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forcemajeure··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
This is amazing, well done! It would be a great travel piece
forcemajeure··on Why jalapeño peppers are less spicy (2023)
Probably a Lady Finger banana, they're great
forcemajeure··on Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
Maybe the air-conditioning is drying out your sinus?
forcemajeure··on Resigning from the AMP Advisory Committee
Not true in Australia
forcemajeure··on PfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package

  "you either have a commit bit (enabling you to commit code to FreeBSD's repositories) or you don't. It's hard to find code reviews, and there generally isn't a fixed process ensuring that vitally important code gets reviewed prior to inclusion"
Doesn't sound very professional!
forcemajeure··on Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
Oracle cloud is part of the HN bubble?

From what I gather AWS also offers AMD and ARM-based instances.

I don't see how it benefits the cloud providers not to offer these choices. No one benefits from a monopoly and they want to drive the cost of their services down.

forcemajeure··on Time for a WTF MySQL Moment
Fear the unknown unknowns!
forcemajeure··on Quarkus 1.8.1 – Kubernetes native Java framework
When both are running on the JVM, there still appears to be a significant performance difference, so it should be interesting to compare after the port...

https://github.com/rmh78/quarkus-performance

forcemajeure··on Computer science professor Christian Grothoff testifies in Assange hearing
I love this article and I think about it every time I see Assange in the news.

Ignoring whatever you think of his actions and the political ramifications, it paints a vivid picture of a deeply flawed human.

forcemajeure··on Quora goes permanently remote-first
Sounds like a retirement village!
forcemajeure··on Is it worth supporting Linux on my product?
Look at the platform demographics and the target audience. For example if you're targeting developers, the market share increases significantly!
forcemajeure··on Ghosting Assange
This article really informed my opinion on Assange. No matter what you think about the public benefit of his actions, he's clearly deeply flawed in some regards.
forcemajeure··on Ways to Tweak Slow SQL Queries
AFAIK it's also proportional to the number of rows with data in the indexed columns. Inserting a row with a NULL in the indexed column does not cause an update to the index (at least experimentally it doesn't seem to contribute to index size on SQL Server).

I imagine this is/was a simple optimization for DBMS to implement, but I would love to be corrected otherwise...

forcemajeure··on A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”
I like this honesty and transparency, employers such as Microsoft encouraging it's employees to act in this way is a good thing.

Shutting down discussion behind lawyers and bland public statements should be discouraged.

forcemajeure··on How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
Apparently you can use 'guys' now instead
forcemajeure··on Show HN: CattlePi automated setup and updates for Raspberry Pi(s)
Could be evolved into an open source competitor to resin.io
forcemajeure··on Sol – a sunny little virtual machine (2012)
Rasmus quoted an exciting project... I wonder what that became
forcemajeure··on Free SSL on Github Pages with a custom domain: Part 2 – Let's Encrypt
Netlify is designed for hosting so has richer functionality.

https://www.netlify.com/github-pages-vs-netlify/

forcemajeure··on Does wearing glasses weaken your eyesight? (2014)
The best antidote to an anecdote is one from the opposite angle. At least it starts me thinking who I should believe (if anyone) and why.
forcemajeure··on Sonos: users must accept new privacy policy or devices may “cease to function”
Any company that isn't collecting data on which features are being used is missing an opportunity
forcemajeure··on I Challenge You to Debug These 7 Lines of Code Under 9 Minutes
Worth bearing in mind that if you develop and ship software to third parties, you're going to want a lot of debug statements in the logs, so don't omit them completely!