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knodi··on Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust
well everything is a people thing because we’re people. What science offers is proof and data that can be reproduced. So no two scientists bickering is not the same as two theologian.
knodi··on French left tears itself apart over ‘non-white’ meetings
How has US intelligence agencies promoted identity politics? FoxNews, gop, news max are not us intelligence agencies.
knodi··on Kafka without ZooKeeper
Please separate storage from brokers next
knodi··on Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
I’m not surprised and about time. Churches are taken over by the GOP propaganda and used as a blunt weapon to spread lies and false information by the GOP to steal their votes.
knodi··on Nova Review: Panic’s Code Editor Demonstrates Why Mac-Like Design Matters
I want to move to it, please add vim movements
knodi··on We created a fake language to root out resume liars
Haha, this!!
knodi··on US Senators call on FCC to raise broadband definition to 100Mbs down and up
Comcast not only has the man power but money to make this happen.
knodi··on Bitcoin Is Time
Bitcoin has turned in a joke.
knodi··on Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
Yes, lets think about the role of Facebook in 2016 elections.
knodi··on Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
Drop them from the app store.
knodi··on AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?
I think a lot of people just don't know the new capabilities of PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL's competition isn't MySQL, its the new hybrid DBs like CockroachDb.

DBAs and Engineers that know MySQL will always use MySQL. In corps MySQL is a safe choice (sadly).

knodi··on What's the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?
This is all the same reason I and the company I work for use Go. It’s good tool and powerful in hands of smart people.
knodi··on What's the role of Go in a universe where Rust exists?
DevOp, Python replacement.
knodi··on Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
About time
knodi··on U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
This has been America from the beginning. The few have carried the many. Before this was not a major issue because the selection of people on radio or TV to curated to some degree. Now with Social Media, every idiot has a voice and idiots are drowned to other idiots.
knodi··on BadEconomics: Putting $400M of Bitcoin on your company balance sheet
I'm not about to trade off a bank for ledge indexing service. BTC is the digital Tulip craze.
knodi··on USA vs. Julian Assange Judgment
Right ruling for the wrong person. I hope Assange can be brought to justices before he flees to Russia.
knodi··on A drone pilot was fined $182K by the FAA
Good
knodi··on Dev Fonts
Thank you.
knodi··on Dev Fonts
Which weight of Pragmata Pro did you purchase and use for emacs? Just wondering if I should get all of the weights which is super pricey or I only need Essential PragmataPro Regular/Bold.
knodi··on Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
Yes and all of them are bad
knodi··on Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
Serverless for web apps have one big issues. The cold starts of lambda(s) can be over .5-1 seconds at peek times (us-east-1) any way.
knodi··on Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular programming language
I don't know why in today's day and age people switch to Python, the python version bumps is such a wreck. Pip and Pipenv are 10 years behind the eco system. so many other better langs out there that are more uniform.
knodi··on The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled
Serverless has an edge usage case and its not in the middle of your web requests. Due to the load on AWS regional lambda compute pool, now your have a 500-2000ms cold start to your lambdas or you can't use it for tools and services with long-lived TCP connections (hi redis). Good luck. Not for me
knodi··on Physicists argue that black holes from the Big Bang could be the dark matter
Blackhole is a planet with enough mass to bend light.
knodi··on Why we are suing the Administration
The Idiot-Trump effect.
knodi··on MicroStrategy Adopts Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Reserve Asset
Good luck to them. They'll need it.
knodi··on Boeing 747s receive software updates over floppy disks
Yes, because most people on HN's context is shipping nodejs code.
knodi··on Argos to stop printing catalogue after almost 50 years
As a child I use to spend late nights reading the Argos catalogue, dreaming of all the toys to be had.
knodi··on Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad
At some point huge complexity are introduced to simplify a problem and solve for a gap or feature. Don't look at this as a burden, look it as a use case you don't require currently and this may not be the right tool for you to use.
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