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corv··on Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of LED Lighting
The cheap ones are just as good.
corv··on The Hacker's Diet (2005)
Quantifying doesn't necessarily lead to overwhelming data or questioning.

If you want to improve something it is a good idea to measure it.

Sensible examples might include: repetitions and weights at the gym, body weight, running / walking distance, hours slept, time wasted on social media

Counting calories might not have to be done continuously depending on your diet and goals but definitely helps to realise how much sugar and carbs are in many foods. Calibrating your perception in this way might be enough to convince you to change your habits for good.

Many things can be tracked conveniently or automatically even without the need to go BigData.

A cheap air monitor can detect high CO2 or VOC in enclosed spaces. Without insight a simple fix such as opening a window may not occur to some.

The hope that our bodies can regulate everything intrinsically is not good enough in an increasingly artificial environment and natural is not always healthy.

corv··on Evolving the Firefox Brand
This change was entirely unnecessary.

Good design is timeless, this is anything but.

Admittedly it doesn’t look terrible tho.

corv··on Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed
Regarding Asia that’s an apt observation that goes right against the premise of the author.
corv··on The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next?
Yes, there are lots of charlatans in the blockchain space (and startups in general).

Figuring this out now, half a year after market participants noted a bear market isn’t worth much however.

corv··on Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed
> America has a narcissism problem.

It's not just America

> If you want to be happy and find fulfillment, don’t try to be Beyoncé or Elon Musk; instead, find the thing you’re good at and become even better at it, and try to help the people around you as much as possible. It’s really that simple.

This really is the key takeaway of an excellent infomercial.

corv··on Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
Just wanted to leave this excellent tool here for those replicating ZFS:

https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl

corv··on Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
The clichéd answer on HN would be to change your employer if your working environment doesn't allow you to concentrate on the job.

As for devops alarms, those should be firing on multiple protocols and platforms anyhow.

Anything else can usually be better accomplished by announcing "office hours" during which you can be reached 1-on-1.

corv··on Introducing Telegram Passport
Pretty much ripped off Civic https://www.civic.com

Wonder how the price of CVC is impacted today...

corv··on Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian
It’s also possible to mute chats, disable notifications and revisit them periodically.

You get to decide if you want to communicate asynchronously.

corv··on Ask HN: Any good examples of learning through games/puzzles, for adults?
Seconded, Human Resource Machine and Zachtronics in general!
corv··on Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
If you don’t have a second location you can still replicate to https://www.rsync.net with all the benefits ZFS provides.

ECC is highly recommended but even a low powered CPU will do.

corv··on Ask HN: How do you backup your files without depending on a third party service?
Two FreeNAS servers on premises and in different locations with ZFS replication.

Then use SMB, NFS, Time Machine, rsync, Syncthing, sftp or anything else you like to push data to one of the FreeNAS machines.

Periodic ZFS snapshots prevent common cases of PEBCAK and ransomware.

Fully redundant, encrypted & open-source solution that can saturate 10GbE!

corv··on Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2018 Results [pdf]
Not only web searches.

Tracking Google Maps journeys, YouTube, Google Analytics across most of the web, a major portion of global email communications, Hangouts, Google Drive, etc, the list goes on and on.

Immensely valuable data that is able to predict trends and behaviour of both businesses and people in many instances

corv··on A Vigilante Fighting Engine Exhaust
Yes! It’s scary how much dirt accumulates in a relatively short amount of time
corv··on A Vigilante Fighting Engine Exhaust
This is a great product, unfortunately it’s quite expensive.
corv··on A Vigilante Fighting Engine Exhaust
A pickup or SUV isn’t needed to stay safe - especially not when all other cars are compact.

This reasoning reminds me of the tragedy of the commons.

corv··on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing?
Yes, you can still write Automator scripts with JavaScript!

Unfortunately the documentation is AppleScript only.

corv··on A browser extension to make Medium more readable
Exactly this
corv··on FreeBSD has lower latency, and Linux has faster application speeds
> No sources or benchmarks?

There was this in TFA:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?item=netperf-bsd-linux&num...

corv··on China’s claim to the Spratly Islands emerged in first half of the 20th century
What is war in the contemporary USA?
corv··on Nethammer: Inducing Rowhammer Faults Through Network Requests
It’s about time Intel offers consumers ECC RAM support.
corv··on FlureeDB, a Practical Decentralized Database (2017) [pdf]
Conflating distributed with decentralized
corv··on The case for electric scooters
That's why e-bikes have been getting more traction.

Unfortunate since the size of a bicycle can be a drawback.

corv··on Cryptocurrencies Were Never Good for Anybody but the Rich
Hard money is a benefit to everyone, especially those whose income is close to their living expenses. Remember wage rises only serve to keep up with inflation.

Now whether or not most cryptocurrencies deserve to be called sound money is another question entirely.

corv··on A mistake about manufacturing costing Americans millions of jobs
Convertibility of the U.S. dollar to gold ended on August 15, 1971.

The divergence could be attributed to the devaluation that has been happening since.

See 'Figure A': https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d...

corv··on New WebKit Features in Safari 11.1
Also note Apple has added PWA support in iOS 11.3

https://medium.com/@firt/progressive-web-apps-on-ios-are-her...

corv··on Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK
What pyramid scheme?
corv··on Tezos founders push for legal bailout from Swiss foundation
Why wasn't Ethereum an ICO?

Arguably that was the model for all other ICOs and the platform for the vast majority.

corv··on ProtonMail Bridge
This is great! Hoping this will work on mobile eventually
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