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_t2kxon Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

Both companies have their own private data centers/infrastructure.

_t2kxon Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

Facebook doesn't use GCS (at least they didn't in 2015), they have their own infrastructure/data centers.

_t2kxon Teardown: Casper’s Clever Little Nightlight

> Or IoT coloured lightbulbs

Auto-dimming lights that change to warmer, less-blue light at bed time has been awesome for me in improving my sleep hygine. Same bulbs can also auto-brighten with simlar color temperature to sunlight and is a much better wake up experience than the backup alarm on my phone.

The only downside was the price.

_t2kxon Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

For me it's not about lossless sounding better. Storage is so cheap nowadays that it's silly not to have a full lossless encode for an archive/backup. I can transcode that lossless file into any other lossy format but transcoding a lossy file to another format destroys the quality.

_t2kxon Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers

Bandcamp is my favorite service precisely because they include FLAC downloads.

_t2kxon Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

It happens to me frequently. Sometimes they just log me out for no reason.

_t2kxon Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3B valuation

NSFW is not filtered out of /r/all; it is from /r/popular. AFAIK though subs have to opt-in to being part of /r/all.

_t2kxon If You're Often Angry or Irritable, You May Be Depressed

> tricyclic antidepressant

these are different than SSRIs and not very frequently prescribed nowadays.

_t2kxon Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two

Germ theory has basis in science. IQ tests do not.

_t2kxon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)

Links are broken.

_t2kxon Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

> From my perspective Instacart is stealing from its customers and workers by doing this.

This is 100% wage theft.

_t2kxon Instacart paying 80 cents an hour because worker received a large tip

How is this not wage theft? They're literally taking the tips from workers and using it to pay them. I'm tipping the worker, not Instacart.

_t2kxon FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up

They have Group FT disabled on the backend for now according to The Verge article about this.

_t2kxon Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like

I thought "Black Mirror" was in the title, my mistake.

_t2kxon Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like

The show has been out over month now and you willingly came into a thread about the show. Any plot that's spoiled is entirely on you.

_t2kxon From macOS to Windows and WSL

Which one did you learn to use first? Wondering if that has much of an impact. I've only used Powershell for a bit while I work with *nix shells daily so I'm definitely biased towards them but wonder if I'd cut my teeth on Powershell if I'd think the same way.

_t2kxon Neil Armstrong Remembered

I think the movie overall was okay but I just could not stand the overuse of shaky-cam in it. It's like they edited it specifically to be shown in those D-Box seats. Like, I understand that rocket launches are pretty shaky endeavors, but to be using the shaky cam in the _kitchen_ was just way over the top.

_t2kxon Juul hiring aggressively amid FDA probe, but troubled image a turnoff for some

> A Stanford University study released Friday found that high school seniors and recent graduates who use Juul are more addicted to the product than those who use other e-cigarettes. The finding raises concerns about higher rates of addiction among Juul users.

I wonder if this is because the Juul pods are the most "cigarette"-like -- I know it's one of the more successful products used to stop smoking because it has a "throat hit" that other ecigs/vapes don't have.