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Max_aaa··on Fujifilm Created a Magnetic Tape That Can Store 580 Terabytes
The time needed to actually do the copying.
Max_aaa··on Nikon Is ending 70 years of camera production in Japan
Also less moving parts, so this results in a more reliable product.
Max_aaa··on Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence
For me I have travelled many time in sleep-trains in the post soviet countries.

Provided you are in 2nd class or higher, the sleep is generally comfortable and lulling. But I might be used to it, as we also did often when I was a child and I was used to rocking and train noises.

Max_aaa··on Games people play with cash flow
Because it is not a set commodity that any producer can make . This is how things work for corn, wheat, and so on.
Max_aaa··on How to take meeting notes
I literally have to keep a text file on my phone with peoples names. I have exceptional visual and spacial memory, but names just slip through like sand through a sieve.

With the text file, I just have to recall on roughly which line the name was and I am able to recall it. I have no idea why or how this works, but it does. I did try to keep a "Mental" list, but that just does not work, I need to type it in or write it on a piece of paper for it work.

Max_aaa··on iOS 14 is available today
I have the 2nd gen SE version which is the same shell as the iphone 8. Works great, and meets all my needs.
Max_aaa··on Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
King's Quest..... That one was a challenge. As it was easy to miss an item from area and not be able to return to pick it up.

I can attribute my debugging skills to playing these games as a child. As you had to be meticulous.

Max_aaa··on Clutch, the Open-Source Platform for Infrastructure Tooling
You know how you need to setup k8s, logging, DB, and a handful of other services before you can deploy your app. Well this tried to tie together these services and hopefully make it easier.
Max_aaa··on You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain
our numbers are growing.
Max_aaa··on It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
I have a very simple Firefox extension that inverts the colors of sites, I wrote it as I needed something that would just give me dark themed web pages when my baby was asleep next to me. You would not believe some of the reviews and requests (ultimatums) I got.
Max_aaa··on Mozilla goes incubator with ‘Fix The Internet’ startup early-stage investments
How would the project sustain itself? (Hardware and hosting costs)
Max_aaa··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
One can get infected by touching something and then touching their face. So how does one prove that they did not do anything that might have caused them to get infected?
Max_aaa··on Pi-hole 5.0
I run my pihole within LXD on my home server, found it much easier than to maintain another device. Also much more responsive.
Max_aaa··on Virtual tour of the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses VI
Here is a review of one of systems that does this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Re-uxp5-gU

Max_aaa··on Heat Pump Water Heaters
Considering that hot water does not need to be heated right away, solar water heating (Direct or via photo-electric) with an electric hot water cylinder as a backup for overcast days would result in more reliable and more long lasting system.
Max_aaa··on Health Experts Want to Stop Daylight-Saving Time
As someone who lives in NZ and works in the US market, I cannot wait for this to end. As every year I have 4 time switches.
Max_aaa··on Brokering Bricks: The World of Lego Investing
Or they can have a website where one can order a set and have a robot setup the kits from standard bricks.

This should work for the majority of sets and would require a relatively small set of custom bricks.

Max_aaa··on The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness
Just like with everything in this universe, "Wants" tend to swing from one side to the other just like a pendulum.

The tricky part is trying to find the balance without overshooting, and restarting the cycle.

Max_aaa··on The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap
My home server is basically my old laptop. It is a Dell Latitude e6540, just sips power when not under heavy load.

with a 4 core i7 and 16 GB of ram, it is more than enough for home use.

for storage, it has a m.2 SATA ssd for the root partition. And 2x 2tb hard drives that are raided with zfs for the home and network share folders.

Max_aaa··on House spending panel drops U.S. ban on gene-edited babies
Who defines "morality"?

What about the future ramification of stagnation? Or ignoring progress? Most of the world seems to be ignoring climate change, and somehow hoping for it to go away.

Some claim to care, but those are just hollow words for the most part, as the world is hooked on cheap (dirty) energy.

Max_aaa··on House spending panel drops U.S. ban on gene-edited babies
If you think about it, there really not much difference. As one person's utopia would at the same time be another's dystopia.

It is all a matter of perspective.

Max_aaa··on Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements
I just run it on an ubuntu lxc guest on my home server. Works like a treat, gets backed-up like the other services and easy to replicate.
Max_aaa··on House spending panel drops U.S. ban on gene-edited babies
All it takes is for one group to start. Then the rest would either have to follow or be overtaken.
Max_aaa··on House spending panel drops U.S. ban on gene-edited babies
The Gattaca future is slowly turning into reality.
Max_aaa··on Hundred-Tonne Robots That Help Keep New Zealand Running [video]
This is basically pavement wear-leveling. Wonder how much more life they can get from this.

I would also imagine the next generation could include using thinner pavement where they know that the robots would never go through, as this should drastically save on material.

Max_aaa··on There is no good reason to buy an inkjet printer (2016)
Not all games are played on the computer.....
Max_aaa··on Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
It would be nice to git clone a contract.
Max_aaa··on Can the Law Be Copyrighted?
One can be very "creative" in killing creative expression.
Max_aaa··on Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service
I just run borgbackup and backup to a local folder, and rsync to my home nas if I am connected to my home network.

If I need to force a sync over the internet, there is a small shell script that would rsync the backup folder to the home nas.

This allows me to run hourly backups even if there is no network connection (or limited bandwidth), and then just auto sync when I get home, or force a backup when I get a good connection.

Max_aaa··on JPM Coin Is the Wildest Big Bank Idea in Many Years
It looks they want to move from a medium that they do not control (dollars) to a medium that they have full control over (their own coin).
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