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by tnjm 1y ago
While I wouldn't dream of standing up k8s on a bare metal cluster without a devops team, I set up managed k8s using EKS several years ago for a client and... it just chugs along, self-healing, with essentially zero maintenance. For my
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by tnjm 1y ago
Happily using Cloud66 but a strong recommendation for Northflank here. I already had a running cluster there and migrating a very complex Heroku app over only took 20 minutes today. (Would have been 5 if I hadn't screwed up .gitignore.
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by tnjm 1y ago
Thanks for building this! It struggled with tasks I asked for (e.g. download the March and April invoices for my GitHub org "myorg") -- it got errors parsing the DOM and eventually gave up. I recommend taking a look at the browser
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by tnjm 2y ago
I developed a SaaS business to fund a nonprofit foundation, which is a little different from your situation. The key thing was to keep the SaaS-y bit as boring as possible, which meant a corporation. This is in Europe but the equivalent wou
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by tnjm 2y ago
I agree that indigenous knowledge is rightly the property of indigenous peoples themselves, but that wasn't my point. My comment referred specifically to the products of evolution: that's the genetic resources, not the knowledge o
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by tnjm 2y ago
Doesn't the concept of biopiracy imply that the products of millions of years of evolution belong to modern nation states? What if, instead, we either observe that they simply exist , or imbue them with their own rights, or consider t
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by tnjm 2y ago
Agreed - but on the other hand (no flippancy intended) it's not hard to imagine AI would have done a better job in this instance.
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by tnjm 2y ago
Probably true - but having a great many soldiers in an area where there are an extremely isolated people such as the "uncontacted" Yanomami also poses its own risks. If they're focusing on the most sensitive areas with highly
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by tnjm 3y ago
Another point, and I'd love to be corrected here, is that with a container of water you're going to get a ton of convection currents leading to a much sharper heat gradient at the edges, resulting in significant heat losses with t
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by tnjm 3y ago
> I suspect if you told it in advance you were going to ask it a deliberately tricky question, that it might actually succeed. Indeed it does: "Before answering, please note this is a trick question. Two trains on separate tracks, 3
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by tnjm 3y ago
But if you make the input slightly more explicit: "Two trains on different and separate tracks, 30 miles from each other are approaching each other, each at a speed of 10 mph. How long before they crash into each other?" ...it spo
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by tnjm 3y ago
Central London, and a particularly nice bit too. No red flags, until it got all Stephen King.
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by tnjm 3y ago
> Is there anywhere I can ready about this ABnB host who kidnapped your wife? No, we've never spoken publicly of it, though I don't remember her signing anything. > I am so glad that she made it out safely! Sounds wild, I wo
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by tnjm 3y ago
It's not my story to share the full details, but suffice to say it was wild and makes extremely good dinner party conversation. At the time though, definitely something out of a horror movie.
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by tnjm 3y ago
I've always had a few issues with Airbnb -- never knowing if the place I've booked actually exists, the hard-to-navigate app and broken login system, and that one time the "host" kidnapped my wife and Airbnb support told
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by tnjm 3y ago
In built-up areas, the numbering is typically sequential. In rural areas, houses are numbered based on distance from the start of the road. Our road in the _campagne_ has two houses: number 50 (50m from the start of the road) and number 70
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by tnjm 3y ago
The paper you cite in [1] is interesting and worth reading. However, it doesn't support a claim that fires on Hawaii have nothing to do with climate change (and of course it says nothing whatsoever about fires elsewhere -- Hawaii'
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by tnjm 4y ago
French resident here. Received a bill from this week from a medical lab for some tests; the only payment options are either visit the lab in person (an hour's drive away) or mail a personal check. This is not uncommon here, and even mo
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by tnjm 4y ago
Very true. An alternative is to install a lower-spec off-the-shelf charger/inverter for closer to £1k though, and instead have a handful of sockets with backup power. Being able to charge your phone and laptop, keep the fridge/fre
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by tnjm 4y ago
I installed a backup system (in the greenhouse rather than the house... priorities) to cope with these kinds of problems. Using a Victron Multiplus 1.6kVA system with 2x 110Ah 12V Gel batteries was remarkably cheap and simple. The whole lot
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by tnjm 4y ago
Related to the quirks of in-app browsers mentioned in the article, the Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat apps manage to break file uploading every few months, and take several weeks to fix it each time. I'm not sure why this in particul
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by tnjm 4y ago
Not only is the tech here astonishing, but full credit to the authors for producing such a clear, concise video accessible to just about everyone explaining what they did, how they did it, and why it matters. Excellent storytelling.
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by tnjm 4y ago
Indeed, Mercury has been phenomenal for us too. It's painful to use other banks now. How they've executed so quickly and competently in a tricky space is quite something to watch. But the thought of them pulling a Brex-like move m
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Ask HN: How to get street name onto Google Maps?
9 points by tnjm 4y ago|1 comments
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by tnjm 4y ago
Is it really sleight of hand, though, when you'd get essentially the same answer when consulting the UN, Wikipedia or... a dictionary?
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by tnjm 4y ago
The data you've presented just don't allow us to make those claims, and fall apart at the gentlest interrogation: - much doesn't relate to hunter-gatherers at all - some is a tiny sample size (in the only case I dug into, n&l
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by tnjm 4y ago
If you read the UN definition of genocide [0], you'll see that a population increase doesn't contradict (the UN concept of) genocide at all. The key is intent. [0] https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention&#x2F
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by tnjm 4y ago
Therein lies the problem though. Even if we take the numbers from the linked article (whose starting point was... Steven Pinker!): - the "ethnographic evidence", which I accept you're not defending, largely features indigenou
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by tnjm 4y ago
The problem with this is that all modern hunter-gatherer societies are under extreme pressure due to the theft of their lands and resources. This is particularly true in the context of the anecdotes given in the linked article, even if its
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by tnjm 4y ago
The evidence is very sparse, and what we do have suggests that modern hunter-gatherer societies are, on average, no more violent than humanity in general. (My personal if limited observation, having lived briefly with several, is that they

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