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emersonrsantos··on Why Forth Isn't Slow (1985)
Why people are speaking a lot about Forth this year? Nothing against (I love Forth), just curious.
emersonrsantos··on Qantas offers a seven-hour flight to nowhere
Being alive is bad for the environment.
emersonrsantos··on Ask HN: What's the best (basic/cheap) backup solution?
Backblaze, or Amazon Glacier with the inconvenience of having to wait some hours to restore the tape backups.
emersonrsantos··on One Year of Nushell
But Nushell is POSIX compliant?
emersonrsantos··on How to deploy a React app for free
Very nice free service list. I think it could been added a way of running node CLI’s without installation through npx instead of installing global packages.
emersonrsantos··on Pseudo-Epidemics: Why COVID-19 is guaranteed to never end
But if the results are wrong or misleading, there’s no point in trusting in them.
emersonrsantos··on Pseudo-Epidemics: Why COVID-19 is guaranteed to never end
There's no point in testing, retesting if the test isn't precise. Are there any reliable tests available? Statistics points that tests aren't reliable.

Excess deaths aren't reliable either, because it can happen independent of any new disease.

The fact that strikes me most is that people have the same flu symptoms, but no "new" symptoms different from the diseases we already know.

emersonrsantos··on Why I still use an old PowerPC Mac
George R.R. Martin uses Wordstar 4.0 on DOS to write the Game of Thrones novels, he saves his work on floppy disks. Of course, he has a second computer for email and web browsing.
emersonrsantos··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
That's not true. Journalist Allan dos Santos reports the risk of a coup d'état against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The coup is allegedly being plotted by members of Brazilian Supreme Court. That's why he's silenced.
emersonrsantos··on Brazil Bolsonaro: Facebook told to block accounts of president’s supporters
You know what’s next when they take constitutional rights from journalists and citizens.
emersonrsantos··on Dividing front end from back end is an antipattern
It's just impractical to have a team do n-web/android/iOS and a multitude of microservices, so that's why they divide them into teams. Applications and business needs are increasingly complex for enterprise applications.

The result would be better (full-stack), but there's no time to deliver features quickly by market standards.

emersonrsantos··on Ask HN: Concepts the modern tech industry falsely believes it invented?
Open Source: 1953 UNIVAC A-2 system

Computer emulation: 1964 - IBM OS/360 (IBM 1400 emulator)

NoSQL databases: 1966 - MUMPS System (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System)

Virtual memory: 1972 - IBM OS/VS1

CI/CD: 1999 Extreme Programming (XP) CruiseControl

emersonrsantos··on Ask HN: Best Escapism Books
Try Oscar Wilde, if you like victorian english high society and their affairs.
emersonrsantos··on Show HN: I built a service to help companies save on their AWS bills
Doesn’t AWS compute optimizer does the same? What’s the difference?
emersonrsantos··on Why time feels so weird in 2020
The last one.
emersonrsantos··on Why time feels so weird in 2020
As a musician, I developed a sense of time in my mind, and it expanded to everyday actions and thoughts. Am I the one that did answer the questions correctly?
emersonrsantos··on Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to Covid-19
Also, hidrohychloroquine downregulates interferon activation... too good to be true? https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article/59/1/107/55230...
emersonrsantos··on Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to Covid-19
Is this why they say nicotine may be a protective drug?

Cigarette smoking products suppress anti-viral effects of Type I interferon via phosphorylation-dependent downregulation of its receptor - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2567056/

emersonrsantos··on Hydroxychloroquine lowers Covid-19 death rate, Henry Ford Health study finds
Why is that?
emersonrsantos··on Invasive, secretive “bossware” tracking workers
Micromanagement is a bad habit of insecurity that rots leadership, it affects the company health so much. One more source of emotional distress that makes good people leave.

Accountability (AKA delivery, outcome) is the best metric for me.

emersonrsantos··on The End of OS X
Intel version is still 10.16, new ARM version is 11.0.
emersonrsantos··on The Return of the 90s Web
Serverless is the new CGI
emersonrsantos··on Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations
My brain really needed this. Thank you!
emersonrsantos··on How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants?
Do it like Amazon, have two pizza teams.
emersonrsantos··on Basics of Pneumatic Logic
There’s not much open literature around it, but one of the inventors was an engineer called Charles Barker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barker_lever

This document has some designs and more details: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21204/21204-h/21204-h.htm , chapter III.

emersonrsantos··on Basics of Pneumatic Logic
Exactly, what produced the sound was pipes (and is, in a non-electrical or electronic organ) using the same air that feed the pipes by the bellows.

It replaced mechanical track action, keyboard coupling, register switching and even had memory to ‘remember’ a register presets or register sets.

emersonrsantos··on Basics of Pneumatic Logic
I love pneumatic logic! I’ve gone to sleep many nights thinking about pneumatic logic gates, and they are still used today on pneumatic equipment powered by wind, like a lot of pipe organs in Europe made in the 1800’s where there was no electricity to turn on and off the pipes.

Here’s an example of such apparatus: https://www.woodofhuddersfield.com/uploads/1/1/2/3/11238427/...

emersonrsantos··on The Illiac IV Computer
It was the first network-available supercomputer, beating the Cray-1 by nearly 12 months.
emersonrsantos··on Show HN: Machine Learning, but in COBOL
Hahah, very clever! Now go try to run you own mainframe http://hercules-390.eu
emersonrsantos··on K9s – Manage Your Kubernetes Clusters in Style
One of the tools that I use daily (only use kubectl to apply and delete resources), and one of my favorite UX in all software: Terminal-based GUI with keystrokes for everything.

It's like Norton/Midnight commander for Kubernetes.

And i love the K9 references!

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