't be evil" business models, which used Costco as an example. As soon as Costco turns evil, it stops working. https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/costco/
Has the site actually been running all this time? I notice that the generator tag says "FrontPage 12" (post-2003), and site has a TLS certificate, which in 1996 it most certainly would not have had.
> Why don't cloud providers have a nice way for tools like TF to query the current state of the infra? Maybe they do and I'm doing IaC wrong? This is technically how Ansible works. Here's an extensive list of modules…
Being familiar with the hijinks that Steve Wozniak pulled with the switched mode power supply in the Apple II (1977), I was curious about how the author solved for this piece: > It also needed three supply voltages;…
https://hardwarehacks.org
A few months ago I spoke with the frontman of a local Boston band from the 1980s, who recently re-released a single with the help of AI. The source material was a compact cassette tape from a demo, found in a drawer. He…
One of the neater aspects of HP-UX is that, given the breadth of pre-2000s HP, HP-UX ran on a number of different devices. You can almost (_almost_ - it's a stretch) think of it as a precursor to how Linux proliferated…
My read is that a lot of content - specifically of the infinite-scroll variety - is very intentionally not designed to be printed. There are a number of Slack and Discord conversations I'd have liked to export off to…
Indeed! If they'd reached out and said "I need 128GB of RAM to do this work" (which, for reasons I won't get into, was the case), we'd have figured out a more tenable solution. Unfortunately, that conversation never…
I self-host e-mail, because I am stubborn - I have done it for 20 years. I would not recommend anyone do it if they aren't already, or if they well-and-truly want to be on call for their homelab. So as not to reiterate,…
There was a point where a coworker came to my team, complaining that our policies had erased an entire week's worth of high-priority work on him. We asked where this happened. He had done his work on an EC2 instance…
Obviously experiences will vary, but I have now had three organizations express concern (though not to the point of telling me I must stop) that I use third-party Firefox derivatives. This started with Pale Moon and…
As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. The ideal case is that a website gracefully degrades with JS disabled. That's largely a pipe dream with React usage being what it is, but…
I was briefly involved with WITR during my undergrad. Loved what they were doing, but at that time the station definitely bought into the hipster attitude, music you've never heard of and will never hear again. The only…
Well, sort of. My radio presets back in the 2000s were 101.7 WFNX, 104.1 WBCN, 107.3 WAAF, 100.7 WZLX, and 92.9 WBOS. Of those stations, only WZLX remains. The greats - in my opinion, WBCN and WFNX - are long off the…
Let's hypothesize this is true. I worked at a startup that had _money_ - a lot of it - flowing in. Stakeholders wanted to see growth, which meant features. They did not want to see us making platform improvements; those…
Morse code has some interesting properties that make it an ideal way to communicate when all else fails: 1. It can be transmitted by simple means through many mediums - radio waves (amateur radio, as in the article),…
I agree with you in regard to paying attention while driving, but the perception issue was actually around "you can't be bothered to be at your desk for meetings, so we perceive you as lazy", not "you're a risk to those…
I find driving to be one of the most useless ways of spending my time, and if it's for more than half an hour, I do try to figure out some way to increase the value of that time. I have a weekly commitment that leaves…
I agree with the author's premise - that one feedback loop optimizes for speed, and the other for scale - but I don't think the market is bearing the conclusion - that AI should be utilized to enable more rapid…
There was a point where two friends and I each lived alone in an apartment, and I was the only one who had a (2-door) car. We still occasionally did Costco runs. We'd go in and walk the store - the whole store - aisle…
My experience has been that it's easy to say, "oh, it's just me", but much harder to subject someone you care about to the same standard that you would yourself. I'm in a similar position with the thermostat, even…
I had the Treo until 2012; the Android headwinds were blowing full speed at that point. Before the Treo, I had a VisorPhone. Wonderful device, and fit a specific need (no phones allowed in school - great, I can slide…
I'm sort of curious where the law stands on this (I am not a lawyer). Since it has a license plate on it, it in theory displays some ownership info. Is that enough for me to say, "it's clearly not mine now"? If it…
This is one of the reasons I hung onto my Treo for so long. It was so much faster to do... well, basically anything that the device was capable of. With the physical keyboard, you actually didn't need to take the stylus…
There was an article a few years ago here on HN about "can't be evil" business models, which used Costco as an example. As soon as Costco turns evil, it stops working. https://www.bryanlehrer.com/entries/costco/
Has the site actually been running all this time? I notice that the generator tag says "FrontPage 12" (post-2003), and site has a TLS certificate, which in 1996 it most certainly would not have had.
> Why don't cloud providers have a nice way for tools like TF to query the current state of the infra? Maybe they do and I'm doing IaC wrong? This is technically how Ansible works. Here's an extensive list of modules…
Being familiar with the hijinks that Steve Wozniak pulled with the switched mode power supply in the Apple II (1977), I was curious about how the author solved for this piece: > It also needed three supply voltages;…
https://hardwarehacks.org
A few months ago I spoke with the frontman of a local Boston band from the 1980s, who recently re-released a single with the help of AI. The source material was a compact cassette tape from a demo, found in a drawer. He…
One of the neater aspects of HP-UX is that, given the breadth of pre-2000s HP, HP-UX ran on a number of different devices. You can almost (_almost_ - it's a stretch) think of it as a precursor to how Linux proliferated…