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cripblip··on MSFT needs so much power to train that it's considering small nuclear reactors
Thanks! I knew someone would have the details. Are there alternatives you think would work in a distributed model like this that address these concerns ?
cripblip··on MSFT needs so much power to train that it's considering small nuclear reactors
Always wondered why having the military running submarine units for commercial power has not happened. They have the experience of running safely in more challenging conditions.
cripblip··on UK hobbyist stuns math world with 'amazing' new shapes
Somewhat related. Just listened to this podcast about brainstorming and ideas, mentions Einstein and gave me some good tips about idea generation in general

https://podcruncher.co/play/4MXd

cripblip··on Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
+1 the collaboration features of Google docs are so good, does not have feature parity with say MS Word, but I have not missed local apps
cripblip··on Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice
Could you expand on the Google docs comment?
cripblip··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Dude, you have to write this up!
cripblip··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
This is a wonderful project, I hope someone in the community helps you with a self service version, love the thought you have put into it and Thankyou for explaining the reasoning. You should share this in the Occupational Health community.
cripblip··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Such a fan of rotary encoders, building a hardware Sonos controller with them now
cripblip··on Ask HN: Anyone else noticing an uptick in spam on Gmail?
Definitely noticed anonymous spam via 33mail.com recently
cripblip··on Amazon owe me £53,000 and refuse to trace the funds
The lack of instrumentation for transfers like this is infuriating.

I used Transferwise for years until one day a transfer (US/UK) did not arrive. Transferwise said they sent it, HSBC said they did not receive, I was stuck in the middle and both TW and HSBC support were incredibly unhelpful. It got to the point I was looking up job functions in HSBC money transfer on linked in to try and understand the process from an engineer.

Somewhere in the ether must be show me all transfers to my bank account number with source.

Eventually the money arrived; I am no longer a TW customer.

cripblip··on Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
Would love to hear more about the work item... (and interval training with matched music is a great idea!)
cripblip··on Cash buyers make up almost a third of U.S. home purchases
Or, taking a securities backed line of credit against personal investments. Making the purchase promptly, then mortgaging afterwards
cripblip··on Google’s in-house desktop Linux
A recent debconf talk on supporting the same

https://debconf22.debconf.org/talks/11-scalable-support-for-...

cripblip··on Mark Cuban is tackling out-of-control drug prices
Sounds like it could be replaced with rsync and a cronjob?
cripblip··on New York rolling out noise law, listening tech for souped-up speedsters
Great, please detect and automatically fine unnecessary horn use too
cripblip··on Review: HP's smallest laser printer – M140w and Linux set up
As this printer was sent by hp for review. I’m really curious what their take was on the verdict
cripblip··on USPS Service Standards Maps
Could you advise how best to submit feedback ? The font on usps labels is comically small and leads to numerous package misdeliveries in my area, have tried submitting feedback, cases go dark in the middle of conversations etc
cripblip··on Beej’s Guide to C Programming [pdf]
+1000 - I used your network programming guide extensively for my Computer Networking final project in 96, invaluable, Thankyou!
cripblip··on Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
I used to drink Dr Pepper 10 instead of regular, it was almost identical, how existing full sugar soda is considered normal blows my mind . Would you drink a cup of coffee with 10+ sugars? Alas it is very difficult to find now.
cripblip··on USN AN-1 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (2018)
I look at these explorations as eliminating concepts that don’t work, bringing you closer to finding the one that does; necessary investment
cripblip··on Ask HN: Why isn’t finance a part of the core curriculum at schools?
+100 for this, I fought through bland math classes at university before using z transforms for antenna analysis in my rf course. Please please please start with the use case and then introduce the solution, for me problem, solution using tool x, theory of tool x is the way to go.
cripblip··on Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employees and visitors
Nyc, indoor dining only recently opened, this and temperature checks are one the requirements, along with 20% capacity, no groups larger than 10, table service only
cripblip··on Show HN: Wellcome – office check-in platform for employees and visitors
I can understand this feature. At my bar we have to record contact details for every guest such that they may be given to government contact tracers if a COVID case is reported. Currently this is pen and paper
cripblip··on Uber secures right to continue operating in London
Often wondered the same, in nyc the cabs offer a check in with app (Arro) which takes care of payment (pre registered cc) permitting the rider to just exit the taxi at the end of the journey. It certainly could be better, unfortunately the app devs are fairly unresponsive .. perplexed why this is not funded more
cripblip··on Trump Says He’s Approved Oracle Deal for U.S. TikTok Operations
Could you expand on this? Does the app have more surveillance/data gathering than other? Genuinely curious, feeling naive
cripblip··on Trump Says He’s Approved Oracle Deal for U.S. TikTok Operations
Starts with dance videos, Figures our your preferences pretty quickly and I have found it very educational, the short format really cuts to the chase, It has prompted me to learn new techniques in cooking, woodwork, stretching... positive overall!
cripblip··on The Nightjet: A Big Bet on Train Travelers Who Take It Slow
I’m curious which country,a broad to and from and which transport company, Thanks!
cripblip··on Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor
The target names for install are confusingly different (default vs multi-user) , check that when enabling, works really well
cripblip··on Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor
:shrug:, yeah the old fashioned way is possible too (I have to support both), systemd just gives a consistent pattern to make common tasks easy.
cripblip··on Crontab.guru – cron schedule expression editor
Define a unit and run it individually to troubleshoot vs modifying the crontab for 1 min ahead Logging in journalctl Built in jitter options to spread tasks across a window in a large fleet Ability to use the unit as a dep for other things Instrumented in systemctl list-timers Store config in user home dir (I think ) for tasks owned by a user
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