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by hnbear 4mo ago
From another page on the site: "The passenger accommodation aboard Hindenburg was contained within the hull of the airship (unlike Graf Zeppelin, whose passenger space was located in the ship’s gondola)." https://www.ai
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by hnbear 9mo ago
I've very carefully hoarded photos. I don't miss the photos, but I really miss the meta-data, more-so for scanned real photos. I loved photography back in the day, and so took a lot of film photos. Even having scanned them in I&#x
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by hnbear 9mo ago
I've long wondered how much HN karma I could farm by keeping track of the top-X HN blogs and auto-posting the links with a bot. There are also a number of other blogs I read that are semi-regularly on HN and aren't on the list tha
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by hnbear 9mo ago
My father was gifted a pair of these for his 50th birthday, would have been 1989, in London. Little ICE scooters. They were a lot of fun and not very safe. We had drunk guests damaging themselves in the street. They became toys for my broth
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by hnbear 9mo ago
I have been particularly irritated in the past where people use a lower log level and include the higher log level string in the message, especially where it's then parsed, filtered, and alerted on my monitoring. eg. log level WARN, me
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by hnbear 1y ago
"It could have overwhelmed cell towers, toppling New York City’s cell service and preventing every Manhattan resident from accessing Google Maps." Seems odd that the most important use they can highlight for cell service in NYC is
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by hnbear 1y ago
Especially at larger companies there’s very little difference between $10, $100, $1000, $10,000 from the perspective of the effort put in to pay for it. You’re putting the same requests and forms, doing the same due diligence, getting the s
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by hnbear 1y ago
Project Binky is well worth a watch if you enjoy car restoration, upgrades/rebuilding, and generally extreme make-overs on classic cars.
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by hnbear 1y ago
What’s he a whistleblower of? He didn’t work at JS, so it’s not there. This report seems off. From other more trustworthy sources (eg BBG/Levine) JS were trading the illiquid stock market to move options prices. This says large options
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by hnbear 1y ago
Well that took me back. For some reason no friends or family took me seriously when I brought it up at the time.
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by hnbear 2y ago
We did this when we renovated. Had a kitchen wall section chalk board painted for notes, as well as a much larger section of the kids play room wall. The notes was useful space on the kitchen and the playroom one the kids just loved to dood
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by hnbear 2y ago
I’m a manager, and have been for a while (although I also have 1-1s). Personally, I think project updates belong in stand-up, sprint planning, tickets, etc. Anywhere except 1-1s. If you want a really simple framework just focus on the previ
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by hnbear 2y ago
Because it’s within a set of three speaker buttons. The first has no sound, the second a less sound, the third more sound. They correspond to mute (no sound), lower volume (less), raise volume (more). Within the set of three buttons it’s pe
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by hnbear 2y ago
Yes, within the set of three speaker icons it makes perfect sense. If it was a one-off it’s unintuitive, but on the keyboard where it’s used it’s fine.
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by hnbear 2y ago
Always seems that people forget piholes run really well in a docker container basically anywhere. The pi bit of it is less important than the hole bit of it. and with things like Tailscale or ZeroTier you can run your pihole at home and use
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by hnbear 2y ago
I was worried more sometimes the OS will just reset everything in /etc (and other places) on reinstall
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by hnbear 2y ago
>> Several hundred employees have been impacted with messages being sent from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address, not an official .gov email address. Can I register doge_exec_official_genuine_super_real_orders@hotmail.com and sta
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by hnbear 2y ago
I've used a Mac and linux for 20+ years and never knew about this. Maybe coming to OS X from linux meant I never bothered to ask the official way to set a path. How did you find out about it? This feels like a hidden secret. Is that di
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by hnbear 2y ago
Funny, I do exactly the same thing, except it’s .shellrc because it’s for any shell.
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by hnbear 2y ago
Wow did I love this, and feel targeted. After an afternoon pointlessly dicking around with the ansible I use at home, it was fun and I agree to wholeheartedly. To defend myself, the rack is unplugged, empty and in the garage, while I just h
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by hnbear 2y ago
Nothing says big bank more than being yelled at by your ex-boss, with a different ex-boss in the room, while your real boss has no idea what's going on, and being maybe, but not really fired. Bank VPs have no discretion to fire people
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by hnbear 2y ago
In industries like finance each datacenter will have its own GPS receivers with dedicated antennae, and custom timekeeping devices to act as the local stratum-1 servers, and use PTP. Within the DC servers will have very low jitter and high
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by hnbear 2y ago
My 12 yr old just spent a week in bed with flu A, fever over 100 consistently for the week. A couple of weeks before he was wishing for flu so he could skip school, but I don't think he's ever had it. Now he's learnt flu isn&
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by hnbear 2y ago
> More importantly, Browsers and HTML are never deprecated. Browsers are, and HTML is on v5 and has deprecated things. And using JS definitely can be deprecated too. "Just raw HTML" is an odd statement when it's obviously
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by hnbear 2y ago
murid, noun, Any member of the Muroidea superfamily of rodents. RAT, a remote access tool/trojan.
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by hnbear 2y ago
I remember a while back seeing a story from SE Asia about cops finding a guy walking along the road clutching a bleeding hand. Turned out thieves had robbed him off his car, which had a fingerprint reader so they'd taken a finger with
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by hnbear 2y ago
A friend taught me to create a Smart Folder in Mail to show messages in inbox that contain the string “unsubscribe”. Then you unsubscribe. I try to keep inbox zero, so it flags all new email that needs unsubscribing. It’s a very helpful tri
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by hnbear 2y ago
"So, I quit. Twitter, TikTok, Facebook — all gone" I'm always curious here what counts as Social Media, and what's just a useful site? Github? HackerNews? Reddit? Facebook, but only for FB Marketplace which is now a bett
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by hnbear 2y ago
Very interesting to see the thought put into it. And given the cultural and historic significance, they’re literally irreplaceable. Must be a fun exercise in incident management and prevention. I found this interesting too - https:/&#
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by hnbear 2y ago
You say human a lot, but are they really unique to humans, or we just haven’t looked at other animal definitive tracts yet?

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