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brabarossaon Good Retry, Bad Retry

Strange architecture. They clearly have a queue, but instead of checking previous request, they create a new one. It's like they managed to get the worst of pub/sub and task queue.

brabarossaon Milk watcher

It's still useful if buying raw milk is cheaper then getting pasteurized one from the store.

brabarossaon Milk watcher

Yep, used a stainless steel one. Works great. I'm from Russia.

brabarossaon Ask HN: How to do simple heartbeat monitoring?

Fitbit Sense 2 is pretty dumb for a smart watch, but Polar H10 should be more accurate.

brabarossaon Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph

What does that mean? Are you using cash? Are you copying bank transaction history to your git?

brabarossaon The Lost Worlds of Telnet (2019)

Professionally 'B&W' is used to describe two-color image, and 'grayscale' to what colloquially known as 'B&W'.

brabarossaon Go Enums Suck

>> Anywhere that accepts an Operation Enum type will just as happily accept an int.

>Well, this is simply not true.

As comment above [1] pointed out `printOperation(2)` is still valid.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39565640

brabarossaon The Razor Edge Book of Sharpening (1985) [pdf]

Or you can buy a jig like Spyderco Sharpmaker and have a razor-sharp edge in 5 minutes.

brabarossaon Photographer showcases the power of iPhone 15 pro max

Photos just show that it's capable of long exposure.

brabarossaon Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

The theory is that 'baking" it could reflow a bad solder joint and fix it. A popular fix of last resort.

brabarossaon Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR

It's called Hacktoberfest.

brabarossaon For many home-schoolers, parents are no longer doing the teaching

>trying to convince children that they’re a different gender

What a ridiculous thing to say. Nobody does that.

brabarossaon My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted (2022)

Hey, I'm looking for remote work. Lets talk? Email in the profile.

brabarossaon Why champagne has stable “bubble chains” and other carbonated drinks do not

Something like this probably https://sc04.alicdn.com/kf/H63972abed7d541768499964da4142782...

brabarossaon Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Yuri Kondratyuk - Soviet engineer and mathematician, who developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous. In 1927 he built a 13,000 ton wooden grain elevator without a single nail. The lack of nails in the structure was used as evidence that he had planned it to collapse. Convicted of "anti-Soviet activity", Kondratyuk was sentenced to three years in a GULag.

The building stood 60 years before burning down in middle 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Kondratyuk

brabarossaon My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (2021)

And then you can see unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and work on yourself.

Here's an example of techniques for CBT: https://positivepsychology.com/cbt-cognitive-behavioral-ther...

brabarossaon U.S. military shoots down suspected Chinese surveillance balloon

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

brabarossaon Facebook drains users' cellphone batteries intentionally says ex-employee

>But what were they actually doing?

I'm assuming the opposite of battery optimizations. Some developers prefer functionality over battery life: https://dontkillmyapp.com/

brabarossaon Ask HN: Best Layman's Book on Electricity

Here's a good reading about problems with teaching electricity: "Why Electricity is hard to understand?" http://amasci.com/miscon/whyhrd3.html

brabarossaon My mom left behind some number code

Wait till people start personalizing ChatGPT…

brabarossaon Read this post ‘unless’ you’re not a Ruby developer

>It reads like natural English

That's a problem for those who learn it as a second language and have to translate "unless" to "if not" every single time.

brabarossaon Video games made in the USSR (2020)

You're looking for fricative /ɣ/ in southern dialect. Relevant links:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B3%D1%8D%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Russian_dialects

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87...

brabarossaon Solarized

They even have instructions for Hacker News! On behalf of my tired eyes, thank you.

brabarossaon Barcelona-style “superblocks” could make cities greener and less car-centric

They are called Microdistricts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdistrict

Examples: https://imgur.com/a/lxgdEpM

brabarossaon New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29631682

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches

brabarossaon Your job was probably outsourced for the reason you suspected

Looking for one?

brabarossaon The Agony of Eros: Dating

Majority of people can't afford that kind of lifestyle.

brabarossaon Marriage Markets (and Muscularity)

Strangers Rank Their Intelligence | IQ vs First Impressions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAlI0pbMQiM

brabarossaon Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

I can recommend shrooms. First experience was groundbreaking. It allowed to see how my habits (and thoughts) are pulling me down. Mushrooms are easy to grow and not addictive.