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bionsystem··on Cloudflare Termination Video: A Master Class in How Not to Terminate Someone
She had 3 months of training, only 1 month of actual sales with the december holidays in the middle, what is it exactly that you don't understand ?
bionsystem··on Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
I'm scared about the skill level of some of my coworkers. They are 30+ yo and I hear them debating about whether or not docker needs vt-d activated, if .msi packages can be customized, if terraform is useful for deploying on a single esxi.... All things that can be foind out with 1s of googling they will talk about it for 5 to 15min in meetings (formal or not) and the conclusion is always "we will have to test this".
bionsystem··on Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company
I'd say the whole market gives a premium to companies with R&D spend, that's part of the reason why they have higher valuation metrics (alongside growth, margins and other quant factors). That is, when they are not stupidly burning it or giving it away as stock compensation.
bionsystem··on Six lesser-known but seriously useful Linux commands
On a side note, there is a link on the right with an OpenShift tutorial, which has to have one of the worst UI I've seen lately. It's like they can't fit on a page a documentation, a terminal and a "Next" button, they have to make you scroll 3 different areas of the pages and never display everything at once, on 1080p...
bionsystem··on X Announces Peer-to-Peer Payment Service Will Launch in 2024
Good one. To be honest I wish I could still short them. I absolutely see no value in anything they've done so far.
bionsystem··on MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs
Yes it's a fork of OpenSolaris. Companies are running clouds with it, with containers of different clients running next to each other on bare metal (no VM to re-isolate). If it was so easy to exploit it would have been done already wouldn't it ?
bionsystem··on Buffett once bet $1M that he could beat a group of hedge funds over 10 years
Great recap. Crazy to think that Ballmer is like what, 100x richer than Nadella ?
bionsystem··on Buffett once bet $1M that he could beat a group of hedge funds over 10 years
"hedged fund" implies that the fund itself is hedged. It is the original and correct term (hence the link).

"hedge fund" implies that the fund IS a hedge (presumably against other assets one might own). Except that in and of itself the fund cannot hedge you without knowing what you own.

Nowadays, everything is called a "hedge fund" incorrectly - they should be called "hedged fund" as per the original term. They provide diversification and hopefully some return above CPI, or some well-defined risk-adjusted return.

By the way, "hedging against volatility" doesn't mean much. Most of those funds are short volatility.

bionsystem··on Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)
I love the idea. Will try some of it this week. Is there plans to have a linux offline client too ? (I use both linux and windows).
bionsystem··on Buffett once bet $1M that he could beat a group of hedge funds over 10 years
Absolutely. The real original term was "hedged fund" and not "hedge fund". I can only feel the pain of the guy [0] who invented the term, when he saw that his entire industry dumbed it down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Winslow_Jones

bionsystem··on MotorOS: a Rust-first operating system for x64 VMs
Idk if it's "the Unix family". Clouds are running with SmartOS for example with containers running on bare metal and I've not heard of security issues with this model.
bionsystem··on Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet
Wow, not even sure how to answer to that, but insider trading is illegal. So you either implying that they are all crooks, or that they could do that if they wanted but in the latter case that doesn't answer the question of how they make their money.
bionsystem··on C# is programming language of the year 2023
Top 3 is C#, Scratch and Fortran according to this article ? What kind of ranking is that ?

I think ranking programming languages is dubious in general but this goes to another level.

bionsystem··on Ask HN: Any felons successfully found IT work post-release?
That's not what he means, or maybe he does but I didn't see it that way. A cop or a former field military lives in violence day in and day out. Sometimes they even try to cope with substance abuse. Imagine getting in an argument with somebody like that ; I've been there, thankfully he was family and I don't think could hurt me but still, I've been thinking about that for weeks and lost a decent amount of sleep.

It's unfortunately the case with tough district/city people with criminal record. Once you live in violence for more than a couple weeks, and have to assume physical threat and retaliate, I'm pretty sure it changes you somewhat fundamentally, and unfortunately those people rarely have the proper support to adjust to civil duties.

bionsystem··on Show HN: Cassette, a Personal Programming Language
I think 7zip uses 7z almost everywhere by default ?
bionsystem··on Show HN: Spindle, a cross between Wordle and a Rubik's Cube made in PHP
I get it now. If you have a word like "CAT" you click on the C and the T ; because TAC is also a word it can "spin" and write TAC instead.

By rearranging existing words on the grid you can map new words including the "target" word. It's actually pretty hard I find...

bionsystem··on Schumpeter on Strategy (2019)
Depending on the country this can be highly risky. In France accountants are very conservative as to what can pass as expenses.
bionsystem··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
set tabstop=2

set softtabstop=2

set shiftwidth=2

set expandtab

syntax on

set bg=dark

optionally :

set autoindent

on wsl :

set t_u7=

(no value ; almost pulled my hair finding this one out)

bionsystem··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
Again I'm not a dev but :

- for ansible on reasonably large projects (a dozen of roles) it was never a problem ; you have to understand how the project has been structured and be able to use grep and find though

- when I was playing around with os161 I don't remember it being an issue. Although for this particular case I did use the cscope vim plugin which is helpful to navigate through the codebase (there are equivalents for various languages). Not sure if os161 would qualify as "large codebase" but it's a bunch of files in a bunch of folders.

bionsystem··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
Yes I used emacs at school 15 years ago, and I agree that it was great for development ; with OCaml at the time (and also C with gdb integration, and 68k assembly later on) we shared a few tips with other students and the workflow was convenient for dev.

But vim is ubiquitous which is a huge plus when you are like me always connected remotely on a different machine. Once I learned a few shortcuts I never went back (and never dug into the tool itself actually, I can't even run a macro ; I'm still faster than most people I know with an IDE).

The only thing I was impressed with is I think phpstorm, watching a laravel dev crafting an SQL query. If I ever get serious about developping I would look into this kind of things (not just for SQL but also framework and module functions), especially if I can get vim movers, and a screen that isn't bloated. VSCode displays like 15 things and I'm only interested in 1 of them 99% of the time for example.

bionsystem··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
Funny because I entirely agree with you, even though I do the exact opposite. Everything I write is in vim because I'm too lazy to learn an IDE which may or may not still be around in 5 years. I use 0 plugin and 6 lines of .vimrc config which I know by heart, so I don't care if I'm using it locally or remote, I can always get started in 1 minute.

I tried to install plugins but there is always something that fails somehow. Nvim distributions don't install and run out of the box for the most part, I get weird errors regarding lua or something and just give up. As for VSCode I wrote my first python project using it a couple weeks ago (I'm not a developper) and it's alright but a few things annoy me, like the integrated terminal and some things getting in my way.

At the end of the day, each of us should chose whatever we feel comfortable with. I spent maybe 2 hours in my life learning vim movers and never looked back. I don't even use tmux or anything, just open 1 or 2 terminal windows and alt+tab between them, with the occasional :split or :vsplit command.

bionsystem··on Bird, once valued at $2.5B, just filed for bankruptcy
I'm so glad Paris banned them, it was a mess and very dangerous.
bionsystem··on Bird, once valued at $2.5B, just filed for bankruptcy
It has nothing to do with COVID. The stock was trading at $250 a share in october 2021, and started to drop afterwards, way after vaccines and restrictions in US/EU. It's just some lame excuse like inflation last year, rates now, and whatever is going to hit the news tomorrow.
bionsystem··on The music player you wish you had in the early 2000s
>> lasts a full day on a charge

> The iPod Classic could do 36 hours of playback so I wonder why this can only manage 24 hours.

It says a full day, not 24 hours (so probably 8-12 hours).

I had an archos with 80Gb mechanical hdd in early/mid 2000s that I believe lasted more than that. Sadly it died (went into a washing machine) with a lot of my favorite music inside it, including some dj sets that I can't seem to find anymore (not sure of who played and what year...). It was an amazing piece of hardware, better than (unmodified) ipod of 8Gb at the time.

bionsystem··on Why Amazon Has No Profits (2014)
I was thinking the same thing and expected that he starts to talk about how Jenny McNiggle has helped him tremendously with investing his money over the past few month and how she is just a master in this tough market.
bionsystem··on Goodbye, clean code (2020)
On another note, props for the writer to :

- actually write a story relevant to the lesson learned, and not make up some fable that takes 1/3 of the article before even starting to make a point - not have any sort of popups asking me to subscribe or login - not have any sort of annoying javascript animation that gets in the way of reading the article

it's rare enough to be noted.

bionsystem··on Show HN: ChatCBT – AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapist for Obsidian
Yes it pops on top left ; I don't have a github account and there is nothing on the server log though (just my manual curl). It's like obsidian doesn't even try. The plugin is running too.
bionsystem··on Show HN: ChatCBT – AI-powered cognitive behavioral therapist for Obsidian
I can't make it work through the plugin, I get an "Invalid initialization vector" error which seems like an node issue ; the ollama server is up and running and I can curl it and prompt it through the cli, no problem.
bionsystem··on RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
What about hellosystem ? Ravyn focuses more on compatibility with MacOS I guess ?
bionsystem··on The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster
I have no idea. I guess Palestinians need something like the next Arafat, who actually commits to a 2-states solution. Or whatever leading group that is non-terrorist and that Israël feels safe negotiating with (there are a few). I feel that would be the best solution for most people involved.

That is, if and when Hamas is eradicated, which is a big if. A war with Iran isn't out of the question. Thing is Hamas represents like 35% of votes ? It's both a lot and very little. Maybe 10% of those 35% would actually be ok to take an assault weapon and resist. Meaning the vast majority would probably be ok to negotiate even a mediocre deal but owning their land and borders ? Can we even make a forecast like this ?

Edit : Bottom line, Palestinians will obviously and sadly be in a terrible position to negotiate, if and when that happens...

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