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by merek 10d ago
Set your calendars: Europa Clipper, launched 2024, starts Europa flybys on March 2031 Dragonfly, hopefully launching July 2028, arriving on Titan 2034 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper https://en.
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by merek 13d ago
Maybe I missed it but they didn't delve much into the TAM. "Half of all flights in the world are under 2 hours." Then they give examples of Fjord-town hopping in Norway, or Island hopping in Hawaii, which seem very niche. Wil
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by merek 24d ago
> Running own business is a sin Shouldn't any wealth creation viewed positively due to tax, not to mention value to consumers/society? Or is the view that people on average produce more value when employed by a large corporatio
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by merek 26d ago
> Google intended Project Ara to lower the entry barrier for phone hardware manufacturers so there could be "hundreds of thousands of developers" instead of the existing oligarchy of phone manufacturers
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Project Ara (Google's attempt at a modular smartphone)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by merek 26d ago|2 comments
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by merek 1mo ago
Someone has already reserved my very unique company name and a bunch of variants. Without domain validation, what is this user's intention other than fraud/impersonation? I've already got an active impersonator running a webs
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by merek 2mo ago
I've come across a road like this in Singapore, although with a road barrier https://maps.app.goo.gl/bEEvRkgGQPhfM7198
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by merek 2mo ago
I call BS. > We want you to tax us. We can afford it. If you're so desperate to distribute your wealth for the greater good, then do it already. Why wait for the govt to mandate it, and over many years, eventually distributing it to
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by merek 2mo ago
What's the general process for the initial separation of unwanted dirt? I've worked in a zinc smelter a long time ago, the initial stage was roasting, heating the ore to 900C to burn off unwanted components (such as sulfur, which
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by merek 2mo ago
Were there cases of finalized invoices and fund transfers while the error was in place? The sudden loss of working capital while awaiting a refund would be extremely disruptive for even large businesses.
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Ask HN: What hardware hobby would you recommend to a software engineer?
8 points by merek 2mo ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: Possible issue impacting AWS Cloudwatch logs availability?
2 points by merek 3mo ago|0 comments
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by merek 3mo ago
Why London of all places?
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by merek 3mo ago
> Stripe advices to refund based on signal's they get that a disput is requested. I think that's if you're lucky enough to receive an early fraud warning, in which case, you have maybe ~12 hours to refund the money, but wh
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by merek 4mo ago
I can't find an official source, but I suspect the blast radius isn't limited to the AZ. I have systems running in us-east-1, and over the course of the incident, I noticed unexplainable intermittent connectivity issues that I&#x2
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by merek 4mo ago
Related: AWS EC2 outage in use1-az4 (us-east-1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057294
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by merek 4mo ago
For me, a long running and historically stable ECS service suddenly stopped. Ordinarily this would result in failed health checks and auto service restart, but in this case, the service simply died without logs or alerts.
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Ask HN: What tech hobbies are worth exploring?
5 points by merek 5mo ago|1 comments
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by merek 5mo ago
Nice shots of Australia on Apr 02, 6:41:23 PM (left = north) and 6:42:35 PM (down = north), including Tropical Cyclone Maila (I think).
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by merek 5mo ago
A good lot of them seem to be from Matt Lakeman, whose writing I highly recommend. He goes into detail about history, politics, and tries to understand why things are the way they are in the places he travels. The list is missing Lakeman&#x
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by merek 6mo ago
> can't buy smokes at all ever They can, they will be available on the black market along with every other widely used illicit recreational drug. Banning tobacco won't make the problem disappear, people want their poison, inclu
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by merek 6mo ago
> As a consequence there is a quiet crisis in young people, 18-30, deeply in debt, working second and third jobs so that they have a bit more money to gamble. Do you have a source for this?
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by merek 6mo ago
> We installed mitmproxy on a Mac, configured an iPhone to route traffic through it, and installed the mitmproxy CA certificate on the device. > All HTTPS traffic was decrypted and logged. No modifications were made to the traffic. Th
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by merek 6mo ago
There are a huge number of factors to consider depending on your company's goals and your personal goals. Things like access to investors, access to talent/staff, your desire to relocate, your profit/reinvestment intentions a
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by merek 7mo ago
The TLD owner in this case was Radix, which also owns .store .online .tech .site .fun .pw .host .press .space .uno .website https://radix.website/
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by merek 7mo ago
Vibes
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by merek 9mo ago
Between 2017 and 2022 (pre-LLM), it appears to show a clear downward trend, ignoring the covid surge. Any ideas why this might be? The query also filters to PostTypeId = 1, what does this refer to?
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by merek 9mo ago
Thanks for the video link, it's way more informative than the original article.
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by merek 9mo ago
If you've ever built a website for mobile but never heard of PWAs (Progressive Web Apps), I recommend checking them out. In essence, adding 2 files can make the site installable from a mobile browser and define caching behavior for off
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by merek 9mo ago
I recently came across Open Web Advocacy (OWA) who summarize my mobile-platform concerns well. They "advocate for the future of the open web by providing regulators, legislators and policy makers the intricate technical details that th

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