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alkzon Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage

which ereader is that?

alkzon 3D printers have ‘fingerprints,’ which could help trace guns, counterfeit goods

not a reliable method, one could just change the nozzle and/or print with different parameters

alkzon How I Reduced My DB Server Load by 80%

TL;DR guy has a scheduled job which puts load the db, removes a query which normally runs for 1.9ms instead of implementing rate limiting

alkzon Git git git git git

how about looking at what you type instead of the keyboard?

alkzon Show HN: A stop-motion video of an engine

shut up and take my money! :)

alkzon Returning to Linux, not impressed

sounds like optical audio out

alkzon Returning to Linux, not impressed

or you can use just the "apt" command to search/install/upgrade/remove packages nowadays

alkzon Returning to Linux, not impressed

What does apple do in order to help support their hardware on Linux? nothing. It's all coming from reverse engineering efforts, correct me if I'm wrong. You can't expect it to work flawlessly.

He's installing the mac mini server in order to run jenkins, redmine and backup. Why would you need a GUI for that?Fortunately he doesn't say anywhere he's going to run VMs on that 4GB ram machine.

I blame laziness. I blame not trying to understand why new programs were written instead of merging new features in old ones. Or failing to appreciate an OS that at least has a package manager which is not a third party one.

But then well, you know what they say. Unix IS user friendly, it just chooses its friends. And I like Linux like that.

alkzon Returning to Linux, not impressed

So, the author tries to run linux on apple hardware. then he goes on installing a GUI on a server, misunderstands the difference between rpm and yum, judges package managers by command length. Also mistakes GB for TB

This was a depressing read.