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devy··on Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
There is also Kissimmee in Florida :)
devy··on Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
NJ Turnpike has an exit at Bordentown, first time I saw them many many years ago, I mistook it as "Boredom Town".
devy··on Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
> Thin sheets of metal, either welded or riveted together, would have been much easier to build and install. It could even have been filled with some other material (e.g. sand) before the top was put on.

Yes, it was a prism shaped object with 3 pieces of stainless steel panels riveted together, the bottom has concret and silicone:)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CH_212pAKpr/

devy··on Full text search on 400M US court cases
Have you tried Toshi[1] or MeiliSearch[2]. I wonder how it would compare in terms of operational costs (monthly cloud hosting bill) at the current data size.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895655

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22685831

devy··on What a great technical resume can do for you
Hello Marc!
devy··on What a great technical resume can do for you
Is MeetLeet[1] a spinoff of TheLadders[2][3]? TheLadders have been having the resume makeover service[4]

[1] https://www.meetleet.com/#team

[2] https://www.theladders.com/about-us

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheLadders.com

[4] https://www.theladders.com/resume-reviewer

Disclaimer: I used to work with Marc 17 years ago when TheLadders was at pre-A round. Good times.

devy··on Public’s trust in science takes a hit when scientific journals take sides
What's really happening was the Trump admin promotes pseudoscience and fringe theories and flat out lies and completely ignore the advices from epidemiology experts (Fauci et al) and CDC and FDA and then appointed a neuroradiologist to advice the COVID-19 task force[1]. And then the medical / scientific communities got really fed up and decided to took a stand against it.

Science is science, it doesn't matter what your faith is, what party you affiliated. Whether the public has any faith on science has NO BEARING on science being closer to the truth.

[1]: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/23/scott-atlas-w...

devy··on Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT
Interestingly, Oxidative stress is considered to the main cause of COVID-19 infection severity, according to Dr. Roger Seheult in his bio-chemistry analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in human body. He also explained why Vitamin D could help reduce the mortality of COVID-19 due to Vitamin's ability to slow down oxidative stress.[2]

Dr. Seheult is the main lecturer of his popular YouTube channel MedCram[3] and is a board certified physician in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine.

[1]: https://youtu.be/gzx8LH4Fjic?t=28

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdc7T2UTHBI

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG-iSMVtWbbwDDXgXXypARQ

devy··on Nuclear war is unlikely to cause human extinction?
Exactly!

The intangible disruptions of a human society will indirectly cause eventual death due to the nuclear war. Think about it, just the COVID-19 lockdown of a few weeks can cause economy collapsed, people out of jobs, can't paid rent, utilities. A nuclear war will immediate cut off or contaminate essential human necessities, like food, water, shelters, electricity etc., so even without getting harmed by kinetic force, radiation, climate alteration, people still cannot survive long term.

devy··on iFixit tools in Apple's lab
Yeah, I am always curious to know if those meticulously designed workplace background was the real hardware lab or a TV studio. It makes more sense to be a studio for shooting videos.
devy··on Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection
> I still wonder about long-term immunity.

The current understanding is that there will be likely no long-term immunity, just like the flu virus (as it mutates).

> -80 Degree Celsius storage and transport needed.

This is actually typical for vaccines storage/transportation needs. Unfortunately this will also means that it cannot be easily distributed into developing countries where supply chain requirements are largely unmet.

devy··on Global circulation of influenza viruses in 2020
The title is very catchy and misleading. The WHO's virus circulation graph and the text did NOT describe it as "Completely Disappeared in 2020." It did reporting having seen very minuscule amount of flu virus detected, instead.

https://www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/updates/flune...

Edit: now the title has been updated, it's more accurate

devy··on My Resignation from the Intercept
Yes, you are correct, Pierre Omidyar bankrolled First Look Media and is the founder on their about page. [1]

Glenn Greenwald is just a "co-founding editor". And his profile hasn't been removed yet.

Editor-in-chief currently is Betsy Reed. So she's blocking Glenn from publishing Biden report?

[1]: https://theintercept.com/about/#contact-us

devy··on My Resignation from the Intercept
Why as the co-founder of the organization, Glenn Greenwald don't have the rights to publish articles and have to yield to The Intercept's New York editorial board? This is baffling to me.
devy··on Nginx Service Mesh
I thought this competes with Istio, judging by the naming of it.
devy··on Chemist Uses CO2 to Convert Seawater into Drinking Water
Can't post this link to Facebook as they ban this site ineffableisland.com.

Here is the reason:

"This URL goes against our Community Standards on spam: ineffableisland.com"

devy··on I no longer build software
In a serious note, Woodworking is a great rewarding craft. It bears the same builder mentality, creating physical objects via reduction manufacturing and most importantly, you build for yourself and for the people that you care about.
devy··on Cloudflare and the Wayback Machine, joining forces for a more reliable Web
> As a business they absolutely are not going to stay in the CDN lane as a primary.

Yeah, and all the big five Cloud vendors: AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, Oracle all have their own CDN solutions bundled. Hard to make a case to purchase separate CDN solutions.

devy··on Six all-natural sex tips for men
The title should be "six tips for all human being to maintain good health"
devy··on Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
Am I the only one that think that might be a hoax? How is the post card be preserved for a century without significant damages to it? Moisture, mold and other nature situation would have destroyed it in a few decades. I really want to hear the back story of this story.

Also, the address still EXISTS after a hundred years? No rezoning, no town name change or street name change? Many rural houses built in 1920 would not have survive 100 years without major overhauls.

devy··on Snake in a QR Code
I was thinking about the same thing! Although the original QR code spec did allow binary payloads[1], smartphones and cameras weren't ubiquitous in mid 90s. But they are now. Transmitting computer virus or malware within the QR code binary payload might just be as easy as pointing your camera lens to the QR code. Since the QR code image is only machine readable not human readable, it would be indistinguishable, neither any digital signature to prevent it from being altered.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code#Storage

devy··on Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses
Dots does matter in GSuite's email addresses (those are the email addresses for enterprise via work or school.)

Also in the email name part of the email address, anything after + (plug sign) and before the @ (at sign) don't matter either. [1] This is the same behavior for personal Gmail and GSuite email (Gmail for enterprises)

[1]: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-the-infinite-number-of-email-...

devy··on Japan facing credit card number shortage
Talk about the power of inertia when attempting to change consumer behaviors.

Also, we still haven't had an easy to use open tool set to make usage of Public Key Cryptography friendly to average Joes. No, GnuPG doesn't count - it's hard to use and cumbersome to configure it securely. You need to be a cryptographer or a mathematician to pick the right parameters in order to stay current and secure. Definitely not friendly even to most programmers.

devy··on Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap
> The other half of the story is low interest rates/high asset prices. A year ago federal funds rate was ~2%; today it's ~0%.

Yep! S&P 500 reaches pre-COVID level record high again recently all thanks to U.S. Fed's UNLIMITED Quantitative easing (QE) policy. The aftermath and the side effects[1] are going to be serious concerns now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#Risks_and_...

devy··on Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor
Yeah, I had the same thought. Also gzip has been around for many decades and newer lossless compression algorithms are way better both in terms of speed (comparing with the same hardware) and compression ratio, e.g. LZ4 algorithm and Zstandard.

It just doesn't make sense for the HW engineers and chip designers to optimize backwards for older software algorithm instead of optimizing forward for newer algorithms.

devy··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
Mozilla, Google and Apple are no startups.

Of course startups CEO will have different goals - company at different stages of their growth will have very different goals and tangentially they need different CEOs with different skill sets to achieve those different goals.

devy··on Tesla Gets Crushed in Germany by EVs from Volkswagen, Renault, and Hyundai Group
Looking at both the EV sales number by auto manufacturers and by auto brands, you can see that EV sales is no different than all automotive sales, the cheaper the cars, the more sales number they would have.

Cars (EV included) under VW and Hyundai brands are mostly affordable low-end to mid range vehicles, so it makes sense that they are sold more than luxury brands like Porsche, Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz and Tesla. Yes, Tesla is still a luxury brand with majority of the models selling at close to $40k USD or above (the $35k USD Model 3 standard range version was removed from their website, even though you can still technically order them by talking to a sales rep.)

Until Tesla can make their cars at below $30k range, they are not going to be competing head to head with VW and Hyundai, or in other words, they won't enjoy the sales number that VW or Hyundai has. There just aren't many who can afford Tesla. This is basic economics.

PS: Nissan Leaf sales numbers low is probably outlier due to the charging port (Nissan uses ChadeMo instead of CCS for fast charging, but they reverse course at 2021 model year since ChadeMo is dead outside of Japan) and the charging infrastructure issues.

PPS: Tesla manufacturing quality is also another issue - comparing to mature automotive manufacturers like VW and Hyundai. VW has 80 years of history of making cars, Hyundai has 50. Tesla is FAR behind in terms of the operational and manufacturing quality control than traditional automotive competitors, especially the German ones and Toyota (too bad, Toyota is betting big on hydrogen fuel cell and hybrid technologies, not on EV).

devy··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
> Increasing revenue?

Yes. Mozilla Corporation, The wholly owned subsidiary of Non-profit Mozilla Foundation, is a for-profit organization and taxable entity. [1]

For any for-profit organization, increasing profit is one of the major responsibility of the CEO.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

devy··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
The current CEO of Mozilla Corporation and Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation (the parent organization of Mozilla Corporation) earned a total compensation of $2,458,350 [1] on a $436 million company revenue on 2018, or half a percent of the company's revenue. I can't find 2019 stats, but on a company that's not doing well, CEO's comp seems high.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#cite_note-14

devy··on Tesla 5-1 Stock Split
TINA explains NASDAQ:TLSA "bubble" perfectly.
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