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gdw2··on Unifi Travel Router
Android phones can share their wifi connection like this.
gdw2··on Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved
I woke up one morning in college and thought I had overslept. I threw on clothes and ran from my dorm to my class. I walked in two minutes late and grabbed an open seat on the front row, right in front of the teacher.

I didn't recognize anyone and soon realize that I hadn't overslept and was just an hour early. I was too embarrassed to get up and walk out so I sat through the class.

gdw2··on All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair
In Deming's Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, leadership often leaves off Study and Act of which "acknowledge" and "repair" are part of.
gdw2··on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
Sounds like Clojure's as-> macro (https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/as-%3E).
gdw2··on Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages
> the health effect would be equally detrimental.

From the article:

> High doses of rapidly digested glucose also activate insulin and other regulatory pathways...

Orange Soda (i.e. Fanta), an SSB, and Orange Juice have glycemic indexes of about 68 and 48 respectively. I assume that's a material difference in that OJ doesn't spike your insulin as abruptly and therefore is not as harmful. Thre's more to it than simply grams of sugar.

gdw2··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
One of the first things I read on the site was about the "church tax"[0]. Very interesting.

> You declare your religion when you register your address. The church can also tax you if you were a member in another country. To stop paying the church tax, you must leave the church.

[0] https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/start-a-business-in-german...

gdw2··on The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive
Sounds like a similar concept to Aereo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aereo)

> Aereo leased each user an individual antenna and DVR situated in a remote warehouse that they could access over the Internet, allowing subscribers to view live broadcast television and to record the broadcasts for later viewing.

gdw2··on Show HN: Isaiah – open-source and self-hosted app to manage everything Docker
I would think so! Looks like the author tried some similar approaches.

In the disclaimer section:

> Before creating Isaiah, I tried to "serve lazydocker over websocket" (trying to send keypresses to the lazydocker process, and retrieving the output via Websocket), but didn't succeed, hence the full rewrite.

> I also tried to start Isaiah from the lazydocker codebase and implement a web interface on top of it, but it seemed impractical or simply beyond my skills, hence the full rewrite.

gdw2··on Doctor at Cigna said bosses pressured her to review patients' cases too quickly
Often we measure what's easy to measure, not what's most important, because important things are often hardest to measure.

"Handle time" (or velocity) is easy to measure, so we measure it. Quality is important, but its hard to measure.

What we choose to measure gets focused on, so handle time (or velocity) ends up taking focus from quality, or customer satisfaction, etc, etc.

gdw2··on Better World Books
There are used-book search engines, like dealoz.com, that search all of the above.
gdw2··on No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix that with 'TLDR' bill
> No one reads the terms of service. Lawmakers want to fix that with 'TLDR' bill

Also and ironically, many bills aren't read by lawmakers. Maybe they're sympathetic.

gdw2··on Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder
I tried to use it for help with a wordle. I think the word was EJECT and I had E?E?T. It seemed to understand what I was asking, but came up with 5 and 6 letter suggestions that didn't fit.
gdw2··on Babashka Clojure nREPL as a system interface
https://whichjdk.com/
gdw2··on FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows
I wonder if this could result in another round of costly SOX-like regulations?
gdw2··on Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
Also in fdroid if you add the github releases as a repo.
gdw2··on Macwright.com redirects HN readers away
Did you click through to it from news.ycombinator.com? Or some other site like hckrnews.com?
gdw2··on Click the Paw
Can we get the timer back?
gdw2··on Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
"tank woman" and "tank guy" returns lots of results.
gdw2··on Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)
this.

I wonder if Microsoft employees (all or portions) have to rotate their passwords due to PCI compliance despite Microsoft's stance on the subject.

gdw2··on Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
What if you said, "Alexa play Ok Google Play Music"? Might be a scenario when both your Alexa and Google devices (e.g. android phones, etc) would start play music unintentionally.
gdw2··on Firefox 72.0
I mapped my mouse's back button to backspace and it works okay in FF.
gdw2··on Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?
Is firefox less fingerprintable?
gdw2··on Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
As a user, open the page in a private window.
gdw2··on Ask HN: Is there a better way to document complex software architectures?
Along with this, Simon has developed Structurizr, which uses code to describe architecture and then visualize it at different levels:

https://structurizr.com/

gdw2··on Paper Airplane Designs
That's the de-facto design I used as a kid growing up in the US.
gdw2··on Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling
If I call a friend, what number shows up on their end? Does it have its own phone number or can it use your cell number?
gdw2··on Time to Dump Time Zones
I would imagine for many places, a normal 'day' would actually be split across two dates. That would be confusing!
gdw2··on VidAngel Regulation A+ Investment Round
Over $5 million raised. Are other startups raising money this way?
gdw2··on Show HN: Natural Language Generation, Emoji-To-English Translator
Decoding the same set of emoji multiple times gives multiple translations!
gdw2··on The Path to Rust
The mention of Mesos may imply that each instance would be a separate container.
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