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Xing just means that now you have to have profiles on two annoying job networking sites instead of one, because Xing is virtually only used in Germany, and Linkedin in the rest of the world.

KVM switches used to be a huge and super important (and expensive) thing in rack server farms back when every rack or every few racks had a pull-out tray with a keyboard and a monitor. Technology moved on. First the tray and monitor disappeared with KVM-over-IP, which saved many trips to the server room. Then the KVM switches themselves disappeared, as manufacturers integrated out-of-band remote access into the servers, first with add-on boards, then onboard and finally on-chip (this is what Intel AMT does, when it isn't busy running rootkits).

The little two-PC switch box the article refers to (I think) was always a spillover from the server KVM technology, except with a very small market and more difficult to make. Servers don't need sound and are fine with just VGA video. Home computers want USB (which variety?) and audio switched, or high bandwidth signals that are very touchy about interference or suddenly being connected to a different device like HDMI, Displayport or Thunderbolt. And then people want the stuff for cheap.

> signal switches with arbitrary bandwidth remain available: analogue relays

Have you tried that? Cut a HDMI cable in half and splay it out, then try switching that to another display. See what happens. If it were that easy, it'd be around (or you'd just be building it yourself).

Interesting. I expect we'll be seeing a lot more VPS providers running on AWS with these instance types.

Drink less?

> the supersonic SR-1 Blackbird spy plane is the stuff aviation legend.

Does nobody proofread these articles anymore? A missing word in the first sentence. This sort of sloppy publishing really doesn't leave a good first impression with the reader.

Perhaps a sign of broken websites.

Uhm, it's explained in the article.

I love firstPartyIsolate and resistFingerprinting. These should probably be on by default.

Cool. I hope Intel writes the drivers though.

The underlined placeholders aren't inputs and cannot be filled out.

Also missing are a few options on what to do, including: "Let it burn", "Throw more gasoline at it", and "Quit while you still have some sanity left".

Nim probably makes more sense if you're coming from Python.

Oh, and Python is perfectly fine for most things. If you like it, sticking with it and just speeding up the rare thing that needs that performance makes much more sense than switching language, especially if you already are well into a project.

I'd hire him in a heartbeat, because he's determined, analytical and can figure shit out himself. But then he'd not be for hire, because he already figured out how to put those skills to use himself to make money, so he's too smart to fall for the "come work for our cool startup, we have free Nutella" bullshit. Even better, he figured out it matters what you work on :-)

I have all my passwords in OS X Keychain too (why would you use an external password manager when your OS comes with a perfectly good one). I did not switch from Safari to Firefox until I discovered above addon many years ago, and I won't upgrade to 57 until Mozilla either fixes the SDK so the addon can be ported or (better) integrates into OS X Keychain like a well behaved Mac application should.

The whole concept of NSFW is ridiculous and one of the more embarrassing things about the "modern" workplace.

> I unplugged my landline phone. I have only plugged it back in once, and briefly, when debugging my internet connection, to check whether the line had a dial tone.

That's generally the only thing landline phones are good for anymore. When I lived in the UK I was with the nerdiest ISP there (AAISP) and they offer a "broadband only" landline, that carries your DSL and a basic diagnostic service including a dialtone (mostly to prevent wayward OpenReach engineers from misdiagnosing your copper pair as "unused"), but no real phone calls. Suited me fine.

RSS is the only sane way to follow multiple sites and people. There's blogs, news sites, Twitter, YouTube channels, etc. - only in my RSS reader (theoldreader.com) it all comes together. Some removed RSS feeds because they realised I don't have to load their horrible ad-infested Javascript crud to read someone's 160 characters, but if it has content worth reading, there's RSS scrapers that turn it into a feed (e.g. twitrss.me). Facebook is kinda left out as most of their content is walled off, but then they're too evil to even consider going there anyways.

Small insects landing on fresh paint is rather annoying when you're painting stuff. Nice to see someone getting excited about it ;-)

Yes, most of them didn't last more than a few years before the bits started falling off. This may partially have been because most of them were SD (720kb) that I'd drilled the HD (1440kb) marker hole into to save money. Worked fine at the time, but probably didn't help boost their longevity.

Amazing this stuff still yields secrets after thousands of years. Meanwhile the 3.5" floppy disks in my parents attic on which I've kept all my teenage Turbo Pascal source code have long lost all their data.

It also neglects to mention the entirely different lifestyle in Spain, different attitude towards work, not to mention the siesta, which one would think worth noting in a sleep related article :)

Many years ago when Second Life was a small community of incredibly cool and gifted people (around near the end of beta/beginning of live), I've written some games there. I've long abandoned SL, but the games still exist in world (because I have a lifetime account, so my virtual land ownership never expires).

I've set the games to email me when someone achieves a respectable score in one. I still occasionally get one of those emails. That's LSL (Linden Scripting Language) code that was compiled into bitcode years ago and the source hasn't been touched in any way since, and neither has the bitcode (or the script would've been reset and lost its memory - all the highscores are stored only in script memory) - and it still continues to run. This amazes me. That's the kind of stability many webhosts can only dream of.

Oh, the SLURL is on the bottom of these emails if you want to check out some really old games: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stillman/65/81/24

Poor choice of name, as the term "bastion" is already commonly used in AWS to describe a bastion host for a VPC.

It's an unusual method. There is now a standard method for this, which is printed on the SOLAS (Safety Of Lifes At Sea) cards we sailors are required to carry, although the direction ones are not on all versions of the card I've seen. Here's one that has them (section "Air to Surface Direction Signals): http://www.marinelite.gr/images/detailed/1/221518a.jpg

Taking barometric readings, recording and graphing them: https://sdfjkl.org/blog/2017-08-09-nanobaro/

Funny about the adult thing. When I managed other peoples computers, had I fucked up really badly, about 1200 people would've not been able to do their work and some company would've potentially lost a few million buckazoids. If I were to fuck up really bad when sailing (or boat maintenance), I and those nearest and dearest to me would die.

From what I've seen, winter is surfing season and they're on the Portuguese west coast, especially in Nazare. This is why: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nazare+surfing&tbm=isch

We get this a lot. We're sailing cruisers - similar to the van thing, except on water and you use wind and pull on bits of string for propulsion, with the diesel engine only a secondary (but important) means.

Especially from the mate's mother: "When are you going to stop this nonsense and get a real job and a home?".

Cool, didn't know that. No excuses not to test properly then! :)

I'm guessing nobody tests for this, because everyone develops on fast, reliable internet connections and it's not super easy to simulate, although there are tools, dummynet probably being one of the oldest: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/61483/how-can-i-...

The original HN is one of the fastest loading sites I regularly visit. You fixed that pretty good.

Disclaimer: I'm on terrible internet connections most of the time and it really makes you hate all this modern web crud. Often "dynamic" sites don't load at all because while the initial HTTP request eventually gets through, one or more of the following XMLHttpRequests or whatever fail, and a lot of the time there is no handler for retries, or no error handler at all, or moronic timeouts (either far too long or far too short).