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Close-In Weapon System

The Phalanx defense systems you see on naval vessels.

I get the same spinner as well. I'm curious if it's related to: https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamou...

rdiston Amazon says displaying tariffs 'not going to happen' after White House blowback

Yeah, every store should do this with line items on the receipt.

rdiston Ask HN: When was it clear that Linux had won (in the data center)?

I don't have an exact date or anything but feeling was with Google in the early 00's. While my "big" first gig was managing Linux and FreeBSD in the data center about the same time, we still had a lot of SGI, IBM/AIX, IBM VM/ESA, AS400, SunOS/Solaris and Windows. Our main driver for getting rid of the big iron was the industry was turning towards cheap commodity systems running Linux and saving the yearly support costs was a big win. Google doing Linux at scale was helpful for the management team to "risk" moving away from tried and true vendors.

rdiston GSA engineering lead resigns over DOGE ally's request for access

When I see stories like this, doesn't it make it easier, not harder for the DOGE folks to do their thing?

I get the "resign in protest" angle but is it really helping any?

rdiston White House says it will cancel $8M in Politico subscriptions

You forgot the Huffington Post: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-pentagon-says-it-wil...

rdiston How do you evaluate a startup company when you are applying for a job?

What’s the runway versus the burn rate? Who are the founders and who are the investors?

rdiston Ask HN: Universal File Access Layer?

rclone, Apache VFS, GoCloud.dev ?

rdiston Turkish language has a gossip tense

Can we get this applied to print, broadcast and cable news programs?

rdiston How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft

And here I thought we were going to rehash Crowdstrike ;-)

rdiston Ask HN: How do I set up a personal website?

I'd say take it in steps. First, get your content someplace.

Second, worry about the other stuff one piece at a time.

Derek Sivers has a good resource for putting things on-line: https://sive.rs/ti

David Heinemeier Hansson would remind us that you can do this out of your home to if so inclined (assuming you have a reasonably static connection): https://world.hey.com/dhh/dare-to-connect-a-server-to-the-in...

rdiston Ask HN: What companies have private offices for programmers?

I don't know if they still do or not, but Microsoft did for FTEs in 2010.

rdiston Juniper Networks to Combine with HPE

Soon it will all be Taco Bell.

rdiston Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

Looked at https://neeva.com/?

rdiston A second hexagon in the stratosphere of Saturn

dang it, now I have to move my secret base again

rdiston Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”

s/liberal//