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antishatter··on Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs?
Jesus Christ who uses Maria db
antishatter··on Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)
Uk gov selling or giving enigma away knowing they had broken it
antishatter··on Floating points between zero and one
Theres infinite numbers between any two numbers…different sizes of infinity and all that…
antishatter··on Code as Art
More of a craft really
antishatter··on Calling All Hackers
https://www.amazon.com/Price-Time-Real-Story-Interest/dp/080...
antishatter··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
Anyone have a recommendation for a workflow orchestrator for single server deployments? Looking at running a project at home and for certain pieces think it would be easiest to orchestrate with a tool like Maestro or Airflow but they’re basically set up to run in clusters with admins to manage them.
antishatter··on Even The Pentagon can't freeze Huawei out of its operations
Nobody thinks ccp is the good guys
antishatter··on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
Had to work through a weirdness in kubernetes many years ago when using it on prem for a project (not at google). It stands out as the best code base I have had to go through to figure stuff out.
antishatter··on Contrastive Representation Learning
You get used to it
antishatter··on Man who took hostages demanding his own money becomes public hero in Lebanon
The bank situation in Lebanon is so fucked up it’s not hard to see why.
antishatter··on Ask HN: PayPal dismissed my claim, saying I didn't provide evidence (yet I did)
I paid the $200 to not have to fucking deal with it
antishatter··on Ask HN: PayPal dismissed my claim, saying I didn't provide evidence (yet I did)
PayPal also refused to help me out when i was defrauded. I went to my bank and reversed the PayPal charge and then PayPal sent me to collections. I had previously spoken to them multiple times including the day of the fraud, when they could have stopped the transaction and refused. Fuck PayPal.
antishatter··on We're going to need a lot of solar panels
Solar is a meme, nuclear is the only way we get the grid off carbon.
antishatter··on ‘Blade Runner’ at 40
With the hilariously bad harrison ford voice over? my god man.
antishatter··on The math prodigy whose hack upended DeFi won’t return funds
What’d he do that was illegal? Seems like he didn’t cheat and insider trading laws don’t seem to apply. Oops crypto is a unregulated market.
antishatter··on How This Ends
I don’t think you understand the purpose of treasury bonds as an asset.
antishatter··on How This Ends
Tightening hasn’t started yet so we are clear.
antishatter··on The next Google
I find ddg is an improvement on google because it’s more like google 10 years ago plus a quick !g tosses it back to google for the occasional topic google does better.
antishatter··on Famous Navy UFO video was camera glare, evidence suggests
I suspect It’s a Chinese or Russian sub floating a balloon that specifically does things to capture information on our radar systems.we used to do it to them too.
antishatter··on Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate
I like myself.
antishatter··on Controversial impact crater under Greenland’s ice is surprisingly ancient
I’ve seen the Thing, just fuckin leave it there.
antishatter··on So you want to study mathematics
Computers made it insanely useful where before it was an interesting view of systematic math.
antishatter··on So you want to study mathematics
I am a statistician and this guy gets it. Stats converges to calc at its core. The real issue is stats education is bad.
antishatter··on So you want to study mathematics
Statistics converges to calculus at its core. Source: am statistician
antishatter··on Last Day of IKEA in Moscow
The Cold War ended when McDonald’s went up in red square. Now what?
antishatter··on On-Chip Batteries for Dust-Sized Computers
Does the size of a computer limit it’s energy consumption. Meaning is there an equation describing power consumption limits of a circuit based on size.
antishatter··on Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – president
I think you’re right and this very well be the beginning of the end of dollar hegemony. Though there aren’t yet good alternatives.
antishatter··on White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug
Yeah a prize like this will be close to 50%. If you’re w2 remember that your employer covers like 25% of your tax burden. So when you self employee or win an award like this you end up paying that tax plus the tax your more used to.
antishatter··on Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urban combat (1997)
Where does this portrait of Russia as an incompetent troop army come from? I thought we learned with ww1 that portraying your enemy as weak and incompetent only created morale issues when they were tougher than expected?
antishatter··on Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urban combat (1997)
There’s 0% chance this is accurate. While Russia is an aging and rusted military power their elite forces are still equipped exceedingly well.
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