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snorrah··on We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day
There’s a reason for that
snorrah··on Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
Did Udemy get around to putting controls in place to stop course stealing? I remember Troy Hunt in particular had issues with people taking his material, narrating over the top of it, and selling it on their Udemy channels.
snorrah··on My Second Phone Is in the Cloud
welp ddos’d by apparent popularity!
snorrah··on Trump Hosted Zuckerberg for Undisclosed Dinner at the White House in October
Hope he enjoyed the hamberders
snorrah··on GitHub’s latest security features
Please forgive my naivety but is this something that would also come to GitHub Enterprise?
snorrah··on Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’
Does twitter now mandate a phone number when creating an account, or are they happy with just an email address?
snorrah··on Mercedes-Benz pre-safe sound
Modern day traction control systems have taken the majority of danger from power oversteer out of cars.

But then the only advantage you get in winter driving comes from fitting tyres (or tyre chains) appropriate to the conditions.

snorrah··on Chennai, India's sixth biggest city, has a water crisis
I remember watching Quantum of Solace and being so disappointed the precious resource the bad guys wanted to control was just water. How could that be precious? It’s everywhere!

I feel pretty stupid now.

snorrah··on Discovery of a “Holy Grail” with the invention of universal computer memory
How does this relate to HP’s memristor ?
snorrah··on The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature
How, exactly ?
snorrah··on The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature
Nope
snorrah··on Dstat project ended due to RedHat replacing it with its own dstat tool
Curious, i know dagwieers from being involved in the Ansible project (RedHat owned). Seems friction is occurring, given the language in his post.
snorrah··on Amazon shareholders reject facial recognition ban
No, you can call your lawyer instead.
snorrah··on The Chinese scientist who allegedly created CRISPR babies is being detained
Nah
snorrah··on What Is Glitter?
“A way to make long winter nights slightly brighter, despite the offshore presence of Germans.”

Well that came out of nowhere.

snorrah··on IBM acquires Red Hat
Super pessimistic point of view. Why do you think these are all in danger? These are things that people and more importantly enterprises use. Why would IBM ruin that?
snorrah··on [dead]
Seems like this doesn’t fall under the submission guidelines

“Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.”

snorrah··on Microwave Weapons Are Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers
So in this thread we have mrtksn calling this lousy journalism, and madeuptemcappt saying it’s a well-researched and cited article.

So which is it?

snorrah··on Agner Fog
I guess the filter worked then
snorrah··on The scientists who starved to death surrounded by food
Couldn’t read the story because of awful redirecting ads to fake YouTube and amazon sites telling me I’d won something.
snorrah··on AMD EPYC Performance Testing with systemd
Irrelevant
snorrah··on AMD EPYC Performance Testing with systemd
Feel free to illuminate us with what the possible performance discrepancy is instead caused by ?
snorrah··on Chinese Woman Who Threw Ink on Photo of Xi Jinping Has Disappeared
I don’t think people aren’t saying anything because they’re scared, I think they aren’t saying anything because they don’t know why this post is on HN.
snorrah··on Data processing on modern hardware
I think he touches on why not during the comments about block chain. It is probably about “wasting” power and energy with inefficiency.
snorrah··on Arizona Uber crash driver was 'watching TV'
Because this is an entirely possible scenario in a country that self driving cars might operate in where jaywalking is not an offence.
snorrah··on Show HN: ChromeREPL, Interact with Chrome from Sublime Text
Yeah this is a non issue. It’s like any dev environment letting you overrule things by supplying an environment variable or similar.
snorrah··on AI at Google: our principles
Well I’m guessing everyone will have a slightly different viewpoint, but my use of google services over the last 15? years has not had me feeling they’ve done anything evil to me.

Yes I’m sure they have a huge swell of data about me, but so far the use of that data has not caused me any suffering, or pain, or misfortune etc.

“Don’t be evil” is quite a poignant statement. If they were to say, “don’t do bad things” then I wouldn’t have quite the defence. But no, for at least me, a sample size of one, they have not been evil.

snorrah··on Every Google Cloud Platform product described in 4 words or less
Um it sorta didn’t work by the second example Cloud Job Discovery -- ML Job Search and Discovery That’s either five or six words depending on whether you count machine learning or machine-learning as one or two words
snorrah··on Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust
Ideally it would be nice if common utils were redeveloped to have optimisations that weren’t thought of or available back in the day
snorrah··on The tech sec­tor might be evil
It’s one of the more amusing backhanded compliments I’ve read in a while :)
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