jhardcastle

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by jhardcastle 5mo ago
At what point did OP say, "you're only allowed to be sad if you contributed"? OP pointed out that many people stated they were sad. OP also pointed out it's likely few of those who were sad also contributed money. For a
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by jhardcastle 5mo ago
That comparison is fallacious too, I think. Something burning down is a tragedy, beyond anyone's control. It's also possible to love something for its beauty, and be sad that a globally historic monument suffered such an act of go
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by jhardcastle 1y ago
Tcl/Tk was used by the first open source project I ever contributed to 25 years ago – a client for AOL Instant Messenger called TiK. It was such a thrill to be able to hack on the client, see the changes in almost real time, and share
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by jhardcastle 1y ago
To summarize the article, I think... A will was rediscovered that was written by Shakespeare's granddaughter's husband, who never owned the home, stating that his cousin should get the house. The husband died first, the granddaugh
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by jhardcastle 1y ago
> Note: if you remove the Edit menu and call it Write, MacOs won't add its AI crap to your settings. Good to know.
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by jhardcastle 2y ago
> During its lifetime, Ratcliffe - commissioned in 1967 - has generated enough power to make more than a billion cups of tea every day. The most British unit of energy measurement possible. What would the American version be? Hamburger p
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by jhardcastle 3y ago
How does 6lb of gas release 20lbs of CO2? I found this[1] link from the EPA with a number similar to yours, 8.8kg per gallon of gas, but they say it "creates" rather than "emits." I'm still struggling with this crea
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by jhardcastle 5y ago
I have had a 43" monitor at work and at home for a while, and the solution I've used throughout the pandemic has been to share only a region of the screen, or to share a single application or window, which I often shrink down to a
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by jhardcastle 6y ago
If you enjoyed reading this story, u/Admiral_Cloudberg has been writing these kinds of well-researched post-mortems on air collisions and accidents on Reddit[0] for several years, and has recently expanded to Medium[1]. The posts are a
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by jhardcastle 6y ago
This is important now as schools are working to figure out how to place desks so that each student is 6 feet apart from their peers.
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by jhardcastle 9y ago
The article mentions their increasing focus on Azure. I'm amazed by the number of people we're talking about. If you follow the links in the article back a few years, it appears Microsoft has laid off close to 30-40,000 people in
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by jhardcastle 9y ago
Presumably OP is referring to the walled garden of CompuServe, Prodigy, and others where you could only talk to other CompuServe customers on their proprietary message boards. If you wanted to talk with someone else, it was impossible (unt
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by jhardcastle 9y ago
But isn't that the idea behind Rails? Opinionated defaults with a config to change the setting somewhere?
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by jhardcastle 9y ago
Food was by far our largest expense, but not because we choose the fancy fish and steak options. Instead we picked lots of food we wished we had been served at weddings we had been to. Tasty comfort foods, like a mashed potato bar (add your
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by jhardcastle 10y ago
They aren't using popular attachments. They are using customized attachments from the actual compromised sender. I commented elsewhere in the thread, but once they gain your credentials, they will go into your account to get one of y
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by jhardcastle 10y ago
Sysadmin at a school: we use GMail for our students and faculty, and we got hit by this hard right before the holiday break. Three employees and a handful of students all got hit by the attack within a two hour period. It's the most
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by jhardcastle 10y ago
The fact that the grandfather comment is the top-rated comment (as of this writing) in the thread to me suggests that a great number of people agree with him/her, which sort of contradicts your "argument from ignorance" point
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by jhardcastle 10y ago
So proud to see DanVK on the front page of HN. Way to go Dan!
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by jhardcastle 10y ago
Don't you think that removing all the extensions, bookmark bars, and extraneous UI cruft will make this browser consume a lot less RAM? Seems logical to me.
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by jhardcastle 10y ago
From the second paragraph of your own wiki link: > Government agencies also use XMetaL for tracking legislation.
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by jhardcastle 10y ago
The author wrote this in 2012, so at the time it may have been impossible to predict the 2013 update.
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by jhardcastle 10y ago
I believe your reading is incorrect (and the reading of other commenters here is more correct). Bandwidth.com will tell MyLocalPoliceDepartment that Google Voice is the "wholesaler" that controls my GVoice number. Bandwidth.com h
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
Welcome * 11 instead, perhaps?
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
It's also, most confusingly to me, the name of Facebook's datacenter design. http://www.techrepublic.com/article/facebook-fabric-an-innov...
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
I'm under the impression that Android devices have had optional full disk encryption[0] for a long time, and that encryption isn't dependent upon cloud synchronization. [0] https://source.android.com/security/
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
It reminds me of Radiant[0], which does the same thing for Google Music. Google has bet big on web apps. They are pushing hard to make the web app the way of the future. I don't have a problem with that, and to an extent I'm get
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
I had the same reaction as you, so I googled it. According to Wikipedia[1] the eruption did indeed take two days, with shocks starting in the morning and ash starting to fall in earnest at 1 p.m., with "pyrocastic flows" beginnin
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Fb0CBW2...
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
Is anyone aware of an enterprise(ish?) product that does encrypted off-site backups from a Windows environment to something like Glacier or B2? We're 75/25 Windows/Nix, and our backups (VMWare, NetApp) are all managed on the
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by jhardcastle 11y ago
As someone who is still, 17 years later, running a large-ish production CF site on a daily basis, and still teaching new hires and interns to use CF every summer, I'm happy to see a little (!) CF love on HN. I've built production

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