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tfolbrecht··on Terry Davis, Author of TempleOS, has passed away [unconfirmed, mods please rm]
usermod -a -G Heaven Terry
tfolbrecht··on Valve Rolls Out Wine-Based “Proton” for Running Windows Games on Linux
Yeah multiarch was an annoyance. Not sure why it's nontrivial on their side.
tfolbrecht··on Ask HN: What are you building for Startup School?
I will be in startup school. I'm interested in a Non-commercial capacity, just a simple 3D printable case to support open hardware.
tfolbrecht··on Ask HN: What are you building for Startup School?
Are these the same form factor as the U2F ZERO? I'd make some enclosures for it if I knew the dimensions.
tfolbrecht··on Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
I'm curious to see what happens if a company like Huawei enters the US networking hardware market after cutting its teeth. Are we supposed to go with Cisco out of patriotism? Is the general public going to petition the government for protectionism?

I also wonder how long it takes wage suppression to propagate out into lower demand and shrinking GDP growth.

tfolbrecht··on What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number
Something not often considered is playing on an awkward silence between the tit-for-tat. If you let things stick in the air a bit longer sometimes signaling from the other party can help you find that sweet spot.
tfolbrecht··on Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas
Amazed nobody read the offer before commenting. I guess women are a subset of anyone lol
tfolbrecht··on Serverless Docker Beta
Maybe I didn't form the question correctly. Appreciate the list of services!
tfolbrecht··on Serverless Docker Beta
It's actually pretty similar to the Heroku free tier dyno "sleep" till there's a trigger, but it's stateless.

Different pricing, different ways of conceptualizing but from a user perspective that's a pretty good comparison.

tfolbrecht··on Serverless Docker Beta
If you pull an application apart and squeeze it into managed services, your costs can drop by an order of magnitude depending on your availability requirements, engineering related costs, etc. A good article written by Spotinst's CEO [1]

Not trying to shill, not everything should be serverless, and I should work to be more platform agnostic, but AWS has been great to and for me, AWS marketing material [2]

[1] https://medium.com/@amiram_26122/the-hidden-costs-of-serverl...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/

tfolbrecht··on Serverless Docker Beta
Awesome! While I was at AWS Summit in NY, I asked a round circle of AWS ECS/EKS users (Container orchestration products) about thoughts on a Docker container service that could execute like a FaaS product and there seemed to be none anyone knew of. I have a portion of a legacy application that's used infrequently and too costly to decompose but works fine Dockerized.

Looking forward to using your product!

tfolbrecht··on Worst Computer Bugs in History: Therac-25 (2017)
A floating point bug [0] in the Patriot Missile Defense System killed 28 Americans and injured nearly 100 more when an Iraqi SCUD wasn't successfully countered during the Gulf War.

[0] https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~introcs/Fa10/notes/07.1_FloatingP...

tfolbrecht··on The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective
Love these guys, last press I saw on them was their OTS epipen, glad to hear they aren't defunct.
tfolbrecht··on Ask HN: Should I abandon a functioning SaaS with no paying users?
You may be able to bring down costs on your side and be more aggressive with your pricing.

My costs are a few dollars a month for the 7 sites I've set up, comes with SSL, gzip, etc.

There's a common AWS Service static site pattern that chains together four services: Serverless Computer, Object Storage, CDN, DNS.

In your mind, reframe what you do as a marketing service. Offer vanity email addresses, email marketing services. Add analytic reporting or something. Perhaps a Drift like embedded Facebook Messenger client as your customers already have Facebook?

Good luck!

tfolbrecht··on Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop?
I'm under the impression OP is asking about a distro for their laptop or desktop.

My question to you is, why use an old kernel + packages when you could have newish ones with a reasonable degree of trust? Is avoiding the extremely rare bug worth it?

re:PPAs I prefer my machines packages to be downloaded from trusted sources. The distro developer package vetting and accountability adds value.

tfolbrecht··on Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop?
I think running a long term support distro is silly for non critical devices.

I personally use Debian Testing, maybe take this chance to try it? I've never had a stability issue across the 4 different devices I use.

tfolbrecht··on Modeling Potential Income and Welfare – Benefits in Illinois (2014) [pdf]
First, I'd like to apologize for being rude and negating your statement. There's nuance to the problem; we shouldn't just tit-for-tat dismiss each other.

The U.S. welfare is multifaceted. Try to shift to a stack oriented model. The real picture should include both indirect subsidization and multiple direct benefits/subsidization. Income, rent, food, medicine, childcare, transportation, utilities. There are what someone in poverty would consider sweet spots under certain conditions.

Now, Not all welfare programs stack. Local cost of living changes the stickiness point. But, imo, the most overlooked problem is poor people get good at being poor. There are ways to exchange benefits and untaxed labor for value, even if it's not explicit or monetary.

I've lived it. I know people who are scared to lose benefit X if they earn over Y. The bigger problem is that the government can't manufacture meaning and purpose no matter how much cash they pour out. No marketable skills develop, no local capital accumulation, no gaining experience and moving up. There are no good jobs to escape to. The cliff is doing what you know. What you consider unlivable is life for a lot of people.

Also, I can give some sweet spot scenarios if you want hard numbers.

tfolbrecht··on Modeling Potential Income and Welfare – Benefits in Illinois (2014) [pdf]
I invite you to the American South. I'll hold your hand and walk you through it.
tfolbrecht··on Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018
Appreciate the reply. No need for perfect :^)
tfolbrecht··on Roadmap to becoming a React developer in 2018
Any advice on finding a mentor?
tfolbrecht··on The “Boring Software” manifesto
I don't disagree except for the tiny edgecase where graphs are useful. The SQL/ NoSQL tradeoffs are well documented, saying NoSQL is hyped and volatile is silly.
tfolbrecht··on The “Boring Software” manifesto
This is awful advice. The tooling for things the author describes as harmful are as mature as the "stable technology"...

It's easy to forget the time and effort to accumulate the knowledge for fighting the limitations to a technology you've familiarized yourself with.

- A SOA approach requires less stack knowledge overhead and $$$ for actual deployment and use than monolithic applications.

NoSQL vs SQL? Not everything fits on a spreadsheet. Just because you've gotten good at wiggling things into one doesn't mean that you're right.

> Posted 4 times in twelve days.

Who is upvoting this?

tfolbrecht··on Why you should not use Google Cloud
AWS has acquired Cloud9 for in browser for desktop environment/ SSH, it inherits account credentials. You should check it out.
tfolbrecht··on Google Leads Series A Investment Round in KaiOS to Connect Next Billion Users
Google doesn't want to sell hardware. They want to pull the next billion into their platform. Did you catch the Google Assistant icon in the article?
tfolbrecht··on Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
Stock Debian Stretch on my Lenovo works very well. Battery time estimation is dead on, suspend is very low power (days). You can set the lid shut behavior through the gnome admin tools.

Check it out!

tfolbrecht··on Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
It's common in the rural southern United States. Big box stores sell hundreds of plates and napkins for a few dollars.

The justifications I've heard is that it's a lot of labor saved if the family is sufficiently large and the woman is expected to do all the cooking and cleaning.

tfolbrecht··on Show HN: Why Do I Procrastinate? – Web MD for Procrastination
PERSONAL ANECDOTE ALERT: Since I've began working from home, something I've found helpful is assigning context to a physical space and moving from space to space to context switch.

For example, I browse the internet and read news on my front porch, but my office is strictly work mode. My living room is strictly a space for relaxing and entertaining guests, my kitchen/dining area is for cooking and eating. It may sound weird but if I get a phone call or have to make an email. I move to my office ( my note pads, and desktop is ready to go which is a plus )

I think the work-from-anywhere play-from-anywhere meme has been damaging to my productivity and happiness. I feel a lot less anxious and more focused.

tfolbrecht··on White House announces 25 percent tariff on Chinese tech goods
Try to understand it strategically.

If there's a 25% tariff on Chinese components, it makes Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, developing-economy players more competitive. If the tariff is projected to last it will cause a sizable diffusion toward other players. Consider also that tech goods growth is projected to continue and China wants to start fabbing silicon. China doesn't want the brakes pumped on that exponential curve.

tfolbrecht··on Drones that can haul a 20-pound load for 500 miles and land on a moving target
Surprised nobodies mentioned celestial sensors.

Celestial navigation by imaging the sky, and combining that data with a clock and compass.

tfolbrecht··on Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
An approach I find interesting is the [Perkeep](https://perkeep.org/) or Google Drive model for post hierarchy.

Storing all files as objects and then indexing..

An interesting indexer for images would be one that groups objects by faces recognized or exif data(camera model, GPS location, lens, date, etc) Google Drive does this.

Perkeep can deal with tags, span devices, deal with permissions. Check out HN user @bradfitz

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