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KoftaBob

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KoftaBob··on Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission
> they're relatively simple to deflect given even with current technology, and a long enough lead time.

and what is this simple method to deflect a large asteroid headed for Earth?

KoftaBob··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Just a heads up, jobs based in NY are legally required to have a salary range in their job listing.
KoftaBob··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)
Just a heads up, jobs based in NY are legally required to have a salary range in their job listing.
KoftaBob··on I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
In my experience, the best kind of assessment for Software jobs is a reasonable take-home project that involves a private repo that you fork, work on adding a feature or fixing a bug, and then send a PR.

It's much closer to day to day work than code challenges are, it doesn't involve the stress factor of an interviewer staring at you while you work on a leetcode, and you can have a followup technical interview to discuss the take-home in more detail.

The most recent take-home experience like this that I saw was with Clipboard health, and I thought it was a great experience. If I remember correctly, they used Woven Teams to automate the process.

https://www.woventeams.com/

KoftaBob··on Ticketmaster breach affects more than half a billion users
Here's a list of their customers that they provide: https://www.snowflake.com/en/customers/all-customers/
KoftaBob··on Hacker confirms access through infostealer infection [withdrawn]
Your daily evidence that modern Russia is essentially just an organized crime ring with oil reserves and nukes.
KoftaBob··on Kino: Pro Video Camera
What about releasing new features as in-app purchases? This way you can make money from existing users too.
KoftaBob··on Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum – will it bring Egyptology home?
As a Copt, thank you for eloquently saying what I was about to say. Genetic tests explicitly show that Egyptians as a whole are still very closely related to Ancient Egyptians based on mummy DNA samples. I don't understand how people can confidently parrot this whole "modern day Egyptians are Arab colonizers" trope when the peoples of the Arabiab peninsula STILL EXIST and are genetically different from Egyptians.
KoftaBob··on Egypt is building a $1B mega-museum – will it bring Egyptology home?
> came there much later.

Came there from where? Genetic tests show that modern day Egyptians (both Christians and Muslims) are still largely related to ancient Egyptians.

KoftaBob··on Show HN: An IMDB Clone
They're also owned by Amazon, which means they have unlimited resources to be litigious too.
KoftaBob··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
I'm not the original commenter that made the claim, I'm just saying that anyone who wants to check for themselves can use the Arabic Al Jazeera and translate it into English.
KoftaBob··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
If you want to research yourself, here's the Arabic version of Al Jazeera's Israel-Palestine coverage translated to English:

https://www-aljazeera-net.translate.goog/where/arab/palestin...

KoftaBob··on 'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'
That's just my personal preference, but this whole setup can be done with Usenet too.
KoftaBob··on 'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'
Sonaar:

- You add the TV shows you want to track, and when new episodes are released (or when it detects you're missing episodes/seasons) it automatically pings the torrent search indexer/s you've connected to find the torrent for that show.

- The indexer then sends back the torrent magnet info to Sonarr, and Sonarr then sends that to the torrent client you've connected it to which starts the download.

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Radarr does the same thing as Sonarr, but with a focus on movies.

In terms of connecting torrent indexers to Sonarr + Radarr etc, you'd want to use either Prowlarr or Jackett to handle that.

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So a general flow could be Sonarr (tracks show and requests new episode) =>

Prowlarr (searches torrents and finds the torrent magnet link) =>

Sonarr (takes torrent magnet link and requests the download to start) =>

qbittorrent (starts the download) =>

JellyFin (scans your media downloads and gives you a media center/streaming interface to watch your shows on your devices)

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Overseer is meant to combine the TV/Movie tracking with content discovery into one interface. This way, you can track your shows and find new ones, and it handles sending those requests over to Sonarr/Radarr.

https://wiki.servarr.com/

KoftaBob··on Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation
> they demand exclusivity in their contracts

Right off the bat, exclusivity clauses shouldn't be legal, it's the definition of anti-competitive.

KoftaBob··on Threads on Mastodon and the bright future of the Fediverse
That's odd, what part of the app says that? I didn't specifically build it for Chrome/Edge, especially considering my disdain for those two browsers.
KoftaBob··on Threads on Mastodon and the bright future of the Fediverse
If you like Phanpy (it's pretty awesome), feel free to try out a fork of it I'm working on called Agora: https://agorasocial.app

It's got a few additions/modifications:

- You can log in to a Mastodon, Bluesky, or Nostr account on Agora and it'll pull in your following/followers list from that account, while still allowing you to view/interact with posts from the other 2 protocols using bridges behind the scenes.

- "For You" tab that uses the open source FediAlgo library to discover interesting posts you haven't seen, based on which accounts you and your follows interact with.

- Search page also has a "suggested friends" feature that integrates the open source FollowGraph library. It looks up all the people you follow, and then the people they follow. Then it sorts them by the number of mutuals, or otherwise by how popular those accounts are.

- Integrated bridges into the search, so that if you search for a Bluesky handle like aoc.bsky.social or a nostr users hex code, it'll automatically know to use the relevant bridge for those protocols and find the bridged profile.

- When you follow a hashtag like #linux, it'll automatically follow the corresponding Lemmy community for that topic in your feed.

- Automatically loads your instance's version of a post so that you can like/boost/comment on it without having to think about what instance it's on.

KoftaBob··on End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity
The people writing articles about it constantly.
KoftaBob··on Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?
This is how: https://shrewdcuriosity.medium.com/why-has-college-gotten-so...
KoftaBob··on For young people, the job search has never been so miserable
Not even remotely as bad, these articles are rage-bait.
KoftaBob··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
There are real world examples of what it would look like, they're called "dolphins": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure)#/media/Fil...

"The new bridge is protected by 36 dolphins: four large dolphins protecting the two main pylons supporting the cable-stayed main span plus 32 smaller dolphins protecting bridge piers for 1⁄4 mi (1⁄2 km) to either side of the main span"

KoftaBob··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
There are real world examples of what it would look like, they're called "dolphins": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_(structure)#/media/Fil...

"The new bridge is protected by 36 dolphins: four large dolphins protecting the two main pylons supporting the cable-stayed main span plus 32 smaller dolphins protecting bridge piers for 1⁄4 mi (1⁄2 km) to either side of the main span"

KoftaBob··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
That's not why I shared it at all, I included his Twitter so that people can follow along in case he makes any statements, which I imagine he will.
KoftaBob··on Migration out of Africa may have been driven by first glaciation of Pleistocene
> They also left Africa in multiple waves with 5 main ones spreading out across the globe.

Where can I learn more about these 5 waves?

KoftaBob··on The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come
The US is 12th in per capita electricity generation from wind based on this data. Where are you getting those numbers from?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/wind-electricity-per-capi...

KoftaBob··on The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come
Keep in mind this is the first large *offshore* wind farm in the US.

When it comes to onshore wind power, the US is 2nd only to China in wind power production, and adding a ton of wind power capacity per year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country

KoftaBob··on The United States has its first large offshore wind farm, with more to come
Keep in mind this is the first large *offshore* wind farm in the US.

When it comes to onshore wind power, the US is 2nd only to China in wind power production, and adding a ton of wind power capacity per year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country

KoftaBob··on Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service
For those wondering, Skyhook is a "location technology company" that was acquired by Qualcomm

https://www.skyhook.com/

KoftaBob··on Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban. Instead, Protect Our Data No Matter Who
You'd have to be incredibly naive to think China wouldn't use TikTok to influence American discourse.
KoftaBob··on Singapore Airlines Concorde
Why would it be about max? There are always going to be outliers in people's travel plans that make some aspect take longer than usual.

If I decided that from now on, I'm only walking to and from airports rather than driving or taking transit, does my multi hour walk to the airport make it so that airplanes are now as slow as driving places and therefore not worth it for any domestic flying? No, that would of course be a ridiculous conclusion.

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