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0x0000000··on Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
Nothing needed to be "revived" here. The cloud sync stopped working, the device was otherwise fully functional. Author found a more convenient method for accessing files than the cloud sync, anyway.
0x0000000··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
Same in the NY/NJ/PA tri-state. Ahead of the 4th a NY state trooper sits in the parking lot of the Phantom Fireworks in Matamoras, presumably calling in NY plates for their buddy to go pull over.

We just took the back roads home instead of the highway.

0x0000000··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
> ... on my Macbook Max M5 128 GB

Local development for who? How many of y'all are rocking 128GB of memory? Am I reading Apple's site correctly that it's a $10,000 laptop?

0x0000000··on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
Piracy isn't stealing regardless of whether or not buying is owning.
0x0000000··on Cisco workforce reductions
This kind of behavior is never tolerated in the market. Your revenue is flat; they lay you off. Right away. No trial, no nothing. Your revenue is down, right to layoffs, right away. Revenue grows but less than guidance? Layoffs. Record revenue exceeding guidance? Believe it or not, layoffs.
0x0000000··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
> I have an unhealthy relationship with it.

You really, really do. Please, for your own benefit, take a step back and touch grass, literally. There is so much more to this world than Github of all things.

> Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years... During my honeymoon while my wife is still asleep? Yeah, GitHub

This is addiction

0x0000000··on Using LLMs at Oxide
> Ironically, LLMs are especially good at evaluating documents to assess the degree that an LLM assisted their creation

Is there any evidence for this?

0x0000000··on Leaving Intel
Two different numbers, no? The resignation posts specifies 110 customer meetings, the blog post you linked to about meetings during odd hours does not.
0x0000000··on Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity
> Unfollow all of your connections

I hate that this is the only option available. I want to follow my connections, for their own posts, if any. What I don't want is to see everything they like, share, and comment on -- but LinkedIn won't let you turn that part off.

0x0000000··on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Because nginx, as an HTTP server, could answer the query?
0x0000000··on Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
The ACME provider makes a query to the DNS server to validate the record exists and contains the right "funny string". Parent's question was whether that query is/can be made via DoH.
0x0000000··on Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain
They don't use Godaddy directly. Godaddy is the registry for .us. Zoom's registrar is MarkMonitor, who appear to be at fault for this outage.
0x0000000··on Ask HN: Are YC startups *actually* hiring?
Wow, that edit is something. Post something inflammatory that will garner engagement, then turn it into your own "I'm hiring" post once it's on the front page.

Quality hack.

0x0000000··on Technical debt vs. technical assets: What's the difference?
You can't just be in your codebase and start doin' technical debt like that. 1a. Technical debt is when you... 1b. Okay, wait. Technical debt is when you write code but, like, the kind of code that you know Future You is gonna hate. 1c. Let me try this again.

1c-a. It's when you're coding and you think, "I'll fix this later," but then later turns into never. And now there’s spaghetti code in a project that was supposed to be a sleek pipeline.

1c-b. Like, imagine you're about to refactor something, but you go, "You know what? The deadline's tight, so I’m just gonna... not." That’s technical debt.

1c-b(1). If you're writing code and you think, "Wow, I hope no one sees this commit message," congratulations, you’ve accrued technical debt.

1c-b(2). It’s like leaving a TODO comment, except the TODO becomes, “Oops, it’s been in production for three years.”

1c-b(2)-a. You can write a clever workaround here, but the workaround has to work around the workaround of the workaround from three sprints ago.

1c-b(2)-b. Also, don't forget to include an inline comment that says, "This should be fine for now," which is developer code for “This is the next intern’s problem.”

1c-b(2)-b(i). Fun fact: the "for now" phase lasts forever, and the fix will never be fine.

1c-b(3). Seriously though. Technical debt is when your code does the thing but not in the way anyone would ever want it to. And if your app suddenly catches fire during peak traffic, that’s just the interest being collected.

    Do not do technical debt, please.
0x0000000··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
> service providers who are willing host/facilitate illegal activities

At least for NFL pirate streams, it seems they tend to use "burner" tenants from Azure and AWS. Of course they get shut down, but how hard is it to spin up another one?

0x0000000··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
> And they end up repeating slots of content in all the rows in their UI, so I end up seeing the same suggestions everywhere rather than much that's new

All of the streaming services do this and I hate it. Netflix is the worst of the bunch, in my experience. I already scrolled past a movie, I don't want to watch it, don't show it to me six more times.

Imagine walking through a Blockbuster where every aisle was the same movies over and over again.

0x0000000··on Wonder is acquiring Grubhub
How were they selling a dollar for 80 cents? The actual food is more expensive on grubhub than ordering through the restaurant, and then there are multiple fees on top of that.
0x0000000··on My Homelab Setup
> What's the point of having a custom domain name if you're just going to use a dynamic IP address?

Registering DHCP leases in the DNS, maybe? There's nothing contradictory between a custom domain and dynamic addresses.

0x0000000··on My Homelab Setup
This might be the inspiration I need to write up my homelab. I think it's otherwise suitable for /r/cablegore
0x0000000··on Docusaurus – Build optimized websites quickly, focus on your content
I tried migrating our markdown docs-as-code to use Docusaurus, we have somewhere around several hundred pages, and the build times seemed very long (5-10 minutes) compared to a simple bespoke python-based static site generator. Is that common in people's experience with docusaurus or perhaps there was an opportunity for optimizing or making it more efficient?
0x0000000··on The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
Ted Kaczynski didn't bomb the federal government though.

I'd also be curious about a citation for his motivation being the MK Ultra experiments, it's news to me that he ever explicitly called those as a motive.

0x0000000··on The New Internet
The new internet, an overlay network on top of the existing internet. Cool?
0x0000000··on Spudguns: Potato Cannon Guide
> This is also why I prefer pneumatic cannons to combustion

Strange, since combustion based cannons tend to reach about 30 to 40 psi at most, while pneumatic easily can reach 100 psi.

0x0000000··on Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider
The four square sheet? Yes they still do it because it's how they manipulate buyers. It's not random, it's very intentional.
0x0000000··on FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
> If someone steals my card, and uses it to pay for Netflix, how will I log in and cancel?

You dispute the charge, just like any other unauthorized transaction. That's quite different than changing your card number under their feet, and will be received as such by Netflix.

0x0000000··on FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
It's only not in your favor if you changed your card to cancel Netflix specifically, in which case you should've just logged in and canceled.
0x0000000··on Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall
YouTube Music was better when it was Google Play Music, before they tried being a Spotify clone.
0x0000000··on Show HN: My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters
This was less than a month ago: 85,000 homes without power in one metro area, many of them for 2 or 3 full days.

https://www.timesunion.com/weather/article/capital-region-ad...

Most of the US Northeast is at risk of major power outages during strong storms, especially early/late nor'easters which bring ice and heavy wet snow.

I guess you could say the US is not a first world country if you want to throw shade, but I'm not buying it.

0x0000000··on Led Zeppelin had an electric fireplace in their plane (2018)
So a space heater, not a fireplace.
0x0000000··on The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)
> If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks.

That's crazy, I wouldn't think anyone would first and foremost associate 3M with floppies instead of adhesives, even those with a few grays like myself.

They make post-its for chrissake, and we're gonna pretend they're most known for floppies?

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