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late2parton Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

or things like "Datacenter bombed by Iran..."

late2parton I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

If you have 2 clocks you have none.

late2parton The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends

Here's how you fix hiring... Have them demonstrate competency.

It's really easy to screen out people when you say "Hey - login to this VM and show me how to import raw data into postgres and run a report."

Or do whatever you're going to do.

My favorite story is from a particular sean who had a candidate that said they'd been using VM for 20 years, and when he went into a document the candidate hit j 200 times to go line 200.

late2parton Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool

Saying it's baffling is not explanatory. And whilst you say a lot you have failed to cursorsily discuss mitigating effects of insurance.

late2parton Stanford to continue legacy admissions and withdraw from Cal Grants

you're missing his point. Cal Grants removes an advantage that actually functions in the real world.

late2parton Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg

rice is meant to be an affordable staple food.

Citation needed.

late2parton A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life

Solution in search of a problem...

late2parton Jury orders NSO to pay $167M for hacking WhatsApp users

The same chunk of population "should" (??) think that the Israeli ancestors killed Jesus, and that the Jews will go to hell if they don't accept Jesus as their savior - so - people are weird.

late2parton Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with tools

The conversation you were looking for could not be found.

late2parton Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone

Who is the dictator here? Obviously the states that run these schools will raise taxes to fund the state schools, no?

late2parton Dust from car brakes more harmful than exhaust, study finds

"boot the grime of this world in the crotch, dear!"

late2parton Amazon Will Spend Nearly a Year of AWS Revenue on AI Investments

Were you one of the many overemployed people that also worked at AWS?

late2parton The consensus on Havana Syndrome is cracking

There's no chance this is disinformation muddying the online argument to prevent people from intelligently concluding that this is a directed energy weapon, of course.

late2parton Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?

Pretending to be a whale doesn't seem like a sound principle to me. Subs don't follow the migratory paths of whales, as far as I know. Now, we just look for whales that are out of place and send a drone out to check.

Maybe you're right though, that overwhelming the signal pattern, similar to how SDI/Star Wars was deemed moot.

late2parton Launch HN: Double (YC W24) – Index Investing with 0% Expense Ratios

What value does "Ummm" provide in your response?

late2parton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

Who hurt you?

late2parton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

If they don't accept you, as a member of the HN community, I want you to do know, that as a Canadian, we accept you.

late2parton I was asked to leave an event for female founders because I had my baby with me

Yes. Make any mistakes you want - just apologize or go to rehab, all is well.

late2parton MongoDB takes a swing at PostgreSQL after claiming wins against rival

I heard MongoDB is webscale, yeah?

late2parton City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack

"against the property"

You probably think identity theft is a customer's problem, not the bank too.

Just because the narrative calls it something, doesn't make it right.

It's silly for a nation-state to sue cash, it should never have been considered reasonable.

late2parton Intel sells stake in chip designer Arm Holdings

outsource core competencies, sell good investments, deliver flawed projects, ride the hype that your CEO once was involved in a historical CPU.

Maybe it's time to buy puts on INTC.

late2parton CrowdStrike CEO apologizes for tech outage

You edited your post, which originally said CloudStrike. You make very bold criticisms for who gets the name of the company wrong.

late2parton CrowdStrike CEO apologizes for tech outage

You don't know George at all.

late2parton CrowdStrike CEO apologizes for tech outage

Who is CloudStrike?

late2parton CrowdStrike debacle provides road map of American vulnerabilities to adversaries

I know a BSD. Half of the things you wrote above are wrong.

late2parton Hope without optimism – transcription of a talk by Dave Snowden (2022)

From scratch? Assembly scratch or transistor scratch?

Do you sell your art by the inch or the hour?

late2parton Hope without optimism – transcription of a talk by Dave Snowden (2022)

I have no idea what TFA means.

late2parton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)

It's Crypto all the way down!

late2parton VMware outsourcing their support

How do you know this is their view? I don't have any strong opinion or evidence to argue, but I'm curious if this is conjecture or inference or actual knowledge?

late2parton VMware outsourcing their support

5 Years ago VMWare support was, in my opinion, absolutely gutter.

Calling in for any questions was met with a support tech who was actively hostile and tried their best to find some way to disqualify our ability to get support. The first trick was always Hardware Compatibility List ("HCL") followed by interrogating us about software versions. Before I get the cries of pity about all the dumb users who waste their time by not upgrading, we probably opened support cases twice weekly - and the same verification interrogation happened.

We'd routinely find situations where the stated support for SANs wasn't what it said, etc.

I'd have said it could not get worse, but reading what Broadcom is doing, I am convinced otherwise.

Anyone using VMWare for business critical things is likely in for both a huge pocket book hit and an even larger support headache.