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VectorLock

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VectorLock··on Ask HN: DJI possibly providing location of Ukranian drones
>DJI spokesman Adam Lisberg tells The Verge himself that he has been misinformed all along about how AeroScope works by his Chinese R&D colleagues

Thats really bad if they're even lying to each other internally how this works.

VectorLock··on Chainless electric drive system “Free Drive” for bicycles (2021)
Is anybody selling these in a complete bike yet?
VectorLock··on Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brokers
Then you have to go through the whole process of setting up, routing, and registering an HTTP endpoint, rather than you would as a normal pub/sub simply have the program connect to the publisher and start receiving messages/events.
VectorLock··on Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brokers
And they're all kinda fucky, like SNS handles a lot but you can't write a program to receive events.
VectorLock··on Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring
Maybe the dude just wanted to feel what it was like to fire someone while he still had the chance.
VectorLock··on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did
"stable coin" is the "clean coal" of the crypto world.
VectorLock··on Cloudflare Pub/Sub: Programmable MQTT Message Brokers
I like how Cloudflare is taking a serious run at AWS.

And you can't even subscribe a program to a SNS topic and Cloudflare is giving us pub/sub.

VectorLock··on Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work
Rebels with RSUs.
VectorLock··on OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models
Thats interesting, any good sources for this accusation?
VectorLock··on PyScript: Run Python in your HTML
I want this so bad with every fiber of my being.
VectorLock··on Daniel J. Bernstein's ptyget toolset
>What's pty good for? I wrote the first versions of pty so that I could run pty nethack inside a script which would keep rerolling characters until I had both a ring of polymorph and a ring of polymorph control

Funny I wrote the same kind of start-scumming script against nethack.org using Python and pexpect.

VectorLock··on Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
>he might be forced to stop using twitter

Just like last time.

VectorLock··on Detailed Assemblies for an Airtight Small Home
How much does this construction cost vs. standard building? Looks like it could be relatively cost competitive.
VectorLock··on Hathora: Multiplayer Made Easy
Okay so, how much?
VectorLock··on Netflix End of Series 1
Why is open office plan surprising? Its practically de rigueur at tech companies.
VectorLock··on Shirky.com is gone
I was scrolling down looking for some comment on what happened to him or what he was up to now a days.
VectorLock··on US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation
War is simply the continuation of political intercourse with the addition of other means.
VectorLock··on Van life (cancer edition) finale
I think maybe he means convincing the doctors in the undisclosed European country.
VectorLock··on Ask HN: Did you change jobs during the Great Reshuffling and regret it?
Sounds like you got FOMO and are regretting it.

Did you actually care about better pay or WFH arrangements?

VectorLock··on Sky Mavis raises $150M, funds to be restored on the Ronin Bridge
Now all those poor Filipinos they talk about "helping" will now keep playing-to-earn a currency they can't buy anything with, like they could before (with the requisite crypto hoop-jumping)
VectorLock··on Sky Mavis raises $150M, funds to be restored on the Ronin Bridge
The investors might have drank the same koolaid as the founders - if it can take a $650M big L and keep going, then practically nothing can stop them.
VectorLock··on Sky Mavis raises $150M, funds to be restored on the Ronin Bridge
Its like the bank closed before could even be a run, but continues to be a bank.
VectorLock··on Sky Mavis raises $150M, funds to be restored on the Ronin Bridge
>no clawbacks

Except when there are, like the Ethereum fork to recover the DAO hack.

VectorLock··on Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
He could waste a lot of money on failed startups and never have any appreciable impact on his day to day life and standard of living other than his own satisfaction of seeing $BigMoneyNumber.
VectorLock··on DARPA Completes Underminer Program: New tactical tunneling technologies
This would make good origin story for the new Backrooms fiction thats developing.
VectorLock··on I didn't return my Apple Studio Display
Do the surgeons buy their own instruments? I figure they'd belong to the hospital.
VectorLock··on I didn't return my Apple Studio Display
The piece of paper on the MacBook with the cut out fo the TouchID is interesting.

Is it because the keys are as ugly and scuffed as they are on my MBP and you can't stand to look at them?

VectorLock··on A Foolish Consistency: Consul at Fly.io
If you find these kind of DevOps problems challenging, I'm hiring. :D
VectorLock··on A Foolish Consistency: Consul at Fly.io
I'm curious what kind of things do you want to ship that you can't ship on Nomad?
VectorLock··on Rescuing the Compuserve Collection
That would actually be extremely interesting. I remember there are some peaks under the hood of the AOL and Prodigy backend and it was fascinating.

Both Prodigy and AOL I think have fallen into Yahoo's hands now. I wonder if there is a "Department of Ancient Online Services" space at Yahoo.

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