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OWazon Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use

I don't know which data center it is, some remote location of Canada, that has 100 million litres of fuel trucked up each month for it's generators. I don't think that has a long term plan behind it because 100m liters of anything is a lot, and with the price of fuel now it's definitely not a small line item.

Btw I heard this second hand a friend in the mining industry.

OWazon Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws

I've worked for startups and established industry giants and being compliant with GDPR did not stifle us in any way at all. It's really not that hard unless the business model depends on profiting off of user data. No good will come from this for the EU.

OWazon Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017

Also has an instrument panel the driver can easily see.

I’ve driven a Model 3 and its handling and overall feel was worse than a barebones Honda Civic. I’d say a Model 3 is on par with how a low end Chrysler feels to drive.

OWazon Navy SEALs reportedly killed North Korean fishermen to hide a failed mission

“The rumors are that the Navy's newest nuclear sub, the USS Jimmy Carter, has been designed for spywork, with a "special capability... to tap undersea cables and eavesdrop on the communications passing through them," according to the AP.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20070203165457/http://www.defens...

OWazon Teaching National Security Policy with AI

I find it perplexing how people are so open to just dumping personal effort onto these tools and believing the tools work accurately.

OWazon Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Erlang?

This is where I started with Erlang, learned it first then leaned Elixir. I really enjoyed working with Erlang/Elixir & OTP.

I’d agree with previous suggestions, either this book or Joe Armstrong’s.

OWazon Ask HN: What are your favo YouTube Channels?

https://www.youtube.com/@MortismalGaming

Mortismal Gaming - Video game reviewer who will review games after getting 100% Steam achievements. The reviews are typically > 20 minutes.

Primarily focuses on RPG/CRPG games but he is very thorough in each review and seems to be quite fair,no hype it's a proper balanced review. Also he has a ton of Divinity Original Sin 2 content.

OWazon Announcing GenStage

If you want to watch a video, check out Joe Armstrong (one of the creators of Erlang) talk about concurrency and Erlang[0]. There are a bunch of Erlang/Elixir videos [1] posted by Erlang Solutions on YouTube.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUPdgtUYko [1]: https://www.youtube.com/c/erlangsolutions/videos

OWazon Ask HN: Is My Career Over?

Are you a US citizen? Do you think you can pass a background check? If military and government projects don't bother you than try looking on clearancejobs.com. From what I've seen a lot of big defense contractors looking for engineers just need you to be a citizen, get a clearance and have a pulse. Smaller firms will expect you to actually be capable and you will probably do a couple things across the stack and some dev-ops too.

Have you looked at any part-time/contract work? Maybe that could keep you afloat and activey coding long enough to get a fulltime job.

Edit: this quora answer is helpful for those of us without elite algorithms skills https://www.quora.com/I-am-quite-bad-at-algorithms-but-good-...

OWazon Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (April 2016)

How much of a jerk is your boss? - of the 7 bosses I have they combine for a low score of 2. All are nice people.

How chaotic is your environment? 10 - Agile doesn't mean 6 week waterfall sprints. Unit tests aren't something you do manually and infrequently.

What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you? Everyday I stay past 6:00pm but I'm only allowed to be on the property till 6:00pm.

What are you currently doing? Waiting for an IBM source control tool to finish doing something.

What would you like to do instead? Learning Erlang & Elixir

OWazon First Impressions of a $9 CHIP Computer

Check out Neil Kolban's book on the ESP8266 [1]. I’m reading through this out-of-order just to get an idea about how the esp8266 works.

[1]:https://leanpub.com/ESP8266_ESP32

OWazon Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

Well just today I called my wife, neither my mic nor the speaker in my phone were working. I couldn't hear the phone ringing and when she picked up we couldn't communicate. She instead called me and everything started to work. I have no clue where the fault lies and it's concerning because what if I was calling 911?

OWazon Ask HN: Standing Desk Folks – What shoes do you wear?

I have a gel mat that is similar to a kitchen standing mat. I forgot what brand it was but it was less than $35 on Amazon. I stand on that without shoes and it's very comfortable. I have a National Public stool to sit on when I need to give my feet a break.

OWazon Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school

It's important that makers reach out to kids in this community to let them know it’s okay to be creative. It’s not right at all for kids to feel that they have to hide their engineering talent and keep it a secret.

OWazon Microsoft to stop producing Windows versions

I'm thinking of this as something similar to how OS X releases work. There's a way to get the distribution you need without having to start from OS X 10.0 Cheetah and upgrading all the way.

OWazon OS X 10.10.3 seems to have done something bad to wifi drivers

With Mavericks I was okay connecting to two 30 inch Dell displays. Once Yosemite came out, I would face problems with resolution on the displays switching or even better I would be forcibly logged out. So I gave up on dual monitors for a while until recently but now I face CPU usage issues.

OWazon OS X 10.10.3 seems to have done something bad to wifi drivers

I'm on 10.10.4 and am solid with wifi, but plugging into two monitors with the hdmi and thunderbolt ports runs my cpu full load. It's become extremely annoying.

OWazon Comments on the Sony Hack

From the article linked above it seems like people at Sony were exploiting the security budget, they had eight managers for three analysts: ”documents leaked after the recent attack show the company had just 11 people assigned to its information security team: ‘Three information security analysts are overseen by three managers, three directors, one executive director and one senior-vice president.’”

OWazon Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

Here you go:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SoH4dHM...

On the Google search result next to the url is a tiny dropdown arrow. You can click that arrow and select Cached.

OWazon Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform

Seeing comments like this “I'll never switch back to MS for what they've done in the past” always reminds me of this post from Hanselman http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx

OWazon Ask HN: What's the best host for a small site?

I've been using https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ for a few years now to host my RSS aggregator. NearlyFreeSpeech is a pay what you use hosting service and it is very cheap.

OWazon My Synology NAS has been hacked by ransomware calling itself Synolocker

How do you think they accessed your NAS?

OWazon Polygon sat down with one of the creators of Dwarf Fortress

I read Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress[1] to understand the game. DF is not intuitive at all and this book helped me wrap my head around DF.

[1]:http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920022565.do

OWazon Show HN: Dropu – My first iOS game

I'll check it out too. To understand SpriteKit did you rely on any learning resources besides the docs that Apple provides?

OWazon Ask HN: Which feed reader do you recommend trying?

I host my own Fever[1] service on nearlyfreespeech.net. Fever has a UI to access feeds and some apps, like Reeder on iOS, can pull from Fever accounts. I've had my Fever service running a few weeks before Google announced Reader was going away. I haven't had any problems with Fever.It costs me a total of $2 to $1 per month to host. Setting it up was very easy and the instructions are very detailed.

[1]:http://feedafever.com/

OWazon Ask HN: how to watch the World Cup online

I rely on wiziwig[1] to watch Football/Soccer streams. The quality for Flash video streams is not great but it's enough for me to know what's going on. There are additional sites mentioned on this post [2].

[1]:http://www.wiziwig.tv/

[2]: http://designzum.com/2014/06/09/best-sites-to-watch-fifa-wor...

OWazon Ask HN: What are your design hacks for better web design?

Butterick's Practical Typography[1] is free online and a really good read.

To go beyond just one book there are good posts and book recommendations on Typekit Practice[2].

[1]:http://practicaltypography.com/

[2]:http://practice.typekit.com/

OWazon OS X Yosemite

I'm with you. Helvetica Neue in the screenshots looks like placeholder text, waiting for some better typeface to be applied.

OWazon Introducing Swift

Seems like some features of the dev center are down [1] including software downloads.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/