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catmanjan··on Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret
In my experience all usb c chargers are less reliable than barrel connectors, probably because of the microprocessors required for the handshake
catmanjan··on Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
It’s more that Australians don’t care about things that don’t actually mean anything, it’s accepted that the politburo will pass laws that are irrelevant and the general population ignores the ones that don’t matter

This has worked so far because we don’t have extremist police who apply the law to the letter- they themselves see laws as mostly suggestions

catmanjan··on SQLite may become foundational for digital progress
I’m not sure as I’ve never used it but if the writes were fast enough perhaps it wouldn’t be a problem
catmanjan··on SQLite may become foundational for digital progress
10K users isn’t much, but 10k concurrent writer’s is a different proposition - I’d be surprised if 100k users had 10k concurrent writers
catmanjan··on How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide
Those are all just CRUD with a different title
catmanjan··on Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
Tragedy of the commons, its the same reason there are big car companies but not big road companies.
catmanjan··on Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
How many story points would you allocate for this one?
catmanjan··on Ask HN: Is DBA still a good job?
Would they though? The profit margin on replacing a gearbox is pretty good, just like Dba wages
catmanjan··on Ask HN: Is DBA still a good job?
Isn't that their job? Your mechanic doesn't berate you for being a crappy driver, they get paid to fix your car when it isn't working
catmanjan··on US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves
1.6kw is a nice space heater, I look forward to warmth as a service
catmanjan··on Show HN: Job board to find venture capital jobs
I have a feeling the answer begins with M and D
catmanjan··on OpenMower – Open-source robot lawn mower [video]
RTK GPS is still too expensive for this to be affordable

I think a sickle style mower is the future of electric mowers as they use less energy per blade of grass cut

catmanjan··on Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?
All the easy problems were solved, and the hard ones don't offer a good return on investment so they are only achieved by academia/serendipity.
catmanjan··on Elon has decided not to join our board
Joining the board "the best path forward", whereas not joining was "the best".

From this we can deduce that the destination of the "the best path forward" was for him to leave the board ("the best").

catmanjan··on Alright, amigo, let's build some affordable housing
This is very surprising, in Australia I understand we have strict codes and I have never heard of it taking this long

What exactly does the electrician spend all that time doing in California?

catmanjan··on Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords
How does that reflect on the usefulness of the economy
catmanjan··on Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords
Hard pill to swallow, I know
catmanjan··on Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords
I'd say Amazon is the most "serious" of them, but only the import/export side of the business.

Apple basically just sells boutique whitegoods.

If any of these companies ceased to exist, it wouldn't inconvenience anyone other the shareholders.

catmanjan··on Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords
I think a lot of people don't consider FAANG serious business, profitable yes, but you aren't putting food on tables (other than the shareholders)
catmanjan··on Solar-powered robotic beekeeping
According to the link "They constantly monitor pests within the hive and apply non-chemical treatment where needed"
catmanjan··on Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
Yes, and given its not documented there are bugs in the underling business process which end up getting encoded into the software...
catmanjan··on I don't like computers (2016)
Computers are a tool, do you think builders like hammers?
catmanjan··on Tesla fired an employee after he posted driverless tech reviews on YouTube
Prove it? Link the repo
catmanjan··on Static torrent website with peer-to-peer queries over BitTorrent on 2M records
Can someone explain this pro: "Database size and number of records are not a problem"

How is this the case if earlier there is a "limitation of not being able to ask ONLY for pieces I'm interested in"?

catmanjan··on Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it
Wait until you hear what happens when you say you’re a doctor, electrician, carpenter, builder, mechanic…
catmanjan··on Google Docs New Feature: Pageless
I’m not convinced Googles smart knowledge engine would work in that environment, it probably relies on lots of people doing lots of searches and clicking links etc

Compared to only the searches being done by a single business and no links in documents

catmanjan··on Ask HN: Why is UI design in Unity so hard?
At the moment Unity has one size that fits no one though
catmanjan··on The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?
How many banks are there?
catmanjan··on ‘Farms are failing’ as fertilizer prices drive up cost of food
If those existed and were cheaper, that would be done
catmanjan··on Ask HN: Why is everything changing too fast?
To be fair .NET 6 does look a lot like .NET Framework (4) so really its a return to the normal.
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