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vocram··on Ask HN: What Recession?
If the goal is to save money, why not move those jobs to even cheaper countries?
vocram··on Tinder turns 10: what have we learned from a decade of dating apps?
> I don't think it is super great for the receivers of those likes either

It’s great for users looking for ego boosting via popularity and vanity metrics.

vocram··on OpenWrt 22.03
OpenWRT lets you control and access the device you own
vocram··on Arm sues Qualcomm, aiming to unwind Qualcomm's $1.4B Nuvia purchase
Releasing chips behind the competition has the same effect
vocram··on Ask HN: Go deep Rust or C++ or Golang?
Go is the easiest to become proficient with.

C++ and Go are the easiest to get started coding something.

Rust has been for me the most frustrating of the three to start being productive.

vocram··on Things people blamed on bicycles
Hate for bicycles hasn’t changed. People think a bike travel is recreational, and thus less important than a car travel. Someone goes out of their way to affirm that, by having to overtake bikes or not let them overtake their cars. A couple of times I met cars busting their brakes trying to keep up with me with a disc road bike on long technical descents
vocram··on Remote startups will win the war for top talent
> Those are hard numbers right out of our project management system

the kind of work those systems track is assembly line tasks. They can’t measure alone the strategic impact employees have on a company.

vocram··on Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) [pdf]
extra virgin olive oil has a very distinctive taste and smell… guess of what?
vocram··on Omega-3 fatty acids and exercise: a review of their combined effects (2011) [pdf]
I wish I could perceive some kind of even minuscule cause-effect for any of the supplements I take, barring caffeine
vocram··on Ambient Scotrail Beats – Relax to Scottish train announcements over low-fi beats
Why can’t I play it in background?
vocram··on Scientists discover how mosquitoes can ‘sniff out’ humans
> causing them some pain it already has some points on "bad".

Humans have quite a few bad points here as well.

vocram··on Second-Order Thinking
What’s the problem with FS?
vocram··on Launch HN: Iollo (YC S22) – At-home metabolomics test to extend healthy lifespan
That just moves the trust from the supplement brand to who recommends it. You are still left with a problem of trust.
vocram··on Linux 5.19
Text navigation works in the same way on Linux/mac using readline key bindings.
vocram··on Scientists have finally found the potential “cure” for baldness
Well, doing the right thing isn’t enough.

Looking good (being attractive) is mostly about immutable traits like height, physiognomy and until now having hair.

vocram··on The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck
Drug addicts? Why not just addicted?

Differently from sport, there’s no such thing as low drug usage being healthy.

vocram··on The high price we pay for social media
> We

We who? Most of the people enjoy them and spend on them a large part of their time. They don’t want to give up.

vocram··on I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives
If requesting http paths result in accessing the equivalent fs paths, then yes, you can dos it. But nowadays it’s uncommon for a webserver.
vocram··on Google Kubernetes Engine adds support for Arm nodes
The instance exposed by GCE is virtualized. If you want to run any hw virtualized workload inside it, you need nested virtualization.
vocram··on The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)
What you would put 100% of your effort on, if you had FIREd?
vocram··on Jupiter CEO Quits $68B Firm to Sit at the Beach and ‘Do Nothing’
You meant he achieve “FI”. Once you are, going for “RE” becomes the hard part.
vocram··on Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes
It means it uses user namespaces to map a non root user in the top level user namespace (where eg init runs) to a root user inside the container. This allows the container process to run as root inside its user namespace, retaining the full set of capabilities required to call privileged syscalls or access files owned by root.
vocram··on We got Linux on the iPhone, iPad and other idevices
How could we benefit from having Linux on old iDevices?

Would I be able to repurpose a device to do something useful I can’t do with iOS?

vocram··on Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
They opposed to add support to private mirrors in the software, probably to retain their monopolistic position

https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/34319

vocram··on Docker is dead? Podman – an alternative tool?
> To execute the images Podman then uses e.g. the mentioned containerd,

Another wrong thing. Podman directly controls the runtime (crun or runC). It does not talk with containerd like Docker.

vocram··on Safer Enums in Go
> The one tiny drawback is that the globals have to be variables instead of constants, but that’s one of those problems that really only exists in the theoretical realm. I’ve never seen a bug from someone overwriting a global variable like this, that is intended to be immutable.

Even if it’s a silly bug to make, it really annoys me a lot knowing you could change an enum value. Is it so hard for Go to support consts of any-type?

vocram··on Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle
Do you please mind giving some info on how to build a balanced arm?
vocram··on Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
Sadly, by pointing out a wrong use of the chat, you risk being the rude person because you don’t value social interactions. I’ve been tempted to tell the same to my colleagues but refrained because of it.
vocram··on Ask HN: How do I secure the domain for my business?
The major risk here is social engineering, someone who pretends to be you and call your registrar to get credentials reset.

Surprisingly I haven’t find any good solution among the answers here.

vocram··on Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers
That command is only for diffing against Git HEAD. `git difftool` supports all the ways to diff with Git.
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