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14u2c··on Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
Did you not finish the article? Later:

> I kept returning in my mind to the question of the interface itself. To how the fictional, fantastical cop-movie interface somehow became a reality.

> This slip between fiction and reality seems to speak more broadly to the role of law enforcement itself, and to how self-mythologizing police narratives go on to shape the world. To put it another way, the footage is a product of the fantasy that the role of the police is to protect us from ubiquitous hidden danger, a fantasy generated in no small part by the police themselves.

14u2c··on Google Fiber to Launch 5Gbps and 8Gbps Plans in 2023 (Utah, KC, Des Moines)
I would assume all those modules would be 2.5G to SFP+? I've never seen a standard SFP module do more than one 1G. If what the OP is saying is correct, the way Google is doing it is very odd.
14u2c··on I wish my web server were in the corner of my room
Cloudflare has a similar (free) service as well. It's quite useful.
14u2c··on The single market is looking wobbly
> Poland took gas well into May 2022, and only stopped after Russia demanded payment in rubles.

True, but Germany did the opposite and started buying the gas with rubles. It's no surprise that this caused some animosity.

14u2c··on Pregnancy-Related Deaths: Data from Maternal Mortality Review Committees
How is race relevant to HSA accounts?
14u2c··on Richard Nixon exposed to radiation on Moscow trip in 1959, documents reveal
I find it very peculiar that the state department was not notified until 1976. Something more must have been going on behind the scenes that the security services didn't quite want bubbling up yet.
14u2c··on HashiCorp’s multi-product strategy
I'm assuming you are talking about terraform?

The UX of all the other hashi products I've used have been absolutely sublime compared to the industry equivalents. Nomad compared to kubernetes is a particularly stark contrast.

14u2c··on Elon Musk sells $6.9B worth of Tesla stock
> I can't believe the biggest huckster, snake-oil-salesman, ever, is going to end up owning the internet's town square.

Your two points seem to be at odds. If Twitter prevails in the upcoming case, my understanding is that Musk would be forced to complete the deal. I'd much prefer he just fcks off and goes home, even if it means he "wins".

14u2c··on Reddit’s database has two tables (2012)
This all sounds good until you consider high-availability, which IMO is absolutely essential for any serious business. How do you handle fail-overs when that cheap VM goes down? How do you handle regional replication?

You could cobble something together with rsync, etc, but then you have added a bunch of complexity and built a custom and unproven system. Another option is to use one of the SQLLite extensions popping recently like Dqlite, but again, this approach is relatively unproven for basing your entire business on.

Or you could simply use an off the shelf DBMS like Postgres or even MySQL. They already solve all of these problems and are as battle-tested as can be.

14u2c··on Hertz faces lawsuit from 47 customers claiming false arrests
Interesting to see that people are renting cars just to drive them for Uber and Lyft.
14u2c··on Coinbase lays off around 1,100 employees
The problem with this logic is that real estate values are out of control. In my city not uncommon to see stories of families who have owned a home for generation or more being forced to sell it because the value of the land went from $200k to $800k in 10 years and is now taxed as such.
14u2c··on Welcome to the M1 Windows project
Apple still sells many computers that execute the amd64 insurrection set.
14u2c··on Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price
When have you ever seen a car dashboard display Mm. It was perfectly clear what they were trying to convey.
14u2c··on PlanetScale Portals: Read-only regions
Any type of job queue that can use MySQL for scheduling state support should work just fine with PlanetScale.
14u2c··on Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
The fact remains that the US is in a far better position to deal with aging demographics than the majority of Western countries. Immagration policy needs to be adjusted as soon as possible as to not squander this.
14u2c··on Deno.js in production
Yea, this is one of the most garbage takes I've ever heard. Requiring the use of something esoteric is not suddenly going to allow you access to a pool of higher quality candidates. Instead you will still see the same pool, but now the average candidate will be even less knowledgeable about the technology.

I do like Deno personally, but this reason is not a great one to do so.

14u2c··on Umami: Own Your Website Analytics
I believe it's because both products appear to be using https://tailwindui.com/
14u2c··on Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
There have been many. Acrobat CVEs were a dime a dozen in the 2010s
14u2c··on Elon's Giant Package
It appears they believe that SpaceX is Musk's personal slush fund.
14u2c··on The U.S.S. Akron and U.S.S. Macon, America's “flying aircraft carriers”
What if you do not want to leave any evidence of your incursion? Seems quite useful in that case.
14u2c··on Show HN: Stacktape – Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience
I've found Hashicorp's HCL to be excellent in comparison. It's open source and starting to be adopted by non hashi projects.
14u2c··on Intel deprecates SGX on Core series processors
Do you think his location is some great mystery? The actual reason he is not dead is because there is no political will to conduct an operation on Russia soil to murder him.
14u2c··on We lost 54k GitHub stars
Well, they put in the time to test a massive cascading delete operation. Surly a flag would have offered far less possibility of catastrophic outcomes and therefore would been significantly easier to confidently develop and test.
14u2c··on pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript
Are people actually downloading dependencies on the fly like this? IMO a bundler is absolutely essential. What if npm is down? What if the version of a dependency has been deleted for some reason? These are surprises you absolutely do not want when a function is starting.
14u2c··on ‘Sovereign chess’ is a battle without loyalty or humanity (2020)
Certainly true, but I think there's a niche audience that these kind of games cater to, and for those people a few hours is excellent. Not unlike video games such as Civilization I suppose.
14u2c··on Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
> That makes my sell interview so much easier because I can trust the process to assess their technical skills

What makes you think that the process provides an accurate representation of the skills needed for the day to day job? In my experience it simply tests whether the candidate has invested lot of time cramming for that very specific type of test. If I was running a small company I would much rather discuss a candidate's experience with them and leave them the time to build useful skills, not worthless ones for passing a test.

14u2c··on Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display
No way. The difference between 1440p and 4k at 27" is night and day if you are staring at text (code) all day.
14u2c··on Mac Studio’s removable SSD is reportedly blocked by Apple on a software level
Yes, mechanically, but certainly not electrically.
14u2c··on Mac Studio’s removable SSD is reportedly blocked by Apple on a software level
It's neither. These are not SSDs in the traditional sense, they lack the controller. They are raw storage modules that are paired with the M1's on die controller.
14u2c··on After 600 hours 64 workers at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant finally relieved
So basically you are hoping it all sorts itself out? Maybe it will, but that seems like an incredibility risky position for humanity to make without hedging our bets.
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