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humantorsoon Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network

You usually don't sign peace treaties with allies?

humantorsoon Cut the cutesy errors

Right? So off the mark, I don't think they were near it to begin with.

humantorsoon The inventor of ibuprofen tested the drug on his own hangover

It's not just ulcers, you can get serious liver damage from combining alcohol and ibuprofen:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7921853/#:~:tex....

humantorsoon Action Plan for a New CTO

Good read. As someone part of a large of org, some these are spot on.

humantorsoon You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it

Yes! the fact you are asking this belies your understanding of the cloud.

humantorsoon AirPods don't “just work”

Second this, Samsung Galaxy Buds just work. They fit comfortably and imo look good.

humantorsoon PowerShell Inventor Jeffrey Snover Interview

I find it quiet funny there are a bunch of unix sysadmins in here talking about how PS isn't great, but admit to only touching it "sometimes" for some minor use case. Well, no shit. I now do cloud/unix/windows dev and formerly used to admin both types and use both bash and PS and have to say I like PS better, only because the community around it is less toxic and does not gatekeep. From actual REPL language POV though, PS serves its purpose quiet well and I look forward to where it takes us in the future.

humantorsoon HashiCorp – S1

Im gonna take this moment to plug cdktf: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

It's something I have been playing with recently and oh boy the possibilities here are really exciting.

humantorsoon Vscode.dev

If you want to run you own version of this - try this https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/code-server, its very easy to configure. linuxserver has created code-server - which is vscode running in container. I have been running it in my personal network for nearly a year now. It great because it lets you code from any device. Sometimes I use this to quickly script out things on my ipad and then execute whatever script I have created using Terminus.

humantorsoon Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand

Do you use any cloud storage service?

humantorsoon Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors

I'll wait for the Linus benchmarks/comparisons.

humantorsoon It's virtually impossible to read old iMessages and they take up tons of storage

Google has this already - check out Messages by google. Behaves the same as iMessage

humantorsoon City pays $350k after suing “hackers” for opening Dropbox link it sent them

What a waste of taxpayer money.

humantorsoon First of its kind study pits psilocybin against a common antidepressant

Are opioids psychoactive?

humantorsoon How to implement a hash table in C

This is the worst attitude I have this on HN. Look out people - its the internet's gatekeeper - making sure only legitimate/fully thought out things are published to the internet. By golly, we wouldn't want to waste bits and bytes on just random things being available on the internet.

humantorsoon CRDTs are the future

Hey are you me? Cause this sounds like me.

humantorsoon Is Spotify Killing the Top 40?

Ha thats a sweeping statement mate.....No one has anything in common?

humantorsoon Is the Age-Old Quest for a Baldness Cure Reaching Its End?

I dont think that is true. Most men look okay bald - better than the alternative in any case.