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NetBeckon Serverless, peer-to-peer, local file sharing through sound

I was thinking the same. Minimodem[1] turns devices into FSK communication devices. Analogous to transferring information via dial-up.

[1] https://github.com/kamalmostafa/minimodem

NetBeckon Stripe Employees Who Relocate to Get $20k Bonus and a Pay Cut

Will employees who stay have the option of paying Stripe $20k for a 10% raise?

NetBeckon ARM: Can 'crown jewel' of UK technology be protected?

Apple + Acorn Computers = ARM[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers#ARM_Ltd.

NetBeckon I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

It's always great to read of someone making a living from what they love and a community supporting each other.

NetBeckon Google Is Not God of the Web

The web is optimized for Google Chrome, not the inverse. It's not surprising. Google is an advertising company with >90% search market share. There is little competition in the economy, only product differentiation.

NetBeckon Dolphins at popular spot miss tourists and keep leaving 'gifts' on shore

What if they are wondering where humans went and are experimenting with luring humans toward the water? Not something out of necessity, but curiosity.

NetBeckon Apple Edge Cache

It would be cool if they used the Xserve chassis.

NetBeckon Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good

https://www.excite.com/

NetBeckon First Case of New Coronavirus Detected in U.S.

The Spanish Flu also influenced the design of old radiator heating systems.

"The Spanish influenza epidemic, which took place during the winter of 1918–19, had a dramatic effect on the way heating engineers sized radiators," explains Dan Holohan, author of several books on steam heat and founder of HeatingHelp.com. "Central heating was relatively new then and the world had never seen anything as horrible as the Spanish flu, which caused an estimated 50 million deaths. Because the flu was airborne, the Board of Health started a campaign the following year that urged (more like demanded) people to keep their windows open so fresh air could enter the rooms."[1]

[1] https://www.citylab.com/life/2014/02/our-indispensible-guide...

NetBeckon Ditch the GPS

The fear of becoming lost is gone, and so goes the brain's tools to navigate.

NetBeckon Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media

I wonder how much user engagement would decrease if a CAPTCHA was needed to read a tweet. I think a big percentage of accounts are bots either trying to gauge sentiment, or push groups further to their respective political corners.

NetBeckon Apple Sues Nuvia’s CEO, a Former Employee

Reminiscent of, "Apple Files $5-Million Lawsuit Against Jobs"[1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-09-24-fi-18710-...

NetBeckon How to Buy a Private Jet

You'll need a helicopter to arrive at the airport faster.

NetBeckon Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access

This sounds like a job for The Boring Company.

NetBeckon Tesla's new Cybertruck smashed during demo

I thought the way they handled a failed demo was cool. Most companies would have rolled the product off stage or put something in front of it, but Elon rolled with the punches and continued the presentation with two shattered windows. It lowers the probability the truck was hardened or altered for a better presentation.

NetBeckon I tried to adjust the time on my alarm clock

He said he thinks the WiFi chip might be broken. I wonder if the thing is trying to connect to an NTP server.

NetBeckon Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 Max Crashes

>Typically, overseas regulators follow the FAA’s lead. But after the MAX crashes revealed shortcomings in the FAA’s certification process, that’s no longer certain.

>Before the MAX is cleared to fly passengers again, both EASA and the FAA will require flight tests of the new updated software. In addition, Ky said, EASA will require Boeing to demonstrate the stability of the jet in flight tests that include high-speed turn and stall maneuvers with MCAS switched off.

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/europ...

NetBeckon Walmart sues Tesla over fires at stores fitted with its solar panels

>totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket losses, Walmart said in the lawsuit.

This amount is immaterial for each party involved.

NetBeckon Typical U.S. households don’t use most of their bandwidth

The internet is a form of free speech. The more bandwidth, the more free content available. For example, DOCSIS 4.0 can deliver symmetrical 10Gbps to the house.[1] YouTube would be obsolete if a P2P video platform was available with users pushing 10Gbps each.

Faster internet is worth it. Nobody uses what they have because they don't have much. Everything has been designated to the cloud.

[1] https://www.cablelabs.com/technologies/docsis-4-0-technology

NetBeckon The High Price of Multitasking

Earl Miller has researched multitasking from a neuroscientist's perspective.[1] The concept of "switch cost" is interesting:

"We are only good at doing one thing at a time. But we are switching back and forth. It takes time for our brain to change from one task to another.

Switch cost is when it takes your brain a short while … to realign for a new task. Your brain has to backtrack and figure out where it was in the first place."[2]

[1] https://ekmillerlab.mit.edu/tag/multitasking/

[2] https://www.today.com/health/multitasking-doesn-t-work-why-f...

NetBeckon Ask HN: Good Health Insurance in California?

https://www.coveredca.com/

You might qualify for Special Enrollment due to a life event.

NetBeckon DuckDuckGo Tests How Much People Care About Privacy

This would give insight into why self-hosting email is becoming a more difficult task.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756125

NetBeckon No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe, Keras, MXNet, and OpenCV could copy the game if you split the video input for the player and the bot.

NetBeckon Target hit by nationwide payment outage

>The greatest challenge teams faced with developing software for the stores was figuring out how to effectively build a continuous delivery pipeline to 1,800 deployment targets that was safe and expedient.[1]

[1] https://tech.target.com/infrastructure/2018/06/20/enter-unim...

NetBeckon A restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews

This reminds me of someone I used to play with on Starcraft Broodwar. When victory when inevitable, he would always quit the game to give himself a loss. He considered it better to have mostly losses on his record so other players cannot gauge his skill level.

NetBeckon I didn't get paid, so I open-sourced my client’s project

Yes, if you want to compete with cash, checks, online bill pay, Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and the other proprietary rental payment portals.

NetBeckon Open-Source `Great Satan’ No More, Microsoft Wins over Skeptics

Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion[1]. If Kubernetes were proprietary, could one value it at $7.5 billion? I think GitHub was acquired for the same reason Kubernetes was open sourced - to gain market share against AWS.

Microsoft has a similar service to GitHub called Azure DevOps[2]. It has been rebranded over the years. My guess is GitHub's brand will absorb Azure DevOps, even as far to rebrand everything in Azure to "GitHub Cloud".

The new war is in the cloud. Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and IBM have to pay a premium for a chance to catch AWS.

[1] https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-rebrands-repositions...

NetBeckon Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements

They could force Chrome to use Google's DNS over HTTPS.

NetBeckon An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

Some people refuse devices that do not accept DHCP assigned DNS servers.[1]

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/WCVv57IizUSjNb2R...

NetBeckon Intel Performance Hit 5x Harder Than AMD After Spectre, Meltdown Patches

This reminds me of AMD's launch of the 1.4GHz Athlon Thunderbird. People were shocked that benchmarks proved AMD dethroned Intel.

>The Athlon 1.4GHz is far and away the fastest PC processor you can buy. Well, OK, it's not that much faster than the 1.33GHz Athlon, but it's a heap faster than Intel's 1.7GHz Pentium 4. Through a range of tests measuring a variety of applications and abilities, every one of our Athlons from 1.2GHz to 1.4GHz beat out the Pentium 4 with regularity."[1]

[1] https://techreport.com/review/2523/amd-athlon-1-4ghz-process...