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Chico75

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Chico75··on Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants
Price is not the only factor, paying double for energy that does not contribute to global warming and other health issues seems more reasonable.
Chico75··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
The resolution part doesn't really hold for me, celsius can have decimals to have as much precision as you need but for weather purpose, half degree precision is usually more than enough.
Chico75··on Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights
I'm curious to know what is the small concentrated cluster of flights Northwest of Dulles airport, where the flight durations seem way too high compared to the effective distance between the points.
Chico75··on Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard
> The publication is 51% owned by Le Monde diplomatique SA, a subsidiary company of Le Monde, from which it remains editorially independent.

Le Monde is owned by a French billionaire: https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/democracy-in-france-de...

Chico75··on Alexa+
Same exact thing, now we know that we have to say the full announcement the second time we trigger Alexa.
Chico75··on Serving a website from a Git repo without cloning it
Google cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
Chico75··on Why are shopping carts always broken?
I mean Aldi stores across the US have this system and they seem to be expanding not folding, I'm not sure you can pin this store issues to that specific point.

Plus once it's a generalized system and all carts require coins, it's not like you have the choice anymore.

Chico75··on Latest ChatGPT 4 System prompt (1,700 tokens)
How do we know it's not an hallucination?
Chico75··on Latest ChatGPT 4 System prompt (1,700 tokens)
I'm doubtful that this would be the real seed system prompt, it seems like a very naive implementation. You're asking chatgpt to generate text, so it does? Since it's very likely to hallucinate things, why trust that it is not hallucinating this seed system prompt?
Chico75··on Impacts of lid closure during toilet flushing
In case anyone is curious about research related to this area, you can read the short history from Karelia study to biodiversity and public health interventions (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043497/#:~:te....) research paper that looks at the health condition disparities between the Russian and Finnish border kids.
Chico75··on Cutting down AWS cost by $150k per year simply by shutting things off
The problem is always around abuse. If it becomes known that you can get a big bonus by wasting a lot of money on useless infra first and then reducing it, other people will start playing the game.

How do you reward cloud cost awareness without creating perverse incentives?

Chico75··on What's lost when we photograph life instead of experiencing it? (2016)
Take them in the moment, don't make everyone pose every 5 min.
Chico75··on Show HN: Gogit – Just enough Git (in Go) to push itself to GitHub
Nowhere does the author advocates for using its tool instead of git. Not everything is about self-promotion, sometimes it's simply knowledge sharing.
Chico75··on Lazydocker: a lazier way to manage everything Docker
You should check out portainer.io
Chico75··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)
Northwestern Mutual | Junior Devops Engineer | Milwaukee ONSITE | Full-Time

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference. Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 161 years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients.

We work in a fast-paced agile environment. We embrace out-of-box thinking, bold ideas, experimentation and the eagerness to continuously learn. We are not shy about trying new technologies and challenge our own ideas. We live by concepts of fail-fast, continuously deploy and automate everything.

To support a growing team, I am looking for an Entry Level DevOps Engineer to work with our Solutions Engineering team. You’re the right fit if you love to solve problems and are always striving to learn new things. We’re looking for self-motivated and self-driven engineers who are passionate about what they do and love technology.

As part of the Solutions Engineering team, you will work with other engineers to advance the DevOps and CI/CD practices of all software engineers at Northwestern Mutual. You work will directly lead to measurable productivity improvements for software engineers across Northwestern Mutual, either by designing, building and maintaining internal services or improving team-specific release workflows.

The position isn’t officially opened yet, but you can shoot me an email at the address listed in my profile with a reference to hacker news to be included when it does over the next week.

There are around 50 other tech positions currently opened, some of which may be open to remote roles, let me know if you would like a referral for them: https://careers.northwesternmutual.com/corporate-careers/?se...

Chico75··on Reddit comments and submissions collected by Pushshift
Maybe it's a good thing that they can't be controlled?
Chico75··on GitHub push protection is free for all public repositories
Nice move to protect public repos.

For all other private repos and internal git servers, you can assume that credentials are routinely exposed if there is no pre-receive hook checking for secrets. We experimented with all the existing tools but none of them worked well enough so we built our own. Looking back we would have saved ourselves a lot of time and effort if we went with commercial offering like GitGuardian instead.

Chico75··on ‘Godfather of AI’ says its threat is ‘more urgent’ than climate change
What are those plausible ways that AGI will end humanity? What extra powers will those systems have compared to what software engineers and companies can do that make them so dangerous?
Chico75··on DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model
I would encourage you to read the book "Accelerate" which was at the source of the DORA metrics, as it clearly advocate for a capability model, not a maturity one.
Chico75··on Byte Mini PC Powered by AMD – Get notified when available
you can also fit a Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM fan in there, which provides a good balance of ventilation to noise ratio.
Chico75··on ChatGPT Plus
and that's after the recent improvements
Chico75··on Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year
> * Play a song Thanks to their newest Amazon Music update, they managed to break this one by only allowing shuffling unless you pay extra for Amazon Music.
Chico75··on AWS and Blockchain
I'm not sure I see why or how would blockchain solve this information centralization problem better than other "classic" tools?
Chico75··on Most people don’t finish online job applications
Doesn't apply to most companies
Chico75··on Never trust a system that seems to be working
That's very subjective. It also adds a ton of new gameplay components that push factorio players to better think about how to manage their logistics which is fun for some players (not all for sure)
Chico75··on Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right
Google photos but self-hosted?
Chico75··on Show HN: Convert English to Cron Expressions
This is incredible. While there is still a decent rate of false-positives or errors, it's such a nicer user interface than the powerful yet hard-to-read cron syntax.

Any chance it could be made into a library/api?

Chico75··on Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals
Does anyone still pick up? After a few calls and cancelled rides, you quickly learn not to answer anymore if you want the car to arrive.
Chico75··on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
Why would you want to have a bot post for you? Once we have general AI available, there will be much better applications than posting for you on social networks.
Chico75··on IMGZ – Paid image sharing
It was just updated: https://gitlab.com/stavros/imgz/-/commit/7bdac35c8bc397bf829...
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