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nogbit··on Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
Busting them in action wouldn't be of any worth, feeding them false or misleading information would be. Never underestimate governments and their desire to know as much as possible about their friends and enemies and feed them with information.
nogbit··on Introducing Azure DevOps
It adds some humor and unfortunately the lack of it can make HN seem like eating burnt toast at times.
nogbit··on Introducing Azure DevOps
Does the "pipelines" service support deploying to Kubernetes clusters other than AKS? If/when it does then you have a very compelling service.
nogbit··on Clayton Christensen: Half of U.S. colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years
Theres 1.4 million active duty military, that's a lot of different deployments, not all of which are stereotypical "soldier experiences".

That's like saying the Air Force is full of pilots when in reality only 1% of those in the USAF are pilots.

nogbit··on LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces
that's what was sent to or rendered by your browser anyway
nogbit··on Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
Same response as yesterday, stop using Chrome, now, there are alternatives.
nogbit··on Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages
Stop using chrome, now, do it, it's easy, there are alternatives.
nogbit··on Clayton Christensen: Half of U.S. colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years
Nothing? Ever heard of the US DOD (Department of Defense)? It has many branches, each of which is full of 18-22 year old volunteers, who are getting paid to do exactly the 3 bullets you mentioned. The key difference is they are getting paid vs. having to pay...and, they get that experience in numerous cities/towns over the course of 4 years. Some branches are more like the college life than others (USAF, from my experience).

Granted it's not an apples to apples comparison here, but there are less expensive and more efficient ways (Peace Corp as well) of getting that experience. Universities are (should be) for those that enjoy learning or must have that 4 year certificate for the field there interested in working in.

nogbit··on LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces
of which requires flash to view the embedded video, shame they can't embed like TechCrunch did.
nogbit··on Facebook’s New Message to WhatsApp: Make Money
Those things are hard, especially when 90% of everything is crap you need good skills to convince people or companies that what you are selling is something they must have.
nogbit··on The U.S. Air Force learned to code and saved the Pentagon millions
You pay zero for housing, zero for medical for an entire family...not even a co-pay. After 20 years you get a pension for life. And for many, they are doing it for reasons other than to put more money into a CxO's pocket.
nogbit··on Suicide rising across the US
Tantamount...not the slightest. Social media is a cesspit that hawks fly over to prey on you. Create tight knit communities (like immediate family) and leave it at that.
nogbit··on How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google
No need to worry, lots of people you can pick up from the following companies they may want to shift a few levels up from hell on the morality spectrum.

Lockheed Martin Boeing Raytheon General Dynamics Northrop Grumman United Technologies L-3 Communications BAE Systems

nogbit··on A US millionaire who buried treasure in the Rockies has offered one main clue
In the chest is 40lbs of lead and a key with a note. The key is to a safe deposit box and the note says what bank and where. He also has a key to the same box and can check that box whenever he wants. He knows it's found when the real loot in the safe deposit box is gone.
nogbit··on Hubble finds first galaxy in the local universe without dark matter
Can you imagine being in a civilization in that galaxy, they must really think they are the center of the universe.
nogbit··on Statement by FTC Regarding Reported Concerns about Facebook Privacy Practices
And that's much more than the raw materials...

A nickel is 75% copper and 25% nickel.

There are 2000lbs in a ton. That's 1500lbs of copper and 500lbs of nickel.

Scrap pricing is $2.50/lb for copper, $3750. Scrap pricing is $4.83/lb for nickel, $2415.

Total = $6165

nogbit··on The Role of Luck in Life Success
Creating/building etc improves your chances of success because you are actually making more connections (intentional or otherwise) which increase the chance of luck. That is not wrong, just the luck actually happening is well, still luck (does not happen to all).
nogbit··on One year of cycling to work
I did this for 2 years, 10 miles in and 10 miles back. There was a shower directly above my office. Everything was super convenient, lost 20 pounds and felt great and rode fast.

Back to driving now, so fed up of the weather here in Seattle to do this during the winter, put the weight back on.

But yes, find someplace to shower. Or, bus in and ride home so you can shower when you get home.

nogbit··on Postmortem of Service Outage at 3.4M Concurrent Users
Epic would have enterprise with the money they are making. That's business critical <15min response time for production down. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/compare-plans/
nogbit··on Ending Bitcoin Support
Wrong, its not that volitile, its very easy to store, and its very easy to buy the physical coin...local or online and the paper version via some fund of some sort. Also easy to store for average Joe as he isn't buying kilos and instead is buying ounces.
nogbit··on Don't get caught up in blockchain hype
Peter D. Schiff "How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes"
nogbit··on How to Read Mathematics
> In maths, papers are devoid of any links, the teaching materials are up to 50 years old and never updated to take advantage of new presentation techniques, authors frequently name-drop some algorithm and then forget to say what parameters they used or how exactly it connects with preceding and following paragraphs.

That there is the crux. If math articles/papers were written in a different medium then you could drill down (right click, view source) from the most abstract level down to the basics. Some kind of tool would need to exist to make this possible.

nogbit··on Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear from HR
40+ applications?

How about picking the top 5 that you are the best culture fit for and most excited about. After that, create well written 100% custom cover letters and relevant resume. You will get a 100% response, this has worked for me in the past and is a win/win for you and the employer.

In the long run it takes about the same amount of time. Now wear the employers hat...which one are you more likely to read and then engage with?

nogbit··on How Evil Is Tech?
It is an incredible tool and thats exactly how I raised my kids to use it. For everyone else, you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink.
nogbit··on Microsoft Presenter Gives Up on Edge, Installs Chrome
It's kinda bad that Edge cannot run on multiple platforms, until that happens it will keep getting the same (or less) use.
nogbit··on Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when you request the freeze
Credit card x,y, and z all know my current balance, place of residence and payment history. They let me and only me know that info via some method that can be trusted by anyone (blockchain?).

At a later date, I autorize credit card w to access some computed score that I compute and verify via other trusted means (another blockchain or whatever). Credit card w never sees all my data and the verifier gets access to only what it needs. Nobody needs to trust anyone and instead trusts the chain. Just an idea.

nogbit··on Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
The community editions are great as well, Manjaro with i3 is fantastic. If you like vim you will love a tilling window manager.
nogbit··on Equifax security freeze PINs are the timestamp of when you request the freeze
The only solution is to put the data in our hands only and we authorize access to it on an as needed basis. It should not be centralized anywhere.
nogbit··on Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America
Also, any city willing to participate must have the following...

Top of the line medical centers, big ones! Fantastic sports teams, many of them. Amazing universities, state college required. Seasons, a little of everything for everyone. A small traffic problem, so it can get worse. Cheap real-estate, so it can get more expensive. A port, you know, the ones with access to shipping lanes. Land for more suburbs, so you can run out of land.

I'm sure the list is longer for the reasons why Silicon Valley and Seattle are what they are, but that's a start.

nogbit··on Five-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus (2014)
It is necessary but could be improved. If all we had was roman numerals we would still be in the dark ages.
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