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So the Android figure is now Mona the Octocat, essentially?

It's a fun party trick, counting to 2^10-1 (1023) using your fingers! Kids counting 1-10 use, effectively, "unary notation".

One could count even higher if willing to put each finger into an intermediate state, as base-3 or base-4.

IMHO, anything to do with Body Mass Index (BMI) is fake science. Ironically, this writeup is also from nih.gov: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2930234/

I've used Vultr for several years (hobby projects) with no issues. My favorite feature is having a BGP session from my VM, which is unusual among cloud providers. I have an AS and am able to advertise my own IPs from multiple Vultr instances (anycast).

In production it can be better to bind-mount the host's CA store, instead of relying on each container to have a correct and current CA database. This is especially needed if an enterprise CA is in use.

In general I think the unidirectional "layered" container image model is a stepping stone. It ought to be easy to replace the "runtime" layer for a container without rebuilding the higher layer holding the application code. I can replace the host's kernel without modifying the code; why can't I upgrade the container's glibc or Python?

BMI is accepted as a poor indicator of health or fitness. It's common for objectively healthy people, such as muscular athletes, to have a high BMI.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268...

Fireworks, and michelin-star meals.

Check out the Pine Cube: https://www.pine64.org/cube/

Crazy idea: are there enough space nerds who would pay for a small momento piece of ISS that it might be worthwhile to disassemble it in space and bring parts back to Earth?

Article is a thinly veiled recruitment ad for this tiny company.

Youtube's view counter for Gagnam Style had a similar issue a few years ago. That time, it was a funny problem to have; with stock price reporting, not so much. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/12/gangn...

Stories about "Linux as the underdog" have confused me for several years. The truth is, Linux has won, and it's OK to recognize that.

The majority of phones sold are "Linux phones" -- it's the kernel for Android!

The top selling laptops for years provide "Linux on the desktop" -- Chromebooks run ChromeOS, which is Linux!

Nearly all host servers, at nearly every cloud provider, run Linux. The vast majority of cloud VMs run Linux.

The vast majority of set-top boxes, IP cameras, IoT controllers, and other embedded devices are Linux based.

Linux is even powering an autonomous helicopter on MARS, that has been wildly successful in its mission.

The narrative of "poor underrated Linux gets no love" was plausible until maybe around the mid-2000s. But it's long past time to drop this idea as a community.

Now, I think it IS fair to say that several forms of userspace ecosystems, based on the Linux kernel, have failed to get traction over the years. Maybe we can say "Ubuntu Touch" failed to get adoption, but that has little to do with some characteristic of Linux itself.

tldr, the author sent a couple emails to recoup $88 from a mismanaged affiliate program. Not exactly "hacker news" front-page material.

For folks interested in the "minimal" aspect of this project, there is a similar one with a single Go file: https://github.com/jsha/minica

This is super exciting as I've had this on my "hobby to do list" for a while... now I don't have to do it! :)

Well, I expect this is the beginning of the end for macOS. iOS and macOS have been converging for a long time. First Photoshop runs on iOS, then Apple makes larger and larger "i" devices until there's one with a 27" screen that sits on your desk, then there's no reason for macOS. At that point everything happens inside one of Apple's sanctioned App Store apps.

> if you have a specialised workload (CPU heavy, storage heavy, etc) there's definitely cost savings at scale for DIY

I wasn't sure what your use "heavy" means here -- is it "a lot of" or "disproportionate"? Years ago there was much less flexibility with IaaS machine shapes, but I was super impressed when Google launched "custom machine types". There's a little slider to scale up/down your RAM/CPU independently, and of course storage is already independent. In fairness, there is some correlation between CPU allocation and storage IOPS, but that's inherent to scheduling a portion of the host machine reasonably.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/creating-ins...

In their last example, I'd argue "MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN" should be in the list with BEEF and WHEY. :)

Why send each URL to a server to be checked, instead of doing a periodic download of the (very small) list of HN links and comment counts, to be checked offline like an ad blocker? It's probably 5kb compressed.

Well, people had to be careful before the automobile too, you know. People could by killed by horses or wagons. The introduction of the automobile didn't make it suddenly unsafe to be in the street.

I started taking Adderall recently and so far, I've had the inverse experience socially. It's made it much easier for me to meaningfully engage with people. By gaining control over my focus, I can now overlook "the little things", and I'm no longer compelled to "chase dopamine".

It's common for hardware security tokens like this to limit themselves to self-generated private keys. The intent is the device needs to provide a guarantee that the private key is not otherwise accessible, whereas it would be if the user generated it, perhaps wrote it to disk, provided it to the SE, and perhaps SEs on other devices.

In fairness, Comcast didn't "hint" at any such thing -- this is based on Ars's conjecture based in what Comcast stopped saying.

A couple times I have configured multiple "remotes" for my local git repo and pushed to both, e.g. GitHub + Google Cloud Source Repository, or even just a bare repo on a VPS.

This is actually common convention for Go. One letter variables are used throughout the canonical examples, coupled with very short functions that cause this to make more sense.

I absolutely love Howistart, but some of their tutorials are getting a little dated. This one uses Go 1.3, whereas 1.8 is now GA, and there has been a lot of progress around vendorizing dependencies.

I went to one of these in an airport. They gave a first-rate demo. Seems like a good product, but they asked me what I thought and I told them, honestly, it's a lot like Google Cardboard.

Are you an employee (W-2) or contractor (1099)? In the latter case there is an expectation that you have multiple "clients". In either case, if this happened to me I would talk (as in, in your next 1:1 meeting or phone call), not by email, to communicate that at this point I need to keep my options open but if that ends up happening then it sounds great -- and also my hourly rate at that point will change to $(22 + X).

I was previously appointed to one of my town's local boards, reviewing aesthetics of new development. It was very rewarding in that I got to advocate for "fair" outcomes, sometimes as a lone dissenting voice. I also learned a ton about both government and architectural design. If I could do this in my mid-20s, so could many others.

Is this run by Nation Builder (very much not a non-profit)? There are a couple links there from the homepage.