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by alexwasserman 5y ago
Interestingly Fastmail have also allowed subdomains in addition to name+blah@domain.com routing, to make it harder to guess your "real" email. So you can sign up for new companies with random@someservice.mydomain.com and have it s
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
In my first job out of college was supporting monitoring software in big financials. They often didn't even know what they were running. More than once got sat down and told to connect to their HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux, etc box and s
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
I assumed they meant that a regex here could be used to just extract out the numbers and remove anything extraneous. They mention it fails with trailing characters, or typical punctuation used in numbers (eg. dashes). A little regex to remo
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
Telegraf is an awesome agent, and also pairs really nicely with Prometheus as a TSDB, then you can put Grafana on top. Maybe not in this specific case, but in general Prometheus my preferred TSDB sitting between Telegraf and Grafana If you
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
I also liked having to replace some hardware on one (maybe a disk, was a while back), and wondering what tools I'd need. I opened up the case (just a thumbscrew or latch) very easily, to find a Sun branded official screwdriver sat insi
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
Yes, I think that’s how I first read the headline - closer to a basic easy to use distro than an LFS style roll-your-own. If I told someone I’d found a simple distro, I wouldn’t expect them to prep to compile their own kernel
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
Looks interesting, and generally always like to see how someone puts a new distro together, but “simple” here is a very specific definition of simple. This is not a trivial, easy, type of simple. Rather a raw and uncomplex simple. Not going
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
“…who’s work a generation ago fueled the modern internet”. It’s 2021, and generations are traditionally 20 years. I think they’re off a bit. 3 generations ago. Quite a long time now.
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
Given the argument here around nation and state and what it means, he also is in the middle of a series on what made Rome Rome and the definition of Roman. - https://acoup.blog/2021/06/11/collections-the-queen
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
My bad - lived in the US too long. Meant MoD.
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
Snippet supplied in the article: function get($urlPath, $queryParams=null, $ouputFormat='xml'){ // if(!authenticateAsOwner($queryParams)) // { // header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorize
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
There was a great article several years ago about parents discovering their child came home with a UK MoD classified CD of data. The children were making clocks in school (typical $1 mechanism, AA powered) with the CD as a clock face. The p
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
This is actually Part2. Part 1: https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-zfs-part-1-the-...
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by alexwasserman 5y ago
I’ve also seen the reverse happen recently. A neighbor listed their house, then watched through their many home cams as people came for viewings. As they walked through the house she looked them up on social media, made easier having actual
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
A couple of jobs ago I was interviewing a candidate and the first item on his long list of "tech I know" was AFS. AFS is a pretty rare filesystem, but at the time we were one of the biggest users globally, and it underpinned all o
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
Definitely the recruiter. They destroy resumes. Best/worse experience - walked into the interview and the interviewer asked if I preferred to go by first name or last name. I said I'm happy to be Alex, but don't hugely mind.
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
The original standard (from British Standards Institute) is here: https://www.mus-ic.co.uk/images/blog/2006-04-27/bs_6008.pdf And, somewhat more complete and well defined than the wikipedia summary. N.B. the
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
I think a bug that causes loss of personal data when changing a display setting warrants a "cringe"-type flag. It's a pretty egregious bug to have. Nothing on their site says "This is not ready for daily use", but b
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
There's nothing new on the front-page, and Gentoo has been around a while. Curious what the motivation for posting is. I suspect the HN readership has a good idea of what Gentoo is.
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
I remember being in high-school when this came out, and wandering into it with a couple of friends because it was the only movie on at the time we hadn't see, and it would pass the afternoon. The three of us laughed continually through
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
As a particularly glib answer - both Musk and Bezos themselves already live in a post-scarcity environment. Neither of them want for anything. They have enough clout, influence, and money to play games like their own personal Special Circum
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
Select it, then it takes you to the page to customize - you can add more RAM, more disk, AppleCare, and accessories.
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
Took me a couple of goes to realize “in gold rooms” is a typo for “in cold rooms”, and wondering if gold rooms are a new audiophile thing. That said, hot ears trapped in cold metal headphones seems like a recipe for condensation. Do they no
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
Most the HomeKit products I've tried don't need the native apps, just Homekit native on the phone. Vocolinc and Wemo both are like this. In fact, the latest Vocolinc app has a "Homekit" mode, where it's basically ju
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
Some smaller items as well, that I think are worth mentioning, given the post starts out that advice is woefully short - seems like an invitation to throw in my 2p/2c/2satoshi, etc. Remember that it's really a conversation, a
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
More correctly, their value vs their pegged asset doesn't change. In this case the US cares about USD denominated stablecoins, but they existing for a variety of underlying assets.
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
Looks like the mountain equivalent of fast-response motorbike EMTs - https://www.jems.com/2018/02/19/motorcycle-response-units-in... Even helicopters can take a while to get on station, and typically come fro
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
https://www.zwilling.com/us/staub/ https://www.emilehenryusa.com/ No idea which Costco uses, but Le Creuset is definitely not the only French enameled cast iron manufacturer.
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
When I moved from the UK to the US in early 2006 I lost my Symbian-running 6680 Nokia, because it couldn't be ported over, it was locked to a UK network and they refused to unlock it. I loved Symbian at the time, losing it took me back
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by alexwasserman 6y ago
I'd be interested to see this as a percentage of net worth or income as well. If a person with $1B gives it all away in one months that's about as philanthropic as you can get - much less so for someone with another $50B to spare.

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