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oceanswave··on FedEx to close data centers, retire mainframes
So do you feel FedEx should make their own trucks, ships, and planes?
oceanswave··on Blacklist is not a racist word
It’s just a major coincidence that whitelist is the opposite of being placed on a deny list
oceanswave··on Ask HN: New job at BigCo. Everything has friction
What happens when you try to go fast through friction? You only generate heat.
oceanswave··on Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
Does setting the gateway address on the wifi network to be your tailscale exit node ip work?
oceanswave··on Meta Is Transferring Jest to the OpenJS Foundation
But next is already react smirk
oceanswave··on Writing HTML sucks and No-code doesn't help
I tend to come to the same conclusion. we communicate in characters forming words or sentences, symbols, and whitespace. As you indicate, text can be imprecise, but a good author knows how to phrase a sentence such that its meaning is better understood by a reader through varying techniques
oceanswave··on Ask HN: Why aren't there any real alternatives to Electron?
Browsers themselves don’t do this for security snd sandboxing reasons. Each tab is another instance.
oceanswave··on A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow
How much of that 1.8 billion did he get when SO sold?
oceanswave··on Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwords on Chrome OS
Development is a massive cargo cult
oceanswave··on Toilet paper-less: my evolution in butt cleaning
He knows about the three seashells
oceanswave··on Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit
A pump, a home depot bucket in shade, some duct tape and tubing would probably be sufficient.
oceanswave··on ESA advances its plan for satellites around the Moon
I guess it’s going to be Microsoft landing a datacenter-in-a-shipping-container on Mars before AWS does something similar at the rate that Blue Origin is going.
oceanswave··on Node.js/V8 dynamic code injection from outside of the process
Nobody mention the VS remote debugger and what mayhem one could cause if left running with a port open
oceanswave··on Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention Economy?
I wonder if there is a link between DCMA crackdowns and the decline of the music industry. Posit: with consumers watching more community produced content and that content prohibited from including traditionsl music sources that consumers may then seek out, then a result might be a decline in the traditional music sources. This might also apply to commercially produced content that doesn’t include music for fear of false flagging.
oceanswave··on Apple's New iPhone 12 Ceramic Shield Explained
It’s unfortunate that the formula for transparent aluminum was so quickly discovered, and then lost, in the late 80’s.
oceanswave··on GardaWorld lost track of millions
Cash bonuses based on ‘performance’ are tax deductable, so just another way of corporations to reduce tax liability.
oceanswave··on The future of .NET Standard
.net ultimate incoming
oceanswave··on Compiling Word for Windows v1.1a
I wonder how hard the is going to be when Apple Silicon forces us back to non-apple laptops
oceanswave··on AI slays top F-16 pilot in DARPA dogfight simulation
Or just some old migs with high intensity lasers designed to constantly paint the cockpit. Humans have exploits too
oceanswave··on Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable
We’ve found the same behavior in normal person to person speech, so we’ve implemented a gag policy that nobody talks to one another during business hours. Ultimately, it’s person to person communication that we’ve found is the broken tool for, granted, a minority of users so we’ve implemented this policy company wide.
oceanswave··on Show HN: EventNative – An open-source, user event collection service
Is the intent for EventNative to be used as a way to capture events in an eventsourcing pattern, where custom events may be generated by microservices or other applications? A follow up if that is the case, how are schema migrations handled over time
oceanswave··on Dorking: the use of search engines to find very specific data
The “public APIs form an immutable, irrevocable contract” argument means that an api layer with these tenants is always going to be a source of technical debt. Get it right the first time or fight an ever growing compatibility matainance war - even when your instrumentation is saying that old apis aren’t being used, just published, seems like a footgun
oceanswave··on Reasonably priced color e-ink display
Who designed these ‘eye’ things anyway, sounds like they took a lot of engineering shortcuts and amassed a metric boat-ton of technical debt
oceanswave··on A Nvidia Engineer Wrote a Vulkan Driver That Works on Older Raspberry Pi
Or like samsung phones, where they just stop giving you updates after 2 major releases
oceanswave··on Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed
So it’s more like gambling then, but if you beat the house, that’s fraud
oceanswave··on IBM Cloud was down, as well as their status page
But usually only a single AZ or region... seems like this is bigger?
oceanswave··on Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
It’s sad when a 5k monitor works flawlessly under macOS and then you fire up a windows VM with the latest version of SQL Server Management Studio and then needing to squint at the text
oceanswave··on Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
Because you said that you’d take an OS with a registry over one with dotfiles, and his point is that these days you have both
oceanswave··on Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows
Truth is that the world economy relies more on linux-based systems than anything else, even in microsoft’s own datacenters
oceanswave··on Raspberry Pi admits to faulty USB-C design on the Pi 4
If a spec defines a fully working part, and you go off and tackle the complexity by designing your own part that turns out to be non-compliant, then the blame is on the spec?
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