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nkvoll··on I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated
I have these, which has the feature-combination you asked for: https://www.bodet-time.com/products/clocks/metal-analogue-cl...

My main gripe with them is that they reset at midnight (plus every now and then), and take 5 minutes to adjust themselves.

Unfortunately I’ve caught them a few times just showing a seemingly arbitrary time as well. This has always corrected itself after a few hours, but still..

It’s very nice looking clocks, but the reliability is just too low for my liking, as I don’t feel confident enough just looking at them that they currently show the exact actual time.

nkvoll··on Microsoft leak reveals new Windows 10 Workstation edition for power users
Isn't BitLocker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLocker) how Windows supports full disk encryption by default (shipped with Vista and later)?

From an end-user perspective it seems to behave very transparent as well. In what way does it come up short?

nkvoll··on Is the GPL Really Declining?
Same experience in both Wayland and X11. Intel built-in graphics, i915 driver.
nkvoll··on Is the GPL Really Declining?
FWIW, HiDPI support does not work on Linux either. All icons, color palette, custom cursors are about half the size they should be on my 4k monitor.

Scrolling is pretty choppy and it doesn't support smooth/inertial scrolling.

So 3/5 of his listed issues exist on the Linux version.

nkvoll··on Kubernetes 1.3 released
Not to get into a discussion regarding what constitutes a "Release" for any specific project, whether it's tagging, pushing, announcing[0], updating documentation, creating release notes, publish a release blog post and so on.

A final build of 1.3 was tagged with an accompanying changelog and announcement post. I found it weird that it had no more ceremony, nor any prior submission on hn, and as it had been announced through the kubernetes-announce mailing list for 17 hours, I figured its existence would be interesting to the community, so I submitted it in good faith.

In any case, kudos to everybody working on it and congratulations on the release, whether it's this week or the next.

[0]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-announce/...

nkvoll··on Scala on LLVM
While interesting in and of it self, it seems to have seen no changes since mid-2013, looking at its GitHub repository (https://github.com/greedy/scala)

    > This branch is 211 commits ahead, 10086 commits behind scala:2.12.x.
Is there any new context / development that makes this extra interesting right now?
nkvoll··on Ask HN: Are top developers just guessing?
> if you find something on SO that does exactly what you need then yes, just paste it.

I think you should be very careful about doing this without an explicitly stated license with reasonable proof of author copyright for the code snippet. It's one of the things that can easily compromise the legal security of a codebase.

nkvoll··on 3D Printer Shootout – $600 Printrbot vs. $20,000 UPrint SE Plus
So I just took the coffee cup STL and loaded into the latest Cura myself, rotated in 90 degrees so it was standing upright. Without changing anything else, I ended up getting the layer changes on a few difference places over the print (I'm seeing this just by analyzing the G-Code using http://gcode.ws), depending on the layer height. It starts to the right of the handle and after a while seems to sort-of stabilize almost on the opposite side of the handle and on the right side of the actual handle, before the handle separates from the cup body.

All in all, it will likely have come out decent, but certainly not under the handle as you have. This I guess is because Cura will start the new layer close to where it finishes it's previous layer by default. In other words: it depends on infill percent/pattern and model location on the build platform.

I figure this is because you've added support. This causes the print head to get a "closest" start of the new layer exactly under the handle (because that's where the support material are). So going as far as calling it "lucky", no. The support placement actually helps Cura put the Z-scars in a good place on this model. On another model, it might be the exact opposite.

(PS: I use Cura for all my slicing and I like it a lot -- but I don't feel like the software actually gives me much control about the Z-scar placement)

nkvoll··on 3D Printer Shootout – $600 Printrbot vs. $20,000 UPrint SE Plus
It certainly raises some good questions, and the Printrbot is a great machine at the price point (I have a Printrbot Simple RepRap clone myself). His looks pretty well calibrated as I've seen a lot of Z-wobbling artefacts on the prints from several Printrbot (Simple Makers, not necessarily the metal one).

Worth nothing is that things like the Z-scar being on the side of the cup instead of under the handle is something that's decided by the slicer (the software that translates the 3d model into printer commands).

Different open source slicers that are regularly used produce different locations for these scars -- and I'm not sure if it's actually possible to position/hint this Z-scar manually in any of them. They often do try to be "smart" about it, but the end result may vary.

nkvoll··on Simplifying the EC2 Reserved Instance Model
What you're saying is not really correct.

You cannot just "buy a second 2xlarge" and then recombine them into a 4xlarge. The 2xlarge reservations and pay attention here need to match on their purchase date and hour. I.e they have to be bought within the same clock hour on the same day.

If you reserved a 2xlarge at 2014-12-01T22:59:59Z, you couldn't even combine it with one bought at 2014-12-01T23:00:01Z. Yes Amazon is that picky about it. While you might be able to muscle that through a sales contact, it's not even available to customers on business level support, so anything more than a day apart and you're likely out of luck in any case.

(See: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-modify..., particularly bullet point #6)

nkvoll··on Microsoft Azure Outage
I've never ever received a message from AWS when they've had outages that have been affected us significantly. On the contrary, there's been multiple cases where we've experienced issues, contacted them and it's taken a few hours before they realize they're actually having infrastructure problems. Many of these don't even get an entry on their service status pages. So there's still a lot of room for improvement on AWS's side of things as well.
nkvoll··on Show HN: 2048 in Swift
This likely has a lot to do with how they do detection.

Swift uses the .swift extension, which is pretty unique, so detection is as simple as checking for the file extension with a very low risk of a bad classification.

Some of the older, more popular languages uses more common file-suffixes, which may be shared between multiple programming languages, which has a negative impact on classification accuracy.

nkvoll··on Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
Seems like it was the power-button looking icon found in the upper left part of the extension dropdown menu when on an actual page.

I expected this to be a part of the extension settings / options, but ah well.

nkvoll··on Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one
I've been clicking around its user interface for a few minutes now, but I can't figure out how to do this..

Is it adding "whitelist *" somewhere or something similar?

nkvoll··on Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
How I'm reading this, both up-front reservation fees and the hourly rates are lower for a lot of instance types.

For example:

Now: m3.xlarge $1266 $0.105 per Hour $1922 $0.086 per Hour

April 1st: m3.xlarge $886 $0.074 per Hour $1345 $0.06 per Hour

It sounds weird if Amazon is actually going to keep charging the higher rate to existing customers, as they've already paid the higher reservation fee as well.

nkvoll··on Mt. Gox to Hold News Conference
"Bitcoin Exchange Had $63.6 billion in Outstanding Debt"

.. and ..

"...that Mt. Gox had outstanding debt of about ¥6.5 billion ($63.6 million)"

... right under.

These numbers are off by a factor of 1000, so which one is it? It's pretty horrible journalism and/or editing to get simple things like that wrong and expect me to pay them for the privilege of reading the remaining of the article I now I don't really trust the numbers in.

nkvoll··on LXC 1.0 Released
Anyone know if it will make it into Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
nkvoll··on Why we love Scala at Coursera
No, they haven't released any new information about them yet.
nkvoll··on Show Your Support For Unity3D Editor On Linux
Ouch. App stores often take 30%, which means that only 52.5% (0.7*0.75) of what the user pays goes to the developer. That is quite a significant number.
nkvoll··on Why Do FM Frequencies End in an Odd Decimal?
We had a radio in our old Chrysler Voyager that required a pretty insane secret code being entered (turning it off and on again 5 times in a row or something like that was part of it) in order to enable to tune to regular EU frequencies...
nkvoll··on No more time limits on Spotify
Norway pays around $16.09 monthly and still has around the same amount of songs that are unavailable as well. It's getting better -- a year or so ago around 7-8% of the top 100 everywhere were unavailable to us. Still cost the same.

Same story with Netflix. Costs more here than in the US, but the content is waaay worse. It's often 2-3 years behind the original airing of the episodes in US, so it's not in any way useful to stay current.

nkvoll··on Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?
Starting an Elasticsearch server is easy. Maintaining and scaling a production cluster is hard, but not optional. http://www.found.no/
nkvoll··on Introduction To ElasticSearch
Looks interesting, especially the "lessons learned"-section.

However, the latest version (as of writing this) is Elasticsearch 0.90.7, released November 13, not 0.90.5 as stated in the article, which I guess relates to lessons learned, part 3: "TRY to keep up with releases".

There is a lot of stuff happening right now with Elasticsearch as they're nearing a release of 1.0 (which I'm told we're to expect in H1 2014), and a lot of fixes/features are still showing up in new 0.90.x point releases :)

nkvoll··on Microsoft ‘Mortally Wounds’ SHA-1
I might have missed the obvious, but what are the currently suggested alternatives to SHA1?
nkvoll··on Show HN: Takipi log links - view live data directly from your log files
Interesting! But does this mean that for every log line, the current full stack is sent to Takipi? Doesn't this wreak havoc on performance?
nkvoll··on Linode Longview
Without custom metrics (for example, via StatsD), I'm unable to use Longview to collect these "Meaningful metrics". It may provide me with an overview of what a system does as a whole, but I definitely need custom events from my applications to show up in the same graphs for it to be useful.
nkvoll··on Tesla Clashes With Car Dealers
It's the agreement between a manufacturer and a retailer about the price of a product, not an agreement between multiple retailers.
nkvoll··on How I got robbed of 34 btc on Mt.Gox today
At the current exchange rate, his loss is now down to $2100...
nkvoll··on Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal
Are you going to type that string into your terminal manually, or are you just copy/pasting that line from a web page, still leaving yourself open to this issue?

I find it hard to believe anyone will be reading that line on a web page, then typing it out correctly in their own terminal instead of just saying, "ok that line looks fine copy paste"

nkvoll··on Announcing AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Node.js
Hmm... this sounds vaguely familiar to something I might have ran into.. Do you happen to have an url to a bug report for this?
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