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andyzwebon Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

Correction: SIPS is the scriptable image processing system, SIP is system integrity protection.

Those criteria seem pretty good. All those companies should be broken up and required to make certain divestitures until they no longer to-big-to-fail, oligarchical, anti-competitive etc.

andyzwebon Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?

there have been a few attempts at adding TDE to postgresql. I think the cybertec patches are probably the most notable https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/postgresql/tree/15tde...

andyzwebon Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?

UMENU https://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm

andyzwebon Common DB schema change mistakes in Postgres

it might work but keep in mind schema changes in cockroachdb very different under the hood. for one they are not transactional and run in the background https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/online-schema-chan...

andyzwebon Ask HN: Uncommon Web Languages?

P-star https://www.p-star.org/

andyzwebon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)

can we chat over email? contact is hn username at gmail.com

andyzwebon Why Postgres?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3SBgcZwtE. Good talk by a core developer

This is another presentation from a core developer: https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/optimizer.pdf

andyzwebon My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll

For me it was moving in with my fiance. I read out loud to her every night till she falls asleep.

andyzwebon The Miseducation of Maria Montessori

Can you clarify if you mean "tailored" or if you are making Taylorism into a verb "taylored"? Since it appears so close in your comment to "mass manufacturing" I'm having difficulty distinguishing the meaning.

andyzwebon Why is China smashing its tech industry?

What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

- Arthur Jensen (Network, 1976)

andyzwebon I've got a broken combine harvester – manufacturer won't give me software key

citizen/soldier/farmer the Romanitas ideal. Also kind of rolls up into the whole Cincinnatus thing.

andyzwebon macOS extensions are moving away from the kernel

I thought it might have been some kind of reference to the bless(8) command.

andyzwebon What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

Maybe not bought but we rented a house where the owner padlocked 2 bedrooms shut and said if we wanted to use them it was an extra $200 a month to use them as home offices.

andyzwebon Perseverance rover’s descent and touchdown on Mars [video]

Was that the budget for the whole thing? If that’s what it cost to put that thing up there why aren’t we doing this once a month.

andyzwebon GameStop Opened at $300+ Today

something something the market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent

andyzwebon Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data

can you provide any insight / links about what happened with the 2013 law? I remember very little and feel a little ashamed about that.

andyzwebon Neuralink Progress Update [video]

Reminds me of cyberbrain sclerosis from Ghost In The Shell.

andyzwebon Can't you just right click?

my mistake. thank you for the correction.

andyzwebon Can't you just right click?

I believe the offer is for anyone you’ve distributed the program to. So if it was Bill who shared a copy of the program with the random teenager it would fall upon Bill to provide him with the source and not you.

andyzwebon How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA

Maybe post the CEO’s email here so we can all get our data removed as well?

andyzwebon I won’t buy ebooks anymore

I had a script to de-DRM books from VitalSource. It “printed” each page one at a time to a PDF and then concatenated the individual PDFs into a single file.

andyzwebon TSMC halts new Huawei orders after US tightens restrictions

Korea just has a different mafia-style rule in the form of chaebol

andyzwebon FreeNAS and TrueNAS Are Unifying

>giant anime SAN/NAS How did you know???

andyzwebon Tape still beats SSDs and hard drives when it comes to price per byte

I'm curious for more details. Are these full-height or half-height drives?

andyzwebon Who needs democracy when you have data?

This is heavily reminiscent of Project Cybersyn, a project of the Chilean government in the early 1970's.

andyzwebon Ask HN: Simple, beginner friendly ETL / Data Engineering project ideas?

second this and also The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit

andyzwebon The US Mint lost $69M making pennies last year

$100 bills generate close to 0 profit for the United States Treasury as they are sold to the Federal Reserve Banks at manufacturing cost.

However coins are sold by the United States Treasury to the Federal Reserve Banks at face value and can generate a profit/loss based on the difference between the face value and the cost of manufacturing.