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comradesmithon Segmentors vs Integrators: Google’s work-life-balance research

I just changed jobs and I’m quite a bit more segmenty now. Though I like to think that for me being segmenty isnt about personal distance, but about stopping working (or worrying about work) on time each day.

I like meeting people and making friends, and even if I attain perfect work life balance that social aspect won’t change.

comradesmithon Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro

It does sound like you expected more performance out of the 8gb model than was reasonable.

comradesmithon A Tesla Model 3 hit a police car in Orlando, driver said she was ‘in Autopilot’

Oh I’m sure that autopilot is going to make this kind of mistake or may be at fault here.

But I am equally sure that someone will one day try to lie about having autopilot on to get out of a traffic accident.

comradesmithon A Tesla Model 3 hit a police car in Orlando, driver said she was ‘in Autopilot’

I wonder if autopilot was actually on? Surely people are going to try to blame autopilot falsely to try to shirk responsibility (which I imagine won’t work whatsoever).

Will governments want a way for law enforcement to quickly audit autopilot status as this becomes more widespread technology?

comradesmithon Programmatic Video Editing with Python

Python modules can define a list named `__all__` which of present will define the behaviour of importing “everything”.

The `from x import y` syntax is unaffected

comradesmithon Ask HN: What's the best, but relatively unknown use of Git you've seen?

The use of git to track timeseries data is pretty neat. I have one private git repo which a machine will periodically update with it's public IP.

Here is a group that tracks public data sources in git: https://github.com/datasets

comradesmithon IT Without Software

SMS is fantastic. In my country there are a few popular messaging apps, it seems like to be connected to everyone you need to be on all of them; but you don’t, everyone already has a phone number, and it just works.

You can send hyperlinks if you want, so the medium isn’t really all that limiting.

comradesmithon Microsoft Ubuntu repositories are broken because of space issues

Maybe “Not on my fucking plate”?

comradesmithon “It's a truck full of traffic lights”

Stopping would be a form of action too. ¯\_ツ_/¯

comradesmithon Stop defacing quotes with brackets

I completely agree and I'm glad I'm not the only one! The point about readers needing to guess what was changed, and why, and how honest the alteration is pin points how I feel when I read quotes which overuse or misuse brackets.

comradesmithon A visual guide to SSH tunnels

Literal ~. Its input as a sequencenot as a modifier. Iirc the sequence ~h or ~? prints a little help page

comradesmithon It’s Time to Embrace Kubernetes Really?

You can with digital ocean

comradesmithon Ask HN: I am interviewing product managers – questions to ask?

Product owner. Not that I could tell you what that means though

comradesmithon Building Your Color Palette

I think you are being a bit too finicky here. "true black" is generally accepted to mean #000 in digital media.

We're talking design here, not physics.

comradesmithon K0s – Zero Friction Kubernetes

I read it as "Kate's" and say that out loud occasionally and am understood

comradesmithon Xkcd: Messaging Systems

SMS is great, nobody has issues with installing apps, forgetting/losing their login credentials, or needing to "add people".

You just exchange numbers and it works, you can send anything too, we'll, anything you can hyperlink to.

What we really need to cement SMS is cheap international messaging (unless that's already a thing and I just don't know the rates)

comradesmithon A floppy-disk Walkman using a Raspberry Pi

I think the author may have gone: wav -> opus -> MP3. With the MP3 bitrate chosen to ensure no further quality loss.

I don't think from the provided MP3 we can tell if that is equivalent to the encoded opus format. We would need to encode to both from wav to make that comparison

comradesmithon Why Johnny Won't Upgrade

I updated and didn't realise a big release was on its way. I hate it and I've swapped to Brave

comradesmithon This blog runs on ARM microarchitecture

Oh wow, I didn't realise Microsoft are also releasing ARM hardware.

Back on topic, I also run a digital ocean k8s cluster at decent expense, and cluster of pis is a very enticing idea

comradesmithon Back of the envelope estimation hacks

Further its good to think of your powers of 2 like: 10, kilo; 20, mega; 30, giga;

And for 0-9 I have those memorized. So if I'm given the number 2^39 I unwrap that as 512 giga, or just over 500 billion (seems its ~550, but estimating with base 2 is still going to be closer than estimating with base 10)

comradesmithon SpaceX and Tesla Working on Ventilators

This is going to be a repeat of that stupid submarine isn't it?

comradesmithon Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?

Bear in mind that assets includes market research, customers, branding, and any vendor relationships

comradesmithon Getting Started with Security Keys

I've recently moved to using a yubikey for u2f and I'm really impressed! Usually when you try to be more secure you lose some convenience, but in the case of u2f I've gained both security and convenience.

I've also tweaked some pam (a Unix auth stack) module settings so that I can required u2f in first login; and unlock the screen & run sudo with just my yubikey.

Since I shutdown my machine once a day and I am very disciplined to always have my keys in my pocket, I think I have a generally more secure system that is also more convenient to use.

comradesmithon Ken Thompson's Unix Password

Rot13 is not a hashing algorithm. A hashing algorithm is a one-way function where many entities in the input domain map to the same entity in the output codomain. This means if you have the hash you can't determine the input with out making a guess.

Rot13 is a function with a one to one mapping between the domain and codomain. If you have the output you can apply a function to get the input.

comradesmithon Ken Thompson's Unix Password

You don't need to know m, just h(m) which is commonly found in database breaches

comradesmithon Two-thirds of Hindu Kush-Himalaya ice sheet may disappear in 80 years, says IPCC

Or rotational poles

comradesmithon Two-thirds of Hindu Kush-Himalaya ice sheet may disappear in 80 years, says IPCC

I hate to be that guy, but the himilayas aren't a pole. There can be only two

comradesmithon Chemists discover water microdroplets spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide

The H ions would likely dissolve and lower the pH of the water

comradesmithon GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up

http://talktotransformer.com

Seems accessible to me

comradesmithon Moving from macOS to Linux for Music Production: The Journey Begins

Awesome to see! I'm a full-time Linux user and I've been looking at getting into music production, I'm definitely interested in DAW options on Linux (that respect xdg dir settings)