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ccakeson Cicadas are so loud, fiber optic cables can ‘hear’ them

FibreSense have commercialised hardware and software that does just this in an insane amount of detail, it’s very cool

Not affiliated, just a fan

ccakeson Submarine Cable Map 2023

They do, any cable over about 1000km has active repeaters on the seabed which need to be powered.

There is HVDC equipment on both ends and typically each end is sufficient to power the entire cable independently to allow for the cable to continue running through maintenance, shunt faults (basically something earthing out on sea water) or a single failed repeater.

ccakeson Goodbye Spotify

Soulseek is still around

ccakeson GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT

Ahh.. is that why I’ve been on the waitlist since day 1 for ChatGPT Enterprise?

C’mon OpenAI, we’re /trying/ to give you money here!

ccakeson Fast Stable Diffusion on CPU 1.0.0 beta for Windows and Linux

First thing I checked as well, absolutely not. As an industry we’ve gotta get better at distributing tooling..

ccakeson Ask HN: How does Starlink work for IP address/ASN internationally?

> They'd need multiple ASNs for each of these network islands then, though

No they wouldn’t. They could connect to local transit/IXs in each region and just advertise the regional networks.

ccakeson SQL Join Flavors

I do feel like this is an obvious thing for SQL to allow and databases to support. Given that it's not part of the standard (and NATURAL JOIN is) I can only assume that there's a compelling reason that I haven't thought about.

If anyone out there knows why this isn't a thing, please chime in!

ccakeson Google no longer offers new domain registrations

https://www.fastmail.com/

Have been a customer for years, great service run by humans.

ccakeson jq 1.7

There seems to be a few comments from people that dislike jq. If you're that way inclined, gron[0] might be more your thing.

[0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron

ccakeson I worked in federal prison sweatshops for 23 cents an hour

> The person is being punished for the crime through incarceration

The goal of the prison system should be rehabilitation. Punishment doesn’t mean anything if you’ve got nothing waiting for you on the outside.

ccakeson Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

If any Firefox devs or PMs are reading, PLEASE build even a simple tab grouper into the browser natively.

Regardless how recommended a given extension is, all tab manager extensions require access to all web content which is too much. I’d rather use something built in but barebones rather than an addon

ccakeson FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver

> it's a shame that docker is built around linux

There is some interesting work happening to get an OCI-compatible runtime working

https://github.com/samuelkarp/runj

ccakeson Malignant melanoma deploys elegant molecular mechanism to evade immune responses

Warning: no background in science, dumb question inc

It seems like the cancer cells are pretty good at evolving to get around our immune system. Is there a reason our immune system doesn’t evolve to outcompete the thing that is killing it?

ccakeson Guam: The America that Americans forget

Guam is also a pretty large interconnection point for submarine cables. Not too many networks break out to layer 3 there, but more traffic than you’d expect passes through (or at least, used to).

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/country/guam

ccakeson Current challenges with using Linux in aerospace applications

It’s wild to me that software engineers don’t need to be certified in a similar vein to civil engineers.

As more and more of our comms move into closed-gardens over the internet, the opportunity for a bug to indirectly result in injury or death grows. All it takes is a bug in a billing system that prevents a delinquent customer from contacting emergency services..

ccakeson Xterm: It's better than you thought (2021)

Nomad[1] is one alternative that gives you the same infra-as-code warm and fuzzies but isn't a behemoth like k8s. It's simple to deploy, simple to operate and unless you're truly scaling big, it probably does everything you need.

I'm sure there are others in the same league that I don't know about. Maybe I'm just getting old but I'll never understand the rush to use k8s in teams of <100 developers.

[1] https://www.nomadproject.io/

ccakeson Kaffeost

I spent some time in northern Sweden, have seen and tried this. It seems pretty common for people who take coffee to work, on hikes, camping etc. I’ve never seen it in a cafe.

To me it’s just an much easier to transport milk alternative.

ccakeson Ask HN: What are the terms of the $10B Microsoft / OpenAI deal?

Palm would like to talk to you

ccakeson Time to end the speed limit in US airspace?

> On any american flight (not to alaska/hawaii) i doubt the greater efficiencies at 60+ thousand feet would be worth the fuel to get there with a supersonic wing. These would only be 2 or 3-hour flights at most anyway.

Hi! There are many of us who exist outside of the US and would be open to planes flying faster because the world is super big. Thanks for listening

ccakeson CO2 certificates: Greenwashing in the African savannah (German)

People want to “help the climate” but not have to change any of the behaviour in the process. Until that fundamental concept shifts, nothing will really help (imo)

Your examples aren’t really wrong, but is the demand level really legitimate in the first place? The amount of food waste is insane, stop people wasting and supply could drop to match. Make meat more of a premium food since it costs (the environment) more to produce.

Until humans realise they need to change their behaviours, things like CO2 accounting is just moving deck chairs around on the Titanic.

ccakeson BeeRef – a free opens-source simple reference image viewer

If there isn't a long list of valid feature requests, perhaps it's just finished.

ccakeson OpenAI's Foundry leaked pricing says a lot

> Streamline hiring – in such a hot market, personalizing outreach, assessing resumes, summarizing & flagging profiles, and suggesting interview questions. For companies who have an overabundance of candidates, perhaps even conducting initial interviews?

That's a hiring red flag if I've ever seen one. The nightmare dystopia is just around the corner it seems.

ccakeson Write a First Person Game in 2KB with Rust

I followed your link, and Gate Escape looks pretty fun, but not available in the Australian app store?

ccakeson Multi-Account Containers

Tab groups sounds great but the permissions required for the addon are too invasive to grant to a third party.

For this reason alone, tab groups should be baked in imo

ccakeson Photoprism – open-source Google Photos Alternative

Big Photoprism fan but would love a better way to auto-sync photos from an iPhone. The recommended app is clunky imo

ccakeson Showering at the South Pole

I wonder if there’s a side market trade of shower minutes. Some people will feel more strongly about cleanliness than others, perhaps they’d be willing to sell or trade shower time..

ccakeson WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

Modern router operating systems have this.

It’s been a long time since I’ve touched IOS-XE (Cisco enterprise gear) but Cisco IOS-XR, Junos, Arista EOS and the Nokia SRs all support some combination of configuration transactions with rollback and commit confirm on a timer

This definitely doesn’t stop you shooting yourself in the foot, similar to how you can still push broken config to a k8s controller, but it’s some level of protection for certain types of changes.

ccakeson WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

This may be true of enterprise network engineers but I’ve worked across a lot of very large networks (telco, not cloud) and we never ever trust the vendor.

The kind of bugs that I’ve read about in errata notes over the years is wild and truly unpredictable.

ccakeson Video game studio called Proletariat declines to recognize union (lol)

> Work provides value. If you have no negotiating power then you likely would be unemployed otherwise.

Tell that to the unskilled workforce that operates all around you, likely both in your professional and personal life.

ccakeson Video game studio called Proletariat declines to recognize union (lol)

What the OP is describing is that the company must provide a way for it's staff to join a union that they recognise. The individual staff members are still free to choose whether or not they want to join.