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justAnotherNET

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justAnotherNET··on Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission
I would consider an offer from coinbase over FAANG now based solely on this move by their CEO. I say this as someone who has worked at Apple, and bluntly told multiple Facebook-email bearing recruiters to F off.
justAnotherNET··on APFS changes in Big Sur: how Time Machine backs up to APFS
Meanwhile I can’t believe Apple went to the trouble of an entirely new FS without implementing BTRFS style block-level checksums. The number of data corruption issues this could have prevented by now are too high to count. Not to mention there is a direct monetary incentive for Apple to do so, as it slightly inflates storage requirements at the cost of safety (and apple commonly stratifies their products by storage capacity). It’s 2020, we need ECC RAM and block level checksums for all new platforms going forward.
justAnotherNET··on Activists find camera inside box on power pole near union organizer’s home
When I was younger a friends parent worked for an LEA that did this to spy on people suspected of social security disabilities fraud.

This was in the mid 1990’s, he showed me pictures of literally this exact thing high voltage sticker and all.

justAnotherNET··on Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development
The mods only have themselves to blame. They create insanely broad rules allowing them to ban anything and then limit mod positions to concentrate their power.

The role of mods is to delete off topic submissions and remove illegal content. Nothing more.

justAnotherNET··on New Intel Instructions for Alder Lake, Also BF16 for Sapphire Rapids
7nm intel is EUV, 10nm intel is quad patterned DUV. Massive difference.
justAnotherNET··on The general value of typed functional programming lies in leaving no edge cases
Swift has this as well, but calls them “Optional”. The concept is definitely useful!
justAnotherNET··on When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’
Not OP, but yes
justAnotherNET··on My fridge has an RFID chip in the water filter, so a generic filter doesn't work
1984 imagined a horrific world where the government forced you to install listening devices in your home.

Meanwhile in 2020 we purchase them ourselves because we don’t want to flip light switches.

justAnotherNET··on The plot thickens for a hypothetical “X17” particle
I find it interesting that the top voted rebuttal to a CERN hosted article is a Forbes one.
justAnotherNET··on 150 Meter SpaceX Starhopper Test [video]
A few things from a non-expert:

-Raptor is operating at previously unheard of pressure, and uses advanced new materials and heavily utilized GPU-powered flow simulations during design.

-it's super efficient. It's the first operational full flow staged combustion engine AFAIK. High thrust + High efficiency == a good time.

-it uses METHALOX fuel, which can be made on various celestial bodies somewhat easily (importantly: mars). Water + solar energy + CO2 == methane-oxygen fuel

-uses more difficult spark ignition w/unlimited restarts instead of more reliable but "cartridge" based TEA-TEB (sp?) igniters that rely on mixing volatile complex to manufacture toxic chemicals to start.

The test hopper has 1 engine. The orbital prototype will have 3. The production booster will have 31 of these bad boys and put out 2.0-2.7x the thrust of a saturn V

justAnotherNET··on Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?
AMP is an anti-open-web disaster, and just another example of Google abusing their dominant position.
justAnotherNET··on 8K is now being broadcast in Japan
This is certainly not the case for gaming. I use a 4k 24" at a desktop and still need to turn AA on to prevent noticable alising.

It looks like 5k is the sweet spot for 27", and 8k for 32".

Not to mention VR needs 8k to provide 1080p-like resolution over a large field of view.

justAnotherNET··on Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve
That’s exactly what I saw too, and veiled accusations of sexism against people questioning things.
justAnotherNET··on Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week
>This will end at some point and that even beside the fact that electric car in reality create more pollution in vast majority of the world more than modern engines.

Is this thread being linked to by some Tesla short seller blog of what?

Surely this kind of misinformation isn’t organic to HN.

justAnotherNET··on Tesla meets self-imposed deadline for Model 3, rolls out 5000 cars in a week
A huge percentage of this quarter’s cars went to Canada to avoid triggering the tax credit sunset
justAnotherNET··on Can Elon Musk and Tesla Reinvent the Way Cars Are Made?
Ah, so we’ve crossed from the “it’s impossible” to the “it was inevitable” stage of disruption :p
justAnotherNET··on How my role as CTO has changed as we've grown from 1 to 100 engineers
Are you me? We’re at 30 now and I know exactly what you mean.
justAnotherNET··on Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing
In my experience “SJWs” have their own religion and overwhelmingly seek out moderator positions on subreddits, forums, positions on the school paper’s editorial team, etc etc as their ideology fails when faced with the free flow of information. You can see this in just about any internet community, the only ones that are “left wing” are the ones that enforce strict moderation rules. Anything open course corrects right very fast.

The “Warrior” in SJW comes from their perpetual fight to ban, shadowban, moderate, de-rank, and delist opposing views.

You can deflect by suggesting these people are simply authoritarian, and not true social justice/left wing advocates. I would challenge you to investigate everything from reddit’s super mods to Wikipedia’s editor cartels. You’ll find they systematically infiltrate open communities and once in positions of power purge opposing views from leadership and begin to enforce ideological conformity. The people doing this are exclusively left wing soc jus types.

Outside of the internet I’ve seen this behavior in academia as well. It’s pretty amazing how downright fascist some of them will get when they think they’re in like company.

justAnotherNET··on Brass and lead toxicity in midrange espresso machines
I’d love an all glass filter system to replace my plastic one now.

One concern is... what difference would that make in the pre-filter housing if the water goes through plastic pipes anyways to get to you?

justAnotherNET··on 26% of violent crime convicts account for 63% of violent crime conviction (2014)
Do we need to start linking famous peoples tweets to show that your position is false?

Plenty of people jump on the “that’s racism” bandwagon. If they can’t attack the math they attack the author and make wild accusations about their intent.

Truth is treason in an empire of lies, and socially most would rather live with comfortable lies.

justAnotherNET··on Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador
There’s very little to meditate on.

The details are largely irrelevant. We’ll kill him the second we get the chance. If US INTEL doesn’t get him mossad will.

He knows he’s not long for this world, and it’s frankly very sad that this is happening at all.

justAnotherNET··on Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador
The same people who called it all “conspiracy theory” we calling him a “Russian hack” today.

Nothing has changed.

justAnotherNET··on Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador
The left loved him when he exposed George Bush for shitty behavior.
justAnotherNET··on Julian Assange's stay in London embassy untenable, says Ecuador
Did you change it, or did external actors? Consider your sources of information.